USC STAR & EHA Biotechnology Program (Period 5 & 6)

• Meets the UC and Cal State A-G Requirement  (11th –12th grades)
• Prerequisites required: Biology, Chemistry 

A 2 year program in which students are trained in research techniques (11th grade) and assigned to a research laboratory on the USC Health Sciences Campus (12th grade, 2 hour block periods). Students work on a research project under the guidance of a USC mentor, become familiar with pertinent scientific literature, perform standard analysis techniques, and present their findings in PowerPoint and poster formats.

At their USC biomedical laboratory, students contribute to complex problems being studied in fields such as Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Medical drugs, STEM Cells, Pharmacology, and many more fields.  It allows students to learn and master laboratory skills to test possible solutions to these problems, and to develop written and oral communication skills necessary to communicate their findings.

Engineering for Health Academy

(EHA)

• Meets the UC and Cal State A-G Requirement(11th-12th grades)
• Prerequisites required: Biology, Chemistry

A 2 year program that is very similar to the STAR Program, in which students design several projects involving physics, electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering projects (11th grade) and are assigned to a biomedical engineering research laboratory on the USC Health Sciences or University Park Campuses (12th grade, 2 hour block periods).  

The following are some of the many USC Departments that EHA students join to complete their biomedical engineering research experience:  

• USC Viterbi School of Engineering
• Biomedical Research (Microfluidics or Transducers)
• Image Processing and Informatics
• Electrical Engineering