CHICAGO: UC San Diego won a major legal battle Friday against the University of Southern California when a judge ruled that control of a landmark project on Alzheimer’s disease belongs to the La Jolla school.
The decision addressed the heart of a lawsuit that has gained international attention since UC San Diego filed it early this month, largely because it’s rare for such disagreements in the academic world to reach the courtroom.
The dispute also has been coloured by shades of a mounting rivalry between UC San Diego, a research powerhouse that has long been the elite higher-education campus in this region, and USC, a well-heeled institution with ambitions of achieving greatness in biomedicine by taking over or collaborating with scientific centres in San Diego…