Steven Shapiro, MD, will serve as interim dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC beginning July 1, USC President Carol L. Folt, PhD, announced in a memo. Shapiro currently serves as USC’s senior vice president … Read More »

Mark and Marilou Hamill took to social media for a simple mission: encourage as many people as possible within the USC community to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The Hamills are part of a wave of USC alumni, supporters, students and faculty … Read More »

The United States has administered 321 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, with about 67% of adults expected to be partly vaccinated by July 4.

But vaccine distribution and access are a different story in other parts of the … Read More »

One of the overarching goals of the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery is to improve the lives of all people who are deaf or hard of hearing. With that goal in mind, clinicians at the … Read More »

Acontroversial new drug for Alzheimer’s disease is raising tough questions: Who should take it? Who will pay for it? And how will we know how well it works? But that’s not the only Alzheimer’s news during Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness … Read More »

The Department of Preventive Medicine will become the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC on July 1.

The name change signals a new era for the department, which has undergone tremendous growth … Read More »

For over 60 years, the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation has supported innovative biomedical research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, each year granting $100,000 awards to two faculty members. This year, the Baxter … Read More »

Increased risk of cancer due to a genetic predisposition in first- and second-degree relatives is long-established but has previously only been studied in white or European populations.

Now, a new study published in eLife is the first to demonstrate that the … Read More »

Three years ago, an outside clinic diagnosed Maria Contreras with keratoconus, a degenerative eye disease that causes thinning and bulging of the cornea. Though the clinic followed her for years, Maria saw no improvement in her vision and continued to … Read More »

Houda Alachkar, assistant professor of clinical pharmacy at the USC School of Pharmacy, was awarded a five-year, $1.79 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to fund a study that could lead to advancements in the development of … Read More »

The USC Stem Cell laboratory of Andy McMahon has identified a type of injured cell that might contribute to the transition from an acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease, as described in a new study published … Read More »

Like amyloid plaque, the genetic variant APOE4 has long been associated with Alzheimer’s disease, but still little is known about the role the gene plays in the disease process.

Now, a new study published in Nature Aging not only sheds … Read More »

Joyce Richey never needed to learn about Juneteenth from stories in books. She first heard about the holiday through her own family history.

Each generation shares stories about her great-grandmother, who was born into slavery in Georgia and … Read More »

Doctors used to routinely prescribe hormone replacement therapy to women to ease discomfort as they approach menopause, for symptoms ranging from night sweats to irritability. But in the early 2000s, its use plummeted.

Today, medical researcher Howard Hodis, … Read More »

Scientists have long been studying the role that genes play in determining an individual’s risk for disease with a focus on individuals of European ancestry, which were easy to sample. The National Institutes of Health is now funding a consortium … Read More »

The gold standard in functional brain imaging for over two decades, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has transformed the landscape of research and clinical care. Because of its cost and functional limitations, scientists have continued to look for new ways … Read More »

A team of scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has created what could be a key building block for assembling a synthetic kidney. In a new study in Nature Communications, Zhongwei Li, PhD, and … Read More »

Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC are among the contributors to a large-scale, ethnically diverse genetic study that has expanded what scientists know about potential causes of type 2 diabetes.

The research, published in Nature Genetics, … Read More »

Data scientist Neil Bahroos, MBA, MS, joined USC in 2020 with an impressive résumé, highlighted by work on the Human Genome Project, innovative industry experience, and a track record of helping medical centers use abundant data to transform … Read More »