The University of California, San Diego announced that it has secured more than $13 million in private support to add space and research facilities to the Donald and Darlene Shiley Eye Center complex.
Join the professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego, and the professor of marine chemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, on Oct. 1 as they discuss the engaging issues brought to light in their new book, "The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup".
NSF today announced its first grants under the $90 million Information Technology Research program. Five UCSD projects, selected from a nationwide pool of 1,400 proposals, have been awarded $4.5 million.
UCSD researchers have discovered a new genetic pathway involved in sudden cardiac death, the tragic cause of 400,000 American deaths each year. Incurable and largely untreatable, sudden cardiac death too frequently strikes healthy appearing individuals with no known illness. (Cell, 9-1-00)
A statewide, state-funded initiative to rigorously study the safety and efficacy of medicinal cannabis to treat certain diseases is being established at the University of California.
A major new prize in the amount of $100,000, named for human cognition pioneer David Rumelhart, a founder of the University of California, San Diego, Department of Cognitive Science, has been established.
Using a silicon chip and parts from an inexpensive CD player, chemists at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a portable nerve-gas sensor capable of detecting "G-type" nerve agents, such as sarin, soman and GF.
A direct three-dimensional image of a volcanic system based on sound waves reflected from a subterranean magma chamber has been developed by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Nature, 8-10).
Analyzing some of the oldest-known rocks on Earth, scientists have discovered for the first time a way to recover from the geological record details about the evolution of oxygen and ozone in the planet's early atmosphere (Science, 8-4-00).
How do you keep low-income high school students motivated in science and math, and encourage them to aggressively pursue college degrees in these subjects? A new federally funded outreach program at the University of California, San Diego, may provide insight.
Marking a first for research in an oceanic system, the William S. Cooper Award has been given to four scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, for their investigation of one of Earth's largest underwater kelp forest.
A novel family of anti-cancer compounds called acylfulvenes, discovered by two scientists at the University of California, San Diego, more than 10 years ago from toxins of the poisonous jack-o'-lantern mushroom, is showing promise as a highly effective chemotherapy agent.
Governor Gray Davis announced that the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies [Cal-(IT)2], a joint proposal of UC San Diego and UC Irvine, has been selected among the six finalists to be submitted for final consideration as a California Institute for Science and Innovation.
Following a national search, Duke University Dean and Vice Chancellor Edward W. Holmes has been named as the new UCSD vice chancellor for health sciences and dean of the school of medicine.
The new UCSD School of Pharmacy, which will accept its first class in Sept. 2001, will provide academically based professional training for pharmacists, and foster pharmaceutical sciences research and public service programs to advance the science and practice of pharmacy.
The UCSD Department of Pediatrics has received a five-year, $2.5 million grant to expand physician training into the community, giving young doctors the skills, motivation and commitment for outreach, involvement and interaction with a diverse patient population.
Melanoma researchers at UCSD have developed a new drug-combination therapy that has proven in Phase II clinical trials to be significantly better at extending patients' lives than any other drug therapy.
UCSD researchers studying, in mice, the molecular machinery of an important signaling pathway inadvertently discovered the gene responsible for a mysterious human congenital disease (Molecular Cell).
At a time when mood-altering drugs like Prozac have revolutionized the treatment of the mentally ill and HMOs are forcing caregivers to take the cheaper and quicker pharmacological route, the psychiatric profession, says a UCSD anthropologist, may be as tormented as the patient it seeks to treat.
UCSD School of Medicine scientists have successfully cultured human beta cells that grow indefinitely, and that could potentially serve as an unlimited source of insulin-producing tissue for transplantation to cure people with diabetes (American Diabetes Association's 60th Annual Scientific Sessions, 6-11-00).
Exactly how toxic substances in the environment adversely affect human health will be the focus of a new UCSD Superfund Basic Research Program, established with a five-year federal grant, funded by NIEHS, of approximately $20 million to the School of Medicine.
The California Cancer Research Program has awarded a University of California, San Diego, physician-scientist a $600,000 grant to conduct a 3-year study of colon cancer in African-Americans.
3-D images of magnetic storms from the Sun, developed by physicists at the University of California, San Diego, and Nagoya University, are allowing space-weather forecasters to improve their predictions of solar disruptions on Earth as the Sun moves into the most active period of its 11-year cycle.
