2015
Biomolecular Engineering
- December 08, 2015
The year in review at UC Santa Cruz
At UC Santa Cruz, 2015 was a year celebrating our 50th anniversary by advancing knowledge, challenging the status quo, and taking risks. And the campus capped it all off with a big top celebration.
- October 19, 2015
Big ideas
From saving falcons to peering into the universe, sequencing the human genome, and putting organic food on American tables, UC Santa Cruz has become known as the small university where big things happen.
- September 15, 2015
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute partners with Microsoft to accelerate biomedical research
The Microsoft partnership provides the Genomics Institute with access to new compute, data storage, and analysis capabilities.
- August 26, 2015
New managing director brings business and scientific expertise to the Genomics Institute
Ravi Jain will oversee the institute's strategic planning, business development, and operations, among other responsibilities.
- August 20, 2015
Seagate gift supports UC Santa Cruz research on genomic data storage
Donation includes 2.5 petabytes of storage for studying large-scale data storage challenges in genomics and other areas
- August 03, 2015
California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine funds UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer project
The state initiative is providing $1.2 million for the Genomics Institute's California Kids Cancer Comparison project.
- August 03, 2015
New method reveals hidden population of regulatory molecules in cells
UC Santa Cruz researchers have revealed a previously undetected population of small RNA molecules involved in cell regulation
- July 22, 2015
Keck Foundation awards UC Santa Cruz $2 million for human genome variation project
The Human Genome Variation Map being developed by the UCSC Genomics Institute will be a valuable new resource for medical researchers.
- July 16, 2015
Graduate student earns life sciences fellowship
UC Santa Cruz graduate student Jessica Perez-Cunningham was selected to receive a fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's newly expanded Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study Program.
- July 08, 2015
UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer project receives $250,000 to fight high-risk neuroblastoma
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation has awarded the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute a $250,000 grant for pediatric cancer research.
- May 18, 2015
Community effort provides new 'gold standard' for genomic data analysis
UC Santa Cruz researchers contributed to a comprehensive assessment of methods for identifying mutations in cancer genomes.
- May 13, 2015
Persistence yields progress in AIDS vaccine research at UC Santa Cruz
Veteran vaccine researcher Phil Berman has developed a new approach based on an old vaccine and recent advances in HIV immunology
- March 19, 2015
UC Santa Cruz to host UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium
The Bioengineering Symposium will bring together faculty, researchers, and students from all ten UC campuses.
- March 17, 2015
Nanopipette technique earns prize in NIH 'Follow that Cell' challenge
A proposal by UC Santa Cruz biomolecular engineer Nader Pourmand was one of five prize winners in an NIH challenge competition
- February 10, 2015
Genomics Institute director David Haussler awarded prestigious Dan David Prize
Haussler will share a $1 million prize with two other leaders in bioinformatics.
- January 13, 2015
UC Santa Cruz to lead effort to build a new map of human genetic variation
The Simons Foundation awarded UCSC up to $1 million to develop a comprehensive Human Genome Variation Map for scientific and medical research
