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‘A Call to Action’: Dr. Peter Kuhn of USC Michelson Center Visits White House to Help Launch President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative
President Biden announced the relaunch of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative, which aims to reduce the cancer death rate in the United States by 50% over the next 25 years.
Dr. Rong Ma, 2021 Michelson Prizes Recipient
2021 Michelson Prize recipient Dr. Rong Ma says the award will serve as a catalyst to provide the freedom she needs to advance her research.
Dr. Camila Consiglio, 2021 Michelson Prizes Recipient
2021 Michelson Prize recipient Dr. Camila Consiglio says the award will advance her research into how sex hormones impact the immune system of Swedish citizens who are undergoing sex reassignment therapy over time.
Dr. Nicholas C. Wu, 2021 Michelson Prizes Recipient
2021 Michelson Prize recipient Dr. Nicholas Wu says the award will help advance his high-risk/high-reward research on the influenza virus.
2021 Michelson Prizes Push New Frontiers in Human Immunology
The Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project proudly recognize three outstanding early career researchers with the 2021 Michelson Prizes award: Dr. Camila Consiglio of Karolinska Institutet; Dr. Rong Ma of Emory University; and Dr. Nicholas Wu of the University of Illinois.
‘Push the Boundaries’: 2020 Michelson Prize Winners on How the Award Advanced Their High-Risk/High-Reward Research
As the Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project (HIP) gear up to announce the latest winners of the 2021 Michelson Prizes on January 25, the 2020 winners discuss how receiving the prize has been instrumental in advancing their groundbreaking research at the dawn of their careers.
‘Think Big’: 2019 Michelson Prize Winners on How the Award Advanced Their High-Risk/High-Reward Research
As the Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project (HIP) gear up to announce the latest winners of the 2021 Michelson Prizes on January 25, the 2019 winners discuss how receiving the prize has been instrumental in advancing their groundbreaking research at the dawn of their careers.
‘Science Driven by Passion’: 2018 Michelson Prize Winners on How the Award Advanced Their High-Risk/High-Reward Research
As the Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project gear up to announce the latest winners of the 2021 Michelson Prizes on January 25, the 2018 winners discuss how receiving the prize has been instrumental in advancing their groundbreaking research at the dawn of their careers.
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.
Innovative Medical Education Company Partners with the World’s Largest Scientific Publisher in Effort to Reach 1 Billion Learners by 2025
Osmosis, a Michelson 20MM portfolio company, recently became a part of Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific publishing company.
Dr. Michelson Advocates for Establishing a “National Institute for Cures” to Fast-Track Drug and Vaccine Development
Dr. Gary Michelson makes the case for why increased fast tracking of funding and development for innovative scientific developments is key for our future in the latest COVID-19 edition of National Academy of Inventors’ Technology & Innovation Journal.
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.
TIME’s Best Inventions of 2021 List Spotlights GIBLIB, the ‘Netflix of the Medical World’ in Michelson 20MM’s Investment Portfolio
GIBLIB is an on-demand video medical education platform featuring lectures, discussions, surgical procedures, and more from physicians and other experts.
Welcome Alternatives to Animal Testing
New legislation will allow more innovative and human-relevant testing platforms to expedite the development of promising drugs, write Dr. Gary Michelson and Dr. Aysha Akhtar.
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.
Young and Diverse Teams of Researchers Produce More Impactful Science
Diversity of thought and experience is critical to science and the scientific method, said Dr. Ansuman Satpathy of Stanford in a recent Science podcast sponsored by Michelson Philanthropies.
Climate Change is a Direct Threat to Human Health and Immunology
Climate change contributes to diseases and other health problems in vulnerable populations around the world, according to scientists and experts in a recent program sponsored by Michelson Philanthropies.
