In the latest twist in the ongoing dispute over a prestigious Alzheimer's disease research project, USC is siphoning off much of the project's funding from UC San Diego.
Though the La Jolla campus has so far won in court — with a Superior Court judge giving it continued control of the Alzheimer's initiative — it is losing most of the contracts, money and trust of the program's participants across the country.
USC said it has obtained eight of the project's 10 main contracts after convincing sponsors that it is better suited to manage their clinical trials of experimental drugs and therapies for the neurological disorder.