At a standing room only event on campus, USC President C. L. Max Nikias announced the creation of the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, a cornerstone of research collaboration at the intersection of engineering and the life and biomedical sciences. The USC Michelson Center, supported by a $50 million gift from orthopaedic surgeon, inventor, and philanthropist Gary K. Michelson, will provide a 190,000-square-foot research building housing up to 30 principal investigators, with labs ranging from advanced microscopy to nanofabrication.
“This will be a center that will unify engineers, scientists, and physicians in solving real problems. When our experts develop a new idea or a timely innovation, this center will help their advances move rapidly from the laboratory into our society,” said President Nikias, “The work that will be done at USC will have a profound positive impact on the curing of diseases, the creation of life-saving biomedical devices, and on many other areas beyond the field of healthcare.”
Read more about the recent gift, which represents a milestone in USC’s current fundraising initiative — the Campaign for the University of Southern California. The Campaign, with a fundaising goal of $6 billion, recently reached its halfway point, raising an unprecedented $3 billion in three years.