An Update from the Dean

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

As we prepare for the start of the new academic year, this edition of our newsletter showcases some of our latest news and updates.

We celebrate the opening of the new state-of-the-art pharmacy on the USC University Park Campus, and highlight a number of new federal research grants:

• A $2 million National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant to support work co-led by Clay C.C. Wang to transform plastic ocean waste into useful products;
• A $8.2 million National Institute on Aging grant to fund the work of researchers from across USC in building a cost model to generate comprehensive national, annual estimates of the expense of dementia that could benefit patients and their families;
• A $3.86 million National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant to support the work of Gauri Rao and collaborators in continuing to explore bacteriophages as a source of potential therapies for bacterial infections.

Meanwhile, we welcome all of our students, including the 179 members of the incoming PharmD class of 2028 who will don their white coats for the first time at our annual white coat ceremony this Friday.

Thank you for your support, which helps make the Mann School’s work possible.

Sincerely,