Going to medical school was a dream for Eric Arevalo. But he wasn’t going to realize that dream unless he got a scholarship.
“I had $100,000 in [undergraduate] student loans when I was applying to medical school,” he explained to the … Read More »
Pat Levitt, PhD, W. M. Keck Provost Professor in pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has received a grant of nearly $1 million from advocacy organization Autism Speaks.
Funding will support research into the treatment of chronic constipation to improve … Read More »
What makes stem cells develop into kidneys? Lori O’Brien, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory of Andy McMahon, PhD, FRS, has received the first Broad Fellowship to help answer this question.
O’Brien is the first of a series of … Read More »
From left, Keck Parents Association Co-Presidents Dan and Carmel Gardner, Esther Geller, Ken Geller, John House, Polly Allen, Brent Allen and Steve Yamashita joined more than 300 Keck alumni, students, faculty and families for a pre-game picnic filled with good food, fun … Read More »
David H. Petraeus, PhD, retired four-star general and former CIA director, visited the Health Sciences Campus (HSC) on Nov. 4 to see for himself what the view is like on the front lines of the life sciences revolution.
Petraeus — who … Read More »
Steven Rosenberg recently began treating a patient with bile duct cancer who had already undergone chemotherapy, but the treatment had failed to stop the cancer from spreading to her lung and liver. He treated her with a new form of … Read More »
Stephen B. Gruber (right), director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Casey O’Connell, assistant professor of clinical medicine in the Jane Anne Nohl Division of Hematology and Center for the Study of Blood Diseases, addressed attendees at the … Read More »
Keck School of Medicine Dean Carmen A. Puliafito and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery hosted a USC-CHLA Center for Childhood Communication open house on Oct. 2 to showcase its world-class facilities to treat children with hearing … Read More »
Inside a small Boyle Heights dance studio, a group sits in repose under the watchful eyes of a yoga teacher. What some might view as a simple exercise class has instead turned into a bastion of hope and … Read More »
Major changes are about to come to the corner of Alcazar and San Pablo Streets on the Health Sciences Campus, where several bulldozers are preparing the land for the construction of three new buildings.
Work has begun on a six-story parking … Read More »