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Recent News on the McG​owan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

10/05/23 – Dr. Almarza Awarded R01 Funding for TMD Research

10/05/23 –  Investing in the Future of Engineering: McGowan Faculty-Led Student Programs Receive an Additional $3.28 Million in NIH Funding

10/05/23 – Jamelle Price Selected to Participate in Appalachian Leadership Program

10/05/23 – Nano Today Publishes Study by Drs. Chandan K. Sen and Subhadip Ghatak

09/28/23 – Treating Trauma in Children: Dr. Spinella Co-Principal Investigator in $34M Clinical Trial

09/28/23 – Dr. Kim Awarded Grant from the Brain Aneurysm Foundation

09/28/23 – Dr. Sen Pens Article for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

09/21/23 – The Story Behind Restoring Sight

09/21/23 – BOOM: Pioneering Digital Bladder Collaboration Awarded $3.2 million, Dr. Robertson Co-Principal Investigator

09/21/23 – Dr. Singh Proposal Recommended for Department of Defense Funding

09/14/23 –  McGowan Researchers Examine Wound Healing in Diabetics

09/14/23 – Left Stimulated: Dr. Weber’s Work to Restore Hand and Arm Function after Stroke

09/14/23 –  Diversifying the Silver Screen: Dr. Cooper Featured in ReelAbilities Film Festival

09/07/23 –  Living-Donor Transplant Program: Dr. Mazariegos Collaborates to Save Toddler’s Life

09/07/23 – Dr. Angus Co-Authors Study that Seeks to Improve Equitable Access to Scarce Medication

08/28/23  – Inaugural Address of Professor Chandan K. Sen

08/24/23 – Treating Aortic Aneurysms with Click Chemistry: Dr. Vorp Receives Collaborative Sciences Award from the American Heart Association

08/24/23 – “Medical Readiness for the Future Fight”: McGowan and the Center for Military Medicine Research Attend Symposium

08/21/23 – Dr. Chandan Sen is appointed the new McGowan Institute Director, effective September 1, 2023

08/15/23 – Dr. Badylak Talks Ancient Egyptians, Immunology, and the Future of Biomaterials with Cool Science Radio

08/15/23 – Engineering Brain Healing: Dr. Kozai Awarded Additional Funding

08/15/23 – Dr. Delitto Honored by University of Buffalo with Distinguished Alumni Award

08/10/23 – At McGowan, Patents Translate to Patients, the Economy, and Putting Regenerative Medicine on the Map

08/10/23 – Dr. Napierala Recognized with Adele L. Boskey Award for Bone and Mineral Research

08/10/23 – Former McGowan Postdoc Named Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry

08/04/23 – Dr. Vo Awarded R-01 Funding to Study Disc Degeneration in Older Adults

08/04/23 – Discovering Why Women Are More at Risk from Respiratory Infection: Dr. Shoemaker Awarded Additional Funding for Study

08/04/23 – Dr. Singh Receives Early Career Abstract Award from the American Diabetes Association

07/27/23 – Dr. Lee Begins Role as CEO of Emory Healthcare

07/27/23 – Dr. Gottardi Recognized for Pediatric Airway Research by the Biomedical Engineering Society

07/27/23 – Study Reveals Dual Roles Wielded by Type of Cell Death Involved in Fighting Cancer

07/21/23 – A Hi-Res Map of the Lung: Dr. Rojas Contributes to World’s First Single-Cell Map of the Human Lung

07/21/23 – Dr. Kumta Named Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering

07/21/23 – Withstanding Ocean Depths: McGowan Faculty Join $7.5M Multidisciplinary Project to Engineer Adaptive Materials

07/12/23 – Dr. Sahel Awarded International Prize for Pioneering Optogenetic Work on Restoring Vision to Blind Patients

07/12/23 – New Study on the Association between Obesity, Inflammation, and Prolonged Symptoms after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

07/12/23 – Headed to Camp! Healing Pediatric Burn Survivors

07/06/23 – McGowan in the News: Named as “Key Player” on Shortlist of Artificial Lung Development

07/06/23 – The Ineffectiveness of Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitors: Dr. Mukkamala Participates on Medscape Panel

07/06/23 – Dr. Mota Alvidrez Chosen as KL2 Scholar at the University of New Mexico

06/28/23 – “He was brilliant.” Obituary: John N. Murphy

06/28/23 – Collaboration and Partial Liver Transplants Key in Preventing Pediatric Waitlist Deaths

06/28/23 – Dr. Kozai Presents at Neuroengineering Conference

06/23/23 – Dr. Robert Kormos Announces Two New FDA Clearances

06/23/23 – From Ice Hockey to Studying Heart Valves at the Wagner Lab

06/23/23 – Dr. Rory Cooper Receives Distinguished Eagle Scout Award

06/14/23 – McGowan in the News: Growing Pennsylvania’s “Space Ecosystem”

06/14/23 – New Approach to Treating Chronic Transplant Rejection

06/07/23 – Drs. Sanchez, Gerlach, and Noda Awarded R21 Funding

05/31/23 – New Research on the Role of Matrix-Bound Nanovesicles and Biologic Scaffold Materials in the Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis

05/31/23 – Dr. David Gau Honored by Pitt’s Postdoctoral Association

05/31/23 – Dr. Dan Ding Awarded Grant for New Course

05/24/23 – Drs. Phillippi, Kaczorowski, and Sanchez Awarded R01 Funding

05/24/23 – New Findings on Macrophages in ER+ Breast Cancer

05/24/23 – Dr. Kacey Marra Named 2023 ATHENA Award Winner

05/17/23 – Satdarshan (Paul) Monga Becomes Director of the New Pittsburgh Liver Institute

05/17/23 – Webster-Wood to Lead Transdisciplinary Team Building Actuators for Bio-bots

05/10/23 – Anne Robertson Delivers Elsevier Distinguished Lecture at Berkeley

05/10/23 – The “Heart and Soul” of the McGowan Institute: Executive Director John Murphy Retires

05/10/23 – Dr. Chandan Sen and Team to Join the McGowan Institute

05/10/23 – Dr. Cecelia Yates Receives 2024 ASIP Award

04/26/23 – Dr. William Wagner Receives the 2023 Marlin Mickle Outstanding Innovator Award

04/26/23 – HeadSMART II Clinical Study of BRAINBox TBI Concussion Diagnostic and Prognostic Test

04/26/23 – Pitt’s Healthy Home Lab Receives Funding to Make Homes Safer for Older Adults

04/19/23 – Using 3D Modeling to Stop Cancer’s Spread

04/19/23 – Searching for Chemical Clues to Uncurable Depression

04/19/23 – Better Than a Hole in the Head

04/12/23 – Multi-Center Study Sheds Light on Understudied Breast Cancer Type

04/12/23 – Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Can Provide a Cost-Effective Way to Noninvasively Monitor Intracranial Pressure

04/12/23 – Dr. Roberto Mota Alvidrez Receives FOCUS Funding

04/05/23 – 22nd McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Scientific Retreat

04/05/23 – Projecting a Path for Clinical Translation of 3D-Bioprinted Human Tissues

04/05/23 – New Treatment Strategies for Improved Pain Relief

03/29/23 - Newly Issued Patents for McGowan Institute Affiliated Faculty Members

03/29/23 - Dr. Seungil Kim Receives Brain Aneurysm Foundation Award

03/29/23 - Dr. Partha Roy Lab Member Receives NIH Career Transition Award to Treat Kidney Cancer

03/13/23 - Novel Gene Therapy Delivery System to the Retina

03/13/23 – The “Cellular” Network

03/13/23 - The American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Names New President

02/17/23 - Laryngotracheal Reconstruction

02/17/23 - Development of Specific Immunotherapies for Allergic Contact Dermatitis

02/17/23 - National Academy of Medicine 2022 Catalyst Awards

02/08/23 - Dr. Kyle Orwig Receives the ASRM Distinguished Researcher Award

02/08/23 - Designing Stimulation Paradigms to Elicit Astrocyte Activity Relevant to Sensory Restoration

02/08/23 - Bringing New Hope to Patients Suffering from Lung Fibrogenesis

01/25/23 - Deep Learning Models to Predict the Intensity of Myofascial Pain

01/25/23 - Dr. Zachary Freyberg Achieves Faculty Promotion

01/25/23 - Identifying New Therapeutic Targets to Treat Intervertebral Disc Degeneration

01/18/23 - The Blood Pressure Monitor of Your Dreams

01/18/23 - The Mysterious Mechanics of Morphogenesis

01/18/23 - Hydrogels Pave Way for Future of Soft Robotics

01/09/23 - FLASH Registry: Mechanical Thrombectomy Confers Good Short-Term Outcomes in PE

01/09/23 - Pitt Department of Bioengineering Grad Students Receive NIH F30 and F31 Predoctoral Fellowships

01/06/23 - Improving Survival During ECMO

Archive

December

12/28/22 - Additional Type 1 Diabetes Technology from the Lab of Dr. George Gittes Licensed to Genprex, Inc.

