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June 27, 2019

Please note HSC News Weekly will go on break

next week for the July Fourth holiday.


Four stories to read this weekend, chosen by our editors

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Broad Foundation's $10 million gift advances USC stem cell research

Broad Foundation's $10 million gift advances USC stem cell research

USC's groundbreaking stem cell research and training programs have received a major boost thanks to a $10 million gift from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. The funds will bolster research, training and faculty recruitment and retention.

Virtual reality research team earns USC Collaboration Fund grant

Virtual reality research team earns USC Collaboration Fund grant

Move over, gamers. There are some new players in the world of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR). Increasingly, health care providers are looking to the immersive nature of VR as a way to treat myriad conditions.

Multidisciplinary team brings lung cancer treatment into the future

Multidisciplinary team brings lung cancer treatment into the future

At first glance, the statistics for lung cancer may seem dire. But look closer and there's more — much more — to the story. A lung cancer diagnosis, even at the most advanced stage, is no longer an automatic death sentence.

Students compete to present years of research in just three minutes

Students compete to present years of research in just three minutes

Distill years of complicated research into an "elevator pitch" lasting just three minutes. Ten USC School of Pharmacy graduate students took on that challenge in the school's third Three-Minute Thesis competition on June 14.

Featured Event

SC CTSI Workforce Development Seminar

Date: Wednesday, July 10

Time: Noon

Event: "MCD-CTS Award Information Session," Cecilia Patino-Sutton, MD, PhD, MEd

Location: Soto Street Building (SSB) 116

Info: Karen Busa, (323) 442-8281, wd@sc-ctsi.org

RSVP: https://redcap.med.usc.edu/surveys/?s=WLY844ANEA

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