2022

UC San Diego’s ranks now include 18 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Three professors have been named 2022 NAI fellows, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors. The NAI Fellows Program highlights…

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurological disorder that causes progressive loss of movement, coordination and cognitive function. It is caused by a mutation in a single gene called huntingtin or HTT. More than 200,000 people worldwide…

UC San Diego Health has been awarded the prestigious 2022 California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (CAPH) Quality Leaders Award (QLA) in the category of health equity. Every year, CAPH showcases the most impressive…

University of California San Diego neurobiologists have found that brain cells feature a remarkable ability to shield themselves in situations of severe stress, such as those suffered under stroke conditions.Treatments for stroke, also…

Mary Walshok, a longtime fixture of UC San Diego known for myriad contributions to the greater San Diego/Baja region, accepted a well-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Diego Business Journal’s (SDBJ) Business Women of the…

BioVeda Agro Ventures – India’s first integrated online platform for farmers has recently secured an undisclosed amount of seed funding from India Accelerator’s Angel Investors’ network – iAngels. Incepted in February 2022, the…

If you haven’t yet heard about the RobotX, then you probably haven’t heard about the Maritime RobotX Challenge. It’s an international, university-level competition designed to foster student interest in autonomous robotic systems…

Many Americans think of gout as a disease from a bygone era, akin to rickets or scurvy. The condition commonly afflicted the rich and royal, including American historical figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.Gout is…

It was a birthday gift unlike any other Linda Small had ever received. She was wheeled out of the operating room the day before her birthday on Feb. 23 with a donated kidney from her sister, Annette LaRoche, and a new lease on life.At age…

Advertisers and web trackers have been able to aggregate users’ information across all of the websites they visit for decades, primarily by placing third-party cookies in users’ browsers. Two years ago, several browsers that prioritize…