Year: 2018

USC Viterbi reported that the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience has partnered with Agilent Technologies, a Silicon Valley-based public research, development, and manufacturing company, to establish the Agilent Center of Excellence in Biomolecular Characterization. (May 30, 2018)…Continue Reading A new partnership brings the latest technologies to enable convergence

USC Viterbi reported that Andrea Armani and her team developed a portable optical diagnostics system (PODS) prototype which can do “rapid, broad population screening for malaria in low-resource environments,” according to Armani. (May 23, 2018)…Continue Reading Engineers Develop New Portable Malaria Screening Instrument

Artist and USC graduate Kella Vangsness tells USC News she imagines stem cells as “‘superheroes’ fighting against ‘villains’ of disease.” (May 21, 2018)…Continue Reading With comic book styling, biology grad Kella Vangsness paints stem cells as superheroes

USC President C. L. Max Nikias won the 2018 Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics Humanitarian Award. Click to watch testimony from Dr. Gary K. Michelson, founder of the Michelson Medical Research Foundation, Dr. Steve Kay, USC’s Director of Convergent Biosciences, and many others including USC trustees, deans, and world-renowned researchers. (April 20, 2018)…Continue Reading USC President C. L. Max Nikias wins 2018 SBMT Humanitarian Award

USC Viterbi wrote that USC start-up Senseer has developed microsensing technologies to improve care for patients with hydrocephalus. (April 12, 2018)…Continue Reading How do you upgrade an archaic biomedical device? Make it “self-aware”

USC News writes that researchers from the Bridge Institute at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience have launched a massive effort to construct a detailed, virtual 3-D model of the pancreatic beta cell and its components — a global project that aims to one day curb the worldwide rise of diabetes. (March 23, 2018)…Continue Reading Scientists launch global effort to find the next diabetes drug

USC News writes: “By imaging metal-tagged antibodies on biopsies from a patient with metastatic prostate cancer, Bridge Institute researchers at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience have created highly detailed, digital facsimiles of cancer cells that can travel through the body.” (February 28, 2018)…Continue Reading Metal-detection technique inspires USC cancer researchers

USC News highlighted work by Carl Kesselman and his team, who created DERIVA (Discovery Environment for Relational Information and Versioned Assets), a software program that collects data from microscopes and organizes it and other data into virtual photo albums that easily can be shared with other researchers. Their work is part of a three-study series published on Feb. 15 in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. (February 15, 2018)…Continue Reading USC research helps stem cell experts develop kidney treatments, reduce dialysis

Michelson Center faculty member Andrea Armani and Jonathan Lasch, of the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering, held a Facebook Live chat to talk about how technology is being used to transform healthcare and impact society. (February 13, 2018)…Continue Reading Andrea Armani and Jonathan Lasch: Transforming Healthcare with Technology

Daily Trojan reports that Agilent Technologies announced a new collaboration with the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience to develop an Agilent Center of Excellence in Biomolecular Characterization. The Agilent CoE, which will be housed in Michelson Hall, will provide students and local customers with access to scientific researchers, Agilent instrumentation and technologies all in one scientific environment. (January 30, 2018)…Continue Reading USC, Agilent Technologies to open center