Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, has been elected president of the clinical chairs of the Keck School of Medicine, a position that also serves as president of USC Care Medical Group, Keck Medicine of USC leaders announced recently.
“The role of the … Read More »
Too much residential traffic removes the protective effect a specific gene has on lowering asthma risk, according to a new USC study.
Children could have zero, one or two copies of a common gene variant.
“Environmental exposures such as traffic-related air pollution … Read More »
USC researchers have identified a gene variant that decreases the risk of heart disease — but only among women.
Hooman Allayee, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, … Read More »
Members of the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN), which includes USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Stephen B. Gruber, MD, PhD, MPH, met with White House senior officials in January to discuss how the group can serve … Read More »
Alumni, current scholarship recipients, parents and other friends of the Keck School of Medicine of USC will gather to honor two very notable alumni and a beloved faculty member on March 12 at the 2016 Keck Scholarship Gala.
This year’s honorees … Read More »
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined 68 of the nation’s top cancer centers in a joint statement urging parents and physicians to vaccinate young people against Human Papillomavirus (HPV).
“The HPV vaccination is a safe, effective way to prevent cancers … Read More »
For this year’s Broad Fellow, Gabriel R. Linares, PhD, science is personal.
“I have to say the turning point that spiked my interest in science was when I was in high school and my grandfather suffered a stroke,” he said. “I … Read More »
An emeritus professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC who was an expert in the epidemiology of blood-borne infections, James Wilson Mosley, MD, died after a long illness in November in Los Angeles. He is survived … Read More »
The importance of diversity to college campuses has been in the media spotlight recently, but the Keck School of Medicine of USC has been a leader in this arena for more than 40 years.
Founded in 1968, the Office of Diversity at … Read More »
Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers traveled to Russia recently to participate in Moscow Science Week as part of an effort to increase participation in ENIGMA, an international, collaborative study of the brain.
Paul Thompson, PhD, Keck School of Medicine … Read More »
Jeremiah Wang was looking at a glucose strip in a crowded, makeshift clinic in Mexico when he knew he had made the right decision to become a doctor.
The then-first year student at the Keck School of Medicine of USC was … Read More »
Guillotines, Mary Shelley and the likelihood of resurrecting David Bowie were hot topics on the Health Sciences Campus recently as award-winning author John Corey Whaley discussed his recent novel Noggin, a finalist for the National Book Award.
More than 50 people … Read More »
A massive methane leak in a Los Angeles County community will have long-term health consequences that USC researchers said they intend to study.
More than 87,500 metric tons of methane have leaked from a natural gas storage facility near Porter Ranch, … Read More »
The beautiful and remote Big Island of Hawaii is the home of five young, dedicated athletes, but on Feb. 14 the teenagers will be in the big city running the Los Angeles Marathon in support of Team Concern, a group … Read More »
Two collaborative teams within USC Stem Cell are developing new approaches that could eventually help patients with heart disease, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
The teams are the winners of the Audrey E. Streedain Regenerative Medicine Initiative Awards, … Read More »
Investigators at Keck Medicine of USC are tackling immune-mediated diseases in a whole new way with the creation of a joint postdoctoral program.
Omid Akbari, PhD, a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Keck School of … Read More »
Officials at the White House have announced the postponement of Friday’s National Medal awards ceremony because of extreme weather forecast in the Washington, DC, area.
Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, was scheduled to receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President … Read More »
The largest study of childhood eye diseases ever undertaken in the U.S. confirms that the incidence of childhood myopia among American children has more than doubled over the last 50 years. The findings echo a troubling trend among adults and … Read More »
When Yekaterina Hovhannisyan, MD arrived in Los Angeles in November from Yerevan, Armenia, she was prepared for an intensive learning experience at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Hovhannisyan, a neurologist and junior faculty member at the Yerevan State Medical … Read More »
USC scientists are part of a team working on a smartphone app and cloud services platform that will predict the probability of a child’s future asthma attack and provide personalized risk management advice.
Frank Gilliland, MD, MPH, PhD, professor of preventive … Read More »