12/28/22 - Newly Issued Patents for McGowan Institute Affiliated Faculty Members

12/28/22 – Dr. Michael Boninger Named Co-Chief Sustainability Officer, UPMC

12/21/22 - Parkinson’s-Related Gene Also Impacts Brain Cell Branching and Function

12/21/22 - Life After Weight Loss Program

12/21/22 - Therapeutic Approaches to Help People Living with HIV

12/14/22 - 2022 NAI Fellows Named: Drs. James Antaki and Joseph Glorioso III

12/14/22 – Dr. Ellen Gawalt Becomes First Female Dean of Duquesne’s Bayer School

12/14/22 - Dr. Bernard Costello Moves from Dental Medicine to Associate Vice Chancellor

12/07/22 - FDA IND Received for Gene Therapy for the Treatment of Retinitis Pigmentosa

12/07/22 - Working to Restore a Healthy Microbiome

12/07/22 - Dr. Peter Wearden Named 2022 Finest Doctor in Orlando

12/05/22 - Laying the Groundwork for the Treatment of Temporomandibular Disorders

12/05/22 - New Animal Model to Study Human T Cell-Mediated Immunity

12/05/22 - A Smart Pill


November

11/25/22 - Advancing Circuit Manipulation Capabilities in the Brain

11/25/22 - Improving Motor Recovery in People with Chronic Post-Stroke Hemiparesis

11/25/22 - Art Therapy Assists in the Recovery of a Burn Patient

11/16/22 - Dr. Savio Woo Receives Distinguished Honor from ASME

11/16/22 - CPCS Among the Benefits of an Industry Partnership in Pittsburgh

11/16/22 - Hoping to Halt Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis

11/09/22 - Newly Issued Patents for McGowan Institute Affiliated Faculty Members

11/09/22 - Popular Mechanics Features Human Sight-Restoring Technologies

11/09/22 - Grant Boosts Respiratory Support for Lung Disease Patients

11/02/22 - Pitt Study Explains Why Adults’ Hearts Don’t Regenerate

11/02/22 - 2022 Michael Wells Competition

11/02/22 - 2022 PInCh® Winning Teams Include McGowan Institute Affiliated Faculty Members


October

10/27/22 - Addressing Chronic Rejection in Heart Transplants

10/27/22 - Dr. Anna Balasz Follows Her Scientific Bliss

10/27/22 - Review of Microfluidic Tools Shows Flow of Innovation

10/19/22 - Company Launches with $55 Million Seed to Reprogram Biology by Writing and Delivering Big DNA

10/19/22 - First Patient Enrolled in a Phase II Clinical Trial of CardiolRx(TM) for Treatment of Acute Myocarditis

10/19/22 - Dr. Kurt Weiss and Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma

10/12/22 - Using Artificial Intelligence to Build a Better Organoid

10/12/22 - Dr. Alejandro Almarza Receives $5.9M Grant to Study Pain

10/12/22 - 3D Printing Ice

10/05/22 - Protein Homeostasis in a Frontotemporal Dementia

10/05/22 - Dr. Erin Sullivan Achieves Faculty Promotion

10/05/22 - Weber Lab Member Named 2022 DARPA Riser


September

09/28/22 - Abbott’s Heartmate 3™ Heart Pump Extends Life Beyond 5 Years for Advanced Heart Failure Patients

09/28/22 - Model (Virus) Behavior

09/28/22 - Dr. Jonathan Cheetham: Touching a Nerve

09/21/22 - Newly Issued Patents for McGowan Institute Affiliated Faculty Members

09/21/22 - Carnegie Mellon Exosome Engineering Tech Licensed to Coya Therapeutics

09/21/22 - HERETIC Symposium, October 11-12, 2022, Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center

09/14/22 - Dr. MaCalus Hogan Named David Silver Professor and Chair of Pitt’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at UPMC

09/14/22 - Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association Reception at McGowan Institute

09/14/22 - Developing a Novel Extracorporeal Hemoadsorption Device

09/07/22 - Dr. Eric Lagasse to Receive 2022 Innovation Award from the Carnegie Science Center

09/07/22 - Mother’s Milk Cells Key to Novel Infant Disease Therapy

09/07/22 - Dr. Zachary Freyberg Named Psychiatry Research Pathway Associate Director


August

08/31/22 - Growing New Organs in a Person for the First Time

08/31/22 - Experts Study Marine Mammals to Learn About Human Hearing

08/31/22 - Dr. Tetsuro Sakai Selected for ILTS Special Interest Groups Steering Committee

08/24/22 - Newly Issued Patents for McGowan Institute Affiliated Faculty Members

08/24/22 - New Study Highlights Differences in Neuropathic Pain Relief for Men and Women

08/24/22 - Self-Assembled, Interlocked Threads: Spinning Yarn with No Machine Needed

08/17/22 - Podcast: Identifying Effective Biomarkers of Disease in Transplantation with Dr. Hēth Turnquist

08/17/22 - Building a Better Blood Bank—in Kenya

08/17/22 - Dr. Thomas Rando Receives Prestigious NOMIS Foundation Award to Study Stem Cell Quiescence

08/10/22 - Dr. Sanjeev Shroff Named Interim Dean of Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering

08/10/22 - Dr. Ipsita Banerjee Receives Faculty Promotion

08/10/22 - Pitt’s RNEL and Blackrock Neurotech to Expand Reach of Brain-Computer Interface Trials with In-Home System

08/03/22 - Dr. Hēth Turnquist Received AST Basic Science Investigator Award

08/03/22 - Small Package, Big Potential to Help Cell-Based Therapies

08/03/22 - Dr. Anne Robertson Promoted to Distinguished Service Professor


July

07/27/22 - Developing Next-Generation AAV Gene Therapy Vectors for Ocular Diseases

07/27/22 - Ketogenic Diet Helps Mouse Muscle Stem Cells Survive Stress

07/27/22 - Dr. Steffi Oesterreich Named a Komen Scholar

07/20/22 - Welcome: Dr. Chadi Hage, Medical Director of UPMC’s Lung Transplant Program

07/20/22 - Concussion Incidence Increases the Risk of a Suicide Attempt in Some Children with a History of Depression

07/20/22 - Pittsburgh Craniofacial Sciences Training Program (PCSTP)

07/13/22 - Dr. Stephen Badylak Named Inaugural Winner of the Jensen Tissue Engineering Award

07/13/22 - Newsweek’s Top Plastic Surgeons in the USA

07/13/22 - Dancing in the Light

07/06/22 - Dr. John Kellum and Colleagues Push for Prognostic Test to End ‘Silent Epidemic’

07/06/22 - Collaborators Receive $250,000 SBIR Grant in Support of Transplants for Kids Project

07/06/22 - Heady Math Could Resolve a Breathy Conundrum

07/06/22 - Students Win Competitive NSF Research Fellowships


June

06/29/22 - McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Spotlight: Antonio D’Amore, PhD

06/29/22 - It Takes a Heart to Make a Better Lung

06/29/22 - Swanson School of Engineering 175th Anniversary Oral History Project

06/15/22 - The University of Pittsburgh Will Compete for $10 Billion in Military Health Contracts

06/15/22 - Machine Learning Model Can Steer Traumatic Brain Injury Patients to Life-Saving Care

06/15/22 - Pitt Spinout Company, Oncorus, Moves Forward

06/15/22 - Make-A-Wish and Its Impact

06/08/22 - Dr. Valerian Kagan Is the ‘Cover Scientist’ of Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

06/08/22 - CMMR AI/ML Symposium and Healthcare Lessons from the Military

06/08/22 - Dr. Zachary Freyberg Named a Member of The American Society for Clinical Investigation

06/08/22 - Discovery of Cell-Based Chemical Probes Targeting Aberrant Angiogenesis in the Eye

06/01/22 - Recruiting Patients – Clinical Trial – Volumetric Muscle Loss

06/01/22 - Transplantation Science and the Department of Defense: A Unique Partnership

06/01/22 - Endovascular Orifice Detection Device for In Situ Fenestration of AAA

06/01/22 - Students Win at 2022 Design EXPO


May

05/25/22 - LivaNova PLC Acquires ALung Technologies, Inc.

