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Distinguished Professor William Gerwick at La Jolla's Scripps Institution of Oceanography is using a deep-learning system called SMART to identify molecular structures from marine organisms in seconds rather than weeks, accelerating the search for compounds that could fight cancer, tuberculosis and malaria.
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UC San Diego School of Medicine welcomed 140 new students at its Aug. 27 White Coat Ceremony on the La Jolla campus, with students citing family experiences as their motivation to pursue medicine.
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UC San Diego's Soil Health Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, led by microbial ecologist Sarah Allard, brings together researchers across disciplines to develop soil-based solutions for food security and climate resilience.
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A new joint incubator from UC San Diego and venture firm Bow Capital has awarded $100,000 each to six university-affiliated startups developing technologies for both national security and commercial markets, with the three-month program based at the Design and Innovation Building in La Jolla.
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UC San Diego held its No. 4 spot among U.S. public universities in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, ranking 14th nationally and 20th globally, buoyed by a Nobel-winning alumnus and an $8.48 million AI data-center research project.
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Salk Institute researchers published a study showing that severe illness during pregnancy epigenetically alters fetal brain development in mice, dysregulating about 25% of high-confidence autism-associated genes and pointing toward potential future maternal or fetal therapies.
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UC San Diego says its inaugural U.S.-India Forum, held in La Jolla in April, has already produced long-term research collaborations with Indian corporations, though the university has not named the partners or disclosed deal terms.
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A La Jolla research team led by professor Dong Wang used cryo-electron microscopy to demonstrate that a key cellular enzyme can accurately transcribe an expanded genetic alphabet with eight letters instead of the natural four, a finding published Sept. 2 in Nature Communications that could open new paths for diagnostics and therapeutics.
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UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers received a DARPA contract worth up to $11.3 million to gene-edit red blood cells that sense physical exertion and boost oxygen delivery, with potential applications ranging from military performance to heart attack and cancer treatment.
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A Scripps Institution of Oceanography study estimates that forecast-based reservoir management could save California $100 million to $200 million a year and conserve enough water for more than a million households.
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UC San Diego's San Diego Supercomputer Center in La Jolla won a $35 million, five-year NSF grant to lead the nation's new AI research operations center, building on a pilot that connected 900 research teams across all 50 states.
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A new NBER working paper co-authored by UC San Diego economist Judson Boomhower finds that wildfire victims lose an average of 26% of their pre-fire annual income over three years, and that half of burned homes remain empty four years later as younger, wealthier residents replace original occupants.