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Taxing Women’s Bodies

  • Yadira Galindo
  • 28 November 2023
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CELLULAR/MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GRANTS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS

Academia Europaea Recognizes Gene Yeo with the Inaugural Sydney Brenner Medal

  • Stephanie Healey
  • 15 November 2023
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HEALTH CARE GRANTS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS NEUROSCIENCE

Michael J. Fox Foundation Selects UC San Diego as Site for Parkinson’s Fellowship

  • Nicole Mlynaryk
  • 01 November 2023

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UC San Diego Scientists Awarded Young Investigator Grants

  • Joyce Pritchett
  • 27 October 2023

Five scientists from University of California San Diego we recently awarded the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Young Investigator...

GRANTS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS NEUROSCIENCE

New Study Explores Why Alzheimer’s is Worse for Women

  • Miles Martin
  • 10 October 2023

Researchers from University of California San Diego have received $5.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to study brain changes in...

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH GRANTS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS SYSTEMS BIOLOGY/-OMICS

UC San Diego Included in NIH Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium

  • Miles Martin
  • 03 October 2023

Researchers at UC San Diego have been included in the Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium, a $50.3 million NIH initiative to develop...

COVID-19 ENGINEERING/BIOTECHNOLOGY INFECTIOUS DISEASES

$100K Award Supports Human Milk and Infectious Disease Research

  • Joyce Pritchett
  • 28 September 2023

The PREPARE Institute and the Human Milk Institute (HMI), recently partnered to award $100,000 in funding towards a developmental grant created to...

CLINICAL TRIALS PSYCHIATRY/MENTAL HEALTH GRANTS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS

UC San Diego Launches New Clinical Trial for Anorexia Nervosa

  • Miles Martin
  • 19 September 2023

Supported by a gift from Baszucki Group, a new clinical trial will test the safety and efficacy of the ketogenic diet for preventing relapse in...

NEUROSCIENCE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ADDICTION

UC San Diego Launches Enrollment for NIH’s HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study

  • Nicole Mlynaryk
  • 23 August 2023

The UC San Diego Center for Human Development has begun enrolling participants in the largest long-term study of early brain and child development...

ALLERGY/IMMUNOLOGY CELLULAR/MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

AI Identifies SMaRT Genes That Can Predict Disease Outcomes

  • Miles Martin
  • 15 August 2023

Macrophages are immune cells that look and act very differently in different parts of the body and in different diseases. Researchers at UC San...

GRANTS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS INFECTIOUS DISEASES PUBLIC HEALTH

Grant Funds Creation of California Center for HIV Syndemic Policy Research

  • Joyce Pritchett
  • 25 July 2023

Grant-funded California Center for HIV Syndemic Policy Research aims to bridge gap between policies and interventions to address HIV inequities at...

GRANTS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS DIABETES/METABOLIC HEALTH CELLULAR/MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Robert K. Naviaux Receives United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation’s Vanguard Award

  • Nicole Mlynaryk
  • 19 July 2023

The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (UMDF) has selected UC San Diego’s Robert K. Naviaux, MD, PhD, as the recipient of their...

INFECTIOUS DISEASES DRUG DISCOVERY ALLERGY/IMMUNOLOGY

Researchers Use Unusual Enzyme as Vaccine Against Deadly Bacterial Infection

  • Nicole Mlynaryk
  • 18 July 2023

Researchers in Victor Nizet’s lab show an unusual class of enzymes, lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs), can be used as a vaccine to...

GRANTS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS

UC San Diego Health Sciences Researchers Named Among the Best in Medicine

  • Joyce Pritchett
  • 21 June 2023

Researchers from University of California San Diego were recently named among the best in medicine.

CLINICAL TRIALS CANCER ALLERGY/IMMUNOLOGY

New Diagnostic Imaging Tool Monitors Fate of Cell Therapies in Cancer Patients

  • Nicole Mlynaryk
  • 20 June 2023

A pilot study debuts a novel method for monitoring the survival of a cancer cell therapies in patients.

GRANTS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS STEM CELLS PULMONOLOGY

Dr. Zea Borok, Chair of Medicine Accepts the 2023 ATS J. Burns Amberson Award

  • Ian Quiza
  • 07 June 2023

UC San Diego School of Medicine professor, Dr. Zea Borok, received the American Thoracic Society J. Burns Amberson lecture award.

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