Imagine an ever-renewing source of immune cells that can be engineered to attack cancer and infections. The winners of this year’s Eli and Edythe Broad Innovation Award at USC are already striving to turn this exciting concept into a reality.
If you’ve seen one GSK3 molecule, do not assume that you have seen them all. A new study in Developmental Cell reveals important differences in two similar forms of GSK3, which, in excess, is implicated in diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease … Read More »
Your smartphone could be the key to a healthy heart.
At least that’s what Niema Pahlevan, PhD, believes. The 39-year-old engineer has been developing an app that could allow people to use their iPhone camera to measure heart health. The high-tech, … Read More »
You may know that your surgeon is using the latest minimally invasive technology for your surgery, but how do you know if they’ve mastered it? To help answer that question, researchers at Keck Medicine of USC looked to a custom … Read More »
Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers have identified a human protein that could prevent cancer by restricting a type of herpes virus from replicating.
The scientists examined the human herpes virus 8, otherwise known as Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. Kaposi sarcoma … Read More »
Each year, Keck Medicine of USC partners with nonprofit organization Canning Hunger for the Box of Love drive to donate boxes filled with food items to needy families in the east Los Angeles community. This year, Keck Medicine donated a … Read More »
A ceremony for the newly elected members of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS), a prestigious national student organization, was held recently on the Health Sciences Campus.
Twenty-three fourth-year medical students, three faculty members and five residents from the Keck School … Read More »
Associate professor of clinical pharmacy at the USC School of Pharmacy Lisa W. Goldstone, PharmD, was elected president of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP). She will assume the post of president-elect effective July 1, 2018, and take … Read More »
A pioneering study co-authored by USC School of Pharmacy associate professor Stan Louie, PharmD, PhD, sheds light on why overweight patients often face greater challenges in overcoming cancer. The research, published in the American Association for Cancer Research journal Molecular Cancer … Read More »
As 2017 comes to a close, HSC News is making changes to better serve the Health Sciences Campus community.
Beginning in January, HSC News will cease print publication and will be distributed as a weekly email newsletter to faculty, staff and … Read More »
Three premier researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, two Harvard-affiliated hospitals and Mayo Clinic have been awarded up to $70 million to build essential nationwide infrastructure that would remove a bottleneck in the development of techniques to … Read More »
When a soldier sustains a traumatic eye injury on the battlefield, any delay in treatment may lead to permanent vision loss. With medical facilities potentially far away and no existing tools to prevent deterioration, medics are in a high-stakes race … Read More »
The ALS Association Golden West Chapter has recognized USC Stem Cell researcher Justin Ichida, PhD, with the 2017 Essey Commitment to a Cure Award for his outstanding achievements in the fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The award was presented … Read More »
Dozens of students at Hollenbeck Middle School got their hands dirty building planter boxes, digging up fresh soil and planting a variety of fruit and vegetable seedlings in their new Teaching Garden, which was donated by Keck Medicine of USC … Read More »
Second-year medical student Andrea Bañuelos Mota has been selected as one of 30 nationwide awardees to participate in Family Medicine Leads (FML) Emerging Leader Institute. This opportunity is sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and awards promising … Read More »
For nearly a week, Julia Fregoso experienced tooth pain so severe that she was unable to sleep, let alone eat or drink.
The pain, resulting from a molar she broke last December, landed Fregoso in the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry … Read More »
Patients at the USC Norris Cancer Hospital received a very special gift recently — tiny rose stickers given by real-life princesses as the 2018 Tournament of Roses Royal Court made its annual visit to the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center on … Read More »
Fen Pang, MD, recently made the journey from China to Los Angeles to spend a week with the team from the USC Institute of Urology as part of the department’s apprentice program. Pang, who hoped to advance his knowledge of … Read More »
A Keck School of Medicine of USC physician has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor awarded to AAAS members by their peers. David Warburton, OBE, DSc, MD, MMM, professor of pediatrics, … Read More »
USC Stem Cell scientist Zhongwei Li, PhD, could have gone into the family restaurant business. Instead, he’s dedicated his career to experimenting with a very different set of ingredients: kidney stem cells.
“The kidney is a very important organ, and it … Read More »