“Adding $11.5 million to the more than $20 million in funding that researchers at the University of California, San Diego have received to date from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), five UC San Diego researchers and physicians have been awarded New Faculty grants.” (C. Jamieson, M.D., PhD; M. Parast, M.D., PhD; B. Yu, M.D., PhD)
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" 'Flesh-eating' or 'Strep' bacteria are able to survive and spread in the body by degrading a key immune defense molecule, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences . . . Led by senior author Victor Nizet, M.D., a UC San Diego professor of pediatrics and pharmacy and an infectious diseases physician at Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, the researchers showed that a protease known as SpyCEP (Strep.  pyogenes cell envelope protease) – produced in large amounts by the most dangerous strains of Strep – inactivates an immune system molecule that controls the body’s white blood cells ability to fight bacteria."
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“. . . researchers at UC San Diego Medical Center have launched a comprehensive program to study how breast milk can be fed to premature infants and to identify the ingredients that give human milk its life-boosting qualities. Called Supporting Premature Infant Nutrition (SPIN), the new program is focused on the provision, analysis, and research of human milk to improve nutritional and neurodevelopmental outcomes in preterm babies. The program is believed to be the first of its kind in the United States.” (J.Kim, M.D., PhD; N. Finer, M.D.; L. Stellwagen, M.D.)

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Voice of San Diego, Steffanie Strathdee, Ph.D., discusses her research with Tijuana female sex workers
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The San Diego Union Tribune, “Oncologist Lyudmila Bazhenova, M.D. has a new weapon in her arsenal to help late-stage lung cancer patients fight for survival: an experimental cancer vaccine called Lucanix, developed in San Diego by privately held NovaRx.”
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These Days, KPBS, featured guest Jennifer Blanchard, M.D.
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