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Cutting Cancer’s Communication Cord in the Youngest Patients
USC Neuroscientist Josh Neman Receives $50,000 Grant to Help Cure Pediatric Brain Tumors By Janice O’Leary Four years ago when the Scientific Director of the USC Brain Tumor Center, Josh Neman, PhD, gave a talk in Santa Monica for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, he met Nohea… Read More »
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High School STEM Students and Alumnae Print 3D PPE for USC
July 10th, 2020A group of students and college-age alumnae from Mayfield Senior School, an all-girls high school in Pasadena, marshalled their engineering know-how to produce and donate hundreds of face masks and shields to…
You Danced, She Donated
July 10th, 2020Having heard horror stories about personal protective equipment shortages from her brother, Richard Zapanta, who works in an ER, lawyer Gina Zapanta hosted a virtual dance ‘FUN’raiser party, but she didn’t ask…
Meal Train Delivers to USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
July 10th, 2020Jill Caballero knew that health care workers are “crazy busy” and probably “can’t even think about where to get food,” so she sent lunches to the USC Verdugo Hills Hospital (USC VHH)…
3D Printers Respond to the Call for PPEs
July 10th, 2020Dr. Hwang (left) with just part of a delivery of 3D printed PPEs to Keck Medicine of USC. “Calling all 3D printers! Message me if you can help, we’re going to try…
A Love of Soccer Leads to Donation of 2,400 Masks
July 10th, 2020Taylor and Jordyn Jackson with some of their masks and indestructible soccer balls. The sisters behind the Soaring Samaritans Youth Movement, a local nonprofit that provides children aid and social activism opportunities,…
Grateful patient Glen Miller pays it forward
July 10th, 2020Glen Miller was working recently as a consultant for a friend. Glen was reluctant to charge his friend, so they agreed instead that the friend would donate the fee toward Miller’s most…
Alum donates more than 20,000 masks
July 10th, 2020Paul Nassif, BS ’84, MD ’92, partnered with LA Made, a clothing company in downtown Los Angeles to make face masks for healthcare workers and others at a time of serious shortages…
One Family Supports Health Care Workers from Wuhan to Los Angeles
June 22nd, 2020A grandmother in China who was a nurse inspired her family in Los Angeles to support frontline medical workers in Wuhan, Guangzhou and at Keck Medicine of USC. HuiQun Wang Eagle Shi…
The Watt Family Continues A Tradition of Support
June 19th, 2020Scott and Obaida Watt with their four sons. Building on their family’s longstanding commitment to USC, Scott Watt and his wife, Obaida, donated 1,000 lunches from Jersey Mike’s Subs to the doctors,…
A Giving Trojan Family
June 19th, 2020Herman Yu and boxes of masks ready for shipment. When US hospitals called for surgical masks, Jonathan Yu, a high school junior, sold sweatshirts he designed to raise money to buy masks…