Researchers at USC and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory say they will be the first team in the world to launch fungi into space for the purpose of potentially developing new medicine for use both in space and on Earth.
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The Interprofessional Finance Council and R3 Hospital Initiative are hosting an R3 Innovation Competition. This Keck Medical Center of USC competition is an opportunity for clinical staff to submit innovative ideas that will make an impact on resource utilization and efficiency … Read More »
Distinguished Professor Jae Jung, PhD, chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and the director of the USC Institute for Emerging Pathogens and Immune Diseases at the Keck School of Medicine, is among the 2016 recipients of the … Read More »
The Keck Medicine Health Pavilion at the 2016 LA Times Festival of Books offers many activities to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The festival takes place on the University Park Campus.
Saturday, April 9
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Longtime USC benefactors Gayle and Edward Roski have made a landmark $25 million gift to endow and name the USC Gayle and Edward Roski Eye Institute at Keck Medicine of USC, reflecting the institute’s position as one of the nation’s … Read More »
This spring break, students from the Primary Care Physician Assistant Program at the Keck School of Medicine of USC attended the fourth annual Advocacy Trip to Washington, D.C. The experience is intended to promote leadership and inspire students to advocate … Read More »
Steven Browning Sample, who served as USC’s 10th president from 1991 to 2010 —a time of remarkable transformation at the university — died March 29. He was 75.
During Sample’s 19-year tenure as president, the university ascended the national academic ranks. … Read More »
Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, holder of the Grace and Emery Beardsley Chair in Ophthalmology and director of the USC Eye Institute, was announced as the interim dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC on March 24 in an email from … Read More »
The 2016 Keck Scholarship Gala on March 12 was a sold out event, with more than 300 alumni, current scholarship recipients, parents, donors, and other friends of Keck School of Medicine of USC gathering to honor two renowned alumni and … Read More »
Los Angeles Times columnist and Guggenheim Fellowship winner Meghan Daum will join USC palliative medicine physician and writer Sunita Puri, MD, in a conversation about how humans encounter and survive serious illness.
In “Diary of a Coma,” the final essay in … Read More »
The USC Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery held an interdisciplinary continuing medical education course at the Huntington Library in San Marino on March 19, targeting physicians and allied health professionals.
The welcome address was given by … Read More »
The best laid plans of mice and men are a bit different — at least when it comes to kidney development. Compared to a mouse, a human has nearly 100 times more nephrons, the functional units of the kidneys. Humans may … Read More »
Building on its relationship with the Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Center located in Mumbai, the USC Institute of Urology led an international urology symposium at the hospital Feb. 20-21. The symposium focused on advances in robotic … Read More »
Tracy C. Grikscheit, MD, a principal investigator with USC Stem Cell and The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, has received a $7.1 million grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Translational Research program to develop … Read More »
The physicians of Keck Medical Center of USC will take center stage on March 30.
The National Doctors’ Day Celebration Breakfast will be held at Keck Medical Center of USC on Wednesday, March 30 from 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. All … Read More »
University Kidney Research Organization (UKRO) honored USC academic and scientific leaders at its sixth gala dinner March 18 at The Beverly Hilton, with 300 attendees. This group of vocal champions of kidney disease research included Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Michael … Read More »
The next generation of scientists is turning to stem cells to advance our understanding of systems ranging from the blood to the brain, from the liver to the lungs. Six of these scientists presented their research at the Junior Faculty … Read More »
Recently released rankings from U.S. News & World Report show USC’s health sciences graduate schools remain among the best in the nation, improving or maintaining their prestige in the annual lists.
The Keck School of Medicine of USC, the USC Chan … Read More »
Loud cheering echoed through the Harry and Celesta Pappas Quad at 9:01 a.m. March 18 as 163 Keck School of Medicine of USC seniors simultaneously ripped open envelopes that told them where they are spending the next few years of … Read More »
Students will be putting their public health knowledge to the test nearly 10,000 miles from Los Angeles this summer — in the rural Ugandan district of Mpigi.
Students from all degree programs are eligible to participate in … Read More »