In 1959, the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation made its first grant of $6,000 to USC. Fifty-five years later, the foundation continues its tradition of supporting innovative medical research with $100,000 awards to two talented assistant professors: Justin … Read More »
Tracy Grikscheit, MD, really has her priorities straight.
“It goes: surgery, science, skiing. That’s the order,” said Grikscheit, principal investigator with USC Stem Cell and The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, attending surgeon at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, … Read More »
Norman Levan, MD, professor emeritus and a former chief of the Department of Dermatology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, died at his home in Bakersfield, CA., on May 25 at the age of 98.
Levan had a long … Read More »
According to First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative, adults should strive to be active for at least 30 minutes per day, at least five days a week for six out of eight weeks. Regular exercise has substantial benefits, including … Read More »
What do former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and singer Will.i.am have in common? They both attended this year’s Milken Institute Global Conference, where USC Stem Cell researchers offered an exciting glimpse into the future of regenerative medicine.
Held from April … Read More »
The Edmondson Faculty Center closed May 16 for a renovation designed to update its appearance and furnishings, improve its accessibility to faculty and better utilize its current space.
The center is scheduled to reopen around Aug. 1.
Robert Cooper, MBA, EdD, vice … Read More »
The USC Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) is seeking proposals for new and innovative science in the field of tobacco regulatory science research.
The program will provide up to $40,000 to as … Read More »
The American Thoracic Society recently recognized Zea Borok, MD, professor of medicine and biochemistry and molecular biology and chief of the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine, with its Recognition Award for Scientific Accomplishments.
The award, which honors researchers … Read More »
Lured to USC by the Programs in Biomedical and Biological Sciences (PIBBS) — the gateway into PhD programs in biomedical and biological sciences — 30 new PhD students will call the Health Sciences Campus home this fall as they begin … Read More »
The Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC received the most funds of any private dental school from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) for the second year in a row in 2013.
Overall, … Read More »
The Special Care Dentistry Association (SCDA) named Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC Professor Roseann Mulligan, DDS, the recipient of the 2014 Saul Kamen Award during the 26th annual SCDA meeting in Chicago, April 11-13.
The Kamen … Read More »
The International Menopausal Society recently honored Frank Z. Stanczyk, PhD, professor of research in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Preventive Medicine for his contributions to the field of menopause science.
The society presented Stanczyk with the Henry Burger Prize … Read More »
Nanomedicine studies at USC received a boost thanks to the USC Ming Hsieh Institute for Research on Engineering–Medicine for Cancer. The institute recently announced three USC proposal grant awardees for 2014.
The USC Ming Hsieh Institute helps fund proposals for new … Read More »
Coreen Rodgers will step down as chief operating officer of the Keck School of Medicine on Aug. 1 to assume the role of chief financial officer and vice president at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Gardens in San Marino, … Read More »
Continuing its tradition of excellence and innovation in the clinical neurosciences, Keck Medicine of the USC has established the USC Neurorestoration Center, a multi-institution collaboration for breakthrough discoveries that, for the first time, bring together neural engineering, neuroscience and neurorehabilitation … Read More »
The national anthem has been sung thousands of times before at the USC Galen Center. But on May 17, the familiar tune celebrated medicine, heralding the opening of commencement ceremonies for the MD and MD/PhD graduates of the Class of … Read More »
Keck Medical Center of USC hosted the first annual “Solutions for Complex Care” Symposium on May 8, aimed at teaching case managers and medical directors from managed care organizations about new cost effective approaches and innovative therapies to treating patients with … Read More »
How can scientists make more accurate predictions about which potential drugs will effectively treat disease — before launching expensive and laborious human clinical trials? USC’s new Choi Family Therapeutic Screening Facility offers one answer: through the “disease in a dish” approach.
At … Read More »
The more cups of coffee a person drank, the lower the risk for developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer, according to results presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2014, help in April in San Diego.
This … Read More »
Larissa V. Rodríguez, MD, a noted expert in female pelvic medicine with more than 15 years of clinical and research experience in urology, joined Keck Medicine of USC on May 1.
Rodríguez joins an elite group of faculty urologists at the … Read More »