Year: 2019

Only 23 percent of biomedical PhD holders eventually land tenure-track faculty positions, according to a report by the National Institutes of Health Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group. Beating these odds, six postdoctoral trainees from USC’s Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine recently landed coveted jobs as tenure-track assistant professors: Lori O’Brien at the…Continue Reading Meet six USC Stem Cell postdocs-turned-professors

For the first time ever, the City of Los Angeles hosted the world’s largest stem cell conference. By choosing Los Angeles as the host city for this major annual meeting, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) acknowledged the city’s growing importance as a hub for the biosciences, as well as the world-class research…Continue Reading Nils Lindstrom and Tracy Tran speak at ISSCR 2019

Interim USC President Wanda M. Austin has appointed Andrew P. McMahon as University Professor, and Kelvin J. A. Davies, Maja J. Matarić and Manuel Pastor Jr. as Distinguished Professors. “These exceptional faculty members have brought great honor to the university,” USC Provost Michael Quick wrote in a memo announcing the appointments. To read more, visit stemcell.keck.usc.edu/mcmahon-named-university-professor-davies-mataric-and-pastor-named-distinguished-professors….Continue Reading McMahon named USC University Professor