A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the USC School of Pharmacy demonstrated a way to generate potential new Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) drugs by inhibiting a crucial enzyme in the HIV repli…
The SC CTSI helped create a computerized speech translation system to be used in clinics and hospitals. SpeechLinks is designed to translate between English and Spanish in near real time. “This is the first study of its kind in the United States that deals with the Spanish-speak…
Many drugs cannot pass from the bloodstream into the brain and spinal cord. When patients have cancers that involve these sites, it may be difficult to get important chemotherapies in to fight the cancer. Ellis Meng, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering, USC Viterbi School o…
Clinicians at CHLA have noted that obese children with acute leukemia benefit less from chemotherapy than normal weight children. Steven Mittelman, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics and physiology & biophysics, Keck School of Medicine of USC and colleagues at The Sa…
An interdisciplinary team of researchers developed a tiny pacemaker for unborn babies with a fatal heart problem called fetal heart block. Fetal heart block is a condition that causes an extremely slow heart rate, which may not be adequate to sustain the circulation. Babies with…
In a pilot investigation, Wei Li, PhD, professor of dermatology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, showed that heat shock protein 90alpha, found widely in cells throughout the human body, significantly improves healing when applied to skin ulcers in diabetic patients. The research…
Transgender individuals experience some of the greatest health disparities in our communities. While research investigating their health is limited, we do know that they experience challenges in accessing culturally appropriate care and have some of the highest rates of human im…
Individuals with serious mental illness are less likely to get regular preventive health care and more likely to use the emergency rooms than are people without mental illness. As a result, people with serious mental illness generally report poorer health and more physical ailme…
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