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Friday, October 18, 2013
By Alison Trinidad Natural killer (NK) cells in the human body can kill and contain viruses and cancerous tumors. A new study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC describes for the first time how those cells can be manipulated by epigenetics. The discovery, detailed in the Proceedings of... Read More »
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Friday, October 18, 2013
By Leslie Ridgeway A research team co-led by USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists is one of five teams to be awarded four-year grants totaling nearly $14 million to study the genomics of disease susceptibility in ethnically diverse populations. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the grant funds. A... Read More »
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Friday, October 18, 2013
By Elise Herrera-Green The class of 2013 of the Physician Assistant Program at USC, comprised of 50 graduates, received a 100 percent pass rate for first-time test takers on the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam (PANCE). (more…)... Read More »
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Friday, October 18, 2013
By Alison Trinidad [caption id="attachment_997" align="alignright" width="216"] Chengyu Liang, MD, PhD, was the principal investigator on a new study that discovered two intracellular processes that could lead to novel therapeutics for cancer treatment.[/caption] Molecular microbiologists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have uncovered intricate regulatory mechanisms within the... Read More »
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Friday, October 18, 2013
By Elise Herrera-Green Sheila Lau, a second-year student in the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Primary Care Physician Assistant Program, has been selected to receive a 2013 National Association of Medical Minority Educators (NAMME) Scholarship. Lau was one of only eight students in the nation selected for this scholarship.... Read More »
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach generate a huge volume of revenue and high levels of diesel pollution as they move vast amounts of cargo. But this comes at a [caption id="attachment_990" align="alignright" width="300"] Andrea M. Hricko, professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of... Read More »
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
David Ko, MD, clinical associate professor of neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, chaired the 31st Annual Korean American Medical Association (KAMA) Scientific Convention meeting in Las Vegas. Held with the World Korean Medical Organization on July 4-6, the meeting included presentations by 11 USC faculty and... Read More »
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
By Sara Reeve Researchers at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded nearly $4 million for two ovarian cancer research project grants from the National Institutes of Health. Both projects utilize the multicenter Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC) to perform a large population-based analysis of ovarian cancer patients... Read More »
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
By Leslie Ridgeway The common refrain about health care is that it’s a broken system. The Galaxy Health model, which debuted at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center in 2012, demonstrated a favorable effect on both patients and medical residents, according to a UCLA/USC study published online Sept. 2... Read More »
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
[caption id="attachment_979" align="alignright" width="300"] (Photo/Leslie Ridgeway)[/caption] Stephen B. Gruber (far right), MD, MPH, director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses his thoughts about the discovery of the BRCA1 breast cancer gene at the Los Angeles premiere of Decoding Annie Parker, a feature film about the researcher who... Read More »
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
Top honors for USC’s Wallace Coulter Foundation Award went to a team of collaborators from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. The $100,000 award, which will fund the design and development of a photo-acoustic imaging device, will be shared by Jacques Van... Read More »