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Monday, November 21, 2022
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state’s stem cell agency, has awarded a five-year, $8 million grant to the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). The funding helped to launch the USC+CHLA Alpha Clinic, which will expand personnel dedicated to advancing clinical trials of new... Read More »
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Friday, November 18, 2022
Inventor, physicist and long-time supporter of the University of California Alfred E. Mann has donated a $50 million endowment to the USC School of Pharmacy. In gratitude for the naming gift, the school has changed its name to the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences —... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Narsing Rao, MD, Grace and Emery Beardsley Professor of Ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has made a generous gift to establish the Narsing Rao, MD, Endowed Lectureship Fund at the USC Roski Eye Institute and the Department of Ophthalmology. The lectureship will bring together distinguished scholars... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022
For the seventh time in a row, Keck Hospital of USC earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization, for achieving the highest national standards in patient safety. “While Keck Hospital has received an ‘A’ grade since 2019, we’re honored to share that this... Read More »
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Keck Medicine of USC, a national leader in patient safety, has announced its enhanced commitment to the highest standards of care with the appointment of Mary Virgallito, MSN, RN, who will serve as the first chief quality officer at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital (USC-VHH). Virgallito’s new title follows the recent... Read More »
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded $1.5 million to the Keck School of Medicine of USC's Department of Population and Public Health Sciences. The grant is dedicated toward the provision of scholarships for Master of Public Health degrees. The Keck School... Read More »
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Monday, November 14, 2022
A chaperone protein called GRP78, which is known to exacerbate the spread of cancer in the body, has been shown to do the same for viruses — including the one that causes COVID-19. The study, led by the Keck School of Medicine of USC, indicates that a promising new cancer... Read More »
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Monday, November 14, 2022
On Nov. 9, one of America's leading health care advocates, Michele Harper, MD, spoke at "Healing Voices" — a health-care-focused branch of USC's "Visions and Voices" lecture series. Her talk, titled, "Radical Truths: The Power of Storytelling to Dismantle Racism in Medicine," included stories from her best-selling book, The Beauty... Read More »
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Friday, November 11, 2022
A first-of-its-kind analysis comparing the neurobiology of boys and girls with binge eating disorder has shown significant differences in brain structure between the sexes. The study was published in Psychological Medicine. The research builds on earlier work suggesting that binge eating disorder is wired in the brain from an early... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Eugene Lin, MD, MS, a senior clinical fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics specializing in nephrology, is conducting research to improve outcomes for end-stage kidney disease patients. Earlier this month, he and his colleagues analyzed two distinct aspects of dialysis and their effect on patient prognoses:... Read More »
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022
A pair of unique courses from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have received positive reviews for their hybrid approach and the resulting increase in educational access and success. The courses, developed through the school’s Primary Care Initiative, reach two distinct audiences. The first is an addiction medicine course... Read More »