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 Read More…

Congratulations to Areen Andreasian on receiving the Fall 2019 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.

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 Read More…

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

Congratulations, Areen, on winning a Summer 2019 Science and Engineering 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.

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, Read More…

In your body, blood stem cells produce approximately 10 billion new white blood cells, which are also known as immune cells, each and every day. Even more remarkably, if some of these blood stem cells fail to do their part, then other blood stem cells pick up their slack and overproduce whichever specific type of Read More…

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