UC San Diego AntiViral Research Center

01/16/2026

Community Chats: Regenerative Medicine in Action
An Educational Event on Cutting-Edge Therapies and Scientific Breakthroughs

Date: January 21, 2026
Time: 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Location:
The San Diego LGBT Community Center
3909 Centre Street
San Diego, CA 92103

Presenter:
Sheldon Morris, MD, MPH
Director, Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center
Deputy Director, CIRM UCSD Alpha Clinic
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UC San Diego

This session will cover:
• What stem cells are and how they work
• Current research and breakthroughs, including applications for HIV and other diseases
• Clinical trials and what is coming next
• A live Q and A with the expert

RSVP by January 16, 2026:
https://form.jotform.com/253636340896163
Email: alphastemcellclinic@ucsd.edu
Phone: 844-317-7826

10/30/2025

Jill Blumenthal, MD, MAS, offers some insights on the results from a subset of Gilead’s phase 3 PURPOSE 2 study.

10/28/2025

👏 Congratulations to our pharmacist Niamh Higgins, Pharm.D., M.Sc. for becoming one of the newest clinical faculty at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy!

Read: https://today.ucsd.edu/story/meet-skaggs-school-of-pharmacys-newest-clinical-faculty

The Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is proud to welcome four outstanding new clinical faculty members whose expertise spans HIV, health economics, emergency medicine, compassionate communication and more.

10/19/2025

Red Ribbon R***e fundraiser for the UC San Diego Mother, Child, Adolescent Program with their program manager, Shannon Ransom!

08/12/2025

UC San Diego School of Medicine has announced the recipients of new pivot grants which will support medical research focused on areas ranging from infectious diseases to regenerative medicine, including AVRC researchers Sara Gianella Weibel, MD and Britt Skaathun, PhD.

The UC San Diego School of Medicine announced the inaugural recipients of its pivot grant program, an initiative made possible by a $1 million gift from Prebys Foundation to help protect San Diego’s biomedical research sector in response to declining federal funding for medical research.

08/01/2025

Check out the latest news from the AVRC!

Come and enjoy a party to celebrate 25 years of fun and camaraderie in fighting stigma and isolation in the HIV community. There will be:

07/18/2025

An additional 3,500 square feet of space will allow the UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute to accelerate groundbreaking medical research to improve human health.

The UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute has expanded its clinical space, making room for more clinical trials that turn basic research into real-world medical treatments to improve human health.

05/13/2025

Study finds that SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Wuhan, China too quickly for its bat hosts to have carried it there — a dispersal pattern consistent with that of SARS-CoV-1, which caused the 2002 SARS outbreak.

Features AVRC researcher Joel Wertheim, PhD.

The virus that causes COVID-19 arrived in Wuhan, China from its place of origin too quickly for its horseshoe bat hosts to have carried it there — a dispersal pattern consistent with that of the virus that caused the 2002 SARS pandemic, according to a new study.

04/22/2025

Are you a woman who is s*xually active and wants to prevent getting HIV from s*x?

You may qualify for a study to see if a twice-a-year investigational injection works to help protect you from HIV.

Contact Lili at (619) 543-4753 or lir003@health.ucsd.edu to see if you qualify!

04/17/2025

Call Aurora at (619) 543-5328 or Dawn at (619) 471-3831 if you are interested or have questions.

04/03/2025

Features AVRC Director Dr. Susan Little!

Some local researchers are feeling the impact of their National Institutes of Health grants. "Right now, we are experiencing a lot of chaos,” Dr. Davey Smith of UC San Diego Health said.

04/01/2025

Check out the latest news from the AVRC!

Dining Out for Life is happening on Thursday, April 24! Dozens of participating restaurants, bars, coffeehouses, and nightclubs in San Diego will donate a minimum of 25% of sales for The Center’s health and wellness programs. Grab your family and friends and make plans to Dine Out and Give Back f...