Congratulations to the 11 USC researchers named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors, a nonprofit member organization that encourages inventors in higher education! Election as an NAI senior member recognizes remarkable innovation producing technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. The honor also represents growing success
The University of Southern California and USC Research & Innovation continue to have global impact! USC was ranked 49th in the Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents list by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The report highlights the role patents and IP play in academic research and innovation. Released annually by the NAI, the Top
President Carol Folt launched the university’s first new school in more than a decade: the USC School of Advanced Computing, a cornerstone of her Frontiers of Computing initiative. The school seeks to educate all students, regardless of their major, and USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Gaurav Sukhatme was appointed as the school’s inaugural director. Read
A recent $4 million federal grant supports a center at the Keck School of Medicine of USC where researchers aim to improve health protections for children against air pollution. With a $4.5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a USC Information Sciences Institute researcher could set new benchmarks for measuring progress in
Dr. Erin Overstreet has been named the Executive Director of the USC Stevens Center for Innovation. With more than 16 years of experience in academic technology transfer, licensing, industry partnerships, and research administration, she oversees the day-to-day operations of the office, manages the university’s extensive IP portfolio, facilitates collaboration between university researchers and industry partners,
Congratulations to Dr. Valter Longo, Director of the Longevity Institute at USC and his venture, L-Nutra Inc., a premier nutri-technology company leading longevity science nutrition programs, on the closure of a $47M Series D funding. The round was led by a personal investment from Stephane Bancel, CEO at Moderna Inc., alongside Brentwood Associates, a Los Angeles based middle
November is Alzheimer Awareness Month and USC is taking on one of the toughest diseases. Alzheimer’s begins 20 years or more before memory loss and is a growing epidemic. Every 65 seconds, someone in America develops Alzheimer and there’s approximately 500,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Today, more than 6 million Americans are living with
At the last Association for University Technology Managers (AUTM) Western Region Meeting, Interim Associate Vice President of Research Strategy and Innovation, Steven Moldin, and Senior Technology Licensing Manager, Bonnie Phan Wolf, spoke on two panels. Steve’s talk was titled “Core R&D Facilities, IP, and Startups: How Universities Use Research Infrastructure Commons to Drive Startups,
From research focusing on how AI can improve officer interactions with the public to research of sedentary time correlating with higher risks of dementia, innovation was constant in the month of September.
USC Stevens Center announces the execution of an exclusive, worldwide license between biotechnology company AcuraStem and biopharmaceutical company Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
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