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Friday, December 12, 2014
Few 10-year-olds have brought 10 potential medical treatments into clinical trials. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is an exceptional 10-year-old, however. In 2004, the voters of California created CIRM to dispense $3 billion to fund stem cell research in the state. This year alone, CIRM funding is expected... Read More »
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Friday, December 12, 2014
[caption id="attachment_3276" align="alignright" width="300"] Keck School of Medicine Dean Carmen A. Puliafito presents Derrick Hall, president and CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball franchise, with the inaugural Louis Zamperini Courage Award at the gala.[/caption] The USC Institute of Urology, one of the nation’s top-ranked urology programs, honored Derrick Hall, president... Read More »
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Thursday, December 11, 2014
[caption id="attachment_3213" align="alignright" width="280"] By the end of the retreat, the domino-costumed members of the lab of Gage Crump, PhD, were completely floored.[/caption] It was no tricks and all treats on Halloween at the seventh retreat for the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research... Read More »
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Thursday, December 11, 2014
[caption id="attachment_3197" align="alignright" width="224"] USC Eye Institute Director Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, accepts a letter of commendation from Arcadia Mayor John Wuo at the grand opening of the institute's Arcadia clinic on Dec. 1, 2014.[/caption] The USC Eye Institute, one of the nation’s Top 10 ophthalmology departments according to U.S.... Read More »
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded $4.5 million to a team of researchers led by Larissa V. Rodríguez, MD, professor of urology and obstetrics and gynecology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, to study the causes, risk factors, and potential treatments for interstitial cystitis, also known... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Going to medical school was a dream for Eric Arevalo. But he wasn’t going to realize that dream unless he got a scholarship. “I had $100,000 in [undergraduate] student loans when I was applying to medical school,” he explained to the dozens of donors to the Keck School of Medicine... Read More »
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Pat Levitt, PhD, W. M. Keck Provost Professor in pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has received a grant of nearly $1 million from advocacy organization Autism Speaks. Funding will support research into the treatment of chronic constipation to improve behavioral symptoms associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Through... Read More »
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Friday, November 21, 2014
What makes stem cells develop into kidneys? Lori O’Brien, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory of Andy McMahon, PhD, FRS, has received the first Broad Fellowship to help answer this question. O’Brien is the first of a series of Broad Fellows, exceptional senior postdoctoral researchers at the transition... Read More »
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Friday, November 14, 2014
From left, Keck Parents Association Co-Presidents Dan and Carmel Gardner, Esther Geller, Ken Geller, John House, Polly Allen, Brent Allen and Steve Yamashita joined more than 300 Keck alumni, students, faculty and families for a pre-game picnic filled with good food, fun and Trojan spirit. Guests mingled as they enjoyed brunch provided... Read More »
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Friday, November 14, 2014
David H. Petraeus, PhD, retired four-star general and former CIA director, visited the Health Sciences Campus (HSC) on Nov. 4 to see for himself what the view is like on the front lines of the life sciences revolution. Petraeus — who also serves as the Judge Widney Professor at USC... Read More »
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Friday, November 14, 2014
Steven Rosenberg recently began treating a patient with bile duct cancer who had already undergone chemotherapy, but the treatment had failed to stop the cancer from spreading to her lung and liver. He treated her with a new form of immunotherapy, personalized to attack her tumor cells that are unique... Read More »