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#aacr19: Cancer-CSI recap & highlight

Posted on April 22, 2019 by kuhnadmin

#aacr19: Physicist vs. physician: Digitizing clinical assessment and using it for evidence-based prediction of outcomes

Posted on March 31, 2019 by kuhnadmin

Presenters: Peter Kuhn, PhD and Jorge Nieva, MD. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Abstract: The Current Status of Tumor BiomarkersThe past decade has seen tremendous advances in cancer care driven largely by better understanding of cancer genetics and biology. Characterization of the DNA changes driving cancer formation is now routine and it seems …

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#aacr19: Deconvoluting Tumor Heterogeneity Using Single-Cell Genomics

Posted on March 29, 2019 by kuhnadmin

Presenter James B. Hicks, PhD. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Description Cancer is a genetic disease that evolves over time and in response to treatment, whether in model systems or in the setting of human disease. It is therefore imperative to create tools to assess genomic and transcriptomic complexity in order to understand …

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#AACR19: Genomic instability as a marker of poor prognosis in advanced prostate cancer: Subclonal insights from whole-genome sequencing of single circulating tumor cells

Posted on March 29, 2019 by kuhnadmin

Presenters: Paymaneh D. Malihi1, Ryon P. Graf2, Carmen Ruiz Velasco1, Anand Kolatkar1, Angel E. Rodriguez2, Jerry Lee2, Ramsay Sutton2, Paul G. Corn3, Christopher J. Logothetis3, Ana M. Aparicio3, James Hicks1, Ryan Dittamore2, Amado J. Zurita3, Peter Kuhn1.  1University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; 2EPIC Sciences, San Diego, CA; 3MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Abstract: A …

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#AACR19: Morphologic and genomic characterization of circulating tumor cells in patients with ERBB2 mutant HER2 non-amplified metastatic breast cancer treated with neratinib

Posted on March 29, 2019 by kuhnadmin

USC scientists Dr. Stephanie Shishido will present results from a small cohort study from a clinical trial in which metastatic breast cancer patients with a rare form of the disease (ERBB2 mutated, HER2 non-amplified) were treated with the combination of Neratinib and Fulvestrant. This work focuses on the use of a blood sample for a …

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#AACR19: Genomic characterization of circulating tumor cells in de novo metastatic prostate cancer

Posted on March 29, 2019 by kuhnadmin

Presenters: Shoujie Chai1, Paymaneh D. Malihi1, Ana M. Apariciop2, Brian F. Chapin2, Matthew Lin1, Ryan Storgard1, Carmen Ruiz Velasco1, Anand Kolatkar1, James Hicks1, Peter Kuhn1. 1University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; 2The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Abstract: Background: The absence of biomarkers that identify clinically meaningful biological subsets of prostate cancer …

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#AACR19: Genomic cfDNA analysis of aqueous humor in retinoblastoma (RB) predicts eye salvage

Posted on March 29, 2019 by kuhnadmin

Presenter: Liya Xu1, Jesse L. Berry2, Irsan Kooi3, A Linn Murphree2, Rishvanth K. Prabakar1, Mark W. Reid4, Kevin Stachelek4, Bao Han A. Le2, Lisa Welter1, Rima Jubran4, Thomas C. Lee2, Jonathan W. Kim2, Peter Kuhn1, David Cobrinik2, James B. Hicks1.  1University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; 2Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the USC Roski Eye …

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This year, 12 seniors received this prestigious aw This year, 12 seniors received this prestigious award. Congratulations to the four who are part of CSI and the CURE program! #uscgrad
Lots to celebrate!! 14 undergraduates, 4 PhD stu Lots to celebrate!! 

14 undergraduates, 4 PhD students, 2 masters ๐ŸŽ“

Class of 2022- what an amazing group!! CONGRATULATIONS ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽŠ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ™ŒโœŒ๏ธ

#uscgrad #uscdornsife
The graduation regalia looks good on them!! Congra The graduation regalia looks good on them!! Congratulations!! ๐ŸŽŠ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿพ #phdhooding #uscgrad

Shoujie Chai, PhD in Molecular Biology
Joe Larsen, PhD in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Lisa Welter, PhD in Molecular Biology
And we start 2022 Commencement week with congratul And we start 2022 Commencement week with congratulating our Student Recognition Award recipients! They have all shown commitment, hard-work, and leadership to the university, our lab, peers, and community during their studies at USC. ๐ŸŽ“๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽŠ

๐Ž๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐ž
Libere Ndacayisaba

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐š๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ & ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐๐š๐ฅ๐ฆ
Sachin Narayan
Mihir Kumar
Arushi Agrawal
Eric Yang

๐Ž๐ซ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐“๐ซ๐จ๐ฒ
Vera Hsu
Aidan Plant
#tbt We had our CURE Senior Presentations last wee #tbt We had our CURE Senior Presentations last week where our undergraduates shared their USC and CSI/lab experiences. 

Weโ€™re so proud and excited for the next steps in their careers! ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€โš•๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿฉบ๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“Š๐Ÿ”ฌ

Amanda Hmelar- Human Biology, Spanish
Vera Hsu- Biochemistry, Health and Human Sciences
Annie Amacker- Human Biology, Health Innovation
Andrew Chen- Biochemistry, Computer Programming
Eric Yang- Quantitative Biology
Nathan Kristanto- Biomedical Engineering
Jena Tran- Quantitative Biology
Alex Hill- Quantitative Biology, Computer Science
Aidan Plant- Neuroscience, Jazz Studies
Sachin Narayan- Global Health, Business Finance
Hari Mellacheruvu- Quantitative Biology, Data Analytics
Mihir Kumar- Human Biology, Economics, Mathematical Finance
Cameron Baab- Computer Science
Arushi Agrawal- Neuroscience, Health Care Studies
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Larsen who successfu Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Larsen who successfully defended his PhD in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics! ๐ŸŽ‰ ๐ŸŽ‰ ๐ŸŽ‰ 

His dissertation was on โ€œAnalyzing Disease Progression Using Cross-Sectional Dataโ€. ๐Ÿ’ป ๐Ÿงฌ ๐Ÿฆ  

Proud of you, Joe!
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