News
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
May 30, 2008
UC San Diego Entrepreneurship, May Madness and the Final Five
On Saturday May 31, 2008, five UC San Diego teams – including two from the Jacobs School of Engineering – will compete for $50,000 in cash prizes in a completely-student-run business plan competition called the UCSD $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Full Story
May 29, 2008
UC San Diego Unveils Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics
Cymer Inc. has provided major sponsorship of a novel educational and research program at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering designed to train engineers to improve the performance of wide variety of industrial products and processes. The new Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics (CCSD), which will educate many of the finest students in the country in the field of controls, is designed to put UC San Diego’s Jacobs School on the fast track to industry partnerships in numerous high tech arenas. Full Story
May 20, 2008
Mad Dash for Trash, Then Junkyard Derby Bash
It's Junkyard Derby week at UC San Diego. The junkyard opens on Wednesday night, May 21 at 7:30 pm, and the races start on Friday at 11:30 AM. Full Story
April 29, 2008
Hypersaline Hyperviscous Fluids Better Treatment for Severe Blood Loss
UC San Diego bioengineering researchers report in the journal Resuscitation that treatment of severe blood loss, which for decades has included large volumes of isotonic fluids that thin the blood, may be improved significantly with smaller volumes of highly salty water and viscosity enhancers that thicken blood. Full Story
April 2, 2008
Joint Symposium: UC San Diego and National Yang Ming University
The Second Joint Symposium between the National Yang Ming University (NYMU) of Taiwan and UC San Diego will be held at UCSD on April 9-11 at UCSD’s Department of Bioengineering. Full Story