USC names 7 faculty members University – and Distinguished Professors, 3 with USC Viterbi appointments
Petros Ioannou, Peter Kuhn, and Surya Prakash are among the faculty selected for their research leadership.
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USC News: First NEMO Prizes fund research partnerships at the intersection of health and engineering
Eun Ji Chung, Wade Hsu, and John Oghalai are co-recipients of the university’s first NEMO Prizes
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LA Opinion: Technology for Everyone
Francisco Valero Cuevas spoke about how USC is trying to jumpstart innovation with Frontiers of Computing and make LA the center of technology and artificial intelligence
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Los Angeles Business Journal: USC Designates $40M from Alfred Mann Foundation for Partnership with Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles Business Journal mentioned the named of the Alfred E. Mann Dept of Biomedical Engineering.
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Philanthropy News Digest: USC launches science initiatives with gift from Mann Foundation
The recent renaming of the Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering was mentioned.
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MIT Tech Review: A memory prosthesis could restore memory in people with damaged brains
Research by Ted Berger and Dong Song to improve memory via a prosthesis was highlighted
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CNN: These robot engineers are inspired by cats (and dogs)
The labs of Francisco Valero-Cuevas and Quan Nguyen were featured in on “Techfor Good” segment on robots and biomimcry
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Ophthalmology Times: Discovery by USC investigators shows long-term viability of stem cell derived retinal implant
Research by Mark Humayun showing the success of stem-cell derived implants for macular degeneration —without the need for long-term immunosuppressants, was highlighted
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Times Higher Ed: Online academic conferences showing wide benefit
Research conducted by the Armani Lab was featured showing how virtual conferences could ensure greater diversity, equity and inclusion for STEM researchers
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Gizmodo: Will It Be Possible to Upload Information to My Brain?
Gizmodo quoted Dong Song regarding the possibility that brain-machine interface technology could directly write information on the brain.
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Wall Street Journal: How to get smarter: start with the brain itself
Dong Song was quoted on how neuroprosthetics could aim in memory
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USC Stem Cell: Megan McCain Crafts an Approach to Tissue Engineering
Megan McCain was recently awarded tenure as an Associate Professor and the Chonette Early Career Chair in the departments of Biomedical Engineering, and Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at USC.
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The Hill: Researchers fine tune a ‘bionic eye’ for those who lost their sight
The Hill featured research by Gianluca Lazzi to develop a bionic eye.
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USC News: USC Research Coalition Uses Computer Models to Refine Bionic Eye
Computing advances are speeding up improvements to the artificial retina developed by USC’s Mark Humayun and colleagues.
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Society for Developmental Biology: Scott Fraser Awarded Edwin G. Conklin Medal by the Society for Developmental Biology
Fraser is USC’s first ever recipient of the Conklin Medal, recognizing extraordinary research contributions to developmental biology.
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Scott Fraser Elected to National Academy of Medicine
Professor Fraser was recognized “for integrating biophysics, quantitative biology, and molecular imaging to enable unprecedented views of normal function and disease in live organisms, from embryonic development to old age.” He is the second Viterbi faculty member to be elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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Smithsonian Magazine: Could Tattoo Ink Be Used to Detect Cancer?
A study by Cristina Zavaleta regarding on how common pigments and dyes could help with early cancer diagnosis was featured
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KPCC-FM: First Day of College During COVID
Andrea Armani was interviewed about helping first-year students navigate college during the pandemic.
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Mark Humayun wins IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology
Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, director of the USC Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics and co-director of the USC Roski Eye Institute, was awarded the 2020 Medal for Innovations
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Adobe Spark: 5 Scientific Achievements Accomplished Remotely
How USC Viterbi researchers innovated, disrupted, and engaged new frontiers from a distance
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DEN@Viterbi: Going the Distance: USC Viterbi Provides Distance Education During COVID-19
What Happens When All Students Become On-Line Students? Look to the Engineers.
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Memo from Dean Yortsos: Facing the COVID-19 Challenge
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USC News: Mark Humayun Receives NSF Funding for Contact Lens that Uses Electric Stimulation to Heal Retina
The National Science Foundation’s innovation grant to ophthalmologist and engineer Mark Humayun will advance efforts to slow down or reverse retinal degeneration.
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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates
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USC News: Rafael Maarek, Dillon McKinley and Luann Raposo announced as U.S. Fulbright recipients
The biomedical engineering graduates have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright grants to enable them to travel overseas to teach or conduct research.
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From Detecting Lung Cancer to Spotting Counterfeit Money, a New Imaging Technology Could Have Countless Uses
The newly developed method is called SEER, which USC researchers say works up to 67 times faster and at 2.7 times greater definition than current techniques.
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Cosmos Magazine: Using Sound Waves to Target Tumors
Professor of Biomedical Engineering Qifa Zhou and his team have developed a way to use ultrasound to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors.
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USC Viterbi News: “Oh, The Places You’ll Go!”
