Laboratory members often go far beyond promoting discovery. They promote a stronger Keck Medicine community by raising funds and sharing award-winning images.

PROMOTING SCIENTIFIC IMAGERY The August winner of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine’s Stem Cell Image of the Month contest was a striking image comparing a normal zebrafish skull (top) with a mutant skull (bottom) that shows extreme bone overgrowth caused by a heterozygous Jag1b gene. Sandeep Paul, a postdoc in the lab of Gage Crump, associate professor in the department of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, collected the data, and Seth Ruffins, laboratory coordinator of the microscopy core, created the volume-rendered image of the microcomputed tomography-scanned skulls. (Photo Sandeep Paul, Seth Ruffins)

PROMOTING SCIENTIFIC IMAGERY The August winner of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine’s Stem Cell Image of the Month contest was a striking image comparing a normal zebrafish skull (top) with a mutant skull (bottom) that shows extreme bone overgrowth caused by a heterozygous Jag1b gene. Sandeep Paul, a postdoc in the lab of Gage Crump, associate professor in the department of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, collected the data, and Seth Ruffins, laboratory coordinator of the microscopy core, created the volume-rendered image of the microcomputed tomography-scanned skulls.
(Photo Sandeep Paul, Seth Ruffins)

SUPPORTING RISE FOR A CURE Rise for a Cure is a walk/run/ride that directly supports the research on lung cancer in patients 40 years and younger being conducted by Barbara J. Gitlitz, MD, associate professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. It was established to honor the memory of lung cancer patient Gary Schmidt who passed away on Nov. 9, 2012. With the event approaching on Oct. 13, members of the lab of Ita Laird-Offringa, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry & molecular biology, and surgery at the Keck School, took their cause to the Harry and Celesta Pappas Quad on Sept. 18. To support their Rise for a Cure team, they sold doughnuts, as well as oranges donated by friendly neighbors in Shadow Hills, Pasadena and South Pasadena. Pictured here are (left to right) Evelyn Tran, Diane Lee, Eric Chung, Alfredo Ok, Ita Laird-Offringa, Mario Pulido, Ying Zhang, Crystal Marconett and Ryan Stueve. (Photo courtesy Ita Laird-Offringa)

SUPPORTING RISE FOR A CURE Rise for a Cure is a walk/run/ride that directly supports the research on lung cancer in patients 40 years and younger being conducted by Barbara J. Gitlitz, MD, associate professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. It was established to honor the memory of lung cancer patient Gary Schmidt who passed away on Nov. 9, 2012. With the event approaching on Oct. 13, members of the lab of Ita Laird-Offringa, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry & molecular biology, and surgery at the Keck School, took their cause to the Harry and Celesta Pappas Quad on Sept. 18. To support their Rise for a Cure team, they sold doughnuts, as well as oranges donated by friendly neighbors in Shadow Hills, Pasadena and South Pasadena. Pictured here are (left to right) Evelyn Tran, Diane Lee, Eric Chung, Alfredo Ok, Ita Laird-Offringa, Mario Pulido, Ying Zhang, Crystal Marconett and Ryan Stueve.
(Photo courtesy Ita Laird-Offringa)