PREPARE Institute Faculty in the News

$100K Award Supports Human Milk and Infectious Disease Research

9/28/2023
UC San Diego Health Sciences Blog
Features Ratneshwar Lal, PhD and Sandra Leibel, MD 

Study Finds ChatGPT Outperforms Physicians in High-Quality, Empathetic Answers to Patient Questions

4/28/2023
UC San Diego News Center
Features John W Ayers, PhD, MA, Michael Hogarth, MD, Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS and Davey Smith, MD, MAS

UC San Diego Experts Describe The Factors Behind Subvariants Of The SARS-CoV-2 Virus Accelerated The Pandemic

4/17/2023
IndiaEducationDiary.com
Features Aaron Carlin, MD, PhD and Davey Smith, MD, MAS

San Diego researchers find potential breakthrough to deadly bacteria linked to recalled eye drops

3/22/2023
ABC 10 News San Diego
Features David Pride, MD, PhD and Robert Schooley, MD

A New Phase - Emerging technologies, social imperatives and the next pandemic are changing how clinical trials look and work.

1/31/2023
UC San Diego News Center
Features Gary Firestein, MD, Pradipta Ghosh, MD, Susan Little, MD and Steven Spector, MD

Therapeutic Potential of Bizarre ‘Jumbo’ Viruses Tapped for $10M HHMI Emerging Pathogens Project

1/26/2023
UC San Diego News Center
Features David Pride, MD, PhD

‘We had to fight for ourselves’: With monkeypox, San Diego’s LGBTQ community puts decades-old lessons to work

8/13/2022 
San Diego Union Tribune (subscription may be required)
Features Davey Smith, MD, MAS

UCSD program monitoring wastewater for COVID expands to track monkeypox

8/10/2022 
ABC 10 News San Diego
Features Rob Knight, PhD and Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS

Undercounted Covid-19 cases leave US with a blind spot as BA.5 variant becomes dominant

7/11/2022 
CNN
Features Eric Topol, MD

No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to a natural enemy of bacteria to save her husband's life

7/8/2022
CNN
Features Steffanie Strathdee, PhD

COVID-19 Rebound after Taking Paxlovid Likely Due to Insufficient Drug Exposure

In-Depth: Nasal vaccines could provide better protection against COVID infection

6/7/2022
ABC 10 News San Diego
Features Davey Smith, MD, MAS

UCSD scientists study why some people have never had COVID-19 

5/12/2022
CBS News 8 San Diego 
Features Davey Smith, MD, MAS

Appearance of ‘Son of Omicron’ in San Diego Closely Watched By Local Infectious-Disease Experts 

3/25/2022
NBC News 7 San Diego 
Features Davey Smith, MD, MAS

HIV Incidence Rising Steeply Among People Who Inject Drugs In Tijuana

Discovery could enable broad coronavirus vaccine  

In-Depth: How long can an N95 mask be reused?

2/2/22
ABC 10 News San Diego
Features Francesca Torriani, MD

COVID-19 Surges as Booster Efforts Slow Down in San Diego County

In-Depth: UC San Diego Health study aims to 'ZAP' COVID-19

1/20/22
ABC 10 News San Diego
Features Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS

COVID-19 wastewater surveillance shows San Diego's case surge is slowing

1/19/22
KPBS
Features Rob Knight, PhD

Building Robust Collaborations to ‘ATTACK’ Future Pandemics

UC San Diego scientist shifts back to battle mode on virus / Infectious disease expert joins rush to learn more about new variant threat

A pill for COVID-19? UCSD scientists say they’re able to deliver remdesivir in a capsule

8/17/21
The Sacramento Bee
​Features Robert Schooley, MD, and Karl Hostetler, MD

Poop: The newest disease detection tool for COVID-19 and beyond
8/13/21
US News & World Report
Features Rob Knight, PhD

California first to offer digital COVID-19 vaccine card 

COVID and Delta Variant Death Rates—What We Know so Far 

UC San Diego testing 'remdesivir 2.0,' a pill form of critical COVID drug 

COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate For Health Care Workers Leads To Some Pushback 

Remdesivir Currently Being Modified from Intravenous to Oral Administration 

More Workplaces Are Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines: Can This Get Us to Herd Immunity? 

What you need to know about variants, vaccines, and breakthrough COVID cases

8/2/2021
Popular Science
Features Alessandro Sette, PhD