From engineering rockets that break records to solving global crisis and launching start-ups, the Class of 2019 is going places
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USC Viterbi News: “A Ph.D. Is Our Call to Action”
USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s 2019 Ph.D. Hooding and Awards ceremony
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Interesting Engineering: 9 Pieces of Bionic Tech That Will Make You Superhuman
Research by Ted Berger was mentioned on technology to improve the brain’s performance
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CBS: New Research ‘Hacks’ Brain’s ‘Code’ To Combat Memory Loss
Theodore Berger was quoted about his mathematical model that predicts how the human mind forms a memory.
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PCMag: At This Hackathon, Alexa Gives You More Than Just the Weather
PhD student Brian Cohn from the Valero-Cuevas Lab was featured for winning the $10,000 prize from USC’s recent “Voice Assistants for All” hackathon.
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Swarthmore College: Valero-Cuevas Receives Honorary Degree from Swarthmore
Francisco Valero-Cuevas was awarded an honorary degree from his alma mater, Swarthmore College for his scientific contributions. He spoke at Swarthmore’s commencement ceremony on May 27, 2018
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Ellis Meng receives the 2018 EMBS Technical Achievement Award
This award is given annually to an individual “to recognize an individual(s) for outstanding achievement, contribution(s), and/or innovation in a technical area of biomedical engineering.”
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CBS SF Bay Area KPIX: Scientists Create ‘Prosthetic Memories’ In Groundbreaking Brain Research
People who have difficulty remembering things or making new memories because of a stroke, brain injury or illness may one day benefit from a new study that helps patients make new memories.
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Watch the Viterbi Satellite Commencement Ceremonies Streaming
Ph.D. on 5/10 at 9am PDT, Undergraduate on 5/11 at 11am PDT, Graduate on 5/11 at 3pm PDT, Computer Science Graduate on 5/11 at 6:30pm PDT
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USC News: Gift supports biomedical therapeutics at USC
Retired ophthalmologist Allen Ginsburg and his wife, Charlotte, donate $10 million to name the USC Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics
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USC News: Stem cell-based retinal implant tested for common cause of vision loss
It’s the first human trial, which is designed to replace a single-cell layer that degenerates in patients with dry age-related macular degeneration.
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WIRED: The Quest to Make a Robotic Cat Walk With Artificial Neurons
Want to create machines that move more naturally? Maybe start by replicating the spinal cord
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USC Viterbi to host National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Laureates event
An Evening With Biotech’s Best will feature National Medal of Science Laureates and pioneers of the biotechnology industry Marvin Caruthers and Leroy Hood at the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience – March 21 – 6pm to 8pm
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https://www.embs.org: Ted Berger selected as IEEE EMBS Distinguished Lecturer
Professor Berger is awarded a distinguished lectureship from IEEE’S Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).
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USC News: Creating new heart muscle out of stem cells? This grad student is doing it
PhD student Joycelyn Yip ultimately hopes to test heart disease treatments in ways that reduce risk to patients
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USC News: Saving the lives of hospital patients with one simple app
USC Viterbi biomedical engineers develop a system that tracks vital signs of patients from admission to discharge
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Business Insider: Scientists have created brain implants that could boost our memory by up to 30%
Our memories could one day get a boost from a new brain implant device, according to a new study by USC researchers
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USC News: Michelson Hall, Ready To Open — And Change The World
The largest building on the University Park Campus brings together top engineers and scientists in shared spaces designed to encourage collaborative research.
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YouTube: World’s smallest movie studio
At the USC Michelson Center, Professor Scott Fraser’s incredible movies explore an unanswered question. How memories are formed?
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WIRED: Inside SynTouch, the Mad Lab Giving Robots the Power to Feel
SynTouch, which spun out of the University of Southern California, has created a robotic fingertip that rubs a material and precisely measures the “feel” of it in 15 dimensions, ranging from coarseness to coolness
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USC News: Viterbi Faculty Named National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Mark Humayun and Shri Narayanan recognized for innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact.
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New Scientist: $100 Million Project to Make Intelligence-Boosting Brain Implant
New Scientist highlighted research by Ted Berger to develop a neuroprosthetic to help Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, stroke and other brain disorders and injuries.
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USC Press Room: USC to show how wearable technology can improve cancer treatment
USC researchers to participate in Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot exhibit at a White House event.
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CMBE Journal: Stacey Finley Recognized as 2016 CMBE Journal Young Innovator
Work by Viterbi’s Stacey Finley, an investigator in the Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience was highlighted for her work with colleagues to create a predictive computational model of T cell activation
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USC News: Just gellin’: How to grow strong muscles-on-a-chip
USC researchers hope to usher in new treatments for patients with muscular dystrophy
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Gizmag: Using Gelatin to Bulk up “Muscles-on-a-Chip”
Research by Megan McCain and colleagues on a new method to build bigger and stronger muscle fibers was featured
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Science World Report: Gelatin Hydrogel Could Develop Stronger Muscles, Might Be Used For ALS Cure
Research by Megan McCain and colleagues on an innovative new method for studying skeletal muscle development was featured.