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Thursday, July 16, 2015
Two USC research leaders recently received funding to participate in a global effort to find new ways to prevent the onset of Type 1 diabetes (T1D). David Agus, MD, professor of medicine, and Dan Ruderman, PhD, assistant professor of research medicine, were awarded $169,806 by the Leona M. and Harry... Read More »
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Thursday, July 16, 2015
Even though the transplantation of blood stem cells, also known as bone marrow, has saved lives over many decades, the genes that control the number or function of blood stem cells are not fully understood. In a study published in June in Stem Cell Reports, the USC Stem Cell labs... Read More »
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Thursday, July 16, 2015
The new head of the Bone Marrow Transplant section of Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is Michael Allen Pulsipher, MD. Like most CHLA physicians, he also joins the Keck School of Medicine of USC as a professor of pediatric medicine and a member... Read More »
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015
When Andy McMahon, head of USC Stem Cell, wanted a three-dimensional image of a kidney, he used to ship the organ to Australia. Now he can just send down the hall to the university’s new specialized microscope — built by five undergraduates from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering for ENGR... Read More »
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Can science make us immortal? At a recent Los Angeles screening of director Tarsem Singh’s science fiction thriller Self/Less, USC Stem Cell researcher Michael Bonaguidi and University of Arizona researcher Wolfgang Fink tackled this and other big questions during a panel discussion moderated by KIIS-FM’s Manny Guevara. The film, which... Read More »
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015
If two heads are better than one, then two labs are better as well. That concept underlies the new Doerr Stem Cell Challenge Grants in which teams of postdoctoral researchers from different USC labs receive up to $10,000 in funding to pursue interdisciplinary one-year projects. “The goal of the program... Read More »
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Translating scientific discovery to practical benefit is a difficult challenge, and Christopher Austin, MD, director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), thinks sickle cell disease is a prime example. Although the molecular and genetic defect that causes sickle cell disease was discovered in 1949, six decades have... Read More »
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Monday, July 13, 2015
Cartilage does a lot more than determine the shapes of people’s ears and noses. It also enables people to breathe and to form healthy bones. In a study published in Cell Reports, USC Stem Cell researcher Xinjun He and University of Tokyo researcher Shinsuke Ohba explore how a protein called... Read More »
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Monday, July 13, 2015
A Keck Medicine of USC neuroradiologist has been awarded four grants that will pave the way for new research into the underlying causes of cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Kevin S. King, MD, assistant professor of clinical radiology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, will... Read More »
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Monday, July 13, 2015
USC Eye Institute Director Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, was the guest of honor and featured speaker recently at the Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society Meeting in Hawaii. The conference, now in its 99th year, draws top otolaryngology and ophthalmology physicians and scientists from across the country. Along with Varma, a dozen... Read More »
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Friday, July 10, 2015
Glen Stimmel, a national leader in clinical pharmacy practice and a USC faculty member since 1974, is the new interim dean of the USC School of Pharmacy, effective July 1. “I’m looking forward to working with the excellent faculty, staff, students, alumni and supporters of our School of Pharmacy,” Stimmel... Read More »