USC Dornsife News

A two-year program aims to train innovative thinkers and solve life-sciences problems by encouraging collaboration across chemistry and biology disciplines.

Through their participation in the Bridge UnderGraduate Science (BUGS) summer research program, undergraduates and high school students gain hands-on understanding of what it means to be a collaborative research scientist and to contribute to the development of an atomic resolution model of the human body.

With six high-profile papers published in the past seven months, biochemists in The Bridge@USC are poised to disrupt the future of pharmaceutical development and enable the advancement of personalized medicine.

Inspired to find answers by her grandfather’s heart disease, Tiffany Lian is conducting research on taste receptors that may benefit drug discovery and development.

USC Dornsife researchers are combining the best minds from the arts and sciences to create a virtual model of the human body as The Bridge@USC aims to catalyze a new era of biotech leadership in the Los Angeles area.

Valery Fokin will join top scientists in USC’s aim to be among the world’s preeminent institutions for convergent biomedical research.