USC Stevens Center News Archives - USC Stevens Center for Innovation

Three USC Viterbi Professors Named 2024 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Francisco Valero-Cuevas, Wei Wu and Theo Tsotsis, professors in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, have been named 2024 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The award recognizes “academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.”

2024-12-16T17:17:38-08:00December 16th, 2024|

USC Announces Strategic Collaboration with Autobahn Labs to Accelerate Drug Discovery

USC has embarked on a collaboration with Autobahn Labs, an accelerator for early-stage drug discovery, to identify and advance cutting-edge scientific findings into new therapies – with a special focus on critical unmet medical needs. “Our collaboration with Autobahn Labs is a pivotal moment for our institution’s mission to bring academic innovations in drug discovery to

2024-11-26T06:02:29-08:00December 2nd, 2024|

USC Institute for Creative Technologies and SoldierStrong Sign Battle Buddy License Agreement

Today is Veteran's Day and according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), over 6,000 Veterans die by suicide each year. This is approximately 17 lives lost every day. In response to this crisis, the VA launched Mission Daybreak, a $20 million initiative aimed at reducing Veteran suicides, and awarded USC $1 million to

2024-11-11T08:43:10-08:00November 11th, 2024|

USC Launches Collaboration with StemCardia to Advance Heart Regeneration Therapies

The new initiative brings together renowned experts at a researcher-founded biotechnology company with Keck School of Medicine (KSOM) experts to develop innovative solutions for heart failure, the global leading cause of death. Heart failure, which happens when the heart cannot pump blood sufficiently throughout the body, is the leading cause of death worldwide. In the

2024-10-15T08:33:10-07:00October 8th, 2024|

USC Ranked #11 in Inc. Magazine’s and Fast Company’s Top 50 School for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The University of Southern California is ranked #11 in Inc. Magazine's and Fast Company’s inaugural Ignition Schools list of the Top 50 academic institutions for Entrepreneurship and Innovation! The magazines ranked universities with the biggest global impact on business and ideas that define the future. This recognition honors top academic institutions that play a vital

2024-10-03T07:59:55-07:00September 23rd, 2024|

From Blood Tests to Brain Scans: How AI is Revolutionizing Alzheimer’s Research

Today is World Alzheimer's Day. There are more than 55 million people globally with Alzheimer’s disease. Fifty-five million that are struggling to remember. With advanced technology, there has been new hope in the fight against a devastating disease. Enter AI, a technology that famously struggles to forget. What if it could remember hundreds of thousands of

2024-09-26T12:43:43-07:00September 21st, 2024|

USC Researchers Turn the Body’s B Cells into Tiny Surveillance Machines

USC scientists and Paula Cannon, a Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, have discovered a way to turn the body’s B cells into tiny surveillance machines and antibody factories that can pump out specially designed antibodies to destroy cancer cells or HIV, two of medicine’s most

2024-08-07T12:06:46-07:00July 22nd, 2024|

USC Stevens Center Announces its First Cohort of Licensing Interns

The USC Stevens Center has revamped the innovation internship program and is thrilled to announce the first cohort of licensing interns! Seven exceptional PhD candidates with expertise in life sciences and physical sciences and a passion for technology commercialization will work closely with the Executive Director, Dr. Erin Overstreet, and the seasoned licensing team to

2024-07-09T08:21:49-07:00June 25th, 2024|

Venture capitalist and USC alumnus Mark Stevens will begin his second tenure as a member of the USC Board of Trustees this fall. Stevens — who received an honorary doctorate from USC in 2016 — brings more than two decades of finance and investment leadership to the board in addition to a demonstrated dedication to

2024-09-30T08:57:20-07:00June 5th, 2024|

Techstars Startup Weekend: A Student’s Perspective

In early April, I got a chance to not only photograph and document the USC Techstars Startup Weekend but be an active (and winning) participant in it. Joining a team of strangers, coming up with an idea, getting our idea torn apart by mentors, and finally pitching our final product to judges all in the

2024-07-08T14:33:35-07:00May 1st, 2024|