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Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Mark and Marilou Hamill took to social media for a simple mission: encourage as many people as possible within the USC community to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The Hamills are part of a wave of USC alumni, supporters, students and faculty who are encouraging everyone in the Trojan Family to... Read More »
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021
The United States has administered 321 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, with about 67% of adults expected to be partly vaccinated by July 4. But vaccine distribution and access are a different story in other parts of the world, posing a threat to our success against COVID-19, according to an article published in The Lancet by Sofia Gruskin,... Read More »
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021
One of the overarching goals of the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery is to improve the lives of all people who are deaf or hard of hearing. With that goal in mind, clinicians at the USC Caruso Family Center for Childhood Communication created an innovative... Read More »
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Monday, June 28, 2021
During the week of April 15 - 21, 2021, five mobile dental clinics, containing 15 dental operatories, took over the parking lot of the Leo Baeck Temple near the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center (WLA VA) to provide free mobile dental care for veterans experiencing homelessness or at-risk... Read More »
USC researchers share discoveries on Alzheimer’s disease and discuss strategies to fight the illness
Friday, June 25, 2021
Acontroversial new drug for Alzheimer’s disease is raising tough questions: Who should take it? Who will pay for it? And how will we know how well it works? But that’s not the only Alzheimer’s news during Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month. Recent USC research shows that members of an isolated... Read More »
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Thursday, June 24, 2021
The Department of Preventive Medicine will become the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC on July 1. The name change signals a new era for the department, which has undergone tremendous growth and expansion in its areas of research since its... Read More »
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Thursday, June 24, 2021
For over 60 years, the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation has supported innovative biomedical research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, each year granting $100,000 awards to two faculty members. This year, the Baxter Foundation awarded Kimberly Gokoffski, MD, PhD, assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology at the USC... Read More »
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Increased risk of cancer due to a genetic predisposition in first- and second-degree relatives is long-established but has previously only been studied in white or European populations. Now, a new study published in eLife is the first to demonstrate that the inherited risk of early-onset cancer is significantly higher among... Read More »
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Three years ago, an outside clinic diagnosed Maria Contreras with keratoconus, a degenerative eye disease that causes thinning and bulging of the cornea. Though the clinic followed her for years, Maria saw no improvement in her vision and continued to suffer from poorly corrected irregular astigmatism, a lack of depth... Read More »
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Houda Alachkar, assistant professor of clinical pharmacy at the USC School of Pharmacy, was awarded a five-year, $1.79 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to fund a study that could lead to advancements in the development of personalized treatments for acute myeloid leukemia. The project is entitled “Leveraging the TCR... Read More »
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021
The USC Stem Cell laboratory of Andy McMahon has identified a type of injured cell that might contribute to the transition from an acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease, as described in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The same issue of PNAS also features an... Read More »