Martin Kast, PhD, of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and his students Joseph Skeate and Andrew Woodham, PhD, earned top prize in the 2015 BeHEARD Rare Disease Science Challenge from the Rare Genomics Institute.
The prize, provided by … Read More »
Those on the front lines of patient care are often vulnerable to common afflictions in the medical field — burnout and stress.
A new program at Keck Medical Center of USC will provide caregivers suffering from the side effects that … Read More »
Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers recently joined board members from the University Kidney Research Organization (UKRO) to celebrate the opening of the USC/UKRO Kidney Research Center in the Mudd Memorial Research Building.
An initial $3.5 million pledge from … Read More »
Keck Medicine of USC vascular surgeons Sung Wan Ham, MD, and Sukgu Han, MD, recently completed the first procedure of its kind in the United States with a newly available robotic catheter.
The device, known as the Magellan Robotic … Read More »
A new article published by the Journal of Urology details a pioneering robotic surgical procedure developed at the USC Institute of Urology for treatment of a particularly challenging type of kidney cancer.
The new surgical method was first performed in 2014 … Read More »
The USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has received an elite score from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as part of its five-year core grant renewal process.
The June site review produced the best result ever for the prestigious medical facility situated … Read More »
The USC Center for Body Computing (CBC), part of Keck Medicine of USC, is collaborating with a technology developer to further the digital health and wearable tech revolution.
The center will be working with the SHOP, an innovation lab … Read More »
The Keck School of Medicine of USC Department of Family Medicine has been awarded a $2.5 million Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant to create a primary care workforce with interdisciplinary competency in treating health issues faced by elderly … Read More »
What don’t we know about human development and how it can go wrong? By focusing on these questions, a new two-unit fall course is allowing USC undergraduates to go beyond standard developmental biology coursework.
In MEDS 335 — Human Development: From … Read More »
USC has been awarded a federally funded research center to explore why childhood obesity affects some populations more than others.
The Maternal and Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) Center will study pregnant women and their infants over time … Read More »
As the new academic year gets underway, the Keck School of Medicine of USC has announced its annual winners in various teaching and mentoring categories:
Year I Faculty Awards: Raquel Arias, MD, MPH, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Thomas McNeill, PhD, Cell and … Read More »
This year, the Broad Clinical Research Fellowships are enabling physician investigators to explore stem cell-based approaches related to four very different medical conditions: breast cancer, kidney disease, deafness and short bowel syndrome.
Each one-year fellowship provides $65,000 of salary support, $7,500 … Read More »
USC Stem Cell is requesting research proposals from principal investigators and senior postdoctoral scientists for three new awards and fellowships totaling $600,000.
A gift from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation has established the Eli and Edythe Broad Innovation Awards in Stem … Read More »
A multi-university team led by Keck Medicine of USC researchers has found, for the first time, that using electronic cigarettes, or “vaping,” is associated with a propensity to start smoking cigarettes or use other tobacco products.
Based on a survey of … Read More »
Members of the advisory council for the USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery and community leaders recently attended a gala to celebrate an award for volunteerism presented by the White House to IGM Gallery Director Lynn Crandall.
Sometimes, wonderful things happen when scientists and the public get together to talk about research. All the jargon, all the technical language falls away, and it becomes instead a conversation between the two groups with the most at stake: the … Read More »
Enthusiastic is the word that best describes the 10 students from this year’s USC Early Investigator High School (EiHS) Stem Cell Research Program, who graduated July 31 from the summer laboratory immersion program at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center … Read More »
More than 200 students will take their professional oaths and put on their white coats for the first time as occupational therapy students at the annual white coat ceremony held by the USC Mrs. T.H. Chan Division Occupational Science … Read More »
Personal oaths interpreting the original Hippocratic oath have been crafted by current and former Keck students over the past seven years. A representative sample of these oaths has been compiled in a new book published by University of California Medical … Read More »
USC has funded a new intercampus research program to study the human microbiome and its impact on disease, the first such program at the university.
The human body contains more than 100 trillion microbes known collectively as the microbiome. While the … Read More »
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