Investigators earn NIH awards for Sustaining Outstanding Achievement in Research
Gage Crump, PhD Pinghui Feng, PhD The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recognized Keck School of Medicine of USC ... Read More »
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New study investigates vaccine and oral medication to stop Alzheimer’s years before it begins
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC are tackling the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States — Alzheimer’s disease — with a new study ... Read More »
Researchers listen to zebrafish to understand human hearing loss
A window into the mammalian middle ear (Image by Camilla Teng/Crump Lab) Can a fish with a malformed jaw tell us something about hearing loss in ... Read More »
USC’s stem cell scientists secure the dollars to fight disease
Kidney organoid (Image by Tracy Tran/McMcMahon Lab) The price of progress is not only the energy and talent of stem cell scientists, but also the research ... Read More »
NIH funding helps Americans live longer and healthier
Clockwise from top left: Andy McMahon, Rohit Varma, Jonathan Samet and Donna Spruijt-Metz (Photos courtesy of USC) The nation’s medical research agency, the National Institutes of ... Read More »
Detecting Alzheimer’s Disease Before Symptoms Emerge
Cognitive tests can detect early Alzheimer’s disease in older adults without symptoms, according to a new Keck School of Medicine of USC study Long before symptoms of Alzheimer’s ... Read More »
The Secret to Combating Pancreatic Cancer May Lie in Suppression of a Common Protein
Amy Lee, PhD New research emphasizes the potential of a promising pancreatic cancer target New research from the Keck School of Medicine of the USC shows new promise ... Read More »
Keck School of Medicine of USC Receives $2.2 Million NIH Grant to Fund Research on Healing Difficult Bone Injuries
Keck School of Medicine of USC researcher Dr. Jay R. Lieberman has received a $2.2 million NIH grant to fund gene therapy research for enhancing repair of ... Read More »
Head injuries in kids appear to cause structural changes in brain
Some children with traumatic brain injury take longer to transfer visual perception information between the brain hemispheres. Special MRI scans show that these children have structural changes ... Read More »
