“As an artist and scientist, I cannot help but imagine stem cells as ‘superheroes’ fighting against ‘villains’ of disease,” said Kella Vangsness, who graduated May 12 with a master’s degree in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine from the Keck … Read More »
The USC Center for Body Computing (CBC) at Keck Medicine of USC is hoping to solve unmet health care needs using home-based digital assistants at its 2018 “Voice Assistants for All” hackathon on July 12–13. Teams of innovators … Read More »
Commencement for the Primary Care Physician Assistant Program at the Keck School of Medicine of USC took place on the southwest lawn of the Allan Hancock Foundation Building on the University Park Campus. There were 58 graduates from the program … Read More »
For a room full of scientists and future clinicians, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang’s advice seemed slightly counterintuitive. But the speaker for the 13th Keck School of Medicine of USC commencement ceremony for PhD, Master of Science and Master of Public Health … Read More »
On May 11, the Keck School of Medicine of USC celebrated the success of its 105 newly minted graduates from the Global Health and Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies undergraduate programs. Held in the elegant Town and Gown ballroom … Read More »
Upon sending the newest group of healers into the world, the final instructions from the leaders of the Keck School of Medicine of USC were not about illnesses or treatments, but compassion, curiosity and humanity.
More than 150 doctor of medicine … Read More »
For me, becoming a physician presents the opportunity to make a positive impact within my own community and the larger society within which we all live. My interest in medicine began when I was 11 years old. My father … Read More »
A nursing unit at Keck Hospital of USC recently was recognized by Keck Medicine of USC for its efforts and commitment to the elimination of preventable patient harm incidents and for improving the quality of patient care.
The nurses and staff … Read More »
Kaushik Parvathaneni figured out early on he wanted to work in medicine.
As a teen in high school in Seattle, he reached out to University of Washington faculty, asking if he could help with cancer research. He ended up studying a rare … Read More »
In the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, half of the faculty members are assistant professors, poised at the threshold of their careers in biomedical research. One of these … Read More »
A $10 million gift from Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg will provide critical funding for innovative research at USC into debilitating neurosensory diseases.
The donation will establish a research fund at the USC Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics. In the … Read More »
He was trapped. And the fire department couldn’t get him out.
Hector Ruiz had climbed into a confined space inside a hopper at the iron foundry where he worked, to clean and unblock the huge auger screw conveyor at the bottom. … Read More »
Every week, Sammy Cohen heads to Skid Row, the part of Downtown Los Angeles known for its large homeless population.
Roughly 5,000 folks live on the streets there, according to a 2017 count.
Working at homeless shelters, Cohen, 21, stands … Read More »
It’s well known that exposure to extremely loud noises — whether it’s an explosion, a firecracker or even a concert — can lead to permanent hearing loss. But knowing how to treat noise-induced hearing loss, which affects about 15 percent … Read More »
A researcher at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has been awarded two grants totaling more than $4 million to support osteoarthritis research. A $3.4 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund … Read More »
Researchers at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute are one step closer to understanding how autism affects the human brain across the lifespan. One of the largest-ever brain morphometry studies of autism, led by the … Read More »
I’m one of those people who always wanted to be a doctor, but fell into software engineering in high school because I was good at it. In college, I got an internship at Google in the mid-2000s, which turned into … Read More »
Anders Ericsson, PhD, Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, has spent his career studying how people from musicians to chess champions to athletes achieve superior performance in their chosen fields. His most recent book, Peak: … Read More »
Tanning addiction plagues teenage minorities in Los Angeles, and that dependency is associated with marijuana abuse, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other mental health issues, a Keck School of Medicine of USC study reports.
For decades, tanning and tanning addiction was thought to … Read More »
The Keck School of Medicine of USC’s new dean shared advice on living the latter years of life to the fullest — and healthiest — with about 1,000 seniors at a conference on aging in Pasadena.