Month: November 2017

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

On November 9, 2017, family, friends, faculty, and staff gathered to celebrate the naming of the John D. O’Brien Nanofabrication Lab dedicated to the beloved, former Executive Vice Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, who passed away unexpectedly last March. (November 13, 2017)…Continue Reading Nanofab Lab Dedicated to Former USC Viterbi Executive Vice Dean John O’Brien

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”

Dr. Cristina Zavaleta brings to the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience her expertise in nano-based molecular imaging, a tool that can be exploited in early cancer detection and tumor resection, or surgical removal. (October 31, 2017)…Continue Reading Let It Glow: Cristina Zavaleta aims to better detect and treat cancer

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

The trade outlet highlights that Michelson Hall is “designed, engineered, and constructed with an eye toward space flexibility and the accommodation of whatever equipment might need to be installed in the future, according to Alton Parks, the senior project manager. The hope, too, is that the design provokes interdisciplinary interaction.” (October 12, 2017)…Continue Reading Building Design+Construction (BD+C) Spotlights Michelson Hall

USC Bridge Institute scientists and School of Cinematic Arts creatives came together to produce an inspired animation about scientific exploration through Hyper Spectral Phasor technology, an imaging technique developed by USC postdoctoral fellow Francesco Cutrale and USC Professor Scott Fraser….Continue Reading Symphony of Sight: An Animation

Michelson Hall debuted November 1 at USC’s University Park Campus. It will be the home of the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, bringing great minds from disciplines all over the campus — from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the Keck School of Medicine of USC — under one roof to solve the world’s most pressing health problems. The building is the result of a $50 million gift from retired orthopedic spinal surgeon Gary K. Michelson and his wife, Alya Michelson. (USC News, November 1)…Continue Reading USC’s Michelson Hall, new center for convergent bioscience, makes its debut

To encourage collaboration and hasten scientific advances, Raymond Stevens, director of the Bridge Institute at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, invited experts from a variety of fields — chemists, engineers, physicists and neurobiologists, among others — to a retreat on Santa Catalina Island. There, he challenged them to work together and propose projects bridging different fields and addressing intractable problems in bioscience. One proposal in particular stood out….Continue Reading Science and cinema form an alliance to find new paths in biology research