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Wednesday, February 3, 2016
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined 68 of the nation’s top cancer centers in a joint statement urging parents and physicians to vaccinate young people against Human Papillomavirus (HPV). “The HPV vaccination is a safe, effective way to prevent cancers that occur in both men and women,” said USC... Read More »
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016
For this year’s Broad Fellow, Gabriel R. Linares, PhD, science is personal. “I have to say the turning point that spiked my interest in science was when I was in high school and my grandfather suffered a stroke,” he said. “I remember going to the hospital and he was just... Read More »
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Monday, February 1, 2016
An emeritus professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC who was an expert in the epidemiology of blood-borne infections, James Wilson Mosley, MD, died after a long illness in November in Los Angeles. He is survived by his wife, Eva Operskalski, his former wife Ann Mosley... Read More »
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Monday, February 1, 2016
The importance of diversity to college campuses has been in the media spotlight recently, but the Keck School of Medicine of USC has been a leader in this arena for more than 40 years. Founded in 1968, the Office of Diversity at the Keck School has developed numerous programs to strengthen... Read More »
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Sunday, January 31, 2016
Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers traveled to Russia recently to participate in Moscow Science Week as part of an effort to increase participation in ENIGMA, an international, collaborative study of the brain. Paul Thompson, PhD, Keck School of Medicine of USC professor and principal investigator and co-founder of... Read More »
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Friday, January 29, 2016
Jeremiah Wang was looking at a glucose strip in a crowded, makeshift clinic in Mexico when he knew he had made the right decision to become a doctor. The then-first year student at the Keck School of Medicine of USC was a volunteer with Healing Hearts Across Borders (HHAB), a... Read More »
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Friday, January 29, 2016
Guillotines, Mary Shelley and the likelihood of resurrecting David Bowie were hot topics on the Health Sciences Campus recently as award-winning author John Corey Whaley discussed his recent novel Noggin, a finalist for the National Book Award. More than 50 people attended the Jan. 25 Visions and Voices event, held... Read More »
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Thursday, January 28, 2016
A massive methane leak in a Los Angeles County community will have long-term health consequences that USC researchers said they intend to study. More than 87,500 metric tons of methane have leaked from a natural gas storage facility near Porter Ranch, according to the Environmental Defense Fund. Ed Avol, MS,... Read More »
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Thursday, January 28, 2016
The beautiful and remote Big Island of Hawaii is the home of five young, dedicated athletes, but on Feb. 14 the teenagers will be in the big city running the Los Angeles Marathon in support of Team Concern, a group that raises money for the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA)... Read More »
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Sunday, January 24, 2016
Two collaborative teams within USC Stem Cell are developing new approaches that could eventually help patients with heart disease, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The teams are the winners of the Audrey E. Streedain Regenerative Medicine Initiative Awards, supported by a generous bequest by the Audrey E.... Read More »
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Thursday, January 21, 2016
Investigators at Keck Medicine of USC are tackling immune-mediated diseases in a whole new way with the creation of a joint postdoctoral program. Omid Akbari, PhD, a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, said a combined postdoctoral effort with... Read More »