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Tuesday, August 9, 2016
The Hasting Foundation’s board of directors met on the Health Sciences Campus recently, joined by Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, interim dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and director of the USC Gayle and Edward Roski Eye Institute; Thomas Buchanan, MD, vice dean for research at the Keck... Read More »
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Monday, August 8, 2016
Years ago, Lindsey Barske, PhD, pulled on a pair of tall rubber boots and began a journey that led from her college research experience on the muddy Alaskan tundra to her current postdoctoral studies in the USC Stem Cell lab of Gage Crump, PhD. Now, she’s arrived at a key... Read More »
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Monday, August 8, 2016
In a memo sent to Keck School of Medicine of USC faculty and staff on Aug. 3, Interim Dean Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, announced two funding programs that support the investigation of new research areas. The Pilot Funding Program targets junior and established investigators interested in launching or transitioning to... Read More »
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Friday, August 5, 2016
Senta Georgia, PhD, principal investigator at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), and assistant professor of pediatrics, and stem cell biology and regenerative medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has a creative idea for helping children with a genetic form of diabetes and malabsorptive diarrhea called enteric anendocrinosis.... Read More »
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Thursday, August 4, 2016
The USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute has recruited Danny JJ Wang, PhD, MSCE, to be the director of Imaging Technology Innovation. [caption id="attachment_6083" align="alignright" width="200"] Danny JJ Wang[/caption] Wang, a professor of neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, brings his entire team of... Read More »
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016
An ongoing alliance between the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hoag Family Cancer Institute at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach has expanded to include a joint Phase I/early therapeutics clinical trial program. The program recently activated its first joint clinical trial, one of many planned in a... Read More »
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016
A new initiative to strengthen Keck Medicine of USC’s pledge to provide exceptional customer service has been launched. A new customer service division for patient financial services will be based at the Health Sciences Campus, bringing crucial services that were once performed 3,000 miles away back to Los Angeles. Previously,... Read More »
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016
USC Life Trustee Harlyne Norris, whose family foundation made possible USC’s influential research and treatment efforts to fight cancer, died July 30 in her beloved South Bay. She was 83. A civic-minded volunteer and philanthropist, Norris devoted herself to her family and causes in science, medicine and the arts. She... Read More »
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Vassilios Papadopoulos, DPharm, PhD, executive director and chief scientific officer of the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, has been named dean of the USC School of Pharmacy, effective Oct. 1. Papadopoulos, who also has been the associate executive director of research for the McGill University Health... Read More »
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016
[caption id="attachment_5609" align="alignright" width="300"] Keck Hospital of USC[/caption] For the eighth consecutive year, the hospitals of Keck Medicine of USC have been named among the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report, a distinction only 3 percent of the analyzed hospitals receive. The magazine’s annual “Best Hospitals” rankings... Read More »
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Monday, August 1, 2016
The Primary Care Physician Assistant Program at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has been awarded more than $2.5 million to support scholarships for disadvantaged students, one of only three PA programs nationally to receive this award. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of the U.S. Department of... Read More »