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USC receives $21.7 million grant for epilepsy research


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The USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute’s Laboratory of Neuro Imaging received a $21.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study epilepsy. The money will fund a team of researchers working on a project titled the Epilepsy Bioinformatics Study for Antiepileptogenic Therapy, which aims to discover a cure for […]

University announces new center for bioscience


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University President C. L. Max Nikias announced a $50 million donation from Dr. Gary Michelson to fund the establishment of the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience on Monday morning. Dr. Michelson, a retired orthopedic spinal surgeon, has over 955 issued or pending patents to date, as well as a place in the National Inventors […]

USC professor wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry


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Dr. Arieh Warshel of the USC David and Dana Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday. The award recognized Warshel, Martin Karplus of the Université de Strasbourg in France and Harvard University, and Michael Levitt of Stanford University for “the development of multiscale models for complex […]