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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- University of Southern California President C. L. Max Nikias is pleased to announce a $25 million gift from Leonard D. Schaeffer, a Judge Robert Maclay Widney Chair and Professor at USC, to endow and support the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. The gift bolsters the university's commitment to using rigorous research to develop policy solutions, including controlling health care costs and improving...
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The School of Pharmacy at the University of Southern California has established the International Center for Regulatory Science to help assure that promising new medical products reach the marketplace faster--while also maintaining proper safety standards. The new Center's research is aimed at meeting the challenges caused by increasingly complex regulations that result from rapid changes in technology and economic globalization. "During my recent...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The School of Pharmacy at the University of Southern California announced today that it will double its presence in clinics and medical homes that deliver health care services to the uninsured, the poor and the homeless. The School began providing clinical pharmacy services in safety-net clinics in 2002, and currently is a key partner with 12 such clinics in Southern California. The new USC Medication Therapy and Safety Initiative aims to increase...
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Southern California School of Pharmacy has received a gift from Quintiles to establish the Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Innovation and the Quintiles International Lecture Series, both to be housed at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at USC. "The Quintiles Chair will allow USC to recruit a world-class faculty expert with the interdisciplinary knowledge of both health economics and...
Mice without enzyme were also less inquisitiveDo you run when you should stay? Are you afraid of all the wrong things? An enzyme deficiency might be to blame, reveals new research in mice by scientists at the University of Southern California.In a paper appearing in the October 2011 issue of the International Journal of Neuropharmacology, USC researchers show that mice lacking a certain enzyme due to genetic mutation are unable to properly assess threat. The mice exhibited defensive behaviors...
