Stem Cells

Keck Medicine of USC researchers are investigating a unique therapy that aims to repair damaged brain cells.

The center — a collaboration between the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering — will use stem cell engineering to uncover disease mechanisms and advance new therapies.

Insights about brain cell damage after stroke and repair after transplant could pave the way for therapies that extend the treatment window, a USC lab study reveals.

Scientists discover that egg yolk is a key to establishing authentic embryonic stem cells from chickens and seven other avian species, as reported in Nature Biotechnology.

Doctoral student Shuwan Liu receives a 2025 Young Investigator Award for her work examining which signals drive cells to heal large-scale bone injuries.

Guanyi Huang — now associate principal scientist at MerckBodye — credits his USC training with putting him at the forefront of biological research breakthroughs.

The lifelong Angeleno — now a senior manager with Takeda Pharmaceuticals — is the first person in her family to attend college.

Heading into college, the alum — now director at Allogene Therapeutics in San Francisco — was torn between engineering or doing something else. In the end, “I felt like there were way too many electrical and computer engineers in my family.”

More than 100 experts credit their training to a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Scholars program at USC.

The program has graduated more than 300 alumni who have entered medical and doctoral programs and pursued successful careers in academia, industry and beyond.