Moving Targets Takes Aim at Diabetes
“Moving Targets: Diabetes: Mechanisms and Treatments” included two featured presentations by renowned diabetes experts.
George L. King, director of research at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, discussed the development of PKC inhibitors as therapeutic agents for diabetic complications and John Patton, chief scientific fellow and co-founder of Nektar Therapeutics, presented an overview on inhaled insulin.
Richard Bergman, chair of physiology and biophysics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, presented a talk on metabolic syndrome and diabetes.
The event attracted some 130 students, faculty, clinicians and industry representatives. Students came from USC, the University of California, Irvine, the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University. The event provides a unique environment for the attendees to network as well as participate in the scientific sessions.
Janette Contreras, a Ph.D. student at the School of Pharmacy, was the podium host throughout the day. Contreras is chair of the group that sponsors the annual event, the USC Student Chapter of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.
The lecture portion of the program was followed by the “Moving Targets Student Poster Competition." This year’s first-place honor went to Nazanin Yacobi, a Ph.D. student at the Keck School of Medicine. Second place went to Jennifer-Ann Bayan, a Ph.D. student at the School of Pharmacy and third place was awarded to Eszter Pais, a Ph.D. student at Keck.
Support for “Moving Targets 2008” was provided by the USC School of Pharmacy, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, Allergan and Pfizer.
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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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