Research in the UC San Diego Department of Medicine
Highlights
The UC San Diego Department of Medicine is a national leader in internal medicine research.
- Our 2009 research funding totaled nearly $114 million from over 448 individual contracts and grants.
- We rank 5th in the U.S. in clinical medicine research impact by citation report for 2001-2005 (Thomson Scientific).
Translational Research
We are committed to translational research: we focus on laboratory work that leads directly to better patient care.
Our studies address the diseases of greatest concern to our national and world community, including:
- Asthma, which affects over 20 million children and adults.
- Atherosclerotic heart disease, which causes over 1 million deaths each year.
- Allergies, which affect more than 50 million Americans.
- Cancer, which is responsible for over 500,000 deaths each year.
- COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), affecting 10 million adults.
- Diabetes, which affects 18 million patients and expected to affect many more.
- Hypertension, which affects 1.5 million patients.
- Immunological bowel disease, which affects 2 million patients.
- Inflammatory skin diseases
- Kidney failure, which affects 360,000 people.
- Liver failure, which causes more than 60,000 deaths each year.
- Rheumatoid arthritis, which affects over 1 million Americans.
