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Developmental Protein Plays Role in Spread of Cancer
A protein used by embryo cells during early development, and recently found in many different types of cancer, apparently serves as a switch regulating the spread of cancer, known as metastasis, report...
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$1 Million Gift from Joan and Irwin Jacobs Supports New Center for...
A leadership gift of $1 million from San Diego philanthropists Joan and Irwin Jacobs will help UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center change how cancer is treated by supporting the Center for Personalized...
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UC San Diego Health System Ranks #1
UC San Diego Health System is once again ranked among the nation’s best in U.S. News & World Report’s 2013-14 “America’s Best Hospitals” issue. The magazine placed UC San Diego Health System #1 in...
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IDASH Projects: Protecting Privacy and Patient Rights in the Name of...
In the years since the best-selling book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” made the issue of informed consent and patient privacy a national topic of conversation, scientists and clinicians have...
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“Wildly Heterogeneous Genes”
New approach subtypes cancers by shared genetic effects; a step toward personalized medicine Cancer tumors almost never share the exact same genetic mutations, a fact that has confounded scientific...
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UC San Diego Researcher Receives $6.25 Million Grant
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has awarded Thomas J. Kipps, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with a 5-year, $6.25 million...
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Richard D. Kolodner Elected to Institute of Medicine
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers Joseph G. Gleeson, MD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor of neurosciences and pediatrics, and Richard D....
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$100 Million Gift Launches Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center
UC San Diego-based effort will speed discoveries to new drugs and treatments for patients In a bold and singular step toward delivering the therapeutic promise of human stem cells, businessman and...
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Blacks Have Less Access to Cancer Specialists, Treatment
UC San Diego Study Suggests Racial Inequality Leads to Higher Mortality Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say metastatic colorectal cancer patients of...
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Using microRNA Fit to a T (cell)
Researchers show B cells can deliver potentially therapeutic bits of modified RNA Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have successfully targeted T lymphocytes –...
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John Adamson Honored with American Society of Hematology Mentor Award for...
This week at its annual meeting in New Orleans, the American Society of Hematology (ASH) is presenting Dr. John W. Adamson with its 2013 Mentor Award for Basic Science. John W. Adamson, MD, is clinical...
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UC San Diego-Human Longevity Inc. Agreement Seeks to Accelerate Medical Science
Thousands of patient genomes expected to fuel diverse medical research, beginning with cancer The new collaborative research agreement between Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) and the University of...
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Molecular Tumor Board Helps in Advanced Cancer Cases
With accelerating development of personalized cancer treatments matched to a patient’s DNA sequencing, proponents say frontline physicians increasingly need help to maneuver through the complex genomic...
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Dr. Catriona Jamieson Announced as Inaugural Chief of New Division of...
Announced today by Wolfgang H. Dillmann, MD, Helen M. Ranney Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD Please join me in officially welcoming Catriona...
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New Division Chief and Vice Chief of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Announced July 28, 2014, by Wolfgang H. Dillmann, MD, Helen M. Ranney Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine Nicholas Webster, PhD I am pleased to announce that an internal...
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Tumor Suppressor Mutations Alone Don’t Explain Deadly Cancer
Biomarker for head and neck cancers identified Although mutations in a gene dubbed “the guardian of the genome” are widely recognized as being associated with more aggressive forms of cancer,...
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Sanford Shattil, MD, Stepping Down as Hematology-Oncology Chief; Remains...
Announced August 21, 2014, by Wolfgang H. Dillmann, MD, Helen M. Ranney Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine Sanford Shattil, MD Please join the Department of Medicine in...
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Cancer and the Immune System: A Double-Edged Sword
Cell surface sugars can promote or inhibit cancer depending upon stage During cancer development, tumor cells decorate their surfaces with sugar compounds called glycans that are different from those...
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Novel Drug Targeting Leukemia Cells Enters Clinical Trial
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have launched a phase 1 human clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of a new monoclonal antibody for patients with...
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Training the Next Generation of Cancer Scientists
National Cancer Institute training grant has supported UC San Diego scholars since 1984 The University of California, San Diego received a $2.5 million Institutional Ruth L. Kirschstein National...
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