05/25/22 - New Coronavirus Variant of Concern Detected in Western Pennsylvania

05/25/22 - Dr. Bernard Costello Named a Member of the 2022 Health Care Power 100

05/25/22 - McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine 2022 Best Doctors

05/18/22 - New Insights About ‘Bad News’ Breast Cancer Mutation Point to Treatment Opportunities

05/18/22 - Welcome: Dr. Daniel Forman

05/18/22 - First Gear Teams Shine in SHRS Innovation Challenge

05/18/22 - Collaboration Shapes Extracellular Vesicle Retention Strategy

05/11/22 - Hepato-Healing: A Treatment from Within

05/11/22 - Cardiomyopathy Leads to Heart Transplantation for Sharpsville Man

05/11/22 - Illumination of Immune Checkpoint LAG3 ‘Black Box’ Could Yield New Cancer and Autoimmune Therapies

05/11/22 - Dr. Steffi Oesterreich Named Shear Family Endowed Chair in Breast Cancer Research

05/05/22 - Dr. William Wagner Named 2022-2023 President-Elect for the Society For Biomaterials

05/05/22 - Dr. Eva Lai Joins Pitt’s Swanson School as Director for Partnerships and Innovations

05/05/22 - New Hope for Predicting and Treating Heart Failure in Babies Born with Deadly Heart Defect

05/05/22 - Sensing Signals in Paralyzed Muscles


April

04/27/22 - Drs. Kacey Marra and Eric Lagasse Recognized During Pitt’s Celebration of Innovation

04/27/22 - Upcoming Stentrode Trial in Pittsburgh to Help Patients with Quadriparesis

04/27/22 - Department of Physical Therapy Professor Named a Gerontological Society of America Fellow

04/27/22 - ISHLT Names Newly Elected Professional Community Leaders

04/20/22 - EV2 Technologies Takes 2nd Place in 2022 Randall Family Big Idea Competition, Wins $15K Prize

04/20/22 - Dr. Ernest Manders Receives Scientific Achievement Award

04/20/22 - Podcast: Cellular and Molecular Engineering in Orthopaedic Research with Dr. Peter Alexander

04/20/22 - Welcome: Dr. Ramakrishna Mukkamala

04/13/22 - R01 Grant Received for Research of Cholestatic Liver Diseases

04/13/22 - Podcast: A History of Mechanical Circulatory Support of the Heart with Dr. Harvey Borovetz

04/13/22 - Bone Super Glue Travels to Space

04/13/22 - Welcome: Dr. Hamza Yazdani

04/06/22 - Podcast: DARPA “Mini-Manhattan Project” for Wound Healing with Dr. Stephen Badylak

04/06/22 - Treatment Correcting Night Blindness in Dogs Offers Hope for Treating Similar Condition in People

04/06/22 - Dr. Dan Ding: New Tech Making Fitness More Accessible to People of All Abilities

04/06/22 - April is Donate Life Month


March

03/30/22 - Podcast: In-Space Production of Biomanufacturing with Ms. Christine Kretz and Dr. William Wagner

03/30/22 - Newly Issued Patents for McGowan Institute Affiliated Faculty Members

03/30/22 - Dr. Stefanie Sydlik Named Member of CMU’s Inaugural Class of Tartans on the Rise

03/23/22 - March is Women’s History Month

03/23/22 - Podcast: ECM and Tissue Reconstruction with Dr. George Hussey

03/16/22 - Dr. David Kaczorowski on Xenotransplantation

03/16/22 - Dr. Cecelia Yates Receives Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award

03/16/22 - Investigating the Effects of Critical Illness in Early Childhood on Neurocognitive Outcomes

03/16/22 - Funding to Advance the Pittsburgh Center for Interdisciplinary Bone and Mineral Research

03/10/22 - 21st McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Scientific Retreat

03/09/22 - The Relationship Between Blood-Based Bioenergetics and Muscle Function, Mobility,3and Aging

03/09/22 - Characterizing the Progression of Atherosclerotic Plaques and Predicting Rupture Vulnerability

03/09/22 - Study Points to Missing Link Between Age-Related Fat Loss and Diseases of Aging

03/09/22 - Dr. Kurt Weiss Named MIB Agents’ 2021 OutSmarting Osteosarcoma Research Grant Winner

03/02/22 - Newly Issued Patents for McGowan Institute Affiliated Faculty Members

03/02/22 - Can AI Help Unravel the Mysteries of Sepsis and Save Lives?

03/02/22 - When a Protective Gene Buffers a Bad One, a Heart Can Beat

03/02/22 - Agreement to Bioengineer Innovative Approaches to Organ Transplantation


February

02/23/22 - Youbiotics Receives Commercialization Grant from Pitt Chancellor’s Gap Fund

02/23/22 - New Computational Tool Predicts Cell Fates and Genetic Perturbations

02/23/22 - Calming the Cytokine Storm

02/23/22 - The Shift to Using Fewer Opioids 

02/16/22 - Dr. Anna Balazs Named Member of the National Academy of Engineering

02/16/22 - Drs. Antonio D’Amore and Cecelia Yates Elected to The National Academy of Inventors 2022 Class of Senior Members

02/16/22 - Researchers Discover New Way to Target Secondary Breast Cancer that Has Spread to the Brain

02/09/22 - New Peer-Reviewed Publication Expanding Liver Regeneration Technology

02/09/22 - Dr. Tagbo Niepa Receives 2022 NSF CAREER Award

02/09/22 - Welcome: Dr. Jarrett Cain

02/09/22 - National Burn Awareness Week – February 6-12

02/02/22 - Possible Stroke Therapy Advances with Development of a Cell Tracking Tool

02/02/22 - Dr. Steve Little Among Newest Class of AAAS Fellows

02/02/22 - Welcome: Dr. Johannes Bonatti

02/02/22 - Precision Rehabilitation to Prevent Osteoarthritis


January

01/26/22 - Dr. David Kaczorowski Member of Surgical Team on Historic First Successful Transplant of Porcine Heart into Adult Human with End-Stage Heart Disease

01/26/22 - Welcome: Dr. Allison Bean

01/26/22 - Dr. Keith Cook Named Head of Biomedical Engineering at CMU

01/19/22 - Conducting a Preclinical Assessment of a Compliance Matched Biopolymer Vascular Graft

01/19/22 - Measuring Tiny Eye Movements Can Help Identify Vision Impairments After Concussions

01/19/22 - Blood from Marathoner Mice Boosts Brain Function in Their Couch-Potato Counterparts

01/19/22 - Mapping the Cell Specific DNA Damage-Induced Molecular and Bioelectrical Responses in the 3D Cardiac Unit

01/12/22 - Traumatic Injury Response Characterized for First Time on Cellular Level

01/12/22 - Researchers Earn Charles E. Kaufman Foundation Grants

01/12/22 - Fall 2021 Design Expo Showcases Engineering Undergrads Imaginative Designs

01/12/22 - Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Announces Research AgreNew Game to Help Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy for Teens, Childrenements to Advance Its Path to a Cure

01/05/22 - Leveraging Space to Advance Stem Cell Science and Medicine

01/05/22 - When Demand Outstrips Capacity, Injections of COVID-19 Treatment Instead of IV Are Justified

