Smarr was headed back to teaching when he got a call from UCSD about starting the new institute.
It was just my luck that UCSD offered an exchange program to Spelman.
The project, run by UCSD and UC Irvine, promises donors an early peek at successful technologies, with an option to buy.
Five kilometers up the road from UCSD, chemist Richard Lerner, president of Scripps , has assembled a powerhouse of 1, 000 Ph.
That's when UCSD oncologist Ivor Royston and research assistant Howard Birndorf founded Hybritech to explore using monoclonal antibodies to fight cancer.
He served as the CEO of the Entrepreneur Challenge, a non-profit organization for the training and funding of student entrepreneurs at UCSD.
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Though it is in its very early stages, the experiment into arthritis at UCSD could provide the broadest use of mirror therapy yet.
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The concept of using natural orifices is not new, said Dr. Mark Talamini, professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery at UCSD.
"The ability to collaborate is inversely proportional to the distance that separates you, " explains Edward Holmes, the energetic vice chancellor for health sciences at UCSD.
The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) earned the number three spot this year, climbing up from number 15 on the Cool Schools 2010 list.
Tom Perrine of UCSD said he hoped to gain access to the Carnivore code through another means, perhaps from a different section of the federal government.
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Down the road from UCSD, 30-foot screens at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography project geomorphic data obtained from radar, sonar and satellites, combined into a single 3-D image.
An astonishing number of ideas and scientists, as well as most of San Diego's 499 biotech and medical device companies, have roots in UCSD or places like Scripps and Salk.
Scientists, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists cross paths not only at lectures but also at social events like the UCSD Cancer Center's annual Luau and Longboard Invitational--yes, surfing to benefit cancer research.
In January last year he gave a lecture at the UCSD Cancer Center on "in vivo protein transduction, " a means to deliver biologically active molecules, such as therapeutic peptides and proteins, inside the cell.
However projections by folks such as IDC, UCSD and USC indicated that the growth of digital information is growing by about 50% per year while the amount of information stored each year had been increasing in the past by about 25% annually.
Most economists and commentators I listen to, including conservatives like David Brooks of the New York Times and Jim Hamilton of UCSD, say that reducing the deficit will require both a reduction in spending and an upward adjustment in tax rates, or closing loopholes.
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