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2024 News
Fall 2024
CCB's Alex Neitz receives UCSD IRACDA fellowship
Alex Neitz, a postdoc in Susan Golden’s lab, will start in the NIH-sponsored IRACDA program in Fall 2024. Fellows participate in professional development, teaching, and outreach activities. Congratulations, Alex!
Sep 17, 2024
Chancellor's Interdisciplinary Team Catalyst Fund Awardees
Benjamin Smarr and James Nieh recipients of this inaugural award for their team work Harmonizing the Pulse of Life: Pioneering Circadian Insights for Human and Ecosystem Health at UC San Diego
Aug 20, 2024
Atul Malhotra, receives prestigious Lifetime Achievement award
Congratulations to CCB's Atul Malhotra who has been named recipient of the 2024 Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Thoracic Society.
August 2024
Dr. Ancoli-Israel named top 1000 female scientists in the world
CCB memaber, Dr. Ancoli-Israel was once again named in the top 1000 women scientists for 2024. Ranking: #1 at UCSD, 132 in the US, 203 in the world.
Jun 21, 2024
Novel drug treatment for diabetes shows results for sleep apnea
CCB member Atul Malhotra, MD, an internationally recognized sleep medicine specialist with UC San Diego Health, led a study testing the efficacy of a diabetes drug in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
Jun 20, 2024
How sleep trackers might give more than just your health
CCB member Benjamine Smarr, and UCSD researcher colleagues analyzed data from 5 million nights of sleep across 33,000 people, identifying “sleep phenotypes.” Using wearables helped to identify health risks (KPBS video).
May 8, 2024
Dr. Ancoli-Israel receives Dickson Emeriti Professorship Award
CCB memaber, Dr. Ancoli-Israel receives Dickson Emeriti Professorship Award by Regent of the University of California, to honor outstanding research, scholarly work, teaching, and service performed by an Emeritus or Emerita Professor since retirement.
April 2024
Christian Harding named Schmidt AI in Science Postdoc
CCB's Dr. Harding was named Schmidt AI in Science Postdoc, a multi-institution initiative supporting a two-year Postdoc fellowship. Christian will apply AI techniques into latent sleep apnea subtypes by identifying patterns in large datasets of sleep apnea mechanisms, symptoms and comorbidities.
Mar 5, 2024
Terry Sejnowski wins 2024 Brain Prize
CCB member, Dr. Sejnowski, Salk, was awarded the 2024 Brain Prize by the Lundbeck Foundation for his pioneering work in computational and theoretical neuroscience. He shares the prize with Larry Abbott of Columbia University and Haim Sompolinsky of Harvard University and Hebrew University.
Feb 21-23, 2024
14th Annual Center for Circadian Biology Symposium
CCB hosted a very successful 14th Annual Center for Circadian Biology Symposium, held at the Sanford Consortium, Feb 21-23, 2024. We thank the success of our event to the 116 attendees and 19 outstanding speakers. Attendees were represented from 2 countries and 12 states.
Jan 23, 2024
Ron Evans wins coveted Japan Prize
Congratulations to CCB member Ron Evans, named a 2024 Japan Prize winner for "discovery of the nuclear hormone receptor family and its application to drug development." The Japan Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in science and technology, and well deserved by Dr. Evans.
