USC Dornsife News

Scientists at USC, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Stanford University team up to use disparate expertise to find solutions to cancer.

USC Dornsife researcher Peter Kuhn discusses his breakthrough breast cancer detection test, which could potentially upend how we diagnose many types of cancer.

Scientists from USC Dornsife and Cedars-Sinai rally scholars around the country and in diverse fields to find better ways of beating cancer.

USC Dornsife’s Peter Kuhn and John Carpten of Keck School of Medicine of USC will serve in the research effort aimed at reducing the national cancer death rate by 50% over the next 25 years. [1 min read]

USC Dornsife’s Peter Kuhn will serve as deputy director of a new virtual cancer center, funded by a grant from the Department of Defense. [1¾ min read]

Inspired by his father’s fight against non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, USC Dornsife’s Remo Rohs studies the molecular nature of cancer. [2½ min read]

Researchers find an unexpected glitch in a gene that supervises cell division, one that has important implications for cancer treatment. [1½ min read]

Using fighting words for cancer can even impact people who are healthy, making them feel more fatalistic about the disease and prevention, the USC Dornsife study shows. [2 ½ min read]

The new technique could play a big part in eliminating osteonecrosis of the jaw, a currently incurable, rare side effect of certain drugs. [1¾ min read]