News Archive - School of Medicine

Your Brain Needs to Be Ready to Remember?

What happens in the hippocampus even before people attempt to form memories may impact whether they remember. Study suggests ‘encoding mode’ may play an important role in memory formation.

Fighting COVID-19 with Knowledge Graphs

The National Science Foundation awards two SDSC researchers funding to organize COVID-19 information into a knowledge network that integrates health, pathogen, and environmental data to track cases across greater San Diego.

Mobile Life Support Delivered to Area Hospitals During COVID-19 Pandemic

UC San Diego Health has deployed a mobile ECMO life support system to help sustain critically-ill patients during the pandemic.

RNA Molecules in Maternal Blood May Predict Pregnancies at Risk for Preeclampsia

UC San Diego researchers have identified small molecules in the blood of asymptomatic pregnant women that may predict risk for preeclampsia, responsible for a significant proportion of maternal and neonatal deaths, low birth weight and is a primary cause of premature birth.

NIH Begins Clinical Trial of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin to Treat COVID-19

The NIH has launched a major clinical trial to assess the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and antibiotic azithromycin as a treatment for COVID-19. The trial will recruit 2,000 participants at 30 sites. A Q&A with the trial’s team leader: Davey Smith, MD, of UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Supercomputing Drug Screening For Deadly Heart Arrhythmias

Using supercomputers, scientists have developed for the first time a way to screen drugs through their chemical structures for induced arrhythmias.

Ruth S. Waterman, MD, Named Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology

Ruth S. Waterman, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health.

Introducing the UC San Diego Return to Learn Program

Program makes COVID-19 testing available to thousands of students in effort to track the novel coronavirus and better position the campus to resume in-person activities in the fall.

How are You Doing? Researchers Hope to Measure Well-Being at Global Scale

With website, UC San Diego School of Medicine scientists will monitor health and well-being during and after pandemic.

$55M NIH Grant Advances Clinical and Translational Research at UC San Diego

The Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute at University of California San Diego has received a five-year, $54.7 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health.