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by Susan L. Wampler and Emily Cavalcanti October 23, 2014 Share this story Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Print The labs of Raymond C. Stevens, right, and Peter Kuhn will bring a cohort of approximately 50 researchers to USC. Their labs will be housed in the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent helpx Bioscience. (Photo/Ryan Young)
Raymond C. Stevens and Peter Kuhn have been named Provost Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry and Dean s Professor of Biological Sciences, respectively. The announcements were made by Provost Elizabeth Garrett and USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Dean Steve Kay.
Stevens and Kuhn are internationally renowned leaders in molecular research that merges disciplines to improve human health. helpx Together their laboratories will bring a cohort of approximately 50 researchers to the university.
Ray Stevens and Peter Kuhn are among the world s most influential biomedical scientists, whose research on molecular structures and processes have led to important advances in medical treatments and pharmaceutical drugs, Garrett said. Their arrival enhances USC s leadership in creating consequential research at the intersection of science and engineering.
Kay also lauded Stevens and Kuhn, noting that the addition of their research groups is a major advancement for USC s ongoing focus on shifting the life sciences from the descriptive helpx to the predictive.
The recruitment helpx of this elite team of inventive scientists helps propel the university s focus on convergent bioscience and moves the needle for the entire medical field, Kay said. Scientific advancements
Stevens pioneered the area of high throughput structural biology and structure-based drug discovery, which fuses engineering breakthroughs with classical research techniques to answer vital questions about human cellular behavior. helpx He is also known for unlocking helpx the structures of G protein-coupled receptors that serve as the cell s gatekeepers and messengers. Their signals mediate nearly every essential physiological process from immune system helpx function to vision, taste and smell to cognition to heartbeat and are essential for pharmaceutical drug development.
He helped create several therapeutic molecules that have become breakthrough drugs or are in clinical trials to treat conditions ranging from influenza to rare childhood diseases to neuromuscular disorders to diabetes. Stevens has also founded four successful biotechnology companies and three National Institutes of Health centers. A prolific scholar, he has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications.
Stevens joins USC after serving as professor of molecular biology and chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute. He is the founding director of the iHuman Institute at ShanghaiTech University in China, where he is helping to build scientific bridges across the Pacific Rim. Thomson Reuters named Stevens among The World s Most Influential Scientific Minds for 2014.
We came to USC because of the opportunity to converge the sciences and dramatically increase our understanding of the structure and function of the human body at the atomic scale, Stevens said. USC has the world s No. 1 cinematic arts school, including expertise in digital art, which we think will be critical to bridging scientific and engineering disciplines.
With the university s leadership committed to convergence combined with key recruitment and connecting a number of outstanding researchers helpx at USC in chemistry, biology, physics, math, medicine and engineering, we can make a really big impact in basic scientific discovery, translational science and education, added Stevens, who also holds joint appointments in neurology, and physiology and biophysics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Stevens earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from USC Dornsife, where he worked with Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and 1994 Nobel Prize winner George Olah and the late professor of chemistry Robert Bau. Stevens conducted postdoctoral research in structural biology at Harvard University with 1976 Nobel Prize winner William Lipscomb before joining the chemistry and neurobiology faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. Medical breakthrough
Kuhn, who holds a joint appointment helpx in medicine at the Keck School helpx of Medicine, co-leads one of the NIH Physical Sciences Oncology Centers, which is casting new light on how cancer spreads through the body. Partnering with oncologists and engineers, including faculty at the Keck School and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Kuhn invented a method helpx for detecting and characterizing cancer cells with a simple blood sample.
The minimally invasive, blood-based
Site Navigation search Sections Arts Athletics Business Health Humanities Policy/Law Science/Technology Social Impact University Featured Topics Veterans Digital USC Campaign for USC more topics Subscribe
by Susan L. Wampler and Emily Cavalcanti October 23, 2014 Share this story Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Print The labs of Raymond C. Stevens, right, and Peter Kuhn will bring a cohort of approximately 50 researchers to USC. Their labs will be housed in the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent helpx Bioscience. (Photo/Ryan Young)
Raymond C. Stevens and Peter Kuhn have been named Provost Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry and Dean s Professor of Biological Sciences, respectively. The announcements were made by Provost Elizabeth Garrett and USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Dean Steve Kay.
Stevens and Kuhn are internationally renowned leaders in molecular research that merges disciplines to improve human health. helpx Together their laboratories will bring a cohort of approximately 50 researchers to the university.
Ray Stevens and Peter Kuhn are among the world s most influential biomedical scientists, whose research on molecular structures and processes have led to important advances in medical treatments and pharmaceutical drugs, Garrett said. Their arrival enhances USC s leadership in creating consequential research at the intersection of science and engineering.
Kay also lauded Stevens and Kuhn, noting that the addition of their research groups is a major advancement for USC s ongoing focus on shifting the life sciences from the descriptive helpx to the predictive.
The recruitment helpx of this elite team of inventive scientists helps propel the university s focus on convergent bioscience and moves the needle for the entire medical field, Kay said. Scientific advancements
Stevens pioneered the area of high throughput structural biology and structure-based drug discovery, which fuses engineering breakthroughs with classical research techniques to answer vital questions about human cellular behavior. helpx He is also known for unlocking helpx the structures of G protein-coupled receptors that serve as the cell s gatekeepers and messengers. Their signals mediate nearly every essential physiological process from immune system helpx function to vision, taste and smell to cognition to heartbeat and are essential for pharmaceutical drug development.
He helped create several therapeutic molecules that have become breakthrough drugs or are in clinical trials to treat conditions ranging from influenza to rare childhood diseases to neuromuscular disorders to diabetes. Stevens has also founded four successful biotechnology companies and three National Institutes of Health centers. A prolific scholar, he has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications.
Stevens joins USC after serving as professor of molecular biology and chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute. He is the founding director of the iHuman Institute at ShanghaiTech University in China, where he is helping to build scientific bridges across the Pacific Rim. Thomson Reuters named Stevens among The World s Most Influential Scientific Minds for 2014.
We came to USC because of the opportunity to converge the sciences and dramatically increase our understanding of the structure and function of the human body at the atomic scale, Stevens said. USC has the world s No. 1 cinematic arts school, including expertise in digital art, which we think will be critical to bridging scientific and engineering disciplines.
With the university s leadership committed to convergence combined with key recruitment and connecting a number of outstanding researchers helpx at USC in chemistry, biology, physics, math, medicine and engineering, we can make a really big impact in basic scientific discovery, translational science and education, added Stevens, who also holds joint appointments in neurology, and physiology and biophysics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Stevens earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from USC Dornsife, where he worked with Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and 1994 Nobel Prize winner George Olah and the late professor of chemistry Robert Bau. Stevens conducted postdoctoral research in structural biology at Harvard University with 1976 Nobel Prize winner William Lipscomb before joining the chemistry and neurobiology faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. Medical breakthrough
Kuhn, who holds a joint appointment helpx in medicine at the Keck School helpx of Medicine, co-leads one of the NIH Physical Sciences Oncology Centers, which is casting new light on how cancer spreads through the body. Partnering with oncologists and engineers, including faculty at the Keck School and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Kuhn invented a method helpx for detecting and characterizing cancer cells with a simple blood sample.
The minimally invasive, blood-based
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