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The Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC’s Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology is a unique facility that unites world-class researchers in a variety of disciplines centered around structures of the craniofacial region. Since its inception in 1991, CCMB has been home to several major discoveries and has attracted top researchers from around the world.
September 22, 2017
Snead awarded honorary doctorate
Professor Malcolm Snead, DDS, PhD, a faculty member at the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, has been awarded the title of doctor philosophiae honoris causa by the University of Oslo. (more…)
September 21, 2017
New article: Dlx5-FGF10 signaling cascade controls cranial neural crest and myoblast interaction during oropharyngeal patterning and development
Sugii H, Grimaldi A, Li J, Parada C, Ho T-V, Feng J, Jing J, Yuan Y, Guo Y, Maeda H, and Chai Y. Dlx5-FGF10 signaling cascade controls cranial neural crest and myoblast interaction during oropharyngeal patterning and development. Development 2017, in press.
August 4, 2017
New article: BMP signaling orchestrates a transcriptional network to control the fate of mesenchymal stem cells in mice
Feng J, Jing J, Li J, Zhao H, Punj V, Zhang T, Xu J, Chai Y. (2017) BMP signaling orchestrates a transcriptional network to control the fate of mesenchymal stem cells in mice. Development 144: 2560-2569. doi: 10.1242/dev.150136