The Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology is located on the Health Sciences campus in the Elaine Stevely Hoffman Medical Research Center, McKibben Hall, and the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, which includes a Hospital and Research Institute. The Department is well equipped for research in microbial physiology and genetics, electron microscopy, virology, cellular and molecular biology, genetic toxicology, and immunology.

Specialized facilities are available for advanced research in animal virology, eukaryotic cell biology and cellular differentiation, molecular and cellular immunology, microbial and molecular genetics, control of gene expression, control of protein synthesis, and chemical and viral carcinogenesis. The Keck School of Medicine maintains a core microchemical facility that is available for protein microsequencing and synthesis of peptides and oligo-nucleotides

Jae Jung to Hold Microbiology Chair>>

The Keck School of Medicine of USC has named Harvard Medical School microbiologist Jae Jung as professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, effective Aug. 1.

National and International Recognition

Michael Lai, M.D., Ph.D.,
member, U.S.-Japan Hepatitis Cooperative Research Panel; member, NIH Study Section on Experimental Virology; editor, Virology

Joseph Landolph, Ph.D.,
member, Scientific Peer Review Panel, EPA Hazardous Substances Center Grants

Millie McMillan, Ph.D.,
member, NIH-NCI Special Study Section on Molecular Target Drug Discovery for Cancer