Come to listen to the awardees and learn about different pilot funding programs at the Keck School!

12 speakers representing 8 pilot funding programs: 

• Keyue Shen, PhD Microscale Engineering of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niches in a Dish 
• Stefano Da Sacco, PhD Reducing Cardiovascular Disease by Protecting the Kidney: Development of a Novel Glomerulus-on-a-Chip Platform for Drug Screening
• Rusty Lansford, PhD Beyond Average: Investigating Heterogeneity for Thousands of Single Cells during Cardiogenesis
• Crystal Marconett, PhD Determining the impact of LINC00261 on the DNA damage response in lung adenocarcinoma
• Houda Alachkar, PhD Immunomodulatory Effects of Midostaurin via Targeting Regulatory T. Cells
• Jesse Berry, MD Analysis of Chromosomal Changes and Driver Genes in the Aqueous Humor of Retinoblastoma Eyes: The Surrogate Tumor Biopsy
• Brian Lee, MD Identifying Neurophysical Biomarkers of Voluntary Movement Planning, Initiation, and Inhibition in the Basal Ganglia of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
• Kay Jann, PhD Brain activity during the micturition cycle
• Judy Pa, PhD NeuroRiderVR: Targeted physical and cognitive activity in a VR environment for older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease
• Jill Johnston, PhD NOVEL BIOMARKERS TO DETERMINE SUSCEPTIBLE WINDOWS OF EXPOSURE TO TOXIC METALS FROM A METAL SMELTER
• Iris Ahronowitz, MD The USC High Risk Skin Disease Clinic and Research Collaborative
• Dominique Duncan, PhD Collaborative quality control and correction of neuroimaging data using web-services and virtual reality environment