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Learning How to Dance to the Tune of Success

Celebrating “Kids’ Day” on April 4, students from the USC School of Pharmacy Skull and Mortar Society welcomed 125 students from El Sereno Middle School  for a day on campus.  The annual event gives the youngsters an opportunity to learn Read More »

May 7th, 2014|Announcements|

Rancho Los Amigos Foundation honors Lucinda Baker

The Rancho Los Amigos Foundation honored Lucinda Baker, associate professor of biokinesiology and physical therapy at the Ostrow School of Dentistry, with the Amistad Award during the 28th annual Amistad Gala at the Westin Hotel in Long Beach on March 8, Read More »

May 7th, 2014|Announcements|

USC Norris honors its volunteers

The USC Norris Cancer Hospital thanked and honored its volunteers at its 27th annual Recognition Ceremony on April 12. The event took place during National Volunteer Week, which ran April 6-12.

May 7th, 2014|Announcements|

Pollutants from coal-burning stoves linked to miscarriages in Mongolia

Burning coal for domestic heating may contribute to early fetal death according to a new study by experts from The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, the coldest capital city in the world.

In a recent paper in Read More »

May 6th, 2014|Announcements|

2014 Commencement Ceremonies

Wednesday, May 14

Keck School of Medicine – MS, PhD, & MPH
4 p.m. at the Norris Medical Library Quad on the Health Sciences Campus. Keynote speaker: Helen M. Blau, Ph.D., Director, Baxter Laboratory in Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University School of Read More »

May 2nd, 2014|Announcements|

HSC Newsmakers

The cover story of the April 2014 edition of the Hearing Journal featured interviews with John K. Niparko, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery; Carolina Abdala, PhD, professor of otolaryngology research; Laurie Eisenberg, PhD, professor of otolaryngology Read More »

April 29th, 2014|Announcements|

Paul Craig named USC Health’s chief administrative officer

Keck Medicine of USC named Paul Craig, RN, JD, a seasoned medical and human resources professional, as the new chief administrative officer of USC Health, effective May 5, 2014.

Craig comes to Keck Medicine from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where he Read More »

April 29th, 2014|Announcements|

Keck Medicine of USC volunteers help marathon runner survive heart attack

“It was absolute luck.”

Jode Lebeda said he was in the right place at the right time when he collapsed during the ASICS Los Angeles Marathon on March 9.

The 28-year-old, running in his first — and as he said, “almost my Read More »

April 29th, 2014|Announcements|

Keck Medical Center CEO Scott Evans wins Healthcare Leadership Award

Scott Evans, PharmD, MHA, CEO of Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital, was named Hospital CEO of the year at the Los Angeles Business Journal’s annual Healthcare Leadership Awards event held at the Millenium Biltmore Hotel on Read More »

April 29th, 2014|Announcements|

Author discusses alcohol, drug use and American medicine

“America has never been ‘drug-free,'” stated Sarah W. Tracy, PhD, to begin her lecture titled, “Altering American Consciousness: Alcohol, Drug Use and American Medicine,” held on April 3 at Mayer Auditorium.

Tracy’s presentation, part of Visions and Voices, the USC arts Read More »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

Keck School scientist to co-lead new stroke drug clinical trial

Berislav Zlokovic, MD, PhD, director of the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, will co-lead a multicenter Phase 2 clinical trial of an experimental drug developed in his lab to treat patients suffering from acute Read More »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

USC scientist helps transform understanding of how skin wounds heal

A researcher at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has shown that a previously unsuspected but common protein in the human body can help skin injuries heal, contradicting decades of conventional wisdom about the biology of tissue Read More »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

Keck School researcher imagines intestinal cells that can make insulin

For Senta Georgia, PhD, stem cell research offers a window into much more than the biology of pancreatic cells and diabetes.

“Molecular biology is elegant,” said Georgia, principal investigator at the Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Read More »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

Student’s online videos help demystify federal grants

When Jamaica Rettberg, a PhD candidate in the Department of Neuroscience in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, decided to apply for a research fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), she knew it wouldn’t Read More »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

USC graduate student turns filmmaker with video addressing vaccine myths

Andrew Woodham is a PhD candidate in the Genetics, Molecular and Cell Biology program at the Keck School of Medicine of USC — but he really wants to do is direct. And now he has.

Leading an interdisciplinary team consisting Read More »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

USC Roski and USC Stem Cell collaborate to inspire

What happens when USC students — some studying art and design, others stem cell biology — examine zebrafish skulls under a microscope? It depends on who’s looking.

During spring 2014, scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Read More »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

HSC News site makes leap into 21st Century

Featuring a colorful new format with larger images, a more accessible calendar of events and a more user-friendly interface, HSC News has launched its new website at hscnews.usc.edu.

Updated every Friday, the HSC News site, currently in beta testing, offers Read More »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

Students make connections on Pharmacy Day

As students complete their third year in the Doctor of Pharmacy Program, they begin to consider the rotations they will pursue next year.  To facilitate that, the USC School of Pharmacy holds a preceptor fair giving students and preceptors an Read More »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

Study confirms stem-cell need for hydrogen sulfide

Stem cells in bone marrow need to produce hydrogen sulfide in order to properly multiply and form bone tissue, according to a new study from the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology at the Ostrow School of Dentistry.

Songtao Shi, DDS, PhD, Read More »

April 28th, 2014|Announcements|

Keck School research suggests better way to predict prostate cancer survival

New research by USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists demonstrates that measuring circulating tumor cells (CTCs) – the cells that spread cancer through the body – may be a better predictor of patient survival than the prostate specific Read More »

April 23rd, 2014|Announcements|