Year: 2019

Why do some leukemia patients have more aggressive disease, and why do some of their cancer cells resist treatment? USC Stem Cell scientist Rong Lu is tackling these critical questions with $550,000 of support from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Career Development Program. The program is designed to support talented blood cancer researchers in the…Continue Reading Rong Lu named Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Scholar

Congratulations to Areen Andreasian on receiving the Fall 2019 Provost Fellowship!…Continue Reading Areen Andreasian receives Provost Fellowship

Congratulations to Charles Bramlett, who has received the Keck Genomics Partnership Grant. The award consists of $10,000 in Illumina reagents that can be utilized to perform sequencing by the Keck Genomics Platform….Continue Reading Charles Bramlett receives Keck Genomics Partnership Grant

Growing stem cells isn’t just something faculty do in the lab. Rong Lu is one of eight of the faculty in the Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine who recently welcomed new babies into their families—more than half of them within the past year. Here, Dr. Lu and other faculty parents share their…Continue Reading Faculty balance babies with biomedical research

Congratulations to our PhD graduates Du Jiang, Humberto Contreras and Lisa Nguyen, pictured here with Rong Lu at 2019 USC Commencement….Continue Reading Lab celebrates Commencement

Congratulations, Areen, on winning a Summer 2019 Science and Engineering Rose Hills Fellowship!…Continue Reading Areen Andreasian wins Rose Hills Fellowship

When it comes to sorting cells or other small particles, there’s no better place to do so than USC. The university’s Flow Cytometry Facility recently acquired two top-of-the-line cell sorters, the BD FACSymphony and the BioRad S3e, thanks to generous support from several USC sources. To read more, visit stemcell.keck.usc.edu/usc-stem-cell-acquires-two-instruments-to-advance-state-of-the-art-cell-sorting….Continue Reading USC Stem Cell acquires two instruments to advance state-of-the-art cell sorting

Bone marrow transplants, which involve transplanting healthy blood stem cells, offer the best treatment for many types of cancers, blood disorders and immune diseases. Even though 22,000 of these procedures are performed each year in the US, much remains to be understood about how they work. A new USC and Stanford study, conducted in mice,…Continue Reading Stem cell study offers clues for optimizing bone marrow transplants and more