USC Stevens Center for Innovation

Kidney development is a balancing act between the self-renewal of stem and progenitor cells to maintain and expand their numbers, and the differentiation of these cells into more specialized cell types. In a new study in the journal eLife from Andy McMahon...

Michael Nornberg, J.D., and Melissa Whorton joined the USC Stevens Center for Innovation team in January. Michael is a Licensing Associate and Melissa is the Contracts Manager, Intellectual Property.
Prior to joining the Stevens Center, Nornberg practiced as a patent attorney, primarily in prosecution, for over 20 years in both law firms and as Sr. In-House Patent Counsel for a major international technology corporation. He received his training...

USC has joined a coalition of leading research universities that aims to boost the transfer of researchers’ patented technologies and inventions to companies.
All told, 15 universities are members of the limited liability corporation University Technology Licensing Program (UTLP): USC, Brown, Caltech, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Illinois, Michigan, Northwestern, Penn, Princeton, SUNY Binghamton, UC Berkeley...

The National Academy of Engineering announced that Jong-Shi Pang, Epstein Family Chair and professor of industrial and systems engineering, and Azad Madni, professor of astronautical engineering and executive director of USC’s Systems Architecting and...