“University of California, San Diego Professor Roger Tsien, Ph.D., will share the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and Boston University School of Medicine, and Martin Chalfie of Columbia University in New York. The scientists are being honored for the discovery of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) and seminal work to design and create fluorescent molecules that enter cells and light up their inner workings.”
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“Four cancer researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) have received a total of $1.14 million from Susan G. Komen for the Cure® to study the nature, development and spread of breast cancer. These are the organization’s only research and training awards given to scientists in San Diego for 2008.” (Randall Johnson, PhD; Marilyn Farquhar, PhD; Michael Karin, PhD; Michael Rosenfeld, MD)
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“A study led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests that use of oral Vitamin D supplements bolsters production of a protective chemical normally found in the skin, and may help prevent skin infections that are a common result of atopic dermatitis, the most common form of eczema.” (Richard Gallo, MD, PhD)
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“On Tuesday, September 16, 2008, the UC San Diego Center for the Future of Surgery performed the nation’s first gastrectomy, a partial removal of the stomach, through the vagina. This new “natural orifice” technique may be an attractive alternative for the 200,000 U.S. patients who undergo surgery for the treatment of obesity each year.” (Santiago Horgan, MD; Mark Talamini, MD)
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San Diego Physician features David Brenner, MD, Dean of the UC San Diego School of Medicine.
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“Doctors graduated from UCSD med school; now their son is part of new 40th class”
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“They just kept coming; it was challenging to keep up," said Dr. Bruce Potenza, director of the UC San Diego Regional Burn Center. "The burns were covered with all sorts of debris, their faces, . . . their noses, every part of them. . . . You couldn't tell what was burned because everything looked burned . . .”
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“The Gorder 5K Melanoma Walk is on Oct. 11 and commemorates Bruce Gorder, who died at the age of 37 from malignant melanoma.”
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La Jolla Light, recently held a Light One Little Candle Foundation benefit for Moores UCSD Cancer Center patients.
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