The cover story of the April 2014 edition of the Hearing Journal featured interviews with John K. Niparko, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery; Carolina Abdala, PhD, professor of otolaryngology research; Laurie Eisenberg, PhD, professor of otolaryngology … Read More »
Keck Medicine of USC named Paul Craig, RN, JD, a seasoned medical and human resources professional, as the new chief administrative officer of USC Health, effective May 5, 2014.
Craig comes to Keck Medicine from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where he … Read More »
“It was absolute luck.”
Jode Lebeda said he was in the right place at the right time when he collapsed during the ASICS Los Angeles Marathon on March 9.
The 28-year-old, running in his first — and as he said, “almost my … Read More »
Scott Evans, PharmD, MHA, CEO of Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital, was named Hospital CEO of the year at the Los Angeles Business Journal’s annual Healthcare Leadership Awards event held at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel on … Read More »
“America has never been ‘drug-free,'” stated Sarah W. Tracy, PhD, to begin her lecture titled, “Altering American Consciousness: Alcohol, Drug Use and American Medicine,” held on April 3 at Mayer Auditorium.
Tracy’s presentation, part of Visions and Voices, the USC arts … Read More »
Berislav Zlokovic, MD, PhD, director of the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, will co-lead a multicenter Phase 2 clinical trial of an experimental drug developed in his lab to treat patients suffering from acute … Read More »
A researcher at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has shown that a previously unsuspected but common protein in the human body can help skin injuries heal, contradicting decades of conventional wisdom about the biology of tissue … Read More »
For Senta Georgia, PhD, stem cell research offers a window into much more than the biology of pancreatic cells and diabetes.
“Molecular biology is elegant,” said Georgia, principal investigator at the Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles … Read More »
When Jamaica Rettberg, a PhD candidate in the Department of Neuroscience in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, decided to apply for a research fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), she knew it wouldn’t … Read More »
Andrew Woodham is a PhD candidate in the Genetics, Molecular and Cell Biology program at the Keck School of Medicine of USC — but he really wants to do is direct. And now he has.
Leading an interdisciplinary team consisting … Read More »
What happens when USC students — some studying art and design, others stem cell biology — examine zebrafish skulls under a microscope? It depends on who’s looking.
During spring 2014, scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative … Read More »
Featuring a colorful new format with larger images, a more accessible calendar of events and a more user-friendly interface, HSC News has launched its new website at hscnews.usc.edu.
Updated every Friday, the HSC News site, currently in beta testing, offers … Read More »
As students complete their third year in the Doctor of Pharmacy Program, they begin to consider the rotations they will pursue next year. To facilitate that, the USC School of Pharmacy holds a preceptor fair giving students and preceptors an … Read More »
Stem cells in bone marrow need to produce hydrogen sulfide in order to properly multiply and form bone tissue, according to a new study from the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology at the Ostrow School of Dentistry.
Songtao Shi, DDS, PhD, … Read More »
New research by USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists demonstrates that measuring circulating tumor cells (CTCs) – the cells that spread cancer through the body – may be a better predictor of patient survival than the prostate specific … Read More »
Fred Weaver, MD, MMM, professor of surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and chief of the division of vascular surgery and endovascular therapy at Keck Medical Center of USC, just finished concurrent terms as president of two … Read More »
Alia Tutor, wife of USC trustee Ronald Tutor, both longtime supporters of the university, is providing a gift to establish the Alia Tutor Chair in Reproductive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. The new chair … Read More »
Nearly 4,800 children in the United States are born with profound hearing loss each year, and another 5,000 will develop it by age 5, according to John Niparko, MD, chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.
With … Read More »
The nation’s largest literary festival — Los Angeles Times Festival of Books — took its 19th bow over the weekend, attracting as many as 150,000 people to the … Read More »
The vision for the forthcoming USC Norris Healthcare Consultation Center is simple, according to Stephen Gruber, MD, MPH, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Director — a place where research, clinical care and education all converge under … Read More »