MySDScience's – April 2012 Archive (30)
National Awards to UC San Diego School of Medicine Faculty Members
William Bradley, Jr., MD, PhD
William G. Bradley, Jr., MD, PhD, FACR, chairman of the Department of Radiology, was awarded the ACR Gold Medal, the highest honor of the American College of Radiology on April 22, during the ACR annual meeting and Chapter Leadership Conference held in Washington, D.C. The ACR said of Bradley, “(He) is renowned for his endless dedication…to advance the science and cause of…
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Researchers have now shown that quantum light sources can be fabricated using silicon, the most widely used material underpinning modern electronics. Shown here is a silicon photonic chip containing …
Researchers have now shown that quantum light sources can be fabricated using silicon, the most widely used material underpinning modern electronics. Shown here is a silicon photonic chip containing several dozen devices designed and fabricated by graduate students at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at UC San Diego.
An international consortium of researchers has overcome an important…
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UC San Diego Orthopedic Surgeon Named New President of International Society
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Scripps Research Institute Scientists Find the Structure of a Key ‘Gene Silencer’ Protein
LA JOLLA, CA – April 26, 2012 – Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the three-dimensional atomic structure of a human protein that is centrally involved in regulating the activities of cells. Knowing the precise structure of this protein paves the way for scientists to understand a process known as RNA-silencing and to harness it to treat diseases.
“Biologists have known about RNA-silencing for only a decade or so, but it’s already clear that there’s an…
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Scientists Uncover Strong Support for Once-Marginalized Theory on Parkinson’s Disease
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UC San Diego Professor Named to the Prestigious Royal Society
Jack E. Dixon, PhD
Jack E. Dixon, PhD, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor of pharmacology, cellular and molecular medicine, chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego has been named a foreign member of the Royal Society. Dixon is among 44 newly elected fellows and 8 new Foreign Members of the Royal Society, a…
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From feast to famine: A metabolic switch that may help diabetes treatment
LA JOLLA, CA—Humans are built to hunger for fat, packing it on during times of feast and burning it during periods of famine. But when deluged by foods rich in fat and sugar, the modern waistline often far exceeds the need to store energy for lean times, and the result has been an epidemic of diabetes, heart disease and other obesity-related problems.
Now, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified the linchpin…
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Seismic Stress Test
Engineers test life-saving technologies in five-story building built on world’s largest outdoor shake table
Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications
What happens when you put a fully equipped five-story building, which includes two hospital floors, computer servers, fire barriers and even a working elevator, through a series of high-intensity earthquakes?
Structural engineers…
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Experts Say Distracted Driving Among College Students in San Diego on Upswing
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‘Blinking Microbubbles’ for Early Cancer Screening Take Grand Prize at Research Expo 2012
Bioengineering graduate student Carolyn Schutt won the Rudee Outstanding Poster Award for her research into a new imaging technique for breast cancer research. Photo Credit: UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
Carolyn Schutt, a Ph.D student in bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego is developing a new imaging technique that could lead to highly-sensitive light imaging deeper…
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Scripps-developed Landers Provide New View of Ocean Floor
Kevin Hardy with Scripps alumna Christina Massel
One of the challenges James Cameron faces in exploring the Mariana Trench is that no light is able to penetrate its extreme depths. That’s where the engineering know-how of Kevin Hardy and other Scripps researchers comes into play. Hardy, a Scripps research engineer, has developed telephone-booth-size landers that are dropped to the seafloor. The landers,…
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Karl Y. Hostetler, MD, Receives Prestigious 2012 Gertrude Elion Memorial Award
Karl Y. Hostetler, MD, has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Gertrude Elion Memorial Lecture Award by the International Society of Antiviral Research. Hostetler is a professor of medicine in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Endocrinology at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. Each year the award is given to a scientist of international repute who has made significant contributions to the field of antiviral research and to mentoring of young scientists. The award will be…
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Scripps Research Institute Professor Gerald F. Joyce Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
LA JOLLA, CA – April 17, 2012 – Scripps Research Institute Professor Gerald F. Joyce, MD, PhD, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
"Jerry is an outstanding scientist," said Scripps Research President and CEO Michael A. Marletta, PhD. "His contributions are truly remarkable and we are glad to count him as one of our own."
One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the American…
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Scripps Delivers Science to James Cameron’s Historic Dive into the Abyss
Voyage to world’s deepest point offers tantalizing research opportunities for Scripps scientists
As part of James Cameron's "Deepsea Challenge," Scripps engineer Kevin Hardy (center, with hook) deploys a deep ocean vehicle (DOV), or "lander" that he developed to explore the mysteries of the world's deepest points.
When filmmaker James Cameron recently reached the depths of the Mariana Trench, the deepest…
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Two UC San Diego Professors Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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SDSC Announces ‘Center of Excellence’ for Predictive Analytics
PACE to Bridge Gap Between Academia, Industry, and Government
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is launching a new “center of excellence” aimed at leveraging SDSC’s data-intensive expertise and resources to help create the next generation of data researchers by leading a collaborative, nationwide education and training effort among academia, industry, and government.
SDSC is providing seed funding for the program,…
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Scott M. Lippman, MD, Named New Director of UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center director, Scott Lippman, MD.
Scott M. Lippman, MD, chair of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at The University of Texas (UT) MD Anderson Cancer Center, has accepted the position of director of Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, beginning May 1, 2012.
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, home to nearly 350 medical and radiation…
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Invited by U.S. State Department, UC San Diego Researcher Engages Students, Public in South Africa
Calit2 research scientist Albert Yu-Min Lin addresses Scifest Africa.
As fellow researchers from the University of California, San Diego were participating in the San Diego Science Festival last month, research scientist and Jacobs School of Engineering alumnus Albert Yu-Min Lin (‘08, ’06 and ’04) was exciting students and the public at a science festival more than 10,000 miles away – in South…
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UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center Recognized for Dedication to Sustainability
New Building is first LEED Gold certified acute care medical facility in San Diego Region
The UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center is the first hospital-based project in the region to receive LEED Gold certification from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). Representatives from the USGBC – San Diego Chapter recently presented a plaque to the building project and design…
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