For decades, clinical research studies underrepresented non-white populations, leaving important knowledge gaps. But medical dermatologist Iris Z. Ahronowitz, MD, and her team used a wealth of data at USC for a first-ever retrospective study involving a majority Hispanic populat…
Spring 2018 Pilot Awardee, Min Yu, MD, PHD on the potential of using circulating tumor cells to monitor brain metastasis
Sharing expertise across universities adds value to pilot funding programs
Obesity is a known risk factor for failure of the emergency contraceptive medication levonorgestrel, but researchers are still trying to determine why. A study conducted at USC revealed differences between free levels of the medication and its bioavailable levels that could be k…
Representatives of the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute demonstrated how the organization can help USC and CHLA investigators launch studies, find collaborators, recruit participants—and much, much more.
A SC CTSI-supported study by Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD, a pediatric surgeon at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and assistant professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, found that teens who used opioid pills were more likely to try heroin.
The study addresses gaps in the scientific literature regarding health risks for expectant mothers with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, and their babies.
Following NIH review, University of California, Irvine, researcher Katrine Whiteson needed to resubmit a proposal that met requests to expand the study, but to manage it on a significantly reduced budget. Advisors in the Trial Innovation Network, a researcher-support program of …
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