Eye Symposium marks 40th year at USC for Ophthalmology Department

A capacity crowd of almost 400 ophthalmologists and optometrists participated in a June 19 symposium that marked the Department of Ophthalmology’s 40th anniversary at USC.

The gathering at The Huntington in San Marino represented a “who’s who” in ophthalmology from around Read More »

June 19th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Researcher is named Pew-Stewart scholar

USC Stem Cell researcher Min Yu, MD, PhD, is one of five early-career scientists to be named a 2015 Pew-Stewart scholar for cancer research. As part of this honor, she will receive $240,000 over four years to advance the understanding Read More »

June 19th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

NIH Big Data grant will fund visual analysis project

A USC project to visualize and analyze connectivity networks in the mouse brain is among 15 new awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) tied to the development of biomedical Big Data applications.

Hong-Wei Dong, PhD, associate professor of Neurology Read More »

June 19th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Doctor gets humanitarian award

Kathryn Challoner, MD, FACEP, voluntary faculty in the department of emergency medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, was recently awarded the 2015 Humanitarian Award by the California Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Challoner spent several Read More »

June 19th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Game Day rejuvenates patients awaiting heart transplants

Spending an afternoon playing cards with friends is something many of us would eagerly do without much of a second thought. But for patients awaiting heart transplants at Keck Hospital of USC, a couple of hours outside the 4th floor Read More »

June 19th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|