01/05/22 - Pittsburgh Startups to Watch in 2022

01/05/22 - Uncovering a Promising Use Case for Exosomes

December

12/15/21 - Surviving COVID: Comorbidities Don’t Tell the Full Story

12/15/21 - Pitt Researchers Receive Grant to Explore Wireless Technology for Those with Disabilities

12/15/21 - 11th Annual Michael G. Wells Student Healthcare Competition Winners

12/15/21 - Bridging Campuses and Increasing Opportunities in STEM

12/08/21 - Dr. Steven Little Selected to the 2021 Fellow Class of NAI

12/08/21 - Study Identifies Factor in ‘Young Blood’ That Helps Rejuvenate Aged Mouse Muscle

12/08/21 - Dr. William Wagner Points to Bright Future for Regenerative Medicine

12/08/21 - Pitt Researchers Identify Molecular Underpinnings of Liver Disease in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis

12/01/21 - Intracerebral Cell Therapy and the Impact of Physical Ther

12/01/21 - FLASH Registry Interim Data Demonstrating Benefits of Lytic-Free Mechanical Thrombectomy

12/01/21 - Dr. Michael Lotze Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award from Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer

12/01/21 - Testicular Tissue Cryopreservation Shown to Be a Safe and Feasible Option of Male Fertility Preservation


November

11/24/21 - Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Training Program Receives $1.6 Million Funding

11/24/21 - LyGenesis Adds Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Orphan Pediatric Indications with Large Unmet Needs, to its Drug Development Pipeline

11/24/21 - Badylak Lab Student Wins Outstanding Student Award from TERMIS-AA

11/24/21 - $1 Million Magee Prize Awarded to Dr. Pamela Moalli and Team

11/17/21 - Hemolung Respiratory Assist System Receives FDA De Novo Clearance

11/17/21 - Honoring Veterans in Research

11/17/21 - Dr. Burhan Gharaibeh Awarded the Discipline-based Science Education Research Leader Award

11/17/21 - Novel Computational Pipeline Could Help Repurpose Cancer Drugs for Rare Diseases

11/10/21 - A New Breakthrough for Treatment of Male Infertility

11/10/21 - Newly Patented Device Anchored in 50+ Years of Musculoskeletal Research

11/10/21 - Dr. Elizabeth Wayne Awarded NIH R35 Grant for Macrophage Polarization Research

11/10/21 - Molecular Atlas of Senescent Cells Could Chart Way to Therapies for Age-Related Diseases and Cancer

11/03/21 - Dr. Peter Rubin Elected President of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons

11/03/21 - Novel Gene Therapy Platform Speeds Search for Ways to Cure Blindness

11/03/21 - 2021 Pitt Innovation Challenge Winners Named

11/03/21 - Dr. Xi (Charlie) Ren Receives National Academy of Medicine Award


October

10/06/21 - COVID Antibody Tests: Are They Necessary?

10/06/21 - Magee-Womens Research Institute Announces Finalists for $1 Million Prize

10/06/21 - Podcast: Lifestyle Medicine with Drs. Yoram Vodovotz and Michael Parkinson

10/06/21 - Controlling the Output Signals of the Basal Ganglia

10/27/21 - Convalescent Plasma Futile as Treatment for Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients

10/27/21 - Using AI to Treat Acute Kidney Injuries

10/27/21 - Podcast: Cardiovascular Services with Mr. Stephen Winowich

10/27/21 - New Material Aids in Neural Stimulation

10/20/21 - Development of Advanced Drug Delivery Systems to Address Global Environmental Challenge

10/20/21 - Dopamine Fasting: Is It Possible?

10/20/21 - Podcast: Tissue Engineering and Wound Healing with Dr. Neill Turner

10/20/21 - BRAIN Initiative Funding Received for BCI Development and Testing

10/13/21 - Identification of Therapeutic Strategies to Prevent or Halt Progression of Chronic Liver Diseases

10/13/21 - Podcast: Synthetic Biology and Genetic Therapeutics with Dr. Samira Kiani

10/13/21 - Lightening the Load of Multi-Material Manufacturing with 3D Printing

10/13/21 - Pneumococcal Extracellular Vesicles Modulate the Immune Response


September

09/29/21 - Dr. Steven Little Named Distinguished Professor

09/29/21 - Podcast: Ectopic Organogenesis with Drs. Lagasse and Hufford

09/29/21 - UPMC and Pitt Provide First Results of Largest Comparative Randomized Trial of Monoclonal Antibody Treatment for COVID-19

09/21/21 - In Memoriam: Dr. Freddie Fu

09/22/21 - Are COVID Variants Treated Differently, or Is COVID Just COVID?

09/22/21 - Through TED-Ed, Dr. Elizabeth Wayne Explains mRNA Technology and COVID Vaccines

09/22/21 - Dr. Rory Cooper Receives Science and Society Award

09/22/21 - Walking – It’s in Your Genes!

09/15/21 - Blood Thinners Reduce Need for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Support in Certain COVID-19 Patients

09/15/21 - Double Lung Transplant Done Twice

09/15/21 - Researchers Develop Coating for Endotracheal Tubes that Releases Antimicrobial Peptides

09/15/21 - Finding Inspiration to Rebuild Human Heart Muscle

09/08/21 - Dr. Eric Lagasse Kicks Off Pathology Department Research Seminar Series

09/08/21 - Top Dentists Honored in Pittsburgh Magazine

09/08/21 - Dr. Kathryn Whitehead Participates in TED/Monteray

09/08/21 - Dynamic Heart Model Advances Engineered Heart Tissue Tech

09/01/21 - Dr. Tracy Cui Receives Chancellor’s Gap Project Funding

09/01/21 - Predicting Complications Postpartum

09/01/21 - Dr. John Pacella to Serve as Co-Investigator on NHLBI Grant

09/01/21 - Vascular Bioengineering Lab Receives Funding to Track Aneurysms and Predict Rupture


August

08/25/21 - BNP Test: Critical for PPCM Patients

08/25/21 - COVID’s Effects on Kids

08/25/21 - Dr. Rory Cooper Receives 2021 Seed Grant Funding

08/25/21 - Like Priming a Pump, Changes in Cells Damaged by Chronic Lung Disease Can Result in Severe COVID-19

08/18/21 - UPMC-Pitt Researchers Receive Grant to Advance Liver Organoids

08/18/21 - Dr. Jonathan Vande Geest Elected Fellow of ASME

08/18/21 - Research Offers New Insight for Treating Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer

08/11/21 - Dr. Peter Rubin Leads Clinical Trial Assessing Treatment of Partial Thickness Burns

08/11/21 - Dr. Mary Amanda Dew Honored by Society for Health Psychology

08/11/21 - Dr. Freddie Fu Receives EFORT Recognition for Contributions to the International Orthopaedic Community

08/11/21 - Dr. Thomas Rando Named Director of UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center

08/04/21 - ISSRDC Highlights Opportunities Within Biomanufacturing in Space

08/04/21 - Exploring Silk’s Full Potential

08/04/21 - Divers Have Brain Oxygen Levels Even Lower Than Seals During Deep Dives

08/04/21 - Dr. Rory Cooper Receives IEEE Honor


July

07/28/21 - Dr. Q&A: Plastic vs Cosmetic Surgery with Dr. Peter Rubin

07/28/21 - UPMC, Pitt Pediatricians Make Rare Disease Breakthrough

07/28/21 - Nanotechnology May Help Improve Organ Transplantation Outcomes

07/28/21 - How Fibrosis Can Start and Become Devastating in Different Body Tissues

07/21/21 - Pitt-UPMC Scientists Are Inventing mRNA Vaccine to Cure Liver Failure

07/21/21 - Gamifying Vision: How Mobile Gaming Is Tracking Vision Degradation in Patients

07/21/21 - Kozai Lab Student Receives NIH F99/K00 Pre-To-Postdoc Award to Improve Brain Implants

07/21/21 - Modeling Women’s Health After Childbirth

07/14/21 - Sense of Touch Improves Control of Robotic Arm

07/14/21 - Pitt Scientists Who Regrew Retina Cells to Restore Vision in Tiny Fish Set Their Sights on Humans

