Recent News

Sunday, October 12th
NIH Awards $38 Million Grant Renewal to UC San Diego for Lipid Mapping Project

The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has been awarded nearly $38 million by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, to continue leading “LIPID MAPS,” a national consortium studying the structure and function of lipids – cellular fats and oils that serve as building blocks for cells or as energy sources for the body. Lipids are implicated in a wide range of disorders, including heart disease, stroke, arthritis, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.
Tuesday, October 7th
Harvard-MIT Bioastronautics PhD Program Summer Internship

Funded by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), the Bioastronautics Training Program combines training in biomedical sciences, aerospace engineering, and space medicine, and is integrated with a similar program at Texas A&M University. The combination of science and engineering coursework, clinical experiences, research internships, and thesis research prepare students for a broad range of possible career opportunities.
Monday, October 6th
Bioengineers Fill Holes in Science of Cellular Self-Organization

The chemical and biological aspects of cellular self-organization are well-studied; less well understood is how cell populations order themselves biomechanically – how their behavior and communication are affected by high density and physical proximity. Bioengineers and physicists at the University of California San Diego, in a paper published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have begun to address these fundamental questions.
Monday, September 22nd
Generation Innovation: UC San Diego Researches Win $3M In NIH New Innovator Awards

San Diego, CA, September 22, 2008 -- At 30, Karen Christman, an assistant bioengineering professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, plans to help fuel the growing field of tissue engineering. With a new $1.5 million New Innovator Award grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Christman will be able to do just that.
Sunday, August 24th
UC San Diego Greenlight Project to Improve Energy Efficiency of Computing

The information technology industry consumes as much energy and has roughly the same carbon “footprint” as the airline industry. Now scientists and engineers at the University of California, San Diego are building an instrument to test the energy efficiency of computing systems under real-world conditions—with the ultimate goal of getting computer designers and users in the scientific community to re-think the way they do their jobs.