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Keck School Congratulates New Doctors

Nearly 2,500 guests arrived at the Shrine Auditorium to celebrate with the Keck School class of 2012, which included 171 M.D. graduates.

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USC Scientists Identify Epigenetic Events Critical To Cancer Cell Survival

Scientists at the Keck School of Medicine have identified a small number of specific genes that must be silenced in order for cancer cells to survive. Those genes may be good targets for new, more effective cancer treatments.

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USC Eye Scientists Present New Research at Global Conference

The Keck School of Medicine had 130 research project presentations at this year's Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting, the largest gathering of eye and vision researchers in the world.

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Eye Surgeon Accepts Prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor

Thomas C. Lee, associate professor of ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine, joins an elite group of influential honorees.

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Two USC Professors Knighted By France

USC’s Enrique Cadenas, Charles Krown/Alumni Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Kelvin J. A. Davies, holder of the James E. Birren Chair in Gerontology, have been knighted by an order of the French Republic, among the highest civilian decorations awarded in France.

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Scientists Find Surprising Links Between Health, Relative Income Inequality

New research from the Keck School of Medicine of USC shows that, while stress and depression levels surge when a Chinese teenager thinks he earns less money than his peers, psychological health remains steady when he thinks he earns the same as or more than his peers.

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