07/14/21 - Roy Lab Student Abigail Allen Receives NIH F31 for Her Cardiovascular Research

07/14/21 - SURGIMESH Benefits Hernia Patients

07/07/21 - ECM a Part of VML Treatment

07/07/21 - Missing Bile Ducts Offer Clues to Mechanism of Liver Injury

07/07/21 - Dr. Yoram Vodovotz Named Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Systems Biology

07/07/21 - Study: Immunocompromised Response to COVID-19 Vaccination


June

06/30/21 - Dr. Stephen Badylak: Award Winning Paper

06/30/21 - Novel Immunotherapy Boosts Long-Term Stroke Recovery in Mice

06/30/21 - Engineering Smarter Stents

06/30/21 - Dr. Kenton Gregory to Support Development of AI-Based Applications for Mass Casualty Events

06/23/21 - Dr. Peter Rubin Named in Newsweek's America's Best Plastic Surgeons 2021

06/23/21 - Dr. Mo Ebrahimkhani Explains a Machine Learning-Enabled Shortcut to Engineer Human Liver Organoids

06/23/21 - Pitt TEDx 2021: William Wagner, PhD

06/23/21 - Dr. Ellen Gawalt Named Interim Dean of Duquesne's Bayer School

06/16/21 - 54 Current McGowan Institute Affiliated Faculty Members Ranked in Top 2% of World Scientists

06/16/21 - Dr. Kacey Marra Receives $2M DOD Grant for Nerve Guide Work

06/16/21 - COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Reduces Risk of Hospitalization and Death in UPMC Patients

06/16/21 - Implantable 'Living Pharmacy' Could Control Body's Sleep/Wake Cycles

06/09/21 - Landmark Data Presented for ZFUZE Surgical Polymer

06/09/21 - Partnership with OmniLife to Support the Starzl Network for Excellence in Pediatric Transplantation

06/09/21 - Dr. Rory Cooper Receives Pennsylvania Veterans Service Award

06/09/21 - Dr. Victoria Webster-Wood Receives NSF 2021 CAREER Award

06/02/21 - Protein Linked to Sex Differences in Age-Related Neuron Loss

06/02/21 - No Benefit to Tubes Over Antibiotics for Ear Infection

06/02/21 - McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine 2021 Best Doctors


May

05/26/21 - Injection of Light-Sensitive Proteins Restores Blind Man’s Vision

05/26/21 - 2021 IAMBE Fellows Named

05/26/21 - Combined Therapies Increase Treatment Options for Patients with Chronic Lung Disease

05/26/21 - Prosthetic Hook Mouse for People with Upper-Limb Amputations

05/19/21 - Serving Those Who Serve

05/19/21 - Long-Term Care Residents Mount Antibodies to COVID Vaccines

05/19/21 - Breast Cancer Treatment in Those Over 70 Can Be Reduced

05/19/21 - Federal Policy to Reduce Sepsis Deaths Mostly Ineffective

05/13/21 - Certain Cancer Patients at Risk of COVID-19 Vaccine Failure

05/13/21 - Studying the Mechanism Behind Metastatic Breast Cancer

05/13/21 - Students Selected for the 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

05/13/21 - 2020-2021 Engineering Graduate Student Organization Award Recipients

05/05/21 - Work of Dr. Eric Lagasse Highlighted in Forbes

05/05/21 - Controlled Release Society to Present Dr. Steven Little with Distinguished Service Award

05/05/21 - PNA-Based Technique an Essential Part of the Gene Editing Toolkit

05/05/21 - Winners from Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference


April

04/29/21 - Study Reveals Roadmap of Muscle Decline with Age

04/29/21 - Genprex Received Inaugural “License of the Year” Award from University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute in Recognition of Advances Made with Gene Therapy Program in Diabetes

04/29/21 - Dr. Anna Balazs Elected to National Academy of Sciences

04/29/21 - Giants in Orthopaedic Sport Medicine: Dr. Savio Woo

04/22/21 - Pitt Skin Patch Vaccine Partners with Cambridge COVID-19 Biotech Startup

04/22/21 - A Super Researcher

04/22/21 - DIY Device Climbs to the Top of the Charts

04/22/21 - Unlocking Richer Intracellular Recordings

04/14/21 - Dr. William Wagner Named Society For Biomaterials 2021 Founders Award Recipient

04/14/21 - COVID-19 Treatment Reduces Risk of Hospitalization, Death

04/14/21 - Brown Lab’s Marissa Behun Receives CTS Predoctoral Fellowship

04/14/21 - Welcome: Dr. Sruti Shiva

04/07/21 - Dr. Cecelia Yates to Receive the Emerging Innovator Award

04/07/21 - Dr. William Federspiel to Receive the 2020 Marlin Mickle Outstanding Innovator Award

04/07/21 - Stem Cells Derived from Fat Show Promise as a Treatment for Mass Radiation Exposure

04/07/21 - Pre-Pandemic Hospital Surge Capacity ‘Time Capsule’


March

03/31/21 - A Joint Effort to Improve Shoulder Surgery

03/31/21 - 2021 ISSLS Prize in Basic Science Awarded to Dr. Nam Vo

03/31/21 - Researchers at University of Pittsburgh Design Active Materials for Self-Regulating Soft Robots

03/31/21 - UPMC Leadership Changes

03/25/21 - McGowan Institute Quality Management Specialists Assist Pitt’s Center for Vaccine Research and Others

03/25/21 - ALung Announces a Key Milestone Achievement in Its VENT-AVOID Pivotal Trial

03/25/21 - For Women’s History Month, Women in STEM Share Their Journeys

03/25/21 - Pitt and RevBio to Conduct an In Vivo Bone Experiment on the International Space Station

03/17/21 - 20th McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Scientific Retreat

03/17/21 - Virtual Pitt Health Academy: Research in Orbit

03/17/21 - Advancements in Vision Care Lead the Way in Hillman Foundation $25 Million Gift

03/17/21 - Dr. Freddie Fu is the Most-Cited Author on ACL Reconstruction

03/10/21 - Hypertensive Pregnancy Linked with Risks of Heart Disease

03/10/21 - Welcome: Dr. Anita Saraf

03/10/21 - Dr. Rocky Tuan Named 2021 Fellow of the ORS

03/10/21 - Shifting Gears Toward Chemical Machines

03/03/21 - Using a Machine Model to Predict Risk of Human Aneurysms

03/03/21 - Drs. Adam Feinberg and Kathryn Whitehead Elected AIMBE 2021 Fellows

03/03/21 - Commonalities Found Between Viral Infections and Ovarian Cancer

03/03/21 - Podcast: Dr. Ioannis Zervantonakis Discusses the Microenvironment of Tumors


February

02/24/21 - Pitt Scientists Find the Key to Viral-Bacterial Co-Infection

02/24/21 - Dr. Heather Szabo-Rogers Receives Grant from American Association for Anatomy

02/24/21 - Study Examines Social Determinants of Disparities in Kidney Transplantation

02/24/21 - Experts Study ACL Injury Features with 3D Statistical Shape Modeling

02/18/21 - 2021 Class of NAI Senior Members Announced

02/18/21 - Dr. George Michalopoulos Awarded R01

02/18/21 - Liver Research Papers Published

02/18/21 - Pitt Researchers Solve Mystery of Metabolic Dysfunction in Psychiatric Patients

02/10/21 - Pitt-McGowan Institute Center for Preclinical Studies Supports Total Artificial Heart Study

02/10/21 - Microscopic Look at Aneurysm Repair

02/10/21 - Dr. MaCalus Hogan Joins Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Foundation Board of Directors

02/10/21 - Dr. Ted Sakai to Join Editorial Board

02/04/21 - Six “Pills” for a Longer and Better Life

02/04/21 - Saving Baby Teeth to Treat Future Medical Needs

02/04/21 - A Potential New Therapeutic Target for Kidney Cancer

02/04/21 - Drs. Alejandro Almarza and Juan Taboas Awarded NIH R01 Grant


January

01/27/21 - McGowan Institute Faculty Support Student Winners at iGEM

01/27/21 - U.S. FDA and University of Pittsburgh Announce Collaboration to Research and Develop Innovative 7herapies to Help Restore Vision

01/27/21 - Dr. Mario Solari Receives MTF Biologics Allograft Tissue Research Grant

01/27/21 - METAvivor Translational Research Award Received by Dr. Steffi Oesterreich

01/21/21 - Breathing Easier with a Better Tracheal Stent

01/21/21 - Brain Imaging Predicts PTSD After Brain Injury

01/21/21 - The Force to Shape an Organ

01/21/21 - Will the Science of Aging Reversal Come into Its Own in 2021?

