USC Takes Part in Pan-Pacific Conference
The conference strives to strengthen research in the pharmaceutical and life sciences through international cooperation and collaboration. The event, held at a different university each year, was hosted this time by the Nagoya City University.
Ronald Alkana, professor at the School of Pharmacy who serves on the advisory board of the conference, was featured in a presentation on treatments for alcohol disorders. Alkana showed his lab’s research findings on the identification of molecular targets in the brain that may lead to future pharmacotherapeutic agents for alcohol abuse.
Alkana’s talk was part of the “Drug Action and Therapy” section of the conference moderated by Paul Beringer, associate professor at the School of Pharmacy. Beringer also presented a poster at the conference detailing his work on optimizing the use of pharmacologic agents in the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
Other School of Pharmacy faculty displayed posters highlighting the work from their labs and the labs of their collaborators. The presenters included assistant professors Tien Ng on the effect of dopamine on renal circulation on patients with heart failure; Bangyan Stiles on new therapeutic targets based on the deletion of liver PTEN, a gene found in almost all cells of the body; and Clay Wang on the reengineering of E. coli to create a cancer drug.
The annual event was organized by eight universities, with the addition this year of the University of Sydney in Australia.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education mentioned USC’s $6 billion fundraising campaign. The story noted that USC had already raised $1 billion in a “quiet phase,” including the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College.
The Guardian (U.K.) highlighted two major gifts to USC in a list of the 10 biggest philanthropic benefactors in America. The list included the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College, and the $110 million gift from USC Trustee and USC Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and wife Julie to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
The New York Times featured the USC U.S.-China Institute documentary “Assignment: China — The Week that Changed the World.” The documentary, part of a series, examines media coverage of the 1972 Nixon trip that reshaped U.S.-China relations after a quarter century of isolation and hostility. “People look back now and take it for granted that the outcome was preordained,” said the institute’s Mike Chinoy, who produced the documentary. Voice of America also featured the story.
Los Angeles Times featured the Oscar Senti-meter, a tool developed by the USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times and IBM that analyzes thousands of tweets about the Academy Awards nominees. The story noted that Mexican actor Demian Bechir received an enormous boost on Twitter the day of the nominations, with a total of 6,893 tweets mentioning him, a 47-fold increase from the day before. The story noted the tool uses language-recognition technology developed in collaboration with USC Viterbi School’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab.
The Times of India (India) featured a three-day medical emergency training workshop organized in association with USC. At the workshop, held at GCS Medical College in India, 50 doctors and more than 100 paramedics learned how to improve emergency support systems. William Mallon of the Keck School of USC said that discussion topics included the use of portable ultrasonic devices to scan patients. “The ultrasound applications help physicians make accurate and timely decisions,” he noted. Daily News & Analysis (India) also featured the workshop.
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