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Newly appointed associate vice president for USC Health Sciences Public Relations and Marketing and senior associate dean of the Keck School of Medicine will provide leadership to help grow and strengthen the visibility and reputation of the entire Keck Medicine enterprise.
2012 Nobel Prize winner Sir John Gurdon discusses the progress that has been made since he was able to replace the immature nucleus in a frog egg cell with the nucleus from a mature intestinal cell. The modified egg developed into a normal frog with the DNA of the mature cells.
Some of the top female researchers in science, technology, engineering and math speak at symposium at the Saban Research Institute to encourage school-aged girls to pursue careers in the sciences
Directors of the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation visited the USC Health Sciences campus to hear formal presentations of the nominees for two junior faculty members to receive funding.
USC researchers and their partners across Los Angeles County have been awarded an $11 million grant to fund research on community-based interventions to reduce the higher rates of stroke and death from stroke among disadvantaged Hispanics, African-Americans and Asian-Americans.
Inderbir Gill, chairman and professor of the Catherine and Joseph Aresty Department of Urology and founding executive director of the USC Institute of Urology, has received the Presidential Medallion, USC’s highest honor.
Cluster hire of institute with more than 100 faculty, researchers and multi-disciplinary staff headlined by eminent scientists Arthur W. Toga and Paul Thompson
The USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has recently begun recruiting female participants for three new clinical trials studying breast, ovarian and cervical cancer immunotherapies. It is scheduled to open recruitment for a second ovarian cancer study over the summer. No other facility in California provides patients with access to all four of the trials.
