Department of Physiology and Biophysics

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Keith Administration Building 400
1975 Zonal Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089-9037
(323) 442-1145
FAX: (323) 442-2494
Email: janet.stoeckert@usc.edu
Student Adviser: H. Kaslow, PhD; hrkaslow@usc.edu

Faculty

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Chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Director of the Center for Neurodegeneration and Regeneration at the USC Zilkha Neurogenic Institute: Berislav V. Zlokovic, MD, PhD

Director, USC Research Center for Liver Diseases, Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, USC Associates/Thomas H. Brem Chair in Medicine, and Veronica P. Budnick, MD, Chair in Liver Disease: Neil Kaplowitz, MD

Professors: Vito M. Campese; Robert H. Chow; Casey Donovan (Exercise Science); Robert A. Farley* (Biochemistry); Caleb Finch (Gerontology and Neurobiology); Michael Goran (Preventive Medicine); Sarah Hamm-Alvarez (Pharmaceutical Sciences); Cage Johnson (Professor Emeritus); Neil Kaplowitz (Medicine/GI Liver/Patient Care); Thomas Keens (Pediatrics); Kwang Jin Kim (Medicine, Biomedical Engineering); Herbert J. Meiselman; Austin K. Mircheff; Janos Peti-Peterdi; Richard Watanabe; Alan G. Watts; Li Zhang

Associate Professors: Harvey R. Kaslow; Richard L. Lubman (Medicine/Pulmonary Patient Care); Steven Mittelman; Jang-Hyun Youn

Assistant Professors: Jon Detterich; Joyce Richey

Adjunct Professor: Dwight W. Warren III

*Recipient of university-wide or school teaching award.

The administrative offices of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics are located on the Health Sciences Campus. Faculty of the department are located predominantly at the Health Science Campus.

Programs

Medical Physiology (MS)  

Courses

• MBPH 550 Seminar in Medical Biophysics
• MBPH 590 Directed Research
• MBPH 594a Master’s Thesis
• MBPH 594b Master’s Thesis
• MBPH 594z Master’s Thesis
• MBPH 596 Internship for Curricular Practical Training
• MBPH 790 Research
• MBPH 794a Doctoral Dissertation
• MBPH 794b Doctoral Dissertation
• MBPH 794c Doctoral Disseration
• MBPH 794d Doctoral Disseration
• MBPH 794z Doctoral Dissertation

• MPHY 572 Medical Physiology I
• MPHY 573 Medical Physiology II
• MPHY 590 Directed Research
• MPHY 594a Master’s Thesis
• MPHY 594b Master’s Thesis
• MPHY 594z Master’s Thesis
• MPHY 596 Internship for Curricular Practical Training

• PHBI 524 Advanced Overview of Neurosciences
• PHBI 531 Cell Biology
• PHBI 550 Seminar in Advanced Cellular, Molecular and Systemic Physiology
• PHBI 561 Molecular Biology
• PHBI 571 Biochemistry
• PHBI 572 Medical Physiology I
• PHBI 573 Medical Physiology II
• PHBI 594a Master’s Thesis
• PHBI 594b Master’s Thesis
• PHBI 594z Master’s Thesis
• PHBI 650 Mechanisms of Ion and Solute Transport Across Cell Membranes
• PHBI 651 Molecular Modeling and Kinetic Simulations in Membrane Transport
• PHBI 660 Understanding Diseases of Ion Transport