The National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a nonprofit member organization that promotes academic technology and innovation, has named four Keck School of Medicine of USC faculty as new senior members: Paula Cannon, PhD; Alan Epstein, MD, PhD; Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD; and Bodour Salhia, PhD.

The new senior members will be welcomed at the 2026 NAI conference, hosted by USC at Loews Hollywood Hotel from June 1 to 4.

NAI senior members are recognized for their work producing innovative technologies that have the potential for real impact on the welfare of society, as well as success in patents, licensing and commercialization. This year’s members from the Keck School of Medicine are being recognized for their innovations in cancer and HIV.

A team of researchers led by Duke Health have now reached a major milestone in a national effort to develop a new kind of treatment aimed at helping the body repair damaged joints at the source, bringing the approach closer to first‑in‑human clinical trials and accelerating momentum toward a potential commercially availble therapy.

The University of Missouri is scaling up the use of virtual fencing, a cutting-edge agricultural technology that’s gaining attention among livestock producers and state officials.

Egocentric vision, which captures the world from cameras worn on the human body, is rapidly emerging as a crucial frontier in artificial intelligence.

SAN ANTONIO — April 7, 2026 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has released its 2025 Internal Research & Development (IR&D) Annual Report, a yearly showcase of internally funded projects conducted by the Institute in 2025.

An intelligent monitoring pipe combines optical sensing with machine learning algorithms to monitor and predict 3D soil settlement, which could help provide early warnings of risks from soil settlement and prevent pipeline displacement and accidents from building cracks.

University of Tennessee researchers James Ostrowski and Rebekah Herrman are developing quantum-computing tools to tackle multi-stage stochastic decision problems in fields like energy, logistics, and healthcare. Their NSF-funded project combines quantum and classical methods, creates scenario-encoding strategies, benchmarks performance, trains PhD students, and releases open-source libraries so non-experts can test quantum optimization in real-world workflows.

JMIR Publications today announced the release of a timely new article in its News and Perspectives section, showcasing the urgent need to modernize the scientific record. The article, “Our AI-Powered Discoveries Are Trapped in a Predigital System,” details how shifting from a static, paper-based model to a data-native ecosystem can bridge the widening gap between rapid AI innovation and slow formal validation.