At the COVID-19 pandemic’s start, there were no proven, effective medications to treat the disease. In the search for therapies, repurposing existing drugs offered a faster route to answers than developing drugs from scratch. Scientists scoured drug compound catalogs for contend…
Academic health centers around the country want to build more trusting relationships with diverse, under-resourced neighborhoods to improve health equity and outcomes. But many minority communities have historically regarded university health investigators with skepticism and ev…
Novel uses of Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping programs can illuminate how multiple social and environmental determinants of health (SEDoH) drive disease and other health outcomes.
Nearly all participating students at Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School agreed they learned something helpful to advance their career goals after attending one or more of three educational workshops implemented by the Southern California Clinical and Translational Scienc…
Approximately 90,000 young adults and 15,000 children and teens are diagnosed with primary cancer each year in the United States. With five-year aggregate survival rates now over 84% for both groups, there are more long-term survivors than ever before. The Southern California C…
From left, Mayra Rubio-Diaz, Sara Calderon, Tyrone Nance, Sean McBride, Michael Greene, David Footman, Nicole Wolfe, Alma Garcia, and Andrea Diaz at the 2023 Vaccine Forum organized by the Immunization Coalition of Los Angeles County (ICLAC) at The California Endowment in Los An…
Protein receptors salted over surfaces of Natural Killer (NK) immune cells act as search-and-destroy navigation systems to identify and control some cancers and pathogens. Now scientists hope to engineer a powerful new receptor for NK cell surfaces, allowing more precise, aggres…
Researchers are scanning pain patients’ brains after they catch waves — and constructing a virtual reality surfing experience.
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