Year: 2017

Viterbi Researchers Design Thermal ‘Skin’ to Maintain Temperature of Satellites

USC Viterbi writes that a team of USC researchers that developed a new material to self-regulate the temperature of a satellite, working in conjunction with a team at Northrop Grumman, will benefit from “the new capabilities in the recently-dedicated John D. O’Brien Nanofabrication Laboratory in the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.”…Continue Reading Viterbi Researchers Design Thermal ‘Skin’ to Maintain Temperature of Satellites

Curing Cancer, Making Internet Faster, and Synthesizing Nanomaterials with Dr. Andrea Armani (podcast)

The Viterbi Voices podcast featured Dr. Andrea Armani, and talked to her about her path to becoming a chemical engineering professor at USC, her interdisciplinary lab, and the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience. Dr. Armani’s lab will be moving to Michelson in December, and she will serve there as director of the cleanroom….Continue Reading Curing Cancer, Making Internet Faster, and Synthesizing Nanomaterials with Dr. Andrea Armani (podcast)

Calling on students to develop fresh approaches to total patient care

The USC Iovine and Young Academy announced a grant from the Phase ONE Foundation that will initiate a full-scale, four-year undergraduate track focused on health innovation to help patients achieve better outcomes, anticipated to launch in fall 2019. Since last year, students have been working with USC’s Convergent Science Initiative in Cancer led by Peter Kuhn, a faculty member at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience and dean’s professor at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, to “hack cancer,” as Kuhn puts it. (November 30, 2017)…Continue Reading Calling on students to develop fresh approaches to total patient care

Forbes: “USC Sees The Future With New Course Offering”

Forbes writes that “It’s hard to over-stress how big a breakthrough this USC IP course is. Until recently, intellectual property had been taught only in law schools or the occasional business school seminar.” The outlet notes that for Dr. Gary Michelson, the course “helps fulfil a promise he made to his crippled grandmother half a century ago to find cures for disease.” (November 9, 2017)…Continue Reading Forbes: “USC Sees The Future With New Course Offering”

Peter Kuhn and Valery Fokin: Culture of collaboration

USC Dornsife researchers Peter Kuhn and Valery Fokin say culture will play a prominent role in shaping the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience. Fokin and Kuhn are convinced that personal connections, fostered by a healthy, supportive culture that breaks down academic silos, encourages collaboration and allows for failure will be as important as the bricks and mortar. (November 1, 2017)…Continue Reading Peter Kuhn and Valery Fokin: Culture of collaboration

Power professionals make a case for intellectual property

As college graduates enter an increasingly competitive and global knowledge-based economy, intellectual property — driving more than $6 trillion in annual output and responsible for more than 80 percent of the market value of publicly traded companies, has become a critical area for future entrepreneurs and business leaders. It is an important topic for USC President C. L. Max Nikias, the holder of eight patents himself, and Gary K. Michelson, an inventor, philanthropist and retired orthopedic surgeon whose 2014 gift to USC named the Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience….Continue Reading Power professionals make a case for intellectual property