Physician or PhD? USC and Caltech team up to let students be both
Jonathan Tucci aims for a medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and a PhD from USC or Caltech.
Bilingual mom offers care as physician assistant in underserved communities
Jessica Flores will work alongside doctors at a clinic, providing much of the care her patients need without a translator.
Taking the path toward a degree in global medicine
Sandrine Kyane dreams big about working with worldwide agencies to solve urgent health issues for future generations.
Athlete, artist and future orthopedic surgeon links her life’s passions
Grad-to-be Mila Scheinberg mixes interest in medicine with a love of exercise. She also cooks and bakes healthy versions of desserts.
Graduate-to-be pursues holistic and humanistic medicine
Mohamed El-Farra places marginalized populations at the center of his work in regenerative medicine.
Why a Google engineer became a doctor at USC
Hugh Gordon gave up a cushy Silicon Valley job to be a clinician at USC, where he focuses on medicine and engineering. And that gives him the best of both scientific worlds.
State-of-the-art Norris Healthcare Center opens for business
The building is home to an infusion center, a women’s care center, the Transplant Institute and the Outpatient Surgery Center
A walk in the woods shows students unexpected natural remedies of the Chumash
🔊 Audio story: Jim Adams, a USC pharmacologist and associate professor, is also a Chumash healer. He shares the tribe’s medicinal secrets with fascinated medical and pharmacy students.
USC Eye Institute recruits two leading specialists
The cornea and neuro-ophthalmology experts will head their respective programs.
Keck School wins Program of Excellence Award
The American Academy of Family Physicians will honor the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Family Medicine Interest Group on July 27 for its outstanding outreach and leadership.
Scott Evans appointed CEO of USC’s hospitals
Scott Evans has been named the new CEO of Keck Hospital of USC and the USC Norris Cancer Hospital.
Major new USC medical office to open in Pasadena
The Keck Medical Center of USC’s tradition of medical care to residents of the San Gabriel Valley continues with an expanded medical office expected to open on April 30.
Jae Jung honored with 2012 Ho-Am Prize in Medicine
Jae U. Jung of the Keck School of Medicine of USC has been awarded South Korea’s 2012 Ho-Am Prize in Medicine, an honor that often is referred to as the Korean equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Medical students play the match game
The weather was gloomy, but the atmosphere was electric for Match Day 2012 at the Harry and Celesta Pappas Quad on March 16, as 167 Keck School of Medicine of USC seniors learned where their journeys into the wide world of medicine would begin.
Peter Jones Earns Top Honor for Cancer Fight
The American Cancer Society (ACS) has awarded Peter Jones, Distinguished Professor of Urology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, its highest honor for his contributions in fighting cancer.
Epigenetic Control of Infection-Fighting Blood Cells Discovered
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have discovered how a particular enzyme results in modifications to DNA proteins playing an important role in the development of B cells, the white blood cells that produce antibodies to fight infectious diseases, and in the regulation of gene transcription, or copying.
‘Healthy’ Habits Linked to Childhood Obesity in China
Teenaged boys from well-off Chinese families who say they are physically active and eat plenty of vegetables but few sweets are more likely to be overweight, according to a study led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
USC Oncologists Present Findings at Cancer Research Conference
Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital presented important findings at the 2011 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the largest annual conference on cancer research.
Bridging the Gap Brings Minorities to Keck School
A new effort to attract top minority students to the Keck School of Medicine of USC brought 12 undergraduate students to the Health Sciences campus this summer.
USC Study Focuses on Female Vocal Quality
Faculty from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Thornton School of Music are embarking on the first-ever study focused on improving the consistency of the female voice during monthly hormonal variations.
USC breaks ground for student health center
Under a shower of cardinal and gold confetti, Michele Dedeaux Engemann pumped her spirit fingers to the beat of the Trojan Marching Band as she helped break ground April 4 on USC’s new student health center.
Puliafito Reappointed to CIRM Governing Board
Keck School of Medicine of USC Dean Carmen A. Puliafito has been reappointed to the Independent Citizen’s Oversight Committee, a governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Puliafito has served as a committee member since 2008.
USC Scholars Named to New Training Programs
Aiming to train a new generation of translational researchers, the Los Angeles Basin Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has named its first nine scholars in its new pre- and postdoctoral training programs.
Pilot Grants Awarded by Science Institute
Building upon an increased focus on translational research at USC, the Los Angeles Basin Clinical and Translational Science Institute has awarded a total of $700,000 to 24 pilot grants recipients.