Tips on staying safe during your Thanksgiving holiday amid the COVID pandemic

USC Student Health’s Sarah Van Orman and Deona Willes of USC Environmental Health and Safety offer these thoughts on safety enjoying the upcoming holidays:

Getting a booster shot for COVID-19 is strongly recommended. With the combination of colder weather keeping people indoors, the Read More »

November 23rd, 2021|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Keck Medicine of USC and Methodist Hospital of Southern California take next steps toward affiliation

Keck Medicine of USC and Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia have submitted formal written notice of their proposed affiliation to the Office of the Attorney General of California for regulatory review and approval.

“We are Read More »

November 22nd, 2021|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

USC Stem Cell postdoc Aswathy Ammothumkandy recognized for her work with neural stem cells

USC Stem Cell postdoctoral trainee Aswathy Ammothumkandy vividly recalls when the tour guide shared the story of Dolly the cloned sheep during her ninth-grade field trip to the regional science center in her home town of Kozhikode, India. From that Read More »

November 19th, 2021|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Carolyn C. Meltzer named dean of Keck School of Medicine of USC

USC leaders have named radiologist and nuclear medicine doctor Carolyn C. Meltzer as dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Currently the William P. Timmie Professor and chair of the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at Read More »

November 16th, 2021|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

How alike are the cancer cells from a single patient?

Even within a single patient with cancer, there is a vast diversity of individual tumor cells, which display distinct behaviors related to growth, metastasis, and responses to chemotherapy. To carry out these behaviors, each cancer cell uses its genes to Read More »

November 16th, 2021|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|