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Friday, December 13, 2013
Zlokovic named holder of newly endowed chair; brings total Zilkha giving to $30M By Alison Trinidad Los Angeles residents Selim Zilkha and Mary Hayley are raising the stakes in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease, the only cause of death among the top 10 in the United States that cannot currently... Read More »
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Friday, November 22, 2013
[caption id="attachment_1122" align="alignright" width="300"] Keck School of Medicine of USC Dean Carmen A. Puliafito, MD, MBA, speaks at the Parents Association Mini-Medical School on Oct. 25. The annual event offers medical school students’ parents tours of the campus as well as brief seminars about the lives of doctors-in-training.(Photo/Jon Nalick)[/caption]... Read More »
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Friday, November 22, 2013
By Ryan Ball Next time you’re sitting in freeway gridlock, consider the complex system of traffic moving through each and every one of your cells — proteins and other molecules all trying get to the right place at the right time to perform a specific function, such as contacting muscles... Read More »
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Friday, November 22, 2013
By Leslie Ridgeway [caption id="attachment_1116" align="alignright" width="192"] Mark Humayun with the Argus II artificial retina implant.(Photo/Jon Nalick)[/caption] Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, internationally known for his work on the Argus II artificial retina implant intended to restore sight to the blind, has been named the inaugural director of the USC Eye... Read More »
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Friday, November 22, 2013
By Sara Reeve The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has awarded a five-year, $4 million grant to a USC research team to discover whether stress in the lives of working mothers influences risk of childhood obesity in their children. The project, “Maternal Stress and Children’s Obesity Risk,” led by... Read More »
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Friday, November 22, 2013
[caption id="attachment_1108" align="alignright" width="224"] Third-year Keck School of Medicine of USC medical student Martin Tolosa examines a patient at the four-day Care Harbor clinic held Oct. 31 to Nov. 3 at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.(Photo/Jon Nalick)[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1109" align="alignright" width="300"] The annual Care Harbor event provides free medical... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By Christine Chan and Amy E. Hamaker Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, and more than five million Americans live with the disease, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Conquering Alzheimer’s was the focus of the first Zilkha Mini Symposium on Alzheimer’s Research at... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By Larissa Puro [caption id="attachment_1102" align="alignright" width="300"] In this screen capture from the short film Tamale Lesson, the fictional Romeo family discusses cervical cancer screening while making tamales for a Quinceanera.[/caption] The USC faculty-produced short film Tamale Lesson, which uses narrative storytelling to educate women about cervical cancer screening, received... Read More »
Experimental drug reduces brain damage, eliminates brain hemorrhaging in rodents afflicted by stroke
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By Alison Trinidad An experimental drug called 3K3A-APC appears to reduce brain damage, eliminate brain hemorrhaging and improve motor skills in older stroke-afflicted mice and stroke-afflicted rats with comorbid conditions such as hypertension, according to a new study from Keck Medicine of USC. The study, which appears online in the... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
[caption id="attachment_1097" align="alignright" width="300"] (Photo/Cristy Lytal)[/caption] The dessert tray and cheese platter seemed self-renewing at the first USC Stem Cell Social, held on Oct. 25 at the Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC. Nearly 100 guests toured the labs, viewed research... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
By Robert Perkins Sometimes the smallest tools are required to tackle the biggest problems. At the forefront of innovative research on regenerative medicine and cancer treatment, experts from the top research institutions in the greater Los Angeles area converged for the first-ever UCLA-USC-Caltech Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Symposium on Oct. 18.... Read More »