One in a series showcasing a year of university highlights
Fasting and football, research on baldness and HIV, and some impressive construction projects – these and more were Trojan topics in the news in 2015. Here are some of the USC News stories you made among our most popular for the year.
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Are we really on the road to a cure for HIV/AIDS?
This human T cell (blue) is under attack by HIV (yellow), the virus that causes AIDS. The virus specifically targets T cells, which play a critical role in the body’s immune response against invaders like bacteria and viruses. (Photo/courtesy of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health)
Something wonderful sometimes happens when scientists and the public get together to talk about research. All the jargon, all the technical language falls away, and it becomes instead a conversation between the two groups with most at stake: the people in need of a treatment or cure and the people trying to develop it. One such get-together happened in July, when the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) joined with the AIDS Project Los Angeles to hold a Town Hall event in West Hollywood called
“HIV Matters — Countdown to a Cure: California Leads the Way.” Nearly 120 people showed up to
listen to stem cell scientists from USC, City of Hope, Calimmune and Sangamo Biosciences — all of whom are using CIRM funding to develop new treatments and hopefully even cures for HIV/AIDS.
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