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USC Michelson Center: Celebrating 5 Years of Interdisciplinary Innovation
Drawn from across a broad spectrum of research fields, ranging from computational sciences and applied mathematics to nanoengineering, biology, and medicine, Michelson Faculty, along with hundreds of postdocs, students, and research administrative staff, represent the human capital supporting the convergence of research at USC.
Dr. Gary K. Michelson Returns to USC Michelson Center As It Celebrates Five Years
The USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its opening in 2017. Dr. Gary K. Michelson recently visited the center to learn about the latest research being conducted with state-of-the-art equipment.
New Grant to Help Develop ‘Forever Implants’
Researchers are using an ultra-rare low-field MRI machine housed at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience that is one of only three of its kind in the world for improved fetal imaging, lung imaging, and cardiac perfusion imaging.
First Visualization of a Small Protein’s Structure Could Advance Treatments for Epilepsy and Other Disorders
Findings by scientists at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience using cryogenic electron microscopy could lead to answers for neurological disorders from anxiety to schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease to autism spectrum disorder.
USC Michelson Center Celebrates 3 State-of-the-Art Research Facilities
The grand opening ceremonies celebrate the latest cutting-edge facilities at the center, which brings together researchers from the university’s engineering and medical schools and the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
USC’s New Cryogenic Electron Microscopy Facility Officially Opens for Business
Scientists and representatives from USC, Amgen, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and noteworthy academic institutions gather at the cryo-EM facility’s home in the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.
USC Team Shows How Memories are Stored in the Brain, with Potential Impact on Conditions Like PTSD
Fish that glow; a tailor-made microscope; a new way to catalog science. After six years, researchers at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience produce the first snapshots of memory in a living animal.
New Cutting-Edge Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility Exemplifies USC Michelson Center’s Vision for Convergent Bioscience
A new facility recently opened in the USC Michelson Center on Convergent Bioscience that allows scientists to view and take snapshots of biological molecules in three dimensions through a technique called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), which is a game-changer for structural biology research.
Eliminating the Uncertainty of Cancer Care is My Life’s Mission
Cancer is not an easy target, writes Dr. Peter Kuhn, founding director of the USC Michelson Convergent Science Institute in Cancer. It consists of a disease spectrum that ranges from high lethality that is spreading rapidly to locally confined malignancies without lethality over the average lifespan.
Unique MRI Machine Installed in USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience
The state-of-the-art MRI machine that was recently installed in the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience allows researchers and students to produce better, faster, and less expensive images of the human body, thus improving the capability of diagnostic imaging to detect diseases.
Nanofabrication Laboratory Opens at USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience
The new, state-of-the-art John O’Brien Nanofabrication Lab is an innovation hub for research projects ranging from basic science to applied technology.
New CSI-Cancer Lab Designed to Promote Collaboration
The USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience has opened a new Convergent Science Institute in Cancer (CSI-Cancer) lab. Peter Kuhn, a founding member of the USC Michelson Center, made the announcement.
Researchers Develop New Way to Watch Pancreatic Cells Package Insulin
A team of scientists from the Bridge Institute at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience has for the first time actually looked at a pancreatic cell as it was packaging insulin and responding to a drug treatment. Their work marks a new way to understand diabetes.
Epic Sciences and USC Michelson Center Partner to Improve Cancer Care
The USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience and Epic Sciences, Inc. will work in concert to create more precise characterization of rare circulating tumor cells.
Mapping a Detailed COVID-19 Symptoms Timeline
Thanks to a team of researchers at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, COVID-19’s progression is being mapped. This vital knowledge can be leveraged to more quickly apply treatments, and help limit COVID-19’s spread.
