Researchers at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have demonstrated that targeting survivin — a protein that inhibits apoptosis or cell death — enhances the effectiveness of chemotherapy in cells and mouse models of … Read More »
Keck Medicine of USC is taking a collaborative approach to diagnose and treat sepsis.
Sepsis is the body’s overwhelming and life-threatening response to infection, which can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death. Sepsis kills about 258,000 Americans each year … Read More »
A noted local philanthropist has given a donation to support urology research and innovation at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Grateful patient Joseph “Bud” Cashen, 84, a U.S. Marine who served two tours of duty in Korea and was one … Read More »
A USC study that tracked Southern California children over a 20-year period has found they now have significantly fewer respiratory symptoms as a result of improved air quality.
The finding expands on the landmark USC Children’s Health Study, which a … Read More »
Amgen recently entered into a three-year master research collaboration with USC. The agreement consists of a set of pre-defined terms and conditions in order to facilitate and streamline early discovery and translational preclinical research collaborations. It supports Amgen and USC’s … Read More »
Melvin F. Baron, PharmD, who has been a full-time faculty member at the USC School of Pharmacy since 1990, has been promoted from associate to full professor.
Melvin F. Baron, … Read More »
Los Angeles area health care executive Smitha Ravipudi, MPH, has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of USC Care and Ambulatory Care Services.
Smitha Ravipudi
Ravipudi will be responsible for all Keck Medicine of USC ambulatory operations, including hospital-based … Read More »
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.
USC and … Read More »
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 »