Stories
What If the device changing brain medicine was free for anyone to build?
A USC Viterbi bioengineer’s implantable device that any researcher can use, modify, and build on is nearly ready for its first animal test. Getting here required reinventing not just the hardware, but …
There is no “brain x-ray.” A USC neurosurgeon-engineer is helping build better ones
A USC neurosurgeon and engineer argues that the tools to monitor the brain cheaply and without surgery are within reach — and that getting there requires putting engineers where patients actually are. …
Tiny particles in urine could be the key to treating a deadly childhood kidney disease
USC Viterbi researchers have discovered that a naturally occurring nanoparticle found in urine shows early promise as a treatment, and potentially a prenatal intervention, for a rare disease that kills newborns and …
From Maui to medicine, Viterbi helped her chart her own path
CLASS OF 2026 – The daughter of Turkish immigrant physicians, Maui-raised Alara Berkmen is graduating from USC Viterbi with a bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering on the pre-med track, a business club she …
USC team shows how memories are stored in the brain, with potential impact on conditions like PTSD
What physical changes occur in the brain when a memory is made? A team of researchers at the University of Southern California has, for the first time, answered this question by inducing …