CSI-Cancer director Dr. Peter Kuhn is one of two USC cancer scientists called by President Joe Biden to reignite the national Cancer Moonshot research effort. The other is Dr. John Carpten, director of the Institute of Translational Genomics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. (February 2, 2022)…Continue Reading 2 USC scientists called to serve on Biden’s renewed Cancer Moonshot initiative
Year: 2022
Three USC Faculty Named 2021 AAAS Fellows
Dr. Andrea Armani is one of three USC professors to become American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows in 2021. (January 25, 2022). …Continue Reading Three USC Faculty Named 2021 AAAS Fellows
USC Team Shows How Memories Are Stored in The Brain, With Potential Impact on Conditions Like PTSD
discovered what physical changes occur in the brain when a memory is made by inducing a memory in a larval zebrafish and then mapping changes in their transparent heads with lit-up brain cells. (January 10, 2022). …Continue Reading USC Team Shows How Memories Are Stored in The Brain, With Potential Impact on Conditions Like PTSD
COVID-19 may have spread faster in the U.S. because the first symptom was cough
A CSI-Cancer study finds that the order of symptoms in the first wave of COVID-19 varied among virus strains. (December 16, 2021) …Continue Reading COVID-19 may have spread faster in the U.S. because the first symptom was cough