Keck Medicine of USC supports Altadena school through book drive and grant

On May 22, Keck Medicine of USC employees made a very special delivery to students of Pasadena Rosebud Academy, a transitional kindergarten-8th grade school that was destroyed in the recent Eaton fire and is being temporarily housed Read More »

May 23rd, 2025|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

NIH to award $8 million for new USC Superfund Center to address ‘forever chemicals’

A team of scientists from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering has been awarded an $8 million, five-year grant from the the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Read More »

May 19th, 2025|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

$10 million gift to fund USC Longevity Research Accelerator initiative

The Keck School of Medicine of USC will launch a new research initiative focused on extending the human health span with a $10 million transformative gift from R. Rex Parris and his wife Carrol Parris. R. Rex Parris is the Read More »

May 19th, 2025|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

USC, UCLA team up for the world’s first-in-human bladder transplant

Surgeons from Keck Medicine of USC and UCLA Health have performed the world’s first-in-human bladder transplant. The surgery was successfully completed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on May 4 in a joint effort by Inderbir Gill, Read More »

May 19th, 2025|Announcements, featured, Keck Net Intranet|

2025 Nurses Week awards recognize nurses for bravery, compassion and innovation

On May 7, in honor of National Nurses Week, Keck Medical Center of USC and USC Care and Ambulatory Services recognized the organization’s nursing staff at its annual Nurses Week Recognition and Scholarship Awards ceremony.

Over the course of an hour, nurse, Read More »

May 16th, 2025|Announcements, featured, Keck Net Intranet|

Mother’s Day tradition continues with rose deliveries for 2025

In honor of Mother’s Day, the ambulatory infusion teams distributed roses to patients who visited USC Norris Cancer Day Hospital, the Norris Healthcare Center Treatment Center and Women’s Specialty Care Clinic, and Keck Medicine of USC treatment centers in Arcadia, Read More »

May 13th, 2025|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Keck Medical Center of USC chef wins national award for plant-based recipe

Award-winning gourmet food is not something most people would expect to enjoy at a hospital. However, Keck Medical Center of USC’s Executive Chef Luis Santos is working to change that. His plant-based deconstructed Honduran tamale was named this year’s winner Read More »

May 9th, 2025|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Pharmacies excluded from preferred networks face higher risk of closure

A recent study led by Dima Mazen Qato, PhD, MPH, a senior scholar at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and the Hygeia Centennial Chair at the USC Alfred E. Mann Read More »

May 6th, 2025|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Glendale Community College students participate in USC-VHH Day of Discovery

On May 2, USC Verdugo Hills Hospital welcomed 46 students from Glendale Community College for its first Healthcare Day of Discovery dedicated to college students.

The event started with career panels and question-and-answer sessions led by professionals from a wide range Read More »

May 6th, 2025|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Keck Medicine receives $10 million gift from medical inventor’s estate

Alfred E. Mann Charities has gifted $10 million to Keck Medicine of USC and the Keck School of Medicine of USC to serve as an anchor gift for the state-of-the-art USC Cardiac and Vascular Pavilion within the USC Cardiac and Read More »

May 5th, 2025|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

USC undergraduates navigate stem cell research at inaugural symposium

Thirty undergraduates gathered to share their research at the first year-end symposium for USC CIRM COMPASS, a comprehensive two-year program designed to prepare juniors and seniors for careers in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine.

The program is supported Read More »

May 2nd, 2025|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

USC Stem Cell names nine scholarship winners for master’s program

This year, philanthropic giving supported scholarships for nine students in USC’s master of science (MS) program in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. Launched in 2014 as one of the only programs of its kind in the United Read More »

May 2nd, 2025|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Keck Hospital of USC receives 10th ‘A’ from Leapfrog

Keck Hospital of USC has earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit watchdog focused on patient safety.

Leapfrog assigns a letter grade to general hospitals across the country based on over Read More »

May 1st, 2025|Announcements, featured, Keck Net Intranet|