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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.

 

2024


 


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UC San Diego Receives $10 Million for Center on Neurobiology in Changing Environments


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HHMI Names 50 Gilliam Fellows in Milestone Year


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Amy Pasquinelli Selected for Grant to Study the Role of Toxic RNA in Aging


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UC San Diego Researchers Honored as Prebys Research Heroes

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Kyoto Prize winner uses surreal art forms to make sense of the world’s ugly realities


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Helping Hands: UC San Diego Center for Community Health Leadership Honored for Health Equity Work


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Biological Sciences Professor Terrence Sejnowski Wins Brain Prize


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Three Early Career Faculty Members Selected to Receive Sloan Research Fellowships


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Researchers Unveil New Approach to Flip the Script on Drug Addiction

2023


 


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Major Contract Funds Study on Drivers of Resilience Among Older Adults


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$30 Million in Funding Helps Scientists Study Universe’s Oldest Light


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UC San Diego Mechanical Engineer Awarded Packard Fellowship for Next-generation Imaging Technology


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UC San Diego Cancer Biologist Receives Claugus Award for Medical Research


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$2M Grant Drives Research on Novel Insulin in Type 1 Diabetes


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Crohn’s Disease Research Bolstered With Grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust


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$10M from InnerScience Research Fund Will Fuel Study on Meditation to Combat Disease


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Sonya Neal Named Inaugural HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar


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Two out of three 2022 Tower Cancer Research Foundation awardees are UC San Diego faculty


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Two UC San Diego Faculty Named 2023 Cottrell Scholars

 

2022


 


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UCSD doctor, England family collaborate to find cure to child brain tumors


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UC San Diego Receives $1.3M from W. M. Keck Foundation to Study Origins of Dementia


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UC San Diego Engineers Receive 2 out of 10 Prestigious National Young Investigators Awards


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Olga Dudko Receives Prestigious Simons Investigator Award


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CSE’s Shachar Lovett Receives Simons Investigator Award


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UC San Diego Researchers Working to Trace Roots of Triple Negative Breast Cancer


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UC San Diego Biology Lab Receives $1.4M Grant to Fight Malaria Spread


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Diversity and Science Lecture Series Gets Funded


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Three UC San Diego Faculty Members Receive 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship


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Fabian Rivera-Chávez Awarded Mallinckrodt Foundation Grant

 

2021


 

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Matthew Lovett-Barron Named 2021 Packard Fellow

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UCSD professor to receive $9M to study cellular protein

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Elizabeth Villa Selected as 2021 HHMI Investigator

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Keck Foundation Supports Innovative Strategy for Chemical Synthesis

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Mentoring and Inclusion Are Top Priority for 50 New Gilliam Fellows and Their Advisers

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UC San Diego Among Six U.S. Institutions in New Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance

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2021 (30th) Blue Planet Prize Winners

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Searle Scholars Program Names 15 Scientists as Searle Scholars for 2021

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Major Gift Supports UC San Diego’s 21st Century China Center

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Fellows Selected for New Scialog: Advancing Bioimaging

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4 UCSD Researchers Win Sloan Research Fellowships for Early Career Scientists

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New Grant Funds Clinical Trial to Assess Psychedelic as Treatment for Phantom Limb Pain

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RCSA Names 2021 Class of Cottrell Scholars

 

2020


 

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New Fellowship Program Expands Career Options for Grad Students

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San Diego Scientists Poised To Deploy New Ocean Monitoring Devices

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Ambitious Project to Understand Cellular Evolution Underway

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UC San Diego Scientists to Explore New Frontiers in Parkinson’s Disease Research with $7.2M Grant

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$18 Million from the Hellman Foundation to Boost Research by Early-Career Faculty at UC San Diego

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Biologist Sonya Neal Named 2020 Pew Scholar

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UC San Diego’s Mark Herzik Named 2020 Searle Scholar

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'Community Station' Opens at U.S.-Mexico Border

 

2019


 

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Lei Liang Wins 2020 Grawemeyer Award For Climate Change-Inspired Piece

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UC San Diego, San Diego Community College District Receive Combined $2.7M from Mellon Foundation

 

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UC San Diego Researcher Announced as Recipient of Chancellor's and Revelle Medals

CLICK to watch on Youtube: 2019 Chancellor's Medalist: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

 

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2019 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering Announced

 

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J. Yang Scholarship Program to Be Established at UC San Diego with $1.5M Gift

 

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UC San Diego Researcher Named 2019 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar

 

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UC San Diego Researcher Receives SFARI 2019 Research Award

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Simons Foundation Commits $20 Million in Quest to Understand Universe's Beginning

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants UC San Diego $4.7M to Study Crohn’s Disease

 

2018


 

Internship Program for Autistic Yough

Internship Program Taps into the Talents of Autistic Youth

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UC San Diego Researcher Receives SFARI 2018 Research Award

4 UCSD Pew Scholars 2018

4 UC San Diego Researchers Named Pew Biomedical Scholars

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UC San Diego Biologist Samara Reck-Peterson Named HHMI Investigator

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$4.7M Funding to UC San Diego for Research on Marijuana to Treat Autism

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Enfu Hui Named 2018 Searle Scholar

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Scripps Researcher Named Pew Marine Fellow

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$100K Vilcek Prize in Architecture Awarded to Professor Honoring Contributions of Immigrants to American Culture

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Burroughs Wellcome Fund Awards UC San Diego Researchers for Study of Infertility 

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Mellon Foundation Awards $10M Grant to UC System

 

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Top UC San Diego Researchers Win ‘Oscars of Science’ 

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Immunotherapy Research for Head and Neck Cancers Gets Boost from V Foundation Grant

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Awards the Deep Decarbonization Initiative Grant to Study Viability of Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)

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Women Rising! 6 of the Last 10 Biggest Research Grants Awarded To UC San Diego This Year Are Led By Women

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Tata Institute for Genetics and Society Advances with Building Naming, Inaugural Chair Holders

 

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Neurobiologists Selected for National Awards

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Mellon Foundation Board approves $225K grant to UC San Diego to support Sawyer Seminar

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UC San Diego's Center for Peace and Security Studies Receives $3.3 Million Grant

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A $100K Gift from Cognex Supports Research Connecting Deep Learning and 3-D Image Reconstruction

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UC San Diego Biologists Named Pew Scholars

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Mommy's Milk Lands Funding to Study Marijuana Use During Lactation

 

 

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US HAEA Association Pledges $2.25M for angioedema research at the US HAEA Angioedema Center

 

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$10.5M Gift Funds Center for Human Milk Research at UC San Diego