01/13/21 - Improving the Efficiency of Neural Stem Cell Delivery to the Area of Stroke

01/13/21 - Dr. Youngjae Chun Receives Second-Year Research Funding from The Children’s Heart Foundation

01/13/21 - Stress May Awaken Dormant Cancer Cells

01/13/21 - Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Announces Research Agreements to Advance Its Path to a Cure

01/06/21 - Dr. William Wagner Named Society for Biomaterials 2021 Founders Award Recipient

01/06/21 - Dr. Nathan Bahary Expands on Recent Advances with Actionable Alterations Spanning GI Cancers

01/06/21 - Dr. Anne Robertson Named Inaugural SSOE Associate Dean of Faculty Development

01/06/21 - Overlooked Treatment May Improve Survival Rates for Ovarian Cancer Patients

December

12/23/20 - Dr. Stephen Badylak Named Fellow, Biomaterials Science and Engineering

12/23/20 - Phase III Clinical Trial Data of Gene Therapy to Treat Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy Published

12/23/20 - Two Teams of Pitt Students Launch Experiments to International Space Station

12/17/20 - Where Applied Biophysics Meets Tissue Engineering and Cellular Therapies

12/17/20 - Dr. Jason Shoemaker Awarded Two NIAID Grants

12/17/20 - Podcast: Sports Guidelines During COVID-19

12/17/20 - Dr. Rory Cooper Appointed Assistant Vice Chancellor for Researche

12/16/20 - Regenerative Medicine Patient Runs 5K Race in 2020 After Above-the-Knee Amputation in 2015

12/09/20 - Drs. MaCalus Hogan and James Wang Receive J. Leonard Goldner Award for Best Paper

12/09/20 - Positive Effects of Physical Activity in Bariatric Surgery Patients

12/09/20 - Dr. Faina Linkov Named 2020 AAAS Fellow

12/08/20 - Synthetic Biology and Machine Learning Speed the Creation of Lab-Grown Livers

12/02/20 - 3D Bioprinted Heart Provides New Tool for Surgeons

12/02/20 - Podcast: What’s New in Military Medicine with Dr. Ron Poropatich

12/02/20 - Latinx Community Engagement Grant Awarded to Team of Engineers, Art Historians, and Public Health Educators


November

11/25/20 - COVID-19 Response Update with Dr. Derek Angus

11/25/20 - Bioengineering PhD Students Receive External Fellowships in Academic Year 2020

11/25/20 - Genprex Strengthens Scientific Advisory Board with Appointment of Dr. George Gittes

11/25/20 - Oncorus Has ‘Largest IPO’ Out of Any Pitt Spinout

11/18/20 - Updated Heart Transplant Allocation Policy Evaluated

11/18/20 - Enrollment of the First Patient in the Immune Modulation Domain of REMAP-COVID

11/18/20 - Two McGowan Institute Faculty Team Projects Continue in the Michael G. Wells Competition

11/18/20 - Dr. John Pollock Receives 2020 Science Education Award from the SfN

11/11/20 - Hydroxychloroquine Doesn’t Help COVID-19 In Patients

11/11/20 - Gene Therapy Treatment for Retinitis Pigmentosa Receives $58 Million Financing

11/11/20 - Questionnaire-Based Tool Measures Fatigue in Patients Receiving Dialysis

11/04/20 - Darleen Noah Named a 2020 CFO of the Year Awards Winner by Pittsburgh Business Times

11/04/20 - Dr. Bradley Nindl to Co-PI Study on Gender Integration at Marine Corps Boot Camps’

11/04/20 - Dr. Catalin Toma Reports Interim FLASH Registry Results on FlowTriever System

11/04/20 - Roy Lab Research Featured in JBC Special Virtual Issue


October

10/28/20 - DiFusion’s New ZFUZE Biomaterial Data Beats Titanium in Multiple Studies

10/28/20 - For COVID-19, Immune System Can Be ‘A Hero or A Villain’

10/28/20 - Dr. Sanjeev Shroff Inducted as Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering

10/28/20 - Getting the Full Scope

10/21/20 - McGowan Institute Faculty Teams Win Pitt Innovation Challenge

10/21/20 - Monitoring Coronary Artery Disease in Real-Time

10/21/20 - Dr. Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez Receives NIH Funding to Use Tiny, Bioengineered Organ Models to Improve Clinical Trials’ Development and Design

10/21/20 - npj Regenerative Medicine: Meeting Report of 8th Annual International Symposium on Regenerative Rehabilitation Now Available

10/14/20 - Dr. Dennis McNamara to Lead Cardiol Therapeutics Phase II/III COVID-19 Trial

10/14/20 - Dr. Ora Weisz Named 2020 Fellow of ASCB

10/14/20 - An Approach to the Protein Aggregation Problem in Therapeutic Bioprocessing

10/14/20 - Dr. Derek Angus Named Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Care Innovation

10/07/20 - Dr. Stephen Badylak’s Work Featured on Life 2.0: Body Shop

10/07/20 - Rapid Blood Test Could Detect Brain Injury in Minutes

10/07/20 - Team Receives $1M NSF Award to Create At-Home Glaucoma Monitoring Device

10/07/20 - HERL Receives Patent for Computer Pointing Device


September

09/30/20 - Study Shows How COVID-19 Could Lead to Runaway Inflammation

09/30/20 - Catalyzing an Improved Arterial Bypass Graft

09/30/20 - The Transplantation Society Honors Dr. Anthony Demetris with Recognition Award

09/30/20 - Tailor-Made Polymers Easier to Obtain

09/23/20 - Mesoscale Diffusion MRI of the Ex Vivo Human Hippocampus

09/23/20 - Dr. Derek Angus Assumes JAMA Senior Editor Role

09/23/20 - Predictive Placentas: Using Artificial Intelligence to Protect Mothers’ Future Pregnancies

09/23/20 - Abbott Lab Student Helps Build Silk Scaffolding for Tissue

09/16/20 - Editing the Immune Response to Boost Gene Therapy

09/16/20 - Calcium Helps Build Strong Cells

09/16/20 - Fellows Elected IAMBE Class 2020

09/09/20 - Surgical Benefits of Artificial Intelligence

09/09/20 - $31 Million Received to Study Regenerative Therapy Solutions for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Medicine

09/09/20 - Steroids Improve Survival in Very Ill COVID-19 Patients

09/09/20 - Plexiglass Alone Can’t Protect Against Aerosolized Virus

09/02/20 - Organ Regeneration Technology Is Focus of Four Peer-Reviewed Publications

09/02/20 - Blood-Thinner with No Bleeding Side-Effects Is On the Horizon

09/02/20 - Dr. Jenny Yu and the Treatment of Thyroid Eye Disease at Home


August

08/26/20 - Pigs Grow New Liver in Lymph Nodes, Study Shows

08/26/20 - Top Dentists Honored in Pittsburgh Magazine

08/26/20 - Drs. Jelena Janjic and Vijay Gorantla Receive Department of Defense Research Grant

08/26/20 - Dr. Eni Halilaj Receives Post-Doctoral Young Scientist Award from American Society of Biomechanics

08/19/20 - Dr. Stephen Badylak Extracellular Matrix Work Receives Two More U.S. Patents

08/19/20 - SBIR Grant to Address Microvascular Obstructions

08/19/20 - U.S. Department of Transportation Grants $1 Million to Pitt’s New University Transportation Center

08/19/20 - Cook Lab Student Awarded 2020 Mara H. Wasburn Early Engineering Educator Grant

08/12/20 - Dr. Kacey Marra Forms AxoMax Technologies to Commercialize Nerve Repair Research

