Keck School scientist to co-lead new stroke drug clinical trial

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 »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

USC scientist helps transform understanding of how skin wounds heal

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 »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

Keck School researcher imagines intestinal cells that can make insulin

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 »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

Student’s online videos help demystify federal grants

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 »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

USC graduate student turns filmmaker with video addressing vaccine myths

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 »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|