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 Foundation awarded Kimberly Gokoffski, MD, PhD, assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology at the USC Roski Eye Institute, and Unmesh Jadhav, PhD, assistant professor of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC. The foundation additionally gave $100,000 in support of the Medical Student Summer Research fellowship program at the Keck School.

To continue reading this story, click here.