Usc biochemistry program

Keck School History. Distinguished Activities. Community Outreach. Administrative Offices. Program of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine. About Our two-year program is structured around a rigorous curriculum that balances course work and mentored research for a thesis project. Learn More. Admission Discover what makes a strong program candidate here.

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Annual Report. Keck School History. Distinguished Activities. Community Outreach. Administrative Offices. About the Program. The Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine Master of Science degree program seeks to provide rigorous theoretical and practical training in biochemistry and molecular medicine-related research.

Students are expected to write and defend a thesis that describes research completed in our laboratories in the areas of inherited diseases, cancer, development, stem cells, drug discovery, epigenetics, structural biology and bioinformatics. Please provide us your contact information if you would like to receive additional information about our graduate programs. First Name.

Last Name. Program of Interest. How did you hear about us? In , Samantha was promoted to Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine where she is examining novel therapeutic strategies for improving lung immunity.

After she enrolled in the MS program, her interest in genomics drew her to the lab of Dr. Peggy Farnham under whose mentorship she ultimately obtained her PhD. Tokes, Dr. Farnham and Dr. Berman during my time at USC. With programming skills in R and Perl, and statistics, acquired at USC as well as nine co-authored publications, Lijing found employment as a bioinformatician initially at Roche and later at Bina Technologies, part of Roche sequencing solutions, in the Bay area.

Tobias Ulmer for my thesis project where I got rigorous training in protein purification and characterization as well as exposure to protein structure analysis techniques such as NMR, EPR, and CD. He moved to Genentech in where he worked in late stage pharmaceutical development.

Adi was recruited to Lonza in Basel, Switzerland in where he is currently Lead Scientist in the drug products division directing projects for formulation development globally. Adi was recipient of a Genentech Recognition Award for significant contribution to projects each year during his tenure at Genentech.

He credits his successes in industry to the training and opportunities he received at USC. It also allowed her to determine if pursuing a PhD would be the right choice for her.

She opted to do her thesis research in the lab of Dr. Ansgar Siemer. In addition, Dr. With a long term goal of directing creative bench research in an academic or industrial setting, Silvia is currently pursuing a PhD in the Siemer lab.

Her favorite feature of the program was the ability to conduct research over the entire two-year period which allows one to actually address a research question while acquiring expertise in various experimental methods. She completed her thesis research in the lab of developmental biologist, Dr.

Ruchi Bajpai where she worked on a zebra fish model that allowed her to learn embryology, microinjection, gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9 and confocal microscopy, and co-authored a publication.

Her desire to change career directions from the clinical arena to research in basic sciences drove her to enroll in the MS program in Michael Stallcup. After graduation, she returned to Saudi Arabia and worked at a research center in Riyadh for two years before securing admission to the doctoral program in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at University of Oxford in the UK. Her interest in switching gears and pursuing research in the area of human health and medicine using molecular biological approaches drew her to the MS program affiliated with a medical school.

She really liked the fact that she had a diverse group of faculty from whom she could select her thesis mentor. She completed her thesis research in the lab of Dr. Baruch Frenkel and then worked as a research technician for a year at USC. Her long term goal is to be a Principal Investigator directing her own research at a University in China and she believes that her educational and research experience in the MS program has provided a strong foundation toward this goal.

He conducted his thesis research in the lab of Dr. An internship at Life Technologies in San Diego opened the door to employment at two different start-up ventures developing sequencing technologies after graduation.