Peter Kuhn Appointed University Professor
Peter Kuhn — a professor of biological sciences, medicine, biomedical engineering, aerospace and mechanical engineering, and urology — has taught at USC since 2014. His research focuses on cancer evolution from its earliest moments to its lethal metastatic stage, developing models and tool sets for personalized patient treatment. Kuhn’s teachings and research span three schools: the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; the Keck School of Medicine of USC; and USC Viterbi.
In addition to serving as the founding director of the Convergent Science Institute in Cancer within the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, Kuhn founded Epic Sciences Inc. in 2009 to develop cancer diagnostic products. He’s also a member of the USC Innovation Council and has served on the USC Restart and Keck Medicine of USC COVID-19 Response committees, while being an active member of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and serving on an internal advisory committee for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Earlier this week, he was named a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors.
As a physicist and entrepreneur who has established translational science programs at multiple institutions, Kuhn spent 12 years at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla before coming to USC. There, he brought together scientists from engineering and medicine to work on cancer in the human body.
With three patents, 16 patent applications licensed for commercialization and 270 peer-reviewed articles published, Kuhn’s grant portfolio averages $5 million per year and over $150 million over the last 20 years, includes funding from the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health, as well as other foundations.
The title of University Professor is selectively awarded based on multidisciplinary interests and significant accomplishments in several disciplines.
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