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UC San Diego has been highly successful in partnering with and obtaining funding from corporations and foundations around the world. Check out some of these recent successes.

2026

$10 Million Grant from Price Philanthropies Launches Behavioral Health Hub at UC San Diego Health

2025

	New Advanced Imaging Technology to Enhance Timely Patient Care
	UC San Diego Launches Nonpartisan Center to Build Trust in US Elections
	$1.2M Award from the Keck Foundation Supports Innovative Study of Heart Attacks
	Simons Foundation Funds Research on Symmetries Between Art and Science at Mandeville Art Gallery
	Neurobiology’s Matthew Lovett-Barron Selected for Prestigious 2025 McKnight Scholar Award
	UC San Diego Receives $2.45M from InnerScience to Accelerate Research on the Effects of Meditation
	UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Receives $1M Donation from Pfizer for Early Cancer Detection
	Two UC San Diego Scientists Awarded Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships
	UC San Diego Biologist and Collaborators Receive $1 Million Keck Award
	Five UC San Diego Researchers Receive Presidential Early Career Awards
	UC San Diego Electrical Engineering Professor Honored by Schmidt Sciences for AI Research
	Itay Budin and Christopher Obara Named Allen Distinguished Investigators

2024

	UC San Diego Receives $10 Million for Center on Neurobiology in Changing Environments
	HHMI Names 50 Gilliam Fellows in Milestone Year
	Amy Pasquinelli Selected for Grant to Study the Role of Toxic RNA in Aging
	UC San Diego Researchers Honored as Prebys Research Heroes
	Kyoto Prize winner uses surreal art forms to make sense of the world’s ugly realities
	Helping Hands: UC San Diego Center for Community Health Leadership Honored for Health Equity Work
	Biological Sciences Professor Terrence Sejnowski Wins Brain Prize
	Three Early Career Faculty Members Selected to Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
	Researchers Unveil New Approach to Flip the Script on Drug Addiction

2023

	Major Contract Funds Study on Drivers of Resilience Among Older Adults
	$30 Million in Funding Helps Scientists Study Universe’s Oldest Light
	UC San Diego Mechanical Engineer Awarded Packard Fellowship for Next-generation Imaging Technology
	UC San Diego Cancer Biologist Receives Claugus Award for Medical Research
	$2M Grant Drives Research on Novel Insulin in Type 1 Diabetes
	Crohn’s Disease Research Bolstered With Grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust
	$10M from InnerScience Research Fund Will Fuel Study on Meditation to Combat Disease
	Sonya Neal Named Inaugural HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
	Two out of three 2022 Tower Cancer Research Foundation awardees are UC San Diego faculty
	Two UC San Diego Faculty Named 2023 Cottrell Scholars

2022

	UCSD doctor, England family collaborate to find cure to child brain tumors
	UC San Diego Receives $1.3M from W. M. Keck Foundation to Study Origins of Dementia
	UC San Diego Engineers Receive 2 out of 10 Prestigious National Young Investigators Awards
	Olga Dudko Receives Prestigious Simons Investigator Award
	CSE’s Shachar Lovett Receives Simons Investigator Award
	UC San Diego Researchers Working to Trace Roots of Triple Negative Breast Cancer
	UC San Diego Biology Lab Receives $1.4M Grant to Fight Malaria Spread
	Diversity and Science Lecture Series Gets Funded
	Three UC San Diego Faculty Members Receive 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship
	Fabian Rivera-Chávez Awarded Mallinckrodt Foundation Grant

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