Michael Lim brings 25 years of pharmaceutical industry experience to the role of senior director of Industry Fellowship Programs, which involves preparing postdoctoral scholars and USC Mann students for industry success.
The initiative partners USC Mann with USC Viterbi and Cedars-Sinai in using artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve drug safety monitoring.
Robert Popovian, PharmD ’93, MS '96, has been appointed chair of the USC Mann Board of Councilors. He succeeds David W. Neu, who served as chair since December 2021.
Brent Beadell has won the 2024–25 Charles and Charlotte Krown Fellowship, the top honor awarded to graduate students at the USC Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Undergraduate Benjamin Katz volunteers to help older people sharpen their memories to prevent cognitive decline. “It’s one of the most rewarding and enjoyable things I have done,” the 21-year-old says.
A small number of pharmacy benefit managers dominated the Medicare Part D, Medicaid and commercial markets in 2023, and the three biggest PBMs may each be targeting different payer markets, according to new USC Schaeffer Center research published Sept. 10 in JAMA.