The 4th of July conjures up images of barbecues, picnics and fireworks; but while the summer holiday is lot of fun, it also can be hazardous; here are some guidelines for preventing accidents, and what to do in case of emergency.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that the proliferation in California of the introduced Argentine ant is due to the lack of genetic diversity among individuals up and down the coast.
A trio of genes that produce a flower within a flower within a flower, one of the earliest recognized abnormalities in flowers, has been identified by University of California, San Diego, biologists, as reported in the May 11 Nature.
An international panel of AIDS experts has established a broad set of recommendations for drug resistance testing in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus; the recommendations are published in the May 10 JAMA.
A $20 million philanthropic gift from John Moores, majority owner of San Diego Padres and Regent of the University of California, and his wife Rebecca, is among the largest gifts from private individuals ever received by UCSD and the largest given toward the Cancer Center initiative.
The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of California, San Diego $220,000 over the next two years to fund 40 scholarships for underrepresented and low-income undergraduates who are pursuing degrees in computer science, engineering or mathematics.
Richard D. Kolodner, professor in the Department of Medicine and in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
A potentially powerful new approach to vaccine protection against cancer, infectious disease and allergy, based on immune response-boosting DNA technology derived from microorganisms linked to tuberculosis, is reported by UCSD School of Medicine scientists.
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $16.5 million program project grant to an internationally recognized cancer researcher at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to establish and lead a national research consortium to study chronic lymphocytic leukemia in an entirely new way.
The Pete Lopiccola Memorial Foundation has given $120,000 to fund cancer treatment and research at the UCSD Cancer Center; the organization's gifts to treatment and research at the Cancer Center over the past decade total nearly $750,000.
UCSD melanoma specialists from a variety of medical disciplines are coming together under a single program to provide comprehensive care to patients at any stage of the disease.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego, have identified genes in a laboratory weed that are necessary for normal seed dispersal.
Ophthalmologists and researchers at UCSD Shiley Eye Center have uncovered a relationship between an eye disease characterized by an inability to focus on a target and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Vaccination against an enzyme common to a variety of human tumors might effectively mobilize the body's own immune system to attack and kill cancer cells, report UCSD scientists in the April 4 Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
In a study of severely uncoordinated fruit flies, University of California, San Diego, scientists have obtained the first molecular hints of how humans and other complex organisms hear, maintain their balance and sense touch.
A class of composite materials with unusual physical properties that scientists theorized might be possible, but have never before been able to produce in nature, has been developed by University of California, San Diego, physicists (Physical Review Letters).
UCSD-Salk Institute Awards presented to Christopher Reeve, Dr. Donald Seldin and Dr. Dennis Slamon; Christopher Reeve has been named the first recipient of the UCSD-Salk Institute Service Award.
Cycles of ocean conditions reveal that Earth is currently in a period in which a natural rise in global temperatures -- combined with warming from the greenhouse effect -- will push the planet through an era of rapid global warming, say Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 3-21-00).
A new family of genes that encode proteins that function as bitter-taste receptors has been identified by University of California, San Diego, and National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research scientists (Cell, 3-17-00).
East and West Antarctica started to spread about 43 million years ago and then abruptly stopped 17 million years later, after the rift between them had opened about 180 kilometers, reports a scientific team led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Nature (3-9-00).
Variations in Antarctic sea ice may have played a significant role in lowering atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations during the last ice age, reports a study in the March 9 Nature.
Linking Hypoxia-inducible factor to heart disease and heart attack in human patients suggests a defensive molecular mechanism launched by the body to protect against the damaging effects of oxygen deprivation on the heart, as reported by UCSD School of Medicine researchers in the March 2 NEJM.
Measurements of sulfur isotopes in five Martian meteorites have enabled University of California researchers to determine that the abundant sulfur on the surface of Mars is due largely to chemical reactions in the Red Planet's atmosphere that are similar to those that occur in Earth's atmosphere (Nature, 3-2-00).
Building New Societies: Women in Asia and Latin America is the subject of a major international conference and three keynote presentations, March 8-11, at the University of California, San Diego.
In an effort to reach the deaf community with cancer education programs, UCSD Cancer Center researchers conducted a study to identify barriers and develop ways to overcome them.
The first mouse model genetically programmed to simulate motor deficits and brain alterations found in Parkinson's disease and realted disorders has been developed by scientists at UCSD, UCSF and the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (Science, 2-18-00).
Two teams of undergraduate students from the University of California, San Diego, have been selected to explore the unique world of weightlessness as part of a program developed by NASA and the Texas Space Grant Consortium.
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