von Liebig News: Top Stories

Jacobs School Ranked 9th in the World

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PDT

The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is the 9th best in the world for engineering/technology and 15th in the world for computer sciences, according to an academic ranking of the top 100 world universities published by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

New Drugs Faster from Natural Compounds

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Researchers have invented computational tools to decode and rapidly determine whether natural compounds collected in oceans and forests are new—or if these pharmaceutically promising compounds have already been described and are therefore not patentable. This University of California, San Diego advance will finally enable scientists to rapidly characterize ring-shaped nonribosomal peptides (NRPs)—a class of natural compounds of intense interest due to their potential to yield or inspire new pharmaceuticals. The study will be published in the July 13 online issue of journal Nature Methods.

Cancer Diagnostics Startup Win Entrepreneurship Competition

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT

A team of bioengineering graduate students from the Jacobs School of Engineering won first place at the UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge for the business plan they built around their new early cancer diagnostic technology. The bioengineering students have already formed a startup company, Biological Dynamics, and they are currently seeking funding from investors.

From a Queen Song to a Better Music Search Engine

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT

At a recent IEEE technology conference, UC San Diego electrical engineers presented a solution to their problem with the song “Bohemian Rhapsody,”—and it’s not that they don’t like this hit from the band Queen.

New High Frequency Amplifier Harnesses Millimeter Waves

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PDT

New imaging and high capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to reality, thanks to a millimeter wave amplifier invented at the University of California, San Diego and unveiled on Feb 11, 2009 at the prestigious International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, Calif.

A Better View During Minimally Invasive Surgeries

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PDT

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) is nearing completion of their first prototype of “SurgiCam,” a tiny surgical camera that can be inserted through a 1.5 cm incision in the abdomen during minimally invasive surgery (MIS).

UC San Diego Part of Fueling Clean Tech Cluster

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PDT

San Diego professors who are developing technologies that will fuel the continued growth of the region’s “clean tech cluster” recently received a financial boost through the 2008 Clean Tech Innovation Challenge.

San Diego Supercomputer Center Dedicates New Building

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Von Liebig Center Hosts First Annual Technology Showcase

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Technologies developed at UC San Diego landed in the spotlight on July 16, 2008 at an entrepreneurship technology showcase organized by UC San Diego’s von Liebig Center.

UC San Diego Launches Institute of Engineering in Medicine

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT

The world’s top engineers, physicians and scientists are joining forces to conceptualize, develop and bring to reality the future tools and treatments of 21^st century health care through UC San Diego’s new Institute of Engineering in Medicine.