08/12/20 - Nindl Lab Student Receives the 2020 Colonel Mary Lipscomb Hamrick Army Medical Specialist Corps Manuscript Award

08/12/20 - Dr. Stefanie Sydlik Joins World Economic Forum’s Community of Young Scientists

08/12/20 - The American Liver Foundation and UPMC Partner to Raise Awareness of Living-Donor Liver Transplants

08/05/20 - Project on Analyzing Cells for Future Biomedical Devices Awarded 5-Year NIH Grant

08/05/20 - Spinal Stimulators Repurposed to Restore Touch in Lost Limb

08/05/20 - Dr. Michael Pinsky Receives 2020 ATS Assembly on CC Annual Lifetime Achievement Award

08/05/20 - Podcast: Current Vision Research with Dr. José-Alain Sahel


July

07/29/20 - Podcast: Cardiothoracic Physician-Scientist Education/Training with Dr. Garret Coyan

07/29/20 - Dr. Derek Angus Appointed UPMC’s Chief Healthcare Innovation Officer

07/29/20 - Welcome: Dr. Samira Kiani

07/29/20 - Dr. Sachin Velankar Receives NSF Grant

07/22/20 - UPMC Children’s and Pitt Researcher Receives $2.59 Million NIH Grant for Diabetes Gene Therapy

07/22/20 - Reversing Drug Resistance in Breast Cancer

07/22/20 - A Remote Control for Neurons

07/15/20 - Infant Heart-Assist Device Gets New Life with $4.7M Grant

07/15/20 - McGowan Institute Faculty Receive Pitt’s Center for Medical Innovation Awards

07/15/20 - Pitt, UPMC Team Creates ‘Playbook’ for Return of Youth Athletics

07/15/20 - Podcast: Liver Disease Research and Potential Treatments with Dr. Alejandro Soto-Gutiérrez

07/08/20 - AR3T Receives 5-Year NIH Grant Extension

07/08/20 - Researchers Study a Novel Type of Extracellular Vesicles

07/08/20 - Podcast: Repopulation of the Stroke Cavity in the Brain with Dr. Michel Modo

07/08/20 - Welcome: Dr. Tirthadipa Pradhan

07/01/20 - A Micro Look at Metastatic Environments in Ovarian Cancer

07/01/20 - UPMC and VA Pittsburgh Partner to Perform VA’s First Living-Donor Living Transplant

07/01/20 - Parker Lab Student is Winner of ChE Spring Term 2020 Outstanding PhD Paper

07/01/20 - Welcome: Dr. Mo Ebrahimkhani


June

06/24/20 - ‘Cell-Soldiers’ Turn Out to Be More Resistant Than ‘Cell-Combat Medics’

06/24/20 - Crafting a Better Graft

06/24/20 - Dr. Charleen Chu Wins Distinguished Educator Award

06/24/20 - Podcast: Computational and Experimental Data Complementation with Dr. Lance Davidson

06/17/20 - McGowan Institute – Regenerative Medicine Summer School 2020

06/17/20 - Podcast: Surgical Support Prior to Birth with Dr. Stephen Emery

06/17/20 - Welcome: Dr. Ioannis Zervantonakis

06/10/20 - Immune System Discovery Could End Chronic Organ Rejections

06/10/20 - “You Make Me Sick” Board Game Teaches Students About COVID-19

06/10/20 - Podcast: What’s Being Done for Acute Kidney Stress/Injury with Dr. John Kellum

06/03/20 - Lab-Grown Miniature Human Livers Successfully Transplanted in Rats

06/03/20 - Dr. David Gau Receives National Cancer Center Fellowship for Kidney Cancer Research

06/03/20 - Fountain Therapeutics Closes $6 Million Series A-1 Financing

06/03/20 - Podcast: McGowan Institute-Developed Technology—Hemolung® RAS History, COVID-19 Patients, and What’s on the Horizon


May

05/27/20 -  Controlled Release Society Elects McGowan Institute’s Steven Little, PhD, to Prestigious College of Fellows 

05/27/20 -  Using a Smartphone to Diagnose COVID-19 at Home

05/27/20 -  European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons Podcast: Dr. Jenny Yu 

05/20/20 -  Engineering a New Model for Respiratory Infection Treatment 

05/20/20 -  Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Researchers Launch Ventilator Project 

05/20/20 -  Dr. Ivet Bahar Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

05/20/20 -  Dr. Thomas Rando Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

05/13/20 -  Uncovering Stimulation’s Impact on Neurons 

05/13/20 -  Exercise Restores Youthful Properties to Muscle Stem Cells of Old Mice

05/13/20 -  Weber Lab Student Awarded with 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 

05/13/20 -  Amrita Sahu, PhD, Receives the Delta Omega Dissertation Award 

05/07/20 -  McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine 2020 Best Doctors 

05/07/20 -  Dr. Jelena Janjic Helps Lead Nanomedicine Effort in Transplantation

05/07/20 -  Push for Artificial Intelligence Innovation in Medical Imaging Project Wins University of Pittsburgh Scaling Grant 

05/07/20 -  Let’s Do the Twist 


April

04/29/20 -  Potential Portable Individual Biocontainment Unit to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission

04/29/20 -  FDA Grants ALung Technologies Emergency Use Approval for its Hemolung to Treat COVID-19 Patients with Respiratory Distress 

04/29/20 -  Drs. Alan Wells and Louis Falo Receive Clinical and Translational Science Institute Awards to Support Urgent COVID-19 Research 

04/29/20 -  UPMC Children’s Receives FCC COVID-19 Telehealth Program Grant to Help Immunocompromised Children 

04/22/20 -  Medical Devices Lab Technology May Help COVID-19 Patients 

04/22/20 -  The Future of Human Healing May Lay in the Brain of a Starfish

04/22/20 -  NeuBase Therapeutics Announces Positive, Preclinical Data Validating its Novel Genetic Therapy PATrOL™ Platform 

04/15/20 -  UPMC-Led Global Effort Fast Tracks Testing of COVID-19 Therapies 

04/15/20 -  Old Human Cells Rejuvenated with Stem Cell Technology

04/15/20 -  AIMBE Announces 2020 College of Fellows Inductees 

04/08/20 -  COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Shows Promise 

04/08/20 -  UPMC Close to Immunity Test that Could Help End COVID-19 Lockdown 

04/08/20 -  Developing a Valve for Developing Hearts 

04/01/20 -  Mimicking Cancer to Avoid Transplant Rejection

04/01/20 -  Badylak Lab Student Madeline Cramer Receives NIH F31 Award 


March

03/25/20 -  Intralipid Improves Efficacy of Chemotherapy Treatment 

03/19/20 -  McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Holds Its Annual Scientific Retreat

03/19/20 -  The Ever-Changing Landscape of the Eye 

03/19/20 -  Support for Female Pelvic Floor Research 

03/19/20 -  Alcohol in Her Urine, But Not in Her Blood: Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together 

03/11/20 -  DARPA Awards $22M for ‘Smart’ Device that Regenerates Muscle 

03/11/20 -  2020 CSC Awards Winners: Drs. Bryan Brown and Ms. Alexis Nolfi

03/05/20 -  Dr. Bryan Brown Featured in the Products of Pittsburgh Podcast 

03/05/20 -  Dr. Anna Balazs: Shining a New Light on Biomimetic Materials 

03/05/20 -  UPMC Celebrates 500th Adult Living-Donor Liver Transplant 


February

02/26/20 -  Dr. Cecelia Yates Receives CSL Behring and University City Science Center Funding

02/26/20 -  Why Inclusivity Matters

02/26/20 -  McGowan Institute Affiliated Faculty Participate in the 2020 Gordon Research Conference to Foster Collaborations in Neural Engineering

02/26/20 -  Smoking Relapse Common in Weight-Loss Surgery Patients

02/19/20 -  Dr. George Gittes’ Diabetes Gene Therapy Licensed to Genprex

02/19/20 -  McGowan Institute Affiliated Faculty Members Receive CMI Project Funding

02/19/20 -  Bulk of Nurse Practitioners’ Work at Nursing Home Remains Nonclinical

