More than 100 community members recently celebrated the completion of USC-supported improvements at Hazard Park in Boyle Heights.
In early spring, USC contributed $1.1 million toward a new jogging path, outdoor fitness zone and new toddler zone, as well as improvements … Read More »
The USC Norris Ambassadors learned of the unique research being done by Martin Kast, PhD, and his lab during a Friends and Family Luncheon on Oct. 22.
Hosting the event was Stephen B. Gruber, MD, PhD, MPH, director of the USC … Read More »
The unlikely sequence of discovery that turned a cheese-making innovation in Denmark into a precise tool for genome-editing that has swept through biomedical laboratories around the world was the subject of the annual Massry Prize lecture on Oct. 29.
“Few discoveries … Read More »
Amid a celebration of some of the best and brightest at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Cheryl Mae Craft, PhD, was thinking about her “grandchildren” — the students of her former students, her legacy of physicians and researchers from … Read More »
Nearly 100 proud parents got a glimpse of the daily lives of their sons and daughters on Oct. 23 during an annual symposium at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Family members toured the Health Sciences Campus and heard from … Read More »
Two surgeons from the USC Institute of Urology were among the principal featured participants in a worldwide 24-hour live robotic surgery event held Oct. 26 at Keck Medical Center of USC and at 11 other leading robotic centers on every … Read More »
Video board atop the Coliseum.
To honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a team of physicians and staff from Keck Medicine of USC joined cancer survivors on the … Read More »
The newest addition to the urology staff at Keck Medicine of USC will fit right in working in a city noted for its celebrities — he’s been doing surgeries on high-profile patients in Latin America for years. One of his … Read More »
The association between menstrual cycle activity and breast and ovarian cancer risk may have an unexpected intermediary – odors.
Keck Medicine of USC researchers have discovered for the first time that the estrous cycle (the equivalent of the human menstrual cycle) … Read More »
Artist and cancer survivor Erna Braun spoke Oct. 14 to mark the opening of an exhibit of her paintings in the Jennifer Diamond Cancer Resource Library at USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Braun’s show is the sixth in a rotating exhibit … Read More »
The Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry has received a financial boost — and a new name for its Special Patients Clinic — thanks to a donation from Roseann Mulligan and Glenn Clark.
The official announcement was made on Oct. 13 to … Read More »
Tissue regeneration is getting a boost from a $2 million grant divided among 10 research centers and universities, including the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC.
The National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research has directed the research community to … Read More »
With offices dotted across Los Angeles County, Keck Medicine of USC’s primary care network is growing. This fact is especially important now, with open enrollment for Keck Medicine of USC employees set to begin Monday, Nov. 2, and continue until … Read More »
On many Saturdays, students from several high schools in Los Angeles who are participants in Med-COR meet for tutoring in math, science and English, and for SAT preparation. They also meet physicians and other medical professionals who talk to them … Read More »
A physician-led initiative to create a code of professional standards for Keck Medicine of USC took center stage during a weeklong celebration to end October.
Professionalism Week from Oct. 26–30 engaged staff across Keck Medicine to develop a set of professional … Read More »
Two additional physicians have joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Keck Medicine of USC.
Raymond Hah, MD, assistant professor of clinical medicine in the Keck School of Medicine of USC, returns to the orthopaedic department after … Read More »
A long-running and widely cited USC study on the health effects of pollution on children is exporting its methods to Eastern Africa.
The USC study group, which is based on the Health Science Campus, and Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia have … Read More »
One of the most important decisions medical students have to make — and one that is on their minds from just about the first day of medical school — is choosing a specialty.
Melody Rasouli, president of the student chapter of … Read More »
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center raised more than $2 million at its 2015 star-studded black tie gala fundraiser held Oct. 10 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
The event honored philanthropists Dana and David Dornsife with the Visionary Award and physician-scientist Parkash … Read More »
As a winner of an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, USC Stem Cell principal investigator Min Yu, MD, PhD, will strive to develop individualized medicine targeting rare and deadly breast cancer stem cells. The five-year, $2.475 million award is part … Read More »