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\n \u00a0Ron Mackovich<\/span>\n \n March 01, 2017<\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n
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The USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience had a groundbreaking on Oct. 23, 2014.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n \n \n \n\n<\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\r\n\r\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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AnneMarie Ciccarella describes herself as an \u201caccidental advocate.\u201d
\nA need to understand her disease led the breast cancer survivor to travel to a national cancer conference where she met USC Professor Peter Kuhn<\/a> two years ago.\u201cHe turned to me and said, \u2018If we\u2019re trying to figure out what matters, how about we just ask the patients? Wouldn\u2019t that be a novel approach?\u2019\u201d Ciccarella recalled. \u201cThe two of us just started laughing.\u201d
\nThanks to that meeting, Ciccarella is now among hundreds of cancer patients around the world collaborating with cancer researchers to track the path of their disease in real time.
\nThe emphasis on collaboration among all relevant stakeholders places USC in the national spotlight as the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Science gains traction.
\n\u201cThe Michelson Center unites professors, scientists, engineers, students and many others in a team approach to cancer research,\u201d said Provost Michael Quick. \u201cWe\u2019re taking down walls that have separated experts in different disciplines fighting the same disease. We\u2019re confident that collaboration will lead the way toward solving the most intractable problems of this century.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kuhn\u2019s efforts were noticed by the White House, and he was in the nation\u2019s capitol when President Barack Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law in December. Kuhn heads up three studies dedicated to cancer research.
\n\u201cA lot of what we\u2019ve done over the past two years has been propelled to the national stage by Cancer Moonshot to accelerate cancer research,\u201d said Kuhn, referring to the challenge set out by former Vice President Joe Biden to make more therapies available to patients and improve cancer prevention and detection in the early stages of the disease.
\nKuhn leads the USC Convergent Science Initiative-Cancer and is a collaborator in the Blood Profiling Atlas in Cancer (Blood PAC), a project to create the world\u2019s first global liquid biopsy database on cancer.
\nKuhn\u2019s work with other investigators on circulating tumor cells in human blood has been supported in part by the National Cancer Institute.
\n\u201cPeter is a living, breathing example of why we must have convergence,\u201d said Steve Kay, the leader of the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience. \u201cThere\u2019s no choice but to embrace the need for trans-disciplinary teams to tackle complex problems. With the tools and infrastructure here, we\u2019re becoming a destination for training the world about how convergence can be applied to medicine, science and engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n

A nucleus for collaboration<\/h3>\n

The Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience is the nucleus for collaborative USC research that will be housed in the soon-to-open Michelson Hall, which will be the largest academic building on the University Park Campus.
\n\u201cThe building is going to be a physical hub for all these people,\u201d Kay said. \u201cRight outside our window, we have one of the most diverse patient populations in the world. Los Angeles has size and diversity that is greater than most countries. We can leverage that to be one of the premier sites in the country for precision medicine.\u201d
\nMichelson Hall will accommodate 20 to 30 principal investigators with laboratories employing hundreds of researchers and students. The spirit of collaborative science will extend beyond its walls to many schools, as well as USC\u2019s Health Sciences Campus.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re really excited about these initiatives that incentivize collaboration,\u201d said John David Carpten, director of the Institute of Translational Genomics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. \u201cThis is important particularly in academia, which has promoted individuality instead of collaboration.\u201d
\nCarpten, like Kuhn, believes in collaborative science beyond the lab.
\nThe Convergent Science Initiative \u201cwill provide an amazing environment for bioengineering, physics, chemistry and genomic science,\u201d Carpten said. \u201cWe can reach out to other areas, like social work and community outreach and bring to bear all these divergent disciplines to really get our hands around cultural aspects of disease as well as the biomedical aspects.\u201d
\nLike his friend AnneMarie Ciccarella, Jack Whelan has battled cancer and anticipates swift progress from collaborative research. Whelan actively supported the 21st Century Cures Act, consults with Kuhn and feels exhilirated when he thinks about team science.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to play a game here,\u201d Whelan said. \u201cWe\u2019re all going to collaborate. We\u2019ll get rid of preconceived notions and think differently. 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