Wei-Chiang Shen, PhD
It shouldn’t be a big surprise that Wei-Chiang Shen wanted to be a painter. After all, the John A. Biles Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences at USC Mann has to be pretty creative in the lab, where he’s working to find new ways to deliver large molecule therapies. Proteins and peptides – large molecules – represent […]
Frances J. Richmond, PhD
When Frances Richmond started the USC Regulatory Science program back in 1999, she was enthusiastic about the prospects for the program’s success. “Given that new drugs and medical devices were being developed around the world at record speed, and these products are highly regulated, I knew that the need for regulatory science professionals with razor-sharp […]
Amanda Wong
Amanda Wong, doctor of pharmacy student, helps the blind and visually impaired. Wong has done this through a partnership between USC Mann and the Los Angeles Braille Institute. Wong, who volunteered as a high schooler at the Orange County Braille Institute, came up with the idea when a visually impaired participant at a USC Pharmacy […]
Joy Wang
Joy Wang, USC Doctor of Pharmacy student and Albert Schweitzer Fellow, is working to become a pharmacist who does more than dispense prescribed medications. In her first year at USC, Wang became involved with a 10-week smoking cessation program that brought pharmacy students to Skid Row to work with residents. “It was a really amazing […]
Cedona Watts
After watching a YouTube video about USC Mann, Cedona Watts was convinced that she should leave her hometown of Huntsville, Ala. and head west to Trojan town. Now entering her fourth year as a Pharm.D. candidate, Watts credits her USC education for the multitude of fellowships, scholarships and awards she’s received. “That one YouTube video […]
Jean Chen Shih, PhD
University Professor; Boyd P. and Elsie D. Welin Professor in Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences When Jean Chen Shih has a free moment – which is not often for the newly appointed Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science – she writes articles in her native Chinese about her family, her feelings…and all […]