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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By Laura Sturza Six students from the USC School of Pharmacy’s regulatory science program received a dose of the real world this summer as they toured two of the San Francisco Bay Area’s major pharmaceutical and medical device companies. The students saw firsthand the operations at Boehringer Ingelheim, one of... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
By Leslie Ridgeway Using three-dimensional organ creation, Keck Medicine of USC researchers aim to discover clues to metastatic cancer growth by developing a first-ever integrated bioengineered/computational model of metastatic colon cancer. David B. Agus, MD, director of the USC Center for Applied Molecular Medicine and professor of medicine at the... Read More »
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Monday, November 11, 2013
Halloween celebrations for kids of all ages took place on the Health Sciences Campus last week, both for spooky fun and to raise awareness for health research initiatives. (more…)... Read More »
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Monday, November 11, 2013
The Sports Museum of Los Angeles was the setting for the Keck Hospital of USC Guild’s Oct. 13 fall benefit, “Celebrate an Afternoon Among the Superstars.” Thanks to the generosity of the private museum’s owner and collector Gary Cypress, guests toured more than 30 galleries devoted to sports memorabilia spanning... Read More »
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Monday, November 11, 2013
By Alison Trinidad An experimental drug called 3K3A-APC appears to reduce brain damage, eliminate brain hemorrhaging and improve motor skills in older stroke-afflicted mice and stroke-afflicted rats with comorbid conditions such as hypertension, according to a new study from Keck Medicine of USC. The study, which appears online in the... Read More »
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Friday, November 8, 2013
Open enrollment for benefits-eligible faculty and staff of the University has begun, and personnel are encouraged to choose Keck Medicine of USC providers by signing up for the USC Network Medical Plan. (more…)... Read More »
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Friday, November 8, 2013
By Marie Rippen Sweat is important — without it, we would overheat and die. In a recent paper in the journal Public Library of Science One (PLOS ONE), USC faculty member Krzysztof Kobielak, MD, PhD, and a team of researchers explored the ultimate origin of this sticky, stinky but vital... Read More »
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Friday, November 8, 2013
By Ryan Ball [caption id="attachment_1059" align="alignright" width="300"] Donor Norene Zapanta with Maria Sandoval, recipient of the scholarship named for Zapanta’s late husband, Edward Zapanta, a USC neurosurgeon and the first Hispanic member of the USC Board of Trustees.(Photo/Steve Cohn)[/caption] The daughter of undocumented immigrants, Maria Sandoval credits excellent mentoring for helping... Read More »
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
By Jon Nalick [caption id="attachment_1056" align="alignright" width="300"] Principal investigator Jae Jung received a $7.5 million grant to help discover how to short circuit development of Kaposi’s sarcoma.(Photo/Phil Channing)[/caption] The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers a five-year, $7.5 million grant to investigate... Read More »
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
By Suzanne Wu A common genetic variant that affects one in every three people significantly increases the risk of colorectal cancer from consuming red meat and processed meat, according to a study presented at the annual American Society of Human Genetics 2013 meeting, the largest gathering of human geneticists in... Read More »
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
More than 50 second-year medical students came to the Edmondson Faculty Center at the Keck School of Medicine of USC on Oct. 17 to hear Kim Belshe, one of the five board members for the California Covered health benefit exchange, and Professor Michael L. Cousineau discuss the public policy ramifications... Read More »