Category / Winter 2016

Grants Management Training for Staff: Winter 2016

GRANTS MANAGEMENT TRAINING FOR STAFF The Department of Contracts and Grants is proud to announce the launch of the new Grants Management Training for Staff program. The Grants Management Training for Staff program has been revamped and placed inside of Trojan Learn, USC’s online learning platform. The two-course program is mandatory for all staff seeking

Research Dean’s Corner: CTO Updates, I2B2, K Awards

New Home for the USC Clinical Trials Office On January 1, 2016, the USC Clinical Trials Office (CTO) moved into the Keck School of Medicine. The School is committed to providing efficient, transparent and user-friendly service to investigators and research teams conducting clinical trials and other studies that require health system resources at USC. To

Keck Research Accomplishments: November 2015 – January 2016

ACADEMY & SOCIETY FELLOWS ERIC CHANG Professor of Radiation Oncology Fellow – American Society of Radiation Oncologists DAN STRAM Professor of Preventive Medicine Fellow – American Association for the Advancement of Science INTERNATIONAL AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS QI-LONG YING Associate Professor of Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine McEwen Award for Innovation – International Society for

Lab Safety: Lab Inspections and Safety Training

The USC Department of Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) will be conducting laboratory safety inspections starting this month. They could arrive at your laboratory without warning! To help you better prepare for this visit, please go to the USC EH&S links below and review the list of items they will be checking for in your

Keck Cores: The Hastings Foundation and Wright Foundation Laboratories

The Hastings Foundation and Wright Foundation Laboratories are a university-wide state-of-the-art facility located on the USC Health Sciences Campus. The laboratories serve basic and clinical scientists seeking to study emerging infectious diseases and ongoing public health agents in the fields of molecular biology, pathology, immunology and marine biology. Since the laboratories went live in February

Faculty Spotlight: Jae U. Jung

Jae U. Jung, PhD Distinguished Professor Fletcher Jones Foundation Professor Hastings Foundation Professor Chair, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Director, USC Institute of Emerging Pathogens Dr. Jae U. Jung is an expert in the molecular biology of cancer-causing herpesviruses and emerging pathogens as they relate to cell biology, biochemistry and immunology. His