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Jun 12

Poor Diet, Plus Alzheimer’s Gene, May Fuel Disease

By USC Leonard Davis Communications Featured, Health and Wellness

Could a healthy diet spare people who have an Alzheimer's gene from developing the disease? USC Leonard Davis School researchers suggest the issue deserves further study since they found mice carrying a genetic risk factor for the disease quickly developed brain plaques after 12 weeks on a poor diet.

Jun 11

Reginald Tucker-Seeley Measures More Than Money

By Beth Newcomb Featured

New USC Davis faculty member and 2017-2018 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow Reginald Tucker-Seeley looks beyond simple income measures to find out how individuals’ finance-related feelings and behaviors affect disparities in physical and mental health.

Jun 05

Applying Precision Medicine and Big Data to Understand – and Reduce – Negative Impacts of Brain Injuries in Older Adults

By Beth Newcomb Featured, Health and Wellness

USC Davis School Assistant Professor Andrei Irimia leads new research on traumatic brain injury diagnosis, treatment and connections to diseases such as Alzheimer’s with a new National Institutes of Health-supported residency and a grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

May 23

Scholarship Supports Study of Protein with Anti-Aging Potential

By Beth Newcomb Featured, Health and Wellness, Honors and Awards, Mitochondria

The protein MOTS-c may have the potential to stave off frailty and maintain muscle mass, says second-year PhD in Biology of Aging student and Glenn/AFAR Scholarship recipient Joseph Reynolds.

May 11

USC Leonard Davis School Confers Nation’s First PhD in Biology of Aging

By Beth Newcomb Alumni, Featured, Mitochondria

Already a celebrated young researcher, Laura Corrales-Diaz Pomatto is the first to graduate from the school’s pioneering PhD program.

May 10

How to Live a Longer, Healthier Life

By Orli Belman Featured, Health and Wellness, Mitochondria

Science-fiction sounding therapies are coming but diet and exercise work now, say leading aging experts at the Milken Global Conference.

May 08

USC Leonard Davis School Faculty Win Grants to Explore New Ways to Improve Health

By Orli Belman Featured, Honors and Awards, Mitochondria

2017 Hanson-Thorell awards continue legacy of supporting promising research directions.

May 08

USC Davis School Innovators Honored by USC Stevens Center

By Beth Newcomb Featured, Honors and Awards

Four researchers receive the first annual USC Stevens Center for Innovation Commercialization Awards for patented fasting-mimicking diet technology licensed in 2016.

May 02

USC Davis Student Lab Members Honored During USC Undergraduate Symposium

By USC Leonard Davis Communications Featured, Honors and Awards, Mitochondria, Students

Student researchers receive awards in Life Sciences and Social Sciences categories as well as special awards from the American Physiological Society.

May 02

USC Leonard Davis Student Honored at 2017 USC Academic Honors Convocation

By USC Leonard Davis Communications Featured, Honors and Awards, Student Profile

USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology student Christina Deirmenjian '17 receives the Emma Josephine Bradley Bovard Award.

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