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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

	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

2021

	Matthew Lovett-Barron Named 2021 Packard Fellow
	UCSD professor to receive $9M to study cellular protein
	Elizabeth Villa Selected as 2021 HHMI Investigator
	Keck Foundation Supports Innovative Strategy for Chemical Synthesis
	Mentoring and Inclusion Are Top Priority for 50 New Gilliam Fellows and Their Advisers
	UC San Diego Among Six U.S. Institutions in New Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance
	2021 (30th) Blue Planet Prize Winners
	Searle Scholars Program Names 15 Scientists as Searle Scholars for 2021
	Major Gift Supports UC San Diego’s 21st Century China Center
	Fellows Selected for New Scialog: Advancing Bioimaging
	4 UCSD Researchers Win Sloan Research Fellowships for Early Career Scientists
	New Grant Funds Clinical Trial to Assess Psychedelic as Treatment for Phantom Limb Pain
	RCSA Names 2021 Class of Cottrell Scholars

2020

	New Fellowship Program Expands Career Options for Grad Students
	San Diego Scientists Poised To Deploy New Ocean Monitoring Devices
	Ambitious Project to Understand Cellular Evolution Underway
	UC San Diego Scientists to Explore New Frontiers in Parkinson’s Disease Research with $7.2M Grant
	$18 Million from the Hellman Foundation to Boost Research by Early-Career Faculty at UC San Diego
	Biologist Sonya Neal Named 2020 Pew Scholar
	UC San Diego’s Mark Herzik Named 2020 Searle Scholar
	'Community Station' Opens at U.S.-Mexico Border

2019

	Lei Liang Wins 2020 Grawemeyer Award For Climate Change-Inspired Piece
	UC San Diego, San Diego Community College District Receive Combined $2.7M from Mellon Foundation
	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
	2019 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering Announced
	J. Yang Scholarship Program to Be Established at UC San Diego with $1.5M Gift
	UC San Diego Researcher Named 2019 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
	UC San Diego Researcher Receives SFARI 2019 Research Award
	Simons Foundation Commits $20 Million in Quest to Understand Universe's Beginning
	Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants UC San Diego $4.7M to Study Crohn’s Disease

2018

	Internship Program Taps into the Talents of Autistic Youth
	UC San Diego Researcher Receives SFARI 2018 Research Award
	4 UC San Diego Researchers Named Pew Biomedical Scholars
	UC San Diego Biologist Samara Reck-Peterson Named HHMI Investigator
	$4.7M Funding to UC San Diego for Research on Marijuana to Treat Autism
	Enfu Hui Named 2018 Searle Scholar
	Scripps Researcher Named Pew Marine Fellow
	$100K Vilcek Prize in Architecture Awarded to Professor Honoring Contributions of Immigrants to American Culture
	Burroughs Wellcome Fund Awards UC San Diego Researchers for Study of Infertility
	Mellon Foundation Awards $10M Grant to UC System

2017 Frank Interview

	Top UC San Diego Researchers Win ‘Oscars of Science’
	Immunotherapy Research for Head and Neck Cancers Gets Boost from V Foundation Grant
	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Awards the Deep Decarbonization Initiative Grant to Study Viability of Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)
	Women Rising! 6 of the Last 10 Biggest Research Grants Awarded To UC San Diego This Year Are Led By Women
	Tata Institute for Genetics and Society Advances with Building Naming, Inaugural Chair Holders
	Neurobiologists Selected for National Awards
	Mellon Foundation Board approves $225K grant to UC San Diego to support Sawyer Seminar
	UC San Diego's Center for Peace and Security Studies Receives $3.3 Million Grant
	A $100K Gift from Cognex Supports Research Connecting Deep Learning and 3-D Image Reconstruction
	UC San Diego Biologists Named Pew Scholars
	Mommy's Milk Lands Funding to Study Marijuana Use During Lactation
	US HAEA Association Pledges $2.25M for angioedema research at the US HAEA Angioedema Center
	$10.5M Gift Funds Center for Human Milk Research at UC San Diego