News
May 12, 2011
Southern California Wireless Health Innovators Win Funding for Inventions
Southern California researchers working on wireless health technologies recently won commercialization support and research funding through the TATRC/Qualcomm Wireless Health Innovation Challenge. The awards will support UC San Diego work on artificial retinas made from nanowires, a UCLA system that helps people re-learn to walk after a traumatic injury, and USC tools that enable doctors to monitor and modify – from afar – drugs administered by infusion pumps. Full Story
May 4, 2011
Nearly 30 Percent of New CIRM Awards go to UC San Diego Stem Cell Researchers
UC San Diego scientist garnered 8 of the total 27 of Basic Biology III awards announced today by the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (ICOC) of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Bioengineering professor Kun Zhang from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is among the 8 campus awardees. Full Story
April 19, 2011
Research Expo 2011: a Snapshot of the Jacobs School of Engineering
From robots to UAVs, railway safety, social networks and grocery shopping technology for the blind, engineering graduate students at the University of California, San Diego presented their latest research to industry, potential investors and to fellow students and faculty at Research Expo on April 14, 2011. Full Story
April 11, 2011
Improving Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Through Advanced Optical Imaging
UC San Diego bioengineering grad student Carolyn Schutt may be on to something big, something that will help revolutionize the way physicians diagnose and treat cancer. Full Story
April 6, 2011
Future Computer Vision Tools to Aid Medical Research and Healthcare
Boris Babenko believes there are huge opportunities for integrating computer science, and in particular computer vision, into health care and medical research, making life easier for researchers, physicians and ultimately patients. Full Story
March 1, 2011
Mutations Found In Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Ordinary human cells reprogrammed as induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) may ultimately revolutionize personalized medicine by creating new and diverse therapies unique to individual patients, but important and unanswered questions have persisted about the safety of these cells, in particular whether their genetic material is altered during the reprogramming process. Full Story
February 23, 2011
Nanoparticles Increase Survival after Blood Loss
In anadvance that could improve battlefield and trauma care, scientists at University of California San Diego and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have used tiny particles called nanoparticles to improve survival after life-threatening blood loss. Nanoparticles containing nitric oxide (NO) were infused into the bloodstream of hamsters, where they helped maintain blood circulation and protect vital organs. The research was reported in the February 21 online edition of the journal Resuscitation. Full Story
January 28, 2011
Bioengineers among UC San Diego Researchers Awarded CIRM Grants in Support of Innovative Technologies
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded three grants totaling nearly $5.8 million to researchers at the University of California, San Diego – including bioengineering professors Shu Chien and Shyni Varghese -- for development of innovative technologies designed to advance translational stem cell research. Full Story
January 18, 2011
Bioengineers 'Pump' Life Into Post-Heart Attack Therapies
Bioengineers at UC San Diego are one step closer to improving therapies for heart attack victims.A paper recently published in Biomaterials called “Hydrogels with time-dependent material properties enhance cardiomyocyte differentiation in vitro,” describes how the researchers measured the increase in stiffness that occurs in heart muscle as it develops and then mimicked that change in a modified version of a biological material called hyaluronic acid. Full Story
January 13, 2011
Eight UC San Diego Professors Named New AAAS Fellows
Bioengineering professor Bernhard Palsson and NanoEngineering professor Shaochen Chen are the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering professors named AAAS Fellows in 2011. Full Story