Most senior citizens don’t have bulging biceps. USC Stem Cell scientist Albert Almada is uncovering the reasons why with support from a $125,000 grant from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and Glenn Foundation for Medical Research. Almada is one of nine early-career faculty to receive the 2022 awards, which support research focused on…Continue Reading Albert Almada receives a grant from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and Glenn Foundation for Medical Research
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The Baxter Foundation celebrates promising research in muscle loss and pediatric cancer
For more than 60 years, the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation has supported innovative biomedical research at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, each year granting $100,000 awards to two faculty. This year, the foundation named Albert Almada, PhD, and Miller Huang, PhD, Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Faculty Fellows….Continue Reading The Baxter Foundation celebrates promising research in muscle loss and pediatric cancer
The Almada Lab welcomes its first master’s student to the lab. Welcome Gabriel Elizalde, MS!
Gabriel is a recent graduate of the SCRM master’s program (class of ’21) at USC. Gabriel received his bachelor’s in Biochemistry from Vassar College in 2016. Gabriel will be studying the early post-translational mechanisms controlling adult muscle stem cell activation in mice and humans. Gabriel is a native of Los Angeles….Continue Reading The Almada Lab welcomes its first master’s student to the lab. Welcome Gabriel Elizalde, MS!
Albert Almada gives seminar for the Muscle Science Talk Virtual Forum
Dr. Albert E. Almada was invited to give a research seminar for the Muscle Science Talk Virtual Forum….Continue Reading Albert Almada gives seminar for the Muscle Science Talk Virtual Forum
Albert Almada puts muscle into stem cell research
USC Stem Cell scientist Albert Almada once had ambitions of becoming a catcher in a professional baseball league—until he was sidelined by a rotator cuff injury in his shoulder. “Life painfully closes one door and then cracks open another, and then over time, you start to realize that that is how things should have happened…Continue Reading Albert Almada puts muscle into stem cell research
Albert Almada publishes new paper in Cell Reports
Dr. Albert E. Almada’s paper on describing the FOS/ART1/mono-ADP-Ribosylation (MARylation) adult muscle stem cell activation pathway has published in Cell Reports!…Continue Reading Albert Almada publishes new paper in Cell Reports