{"id":2014,"date":"2023-06-20T18:39:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T18:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/dornsife-alumni\/?page_id=2014"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:58:48","slug":"meet-jorge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/dornsife-alumni\/meet-jorge\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Jorge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--scrolling-text-with-image \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--scrolling-text-with-image\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"text-image-container\">\n\n          \n      <div class=\"image-container\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/dornsife-alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2023\/06\/JorgeOsuna.jpg\"\n                    sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      \n    <div class=\"text-container\">\n  \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Director of Technical Services, Gilead Sciences Inc.  <\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Jorge Osuna, PhD\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From an early age Jorge Osuna had an interest in learning, science, and helping others. As he was completing his final years of high school, he volunteered and participated in internships at various Hospitals within the vicinity he grew up, including St. Francis Medical Hospital, Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital and Kaiser Permanente. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jorge obtained a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from California State University of Los Angeles\u00a0 where his undergrad research focused on synthesizing and characterizing macrocycles that change confirmation dependent on the environment with potential applications to drug delivery. He continued his education in medicinal organic chemistry by obtaining a Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Southern California with Professor Charles E. McKenna as advisor. There, he worked on synthesizing deoxynucleotide analog Probes for Studying the Conformation and Structure of a DNA repair enzyme named DNA Polymerase Beta.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upon graduating with his doctorate degree from USC, Jorge was hired as a post-doctoral fellow at Gilead Sciences aseptic manufacturing site located in San Dimas within the department of Technical Services. 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