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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In this 360 video tour of USC’s stem cell research center, Dr. Rong Lu walks you through the third floor.

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Imagine an ever-renewing source of immune cells that can be engineered to attack cancer and infections. The winners of this year’s Eli and Edythe Broad Innovation Award at USC are already striving to turn this exciting concept into a reality. The collaborative research project brings together Qi-Long Ying and Rong Lu, two faculty members in Read More…