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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
On March 13, the USC School of Pharmacy marked its 115th commencement before an audience of more than 2,000 family, friends, faculty and staff. Dean Vassilios Papadopoulos, DPharm, PhD, presided over the event in the tented Broad Lawn on the Health Sciences Campus, advising the new pharmacists, pharmacologists, pharmaceutical scientists,... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
When Anne Crile began to experience sudden changes to her vision, she never imagined that her symptoms would lead to the diagnosis of a life-threatening brain tumor. She shared her symptoms with her optometrist at the USC Roski Eye Institute, Kent Nguyen,OD, performed several tests to determine the cause of... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
A USC Stem Cell study in NPJ Regenerative Medicine presents intriguing evidence that large bone injuries might trigger a repair strategy in adults that recapitulates elements of skeletal formation in utero. Key to this repair strategy is a gene with a fittingly heroic name: Sonic hedgehog. In the study, first author Maxwell Serowoky, a PhD... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
[caption id="attachment_12486" align="alignright" width="144"] Libère Ndacayisaba, now PhD, addressed his fellow graduates at the commencement ceremony. (Photo/Courtesy of the Keck School of Medicine of USC)[/caption] While the pandemic brought many new, unique challenges to graduate school, missing in-person events was just one of the struggles that made walking across the... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
On May 14, more than 150 students of the Keck School of Medicine of USC walked across the stage of the Galen Center to receive their diplomas. All of them had one thing in common: they all had to overcome many challenges to become scholars, doctors and leaders in medicine.... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
On the morning of April 27th, PhD student Cynthia Begay, MPH, passed a set of sashes to Dylan Goodwill, M.Ed., assistant director of undergraduate admission. Made from a handwoven blanket and embellished with cardinal and gold detailing, the sashes would be a surprise for graduating Native American students of the... Read More »
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Thursday, May 12, 2022
Samara White, a fourth year PharmD student at the USC School of Pharmacy, recently received the 2022 Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Award from the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) for her work as a founding committee member of the school’s Project Wellness initiative. The award recognizes pharmacy students who have... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
The Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC is highlighting graduates of the Master of Science Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. As the 41 master’s students in the Class of 2022 prepare for graduation, the faculty and staff of USC... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Lucia Madero, who will receive her DPT at this week's upcoming commencement, didn't have a traditional path to becoming a physical therapist — her journey wound through several careers, three children and two countries. “I’m different from the other students in my program,” says Madero, who graduates in May. “They... Read More »
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
For the sixth consecutive time, 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. “Our steadfast commitment to patient safety and quality care is reflected in all we do,” said Marty Sargeant, MBA, CEO... Read More »
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
A new study from USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center that was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences has demonstrated the feasibility of using a single tube of blood and computerized tomography (CT) scans to construct a complex cellular, molecular, and image profile of metastatic prostate cancer in real-time.... Read More »