Today is Veteran's Day and according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), over 6,000 Veterans die by suicide each year. This is approximately 17 lives lost every day. In response to this crisis, the VA launched Mission Daybreak, a $20 million initiative aimed at reducing Veteran suicides, and awarded USC $1 million to
The new initiative brings together renowned experts at a researcher-founded biotechnology company with Keck School of Medicine (KSOM) experts to develop innovative solutions for heart failure, the global leading cause of death. Heart failure, which happens when the heart cannot pump blood sufficiently throughout the body, is the leading cause of death worldwide. In the
Today is World Alzheimer's Day. There are more than 55 million people globally with Alzheimer’s disease. Fifty-five million that are struggling to remember. With advanced technology, there has been new hope in the fight against a devastating disease. Enter AI, a technology that famously struggles to forget. What if it could remember hundreds of thousands of
Congratulations to the 11 USC researchers named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors, a nonprofit member organization that encourages inventors in higher education! Election as an NAI senior member recognizes remarkable innovation producing technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. The honor also represents growing success
November is Alzheimer Awareness Month and USC is taking on one of the toughest diseases. Alzheimer’s begins 20 years or more before memory loss and is a growing epidemic. Every 65 seconds, someone in America develops Alzheimer and there’s approximately 500,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Today, more than 6 million Americans are living with
USC is one of the nation’s leading institutions for innovative discovery. Leading this effort is Dr. Ishwar Puri, who discusses its impact.
Newly published data from USC has shown a stem-cell derived implant designed to improve vision for patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration can safely be inserted into the eye and without the need for long-term immunosuppressants.
Take a look at some of the most memorable research stories in 2021 about discoveries made by USC researchers.
A team of scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has created what could be a key building block for assembling a synthetic kidney.
The new architecture, called “Pretty Good Phone Privacy” or PGPP, decouples phone connectivity from authentication and billing by anonymizing personal identifiers sent to cell towers. The software-based solution does not alter cellular network hardware.
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