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Wednesday, December 18, 2024
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) — a federal funding agency that supports high-impact research capable of driving biomedical and health breakthroughs — has awarded up to $47 million for a project aimed at moving eye transplants to restore vision closer to reality. The USC Roski Eye Institute... Read More »
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Tuesday, December 17, 2024
USC Norris Cancer Hospital was named a Top Teaching Hospital by The Leapfrog Group, a leading national patient safety watchdog organization, for the fourth consecutive year. To qualify for the distinction, hospitals must rank top among peers on the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, which assesses hospital performance on the highest standards of... Read More »
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Thursday, December 12, 2024
In keeping with tradition, USC President Carol L. Folt treated faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Campus to a holiday breakfast reception complete with a photo booth, candy buffet and popular Christmas music. Held on the Broad Lawn, the event provided employees with the opportunity to take a break... Read More »
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Thursday, December 12, 2024
Marlena Fejzo, PhD, the USC geneticist behind the groundbreaking discovery of the role the hormone known as GDF15 plays in pregnancy sickness, delivered a speech at the first-ever White House Conference on Women’s Health Research on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Fejzo spoke of the journey that led to her discovery, her ongoing efforts... Read More »
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Jonathan Sum, DPT, associate professor of clinical physical therapy with the USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, has received this year's Lynn Wallace Excellence in Clinical Education and Professional Development Award, which recognizes extraordinary contributions to the field of sports physical therapy through mentorship, education and research. Sum recently shared... Read More »
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Two recent studies from the USC Head and Neck Center, part of Keck Medicine of USC and the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, examined public knowledge of the link between HPV and throat cancer and HPV vaccination rates among adults, respectively. The findings showed that the majority of... Read More »
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
A new study funded by more than $5.5 million from the National Institutes of Health will test whether a sensory-adapted dental environment — a novel intervention that provides soothing visual, auditory and tactile input within the dental clinic environment — can reduce anxiety and fear experienced by the general pediatric... Read More »
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
New research published in JAMA Network Open from USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Keck Medicine of USC, suggests that among all cancer survivors, male adolescents and young adults (AYA) have the highest rate of death by suicide. The study also reports that the number of suicide deaths in the AYA male cancer... Read More »
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Keck Medical Center of USC recently welcomed Lourdes “Lou” Leon Guerrero, MPH, governor of the U.S. territory of Guam, and her staff, who had flown in to meet with executives, tour the facilities and look in on a patient from their home territory. The day was a key step in... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Genes aren’t the sole driver instructing cells to build multicellular structures, tissues, and organs. In a new paper published in Nature Communications, USC Stem Cell scientist Leonardo Morsut, PhD, and Caltech computational biologist Matt Thomson characterize the influence of another important developmental driver: cell density, or how loosely or tightly cells... Read More »
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state’s stem cell agency, has awarded a two-year, $6 million grant to a team at the USC Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics and the USC Roski Eye Institute advancing a new treatment for one of the leading causes of blindness... Read More »