Year: 2017

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

The most complex building ever built on the University Park Campus brings together top engineers and scientists in shared spaces designed to encourage collaborative research. On November 1, USC will open Michelson Hall, the new hub for this groundbreaking research endeavor as a cornerstone for biotech in Los Angeles. The grand opening of the $185 million building caps nearly seven years of planning and design, including three years of construction. All that had once existed only in blueprints is now a reality, thanks to a generous $50 million gift from retired orthopedic spinal surgeon Gary K. Michelson and his wife, Alya Michelson….Continue Reading USC’s Michelson Hall, a hub for biotech research, ready to open — and change the world

Scott Fraser, Provost Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering and Director of Science Initiatives, works with his team to “eavesdrop” on memories as they’re being made….Continue Reading The World’s Smallest Movie Studio

Fei Sha believes in the power of convergence. That’s why the associate professor in computer science and Zohrab A. Kaprielian Fellow in Engineering feels so excited about the opening of the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, which is funded by a $50 million gift from Dr. Gary Michelson and his wife, Alya. There, Sha will head the Center of Data, Algorithms, and Systems for Health, or DASH, which will apply cutting-edge findings of statistical machine learning to medical science….Continue Reading Can AI Help to Detect and Cure Cancer?

A trio of USC Viterbi researchers have unlocked secrets about an engineered protein receptor, known as CAR, that makes cancer-fighting T cells more effective….Continue Reading Building a better “CAR”

After seeing how his mother dealt with the disease, the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience researcher tackles the toughest questions about cancer…Continue Reading The power of fear drove cancer researcher Peter Kuhn toward his vocation

Scientists at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience and Stanford University take first step toward a safer drug for reducing postpartum bleeding…Continue Reading Better drug to save mothers’ lives during childbirth may be on the way