News
August 13, 2008
Bioengineer Shyni Varghese Awarded $2.3M Grant for Stem Cell Research
Bioengineering Professor Shyni Varghese is one of five UC San Diego researchers and physicians awarded New Faculty grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). The new awards, announced today, add $11.5 million to the more than $20 million in funding that researchers at UC San Diego have received from CIRM. Full Story
July 25, 2008
Von Liebig Center Hosts First Annual Technology Showcase
Technologies developed at UC San Diego landed in the spotlight on July 16, 2008 at an entrepreneurship technology showcase organized by UC San Diego’s von Liebig Center. Full Story
July 22, 2008
Bioengineering Undergrad Explores Other Side of World
A bioengineering undergraduate documents her experiences as a summer researcher in New Zealand. Full Story
July 21, 2008
UC San Diego Launches Institute of Engineering in Medicine to Accelerate Innovative Health Care Technologies
The world’s top engineers, physicians and scientists are joining forces to conceptualize, develop and bring to reality the future tools and treatments of 21st century health care through UC San Diego’s new Institute of Engineering in Medicine. Full Story
July 10, 2008
Smart Bomb Nanoparticle Strategy Impacts Metastasis
A new treatment strategy using molecular “smart bombs” to target metastasis with anti-cancer drugs leads to good results using significantly lower doses of toxic chemotherapy, with less collateral damage to surrounding tissue, according to a collaborative team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego. Full Story
July 2, 2008
UC San Diego Undergraduates Forge New Area of Bioinformatics
Undergraduate students from the University of California San Diego have forged a new area of bioinformatics that may improve genomic and proteomic annotations and unlock a collection of stubborn biological mysteries. Their work will be published in the July 2008 issue of the journal Genome Research. Full Story
June 30, 2008
Finding a Single Mechanism for Hypertension, Insulin Resistance, and Immune Suppression
Many of the 75 million Americans with essential hypertension also develop diabetes and other complications in addition to their high blood pressure, and researchers have discovered a common molecular mechanism in a strain of rat that explains why such metabolic disorders arise together in mammals. Full Story
June 20, 2008
Jacobs School Ring Ceremony 2008
More than 350 graduating seniors from the Jacobs School participated in the annual Ring Ceremony on Saturday, June 14. Full Story
June 4, 2008
University of California San Diego Students Take First, Second and Fourth Place at Prestigious Business Plan Competition
Jacobs School students took first and second place in a prestigious business plan competition organized at the University of Southern California. Full Story