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Friday, December 15, 2017
Keck School of Medicine of USC faculty and staff gathered Dec. 8 at Pappas Quad to celebrate the season during the Holiday Breakfast. Interim Dean Laura Mosqueda, MD, greeted revelers, who enjoyed a variety of breakfast foods and pastries. Attendees were encouraged to wear holiday sweaters, with Jennifer Oloteo, assistant... Read More »
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Friday, December 15, 2017
Raymond Hall was told he had three months to live. That was more than 17 years ago. Hall is a Vietnam-era Marine veteran. After he developed heart problems related to his service, he underwent years of treatments with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). “They tried everything,” Hall said.... Read More »
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Friday, December 15, 2017
Professor Emeritus Thomas V. Berne, MD, a respected and beloved member of the Keck Medicine of USC family who had multigenerational ties to the campus, died Oct. 27. He was 81. Berne was a lifelong member of the USC community. His father, Clarence J. Berne, MD, was chair of the... Read More »
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Friday, December 15, 2017
The first new outpatient clinical space on the USC Health Sciences Campus in more than a decade is slated to open in January. Norris Healthcare Center (HC3) will house the following departments and services: urology, an infusion center, women’s specialty care, breast imaging, transplant and an outpatient surgery center. HC3... Read More »
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Friday, December 15, 2017
Caitlin Mahaffey, associate director of career advising at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, recently received an award from the Association of American Medical Colleges for the outstanding work she performs as an adviser to the students at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. The award, dubbed the... Read More »
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Friday, December 15, 2017
Keck Medicine of USC and OneLegacy, an organization that saves lives through organ, tissue and eye donations, held a special rose dedication ceremony on Dec. 7 at Keck Medical Center of USC. The ceremony honored organ donors and their families for their generous gift of life. Donors received a rose... Read More »
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Friday, December 15, 2017
Imagine an ever-renewing source of immune cells that can be engineered to attack cancer and infections. The winners of this year’s Eli and Edythe Broad Innovation Award at USC are already striving to turn this exciting concept into a reality. The collaborative research project brings together Qi-Long Ying, MD, PhD, and Rong... Read More »
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Friday, December 15, 2017
If you’ve seen one GSK3 molecule, do not assume that you have seen them all. A new study in Developmental Cell reveals important differences in two similar forms of GSK3, which, in excess, is implicated in diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and ALS. In the study, first author Xi Chen, a... Read More »
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Friday, December 15, 2017
Your smartphone could be the key to a healthy heart. At least that’s what Niema Pahlevan, PhD, believes. The 39-year-old engineer has been developing an app that could allow people to use their iPhone camera to measure heart health. The high-tech, low-cost tool would address America’s No. 1 cause of... Read More »
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Friday, December 15, 2017
You may know that your surgeon is using the latest minimally invasive technology for your surgery, but how do you know if they’ve mastered it? To help answer that question, researchers at Keck Medicine of USC looked to a custom recording tool similar in concept to a flight recorder on... Read More »
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Friday, December 15, 2017
Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers have identified a human protein that could prevent cancer by restricting a type of herpes virus from replicating. The scientists examined the human herpes virus 8, otherwise known as Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. Kaposi sarcoma is a cancer that causes lesions in soft tissue,... Read More »