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Friday, June 21, 2013
As USC celebrates the 40th anniversary of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Weekly will run in each issue through the end of the year items highlighting key moments in the history of the institution. On May 10, 1979, ground is broken for the new site of the Kenneth Norris... Read More »
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Friday, June 21, 2013
By Sara Reeve As Tom Buchanan, vice dean for research of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, welcomed the room full of MD/PhD candidates to the annual USC-Caltech MD/PhD symposium, he had a very simple message — doing good science will make you happy. “To me, at its core,... Read More »
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Friday, June 21, 2013
By Sara Reeve A USC team of scientists has published research that highlights a new potential therapeutic agent for patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers from the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have found that a mutant protein helps to bind amyloid beta peptide in... Read More »
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Friday, June 21, 2013
By Josh Grossberg [caption id="attachment_398" align="alignright" width="122"] Keck Hospital of USC patient Jennifer Sutherland shows off the beaded necklace given to her by USC volunteers in recognition of her courage and inspirational attitude.Photo/Jon Nalick[/caption] Jennifer Sutherland gently touched the beaded necklace as it was clasped around her neck. A piece... Read More »
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Don Harper Mills, a longtime clinical professor of pathology and psychiatry at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, died May 21. He was 85. [caption id="attachment_393" align="alignright" width="94"] Don Harper Mills[/caption] Mills, who taught at the Keck School and was a past president of Salerni Collegium, was also a... Read More »
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Each year, more people die of lung cancer than of breast, prostate and colon cancers combined because most patients are diagnosed after the cancer has already become advanced. The Multidisciplinary Lung Cancer Program at the Keck Medical Center of USC is fighting to change that, which is why it is... Read More »
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Friday, June 7, 2013
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Friday, June 7, 2013
[caption id="attachment_380" align="alignright" width="144"] Steven Mittelman[/caption] Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has appointed Steven Mittelman as director of the new Diabetes and Obesity Program at The Saban Research Institute. Mittleman also serves as assistant professor of pediatrics, physiology and biophysics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. The Diabetes and... Read More »
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Friday, June 7, 2013
By Hope Hamashige [caption id="attachment_376" align="alignright" width="216"] Pam Corley accepts her award from James Gordon.Photo/Gradimages[/caption] After devoting more than 30 years to USC, Pamela Corley retired in 2013 from her post at the Norris Medical Library. For her contribution, the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy honored her with the... Read More »
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Friday, June 7, 2013
As part of her class “Disaster, Conflict and Global Health,” USC Institute For Prevention Research lecturer Kathleen West took her Keck School of Medicine Master of Public Health students on an unusual field trip on April 17. [caption id="attachment_373" align="alignright" width="432"] Former Marine Michael King (pictured in blue shirt) led... Read More »
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Friday, June 7, 2013
[caption id="attachment_370" align="alignright" width="213"] Mary Nichols (left), chair of the California Air Resources Board, presents the board's Haagen Smit Award to Andrea M. Hricko, professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.Photo/Jon Nalick[/caption] Officials for the California Air Resources Board awarded presented the board's Haagen Smit... Read More »