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Finding a tumor’s soft spot to power-up immunotherapy

July 14, 2026
A breast cancer cell. (Image courtesy of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health)
Campus News

Undergraduate stem cell research takes the spotlight at USC CIRM COMPASS symposium

May 13, 2026
2026 USC CIRM COMPASS graduates (Photo by Amor Mathershed)
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Academic Honors Convocation celebrates USC scholars for innovative research and achievements

April 20, 2026
USC President Beong-Soo Kim visits with Presidential Medallion recipients David H. Peng, left, and Yannis C. Yortsos. (USC Photo/Steve Cohn)
Campus News

USC researcher W. Martin Kast receives the Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award for a career devoted to defeating HPV-related cancers

April 14, 2026
Martin Kast with daughter Hinde in the lab (Photo by William Vasta)
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Four Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers elected as senior members of the National Academy of Inventors

April 07, 2026
Clockwise from top left, Paula Cannon, Alan Epstein, Heinz-Josef Lenz and Bodour Salhia (Photos by Don Milici and Ricardo Carrasco III)
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FOX 11 LOS ANGELES ◆ USC professor pursues gene therapy research in quest for an HIV cure

March 10, 2026
Campus News

Can we prevent Alzheimer’s disease within a decade?

March 05, 2026
For the first time in the 120-year history of Alzheimer’s disease research, prevention of this devastating neurodegenerative disease is within reach. New early-detection strategies and medications — many of which are being developed at and in collaboration with USC — offer hope for disease intervention years before people begin to lose memory and cognitive function. (Illustration/Bratislav Milenkovic)
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THE CANCER LETTER ◆ Preclinical study reveals how HPV reprograms immune cells to help cancer grow

September 12, 2025
Campus News

Appointment of Steven J. Bensinger, VMD, PhD, as chair of the Department of Immunology and Immune Therapeutics

August 28, 2025
Headshot of Steven J. Bensinger
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REUTERS ◆ Moving closer to effective vaccines for HPV-related cancers

August 20, 2025