What don’t we know about human development and how it can go wrong? By focusing on these questions, a new two-unit fall course is allowing USC undergraduates to go beyond standard developmental biology coursework.
In MEDS 335 — Human Development: From … Read More »
USC has been awarded a federally funded research center to explore why childhood obesity affects some populations more than others.
The Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) Center will study pregnant women and their infants over time … Read More »
As the new academic year gets underway, the Keck School of Medicine of USC has announced its annual winners in various teaching and mentoring categories:
Year I Faculty Awards: Raquel Arias, MD, MPH, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Thomas McNeill, PhD, Cell and … Read More »
This year, the Broad Clinical Research Fellowships are enabling physician investigators to explore stem cell-based approaches related to four very different medical conditions: breast cancer, kidney disease, deafness and short bowel syndrome.
Each one-year fellowship provides $65,000 of salary support, $7,500 … Read More »
USC Stem Cell is requesting research proposals from principal investigators and senior postdoctoral scientists for three new awards and fellowships totaling $600,000.
A gift from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation has established the Eli and Edythe Broad Innovation Awards in Stem … Read More »
A multi-university team led by Keck Medicine of USC researchers has found, for the first time, that using electronic cigarettes, or “vaping,” is associated with a propensity to start smoking cigarettes or use other tobacco products.
Based on a survey of … Read More »
Members of the advisory council for the USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery and community leaders recently attended a gala to celebrate an award for volunteerism presented by the White House to IGM Gallery Director Lynn Crandall.
Sometimes, wonderful things happen when scientists and the public get together to talk about research. All the jargon, all the technical language falls away, and it becomes instead a conversation between the two groups with the most at stake: the … Read More »
Enthusiastic is the word that best describes the 10 students from this year’s USC Early Investigator High School (EiHS) Stem Cell Research Program, who graduated July 31 from the summer laboratory immersion program at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center … Read More »
More than 200 students will take their professional oaths and put on their white coats for the first time as occupational therapy students at the annual white coat ceremony held by the USC Mrs. T.H. Chan Division Occupational Science … Read More »
Personal oaths interpreting the original Hippocratic oath have been crafted by current and former Keck students over the past seven years. A representative sample of these oaths has been compiled in a new book published by University of California Medical … Read More »
USC has funded a new intercampus research program to study the human microbiome and its impact on disease, the first such program at the university.
The human body contains more than 100 trillion microbes known collectively as the microbiome. While the … Read More »
His experience with the diagnosis and treatment of his wife’s breast cancer has inspired Dick Lippin to establish the Ronnie Lippin Cancer Support and Navigation Program at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Beginning this fall, the program will help people … Read More »
In an annual ritual that is both celebratory and serious, 187 new students at the Keck School of Medicine of USC received their white coats, symbolizing entrance into the medical profession.
They were part of a ritual that is duplicated … Read More »
Cynthia L. Henderson is the new associate dean, Health Sciences Libraries, and director, Norris Medical Library, effective July 16.
Cynthia Henderson
Henderson is responsible for providing leadership and direction for the … Read More »
USC Trustee Malcolm Currie, PhD, and his wife, Barbara, have given $10 million toward the endowment of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and construction of the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.
In recognition of their investment in the … Read More »
USC Trustee Jane Hoffman Popovich, 72, an accomplished businesswoman and philanthropist with a lifelong commitment to the university and the community, died Aug. 4 following a long battle with cancer.
“My wife, Niki, and I will miss Jane deeply,” said USC … Read More »
Carl R. Chudnofsky, MD, has been recruited from the Albert Einstein Medical Center to lead the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Department of Emergency Medicine, effective Aug. 1.
“Dr. Chudnofsky is an established leader in emergency medicine, having successfully managed … Read More »
The Oct. 1 implementation of the new ICD-10 coding system for reporting of patient diagnoses and procedures has reenergized the journey toward accurate medical record documentation — and two physicians from the Department of Neurology are among those at Keck … Read More »
Laura Mosqueda, MD
Laura Mosqueda, MD, a leader in the study and prevention of elder abuse, has seen things you wouldn’t want your grandmother to know about. On house … Read More »
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