National Academy of Inventors elects Denis Evseenko and three other Keck School of Medicine of USC faculty as senior members

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a nonprofit member organization that encourages inventors in higher education, has announced that four researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC are part of its 2024 class of senior members.

Election as an NAI senior member recognizes remarkable innovation producing technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. The honor also represents growing success in patents, licensing and commercialization, while educating and mentoring the next generation of inventors.

The following faculty members will officially join the ranks of 553 senior members worldwide on June 17, 2024, during the NAI’s annual meeting:

Yang Chai, DDS, PhD, University Professor, George and MaryLou Boone Chair in Craniofacial Molecular Biology and Associate Dean of Research at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC; University Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, and Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the Keck School
Denis Evseenko, MD, PhD, the Keck School’s J. Harold and Edna La Briola Chair in Genetic Orthopaedic Research, Vice Chair for Research, Director of Skeletal Regeneration and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Justin Ichida, PhD, John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation Associate Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the Keck School; New York Stem Cell Foundation-Robertson Investigator
Peter Kuhn, PhD, Dean’s Professor of Biological Sciences at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Professor of Medicine and Urology at the Keck School; Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering; Director of the Convergent Science Institute in Cancer at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience