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Joan Heller Brown, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology
Chair, Department of Pharmacology came to UC San Diego in 1975. “Whether they are faculty, postdocs or students, when I describe the atmosphere here, I tell them it’s like being a kid in a candy store – it’s the best you can possibly have.” Learn more at https://medschool.ucsd.edu/50

Gabriel G. Haddad, MD, Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Physician-in-Chief and Chief Scientific Officer at Rady Children’s Hospital came to UC San Diego in 2005. “What I believe we have achieved is having the clinicians and the researchers under one roof, respecting each other for exactly what they do. There is nothing like asking a question at the bedside and solving it in the lab and going back to the bedside to treat patients.” Learn more at https://medschool.ucsd.edu/50

From orientation to commencement, every student’s path through medical school is challenging and laborious. But in the end, it’s also full of opportunity, promise and the earned honor of being called “doctor.”

UC San Diego School of Medicine
Celebrating 50 Years
1968-2018
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When researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine surveyed the effects of genetic mutations in different mouse strains, they found extremely variable results for two genes that previous studies had linked to psychiatric diseases. Their findings, published September 8, 2016 in Neuron, do not mean that mouse genetics isn’t extremely important for biomedical research, but do suggest that researchers should be cautious in drawing conclusions from a single genetic background. The study was led by Abraham Palmer, PhD, professor of psychiatry and vice chair for basic research, and Laura Sittig, PhD, postdoctoral researcher.