Everything’s coming up roses at HSC

ROYAL VISIT  For the 18th year, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade Royal Court visited the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center on Dec. 5 to spread holiday cheer among day-hospital patients and meet with faculty <span style=Read More »

December 13th, 2013|Announcements|

Everything’s coming up roses at HSC

DONATE LIFE  Scott Evans, PharmD, MHA, CEO of Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital, presents a rose on behalf of the hospitals’ organ transplant team to Alan Cochran, vice president of quality <span style=Read More »

December 13th, 2013|Announcements|

EPIGENETICS AND YOU

From left, Stephen Gruber, MD, MPH, director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center; Peter Jones, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Urology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; and Art Ulene, MD, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, author and speaker, <span style=Read More »

December 13th, 2013|Announcements|

USC researchers to grow organs to unlock cancer tumor development

By Leslie Ridgeway

Using three-dimensional organ creation, Keck Medicine of USC researchers aim to discover clues to metastatic cancer growth by developing a first-ever integrated bioengineered/computational model of metastatic colon cancer.

David B. Agus, MD, director of the USC Center for Applied Molecular Medicine and professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, is the principal investigator of a $2.3 million, four-year “Provocative Questions” grant awarded recently by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The project title is “An Integrative Computational and Bioengineered Tissue Model of Metastasis.” Read More »

December 13th, 2013|Announcements|

Keck School Cell & Neurobiology chair receives AAMC teaching award

By Sara Reeve

For Mikel Snow, PhD, it’s an honor just to be nominated. The chair of the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Department of Cell & Neurobiology has received the 2013 Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

“I feel incredibly honored, even humbled by the magnitude of this award,” said Snow. “To be honest, I was deeply touched by the gesture of last year’s USC AOA [chapter] students who told me they would be nominating me. I do not think of myself in terms of anyone special, but rather someone who was fortunate to stumble into a teaching career that I happened to enjoy very much.” Read More »

December 13th, 2013|Announcements|