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Memorial honors faculty physician Yoshimasa ‘Yoshi’ Makino, 38

An overflow crowd of friends, family and coworkers gathered  Jan. 7 in Mayer Auditorium for a memorial service in honor of Yoshimasa “Yoshi” Makino, MD, an assistant professor of clinical medicine with the Keck School of Medicine of USC, who Read More »

January 9th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Former CHLA chairman of the board dies

Russell Smith, a former chairman of the board of directors at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and a benefactor to Keck Medicine of USC, died recently at the age of 100.

Smith and his wife, Jeanne, became involved with CHLA in Read More »

January 7th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Holiday greetings from the deans

Several hundred faculty, staff and students from the USC Health Sciences Campus attended a holiday breakfast Dec. 19 on the Harry and Celesta Pappas Quad. They were welcomed by Carmen A. Puliafito, dean of the Keck School of Medicine Read More »

December 22nd, 2014|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Researchers engineer a ‘smart bomb’ to attack childhood leukemia

Fatih Uckun, MD, Jianjun Cheng, PhD, and their colleagues have taken the first steps towards developing a so-called “smart bomb” to attack the most common and deadly form of childhood cancer — called B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

In a November Read More »

December 21st, 2014|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

The helix of hearing

Titled “De Novo,” this sculpture was created as part of an ongoing collaboration between USC Stem Cell and the USC Roski School of Art and Design. Doctor of Pharmacy candidate Loranna Grigoryan and undergraduate biological sciences major Jonathan Lee fashioned Read More »

December 19th, 2014|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|