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UC San Diego Professor Wins Major Prize in Mathematics

November 14, 2016

A professor at the University of California San Diego has won this year’s John von Neumann Theory Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, given annually for “fundamental and sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences.”

UC San Diego Biologist Awarded Prestigious Packard Fellowship

October 14, 2016

A molecular biology professor at the University of California San Diego who developed an innovative way to understand the development and evolution of microbial communities using cheese is one of 18 early-career scientists and engineers nationwide who have won prestigious 2016 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering.

UC San Diego Neuroscientists Awarded More Than $2 Million from Obama’s BRAIN Initiative

October 13, 2016

Four teams of neuroscientists at the University of California San Diego were awarded a total of $2.27 million this week from the National Institutes of Health to continue their research under President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative.

Five UC San Diego Physicists Named APS Fellows

October 12, 2016

Five physicists at the University of California San Diego have been named 2016 Fellows of the American Physical Society, a distinct honor of professional achievement from the nation’s largest society of physicists.

Six Researchers at UC San Diego Receive $5 Million from NIH for Transformative Research

October 4, 2016

Four biologists, a nanoengineer and a biophysicist at UC San Diego today received a total of more than $5 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to pursue innovative and transformative research projects.

Six Researchers at UC San Diego Receive $5 Million from NIH for Transformative Research

October 4, 2016

Four biologists, a nanoengineer and a biophysicist at UC San Diego today received a total of more than $5 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to pursue innovative and transformative research projects.

Biochemists’ Discovery Could Lead to Vaccine Against ‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacteria

September 5, 2016

Biochemists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered patterns in the outer protein coat of group A Streptococcus that could finally lead to a vaccine against this highly infectious bacteria—responsible for more than 500,000 deaths a year, including toxic shock syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis or “flesh-eating disease.”

UC San Diego Professor Wins Top Academic Prize in Theoretical Chemistry

August 31, 2016

J. Andrew McCammon, a distinguished professor of chemistry, biochemistry and pharmacology at the University of California San Diego, has won this year’s most prestigious university-based prize in theoretical chemistry.

UC San Diego Chemist Wins 2 Prestigious National Awards

August 24, 2016

A chemistry professor at the University of California San Diego has won two prestigious national prizes awarded by the American Chemical Society.

Single-Celled Fungi Multiply, Alien-Like, by Fusing Cells in Host

August 22, 2016

Microsporidia cause diarrhea, an illness called microsporidiosis and even death in immune-compromised individuals.In spite of those widespread medical problems, scientists were uncertain about how these single-celled fungi reproduced in human or animal cells. But in a study that employed transparent roundworms, biologists at the University of California San Diego succeeded in directly observing how these microorganisms replicate and spread. And what they saw surprised them.
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