02/12/20 -  Dr. Robert Kormos Receives STS 2020 Distinguished Service Award

02/12/20 -  PediaFlow Project Wins Cornell’s Scale-Up and Prototyping Award

02/12/20 -  Using Regenerative Biology to Restore Mucus Production

02/05/20 - Rupture of Intracranial Aneurysms—How the Right Tools Help Find the Cause

02/05/20 -  Pitt Researchers Propose Solutions for Networking Lag in Massive IoT Devices

02/05/20 -  Vitamin D Linked to Better Blood Pressure in Pittsburgh Kids

02/05/20 - Dr. Christian Bermudez Named an AL DÍA Top Doctor


January

01/29/20 -  Dr. Takashi Kozai Receives $1.6M NIH Award to Develop an Innovative Wireless Neural Device for Long-Term and Precise Stimulation 

01/29/20 -  UPMC First in the U.S. to Implant Wireless Retinal Device

01/29/20 -  Sepsis Kills 1 in 5 Globally, Double Previous Estimate

01/22/20 - Researchers Regrow Damaged Nerves with Polymer and Protein

01/22/20 -  Abbott Gets FDA Approval for Less-Invasive Heart Pump Implant Procedure

01/22/20 -  Heart Transplants from Donors with Hepatitis C May Be Safe

01/22/20 -  Nerve-Healing Startup Renerva Joins McGovern Incubator

01/16/20 - Dr. William Wagner Named a Pittsburgh “Power 100” Honoree

01/15/20 -  McGowan Institute Affiliated Faculty Members Receive Swanson School Professorship and Fellowship Appointments

01/15/20 -  Three Bioengineering Graduate Students Receive American Heart Association Fellowships

01/15/20 -  Salama Lab Study Reveals How Relaxin Targets Cardiovascular Disease

01/08/20 -  Dr. David Finegold Named the John C. Mascaro Faculty Fellow in Sustainability

01/08/20 -  And the Beep Goes On: CMU/UPMC Collaborative Effort Unravels Medical Mysteries

01/08/20 -  BioHybrid Solutions Awarded $30M Contract by the US Dept. of Defense

December

12/18/19 -  Dr. Stephen Badylak Receives 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from TERMIS-AM

12/18/19 -  Dr. William Federspiel Named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow

12/18/19 -  Brown Lab Student Announced as Finalist for the George J. Mitchell Scholarship Program

12/18/19 -  Provost Inaugural Lecture: Dr. John Kellum

12/11/19 -  Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Dr. Stephen Badylak at TEDx Fairfield University

12/11/19 -  Dr. Dennis McNamara to Chair Clinical Steering Committee for Trial to Treat Acute Myocarditis

12/11/19 -  Dr. Morgan Fedorchak Receives 2019 Emerging Innovator Award

12/04/19 -  Pitt School of Dental Medicine Goes Opioid-Free

12/04/19 -  Researchers Find New Role for Dopamine in Gene Transcription and Cell Proliferation

12/04/19 -  Weber Lab Student Clinches First Place at SHPE Poster Competition

November

11/20/19 -  Review Article Provides a Framework for Ongoing/Future Brain Tissue Healing Studies

11/20/19 -  Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Receives A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Funding

11/13/19 -  Pitt Team’s Replacement Heart Valve Could Decrease Need for Pediatric Surgeries

11/13/19 -  Dr. Tracy Cui Leads Pitt Neuron Research in Pitt/CMU Brain Collaboration

11/13/19 -  Dr. Dobrawa Napierala Awarded Grant to Commemorate Soft Bones 10th Anniversary and Hypophosphatasia Awareness Day

11/06/19 - Pancreatic Cancer: Not All Doom and Gloom

11/06/19 - DOD Grants $600K to Study Novel Regulator of Kidney Cancer Progression

11/06/19 - CMU’s Dr. Newell Washburn Recognized by Covestro for Scientific Excellence

11/04/19 - Improving Neural Implants

11/04/19 - β-blockers Build Heart Muscle

11/04/19 - Manufacturing in Microgravity

11/04/19 - Dr. Steven Little Named Program Chair of 2020 CRS Annual Meeting

October

10/23/19 - SPRY Clinical Trial Is First of Its Kind

10/23/19 - Dr. Warren Ruder Attends 2019 Israeli-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium

10/23/19 - Re-Envisioning Ophthalmology

10/23/19 - NeuBase Prepares to Face the Challenges of a Rare Disease Trial

10/21/19 - Applying Structural Monitoring Technology to the Human Spine

10/21/19 - McGowan Institute Teams Win Big at PInCH

10/21/19 - NIH Grant: $21.5 million to Establish the LB3P MRC

10/21/19 - How Dr. Rory Cooper Engineered a Better Life

10/10/19 - Project Receives Pitt’s Center for Medical Innovation Award in Round-1 2019 Pilot Funding

10/10/19 - Dr. Rory Cooper Appointed to Pennsylvania Department of Health’s Spinal Cord Research Advisory Committee

10/10/19 - NIH Grant: $1.5 Million to Study the Mechanism of Osteoarthritis Pain

10/10/19 - Revealed: How Tooth Enamel Is Strong Enough to Last a Lifetime

010/02/19 - McGowan Institute’s Pediatric VAD Technology, PediaFlow, to One Day Help the Smallest of Heart Transplant Candidates

10/02/19 -  Scientists Listed Ways of Applying Genetic Engineering to Treat Parkinson’s Disease

10/02/19 -  Dr. John Pollock Designs App to Improve Mental Health

10/02/19 -  The State of Cell-Based Therapies for Arthritis and Osteoporosis

September

09/25/19 - Debski Lab Student Named the Bioengineering 2019 Wesley C. Pickard Fellow

09/25/19 -  Potential Treatment of Metastatic Solid Tumors Receives Funding Boost

09/25/19 -  Potential Peripheral Nerve Repair Technology Receives NSF and NIH Funding

09/18/19 -  3D Printing of Soft Materials: New and Complicated Variables

09/18/19 -  Strawberries May Be Key to Developing an Insulin Pill

09/11/19 - Dr. Youngjae Chun Receives American Heart Association’s 2020 Innovative Project Award

09/11/19 - Self-Rolling Sensors Take Heart Cell Readings in 3D

09/11/19 - Dr. Eric Lagasse Work Highlighted in Forbes

09/11/19 - Runaway Mitochondria Cause Telomere Damage in Cells

09/04/19 - Vorp Lab Using Amazon Web Services to Diagnose/Treat Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

09/04/19 - Development of a Mantle Cell Lymphoma Cell Culture Model

09/04/19 - CMU Undergraduate Students in Cook Lab Offer Lift for Respiratory Research

09/04/19 - Cui Lab Postdoc Receives Best Poster Presentation Award

August

08/28/19 - Top Dentists Honored in Pittsburgh Magazine

08/28/19 - Dr. David Vorp Receives Research Leader Fellowship from APLU

08/28/19 - Study: Inflammation Persists in Sepsis Survivors

08/28/19 - In the US, Children Die Waiting for a Liver Transplant — There Is a Better Way

08/21/19 - Dr. Mary Amanda Dew Honored with 2019 Bud Orgel Award from the Association of Psychologists in Academic Health Centers

08/21/19 - Molecular Sensor Scouts DNA Damage and Supervises Repair

08/21/19 - HERL Receives $50K Grant from Disabled Veterans National Foundation

08/01/19 - Grant: Role of Extracellular Matrix in Age-Related Declines of Muscle Regeneration

08/21/19 - Working Towards 3D Printing the Human Heart

08/14/19 - New Study Highlights Advantages of Living-Liver Donation

08/14/19 - First Ever State Sepsis Regulation Tied to Lower Death Rates

08/14/19 - Dr. Mangesh Kulkarni Receives $18K Award from Pitt’s Central Research Development Fund

08/14/19 - Pitt Receives $6 Million for Vision Restoration Research

08/12/19 - New Alliance with the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory

08/07/19 - Pitt First to Grow Genetically Engineered Mini Livers in the Lab to Study Disease and Therapies

08/07/19 - Former Little Lab Student Candidate for 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year

08/07/19 - MechMorpho Lab Brings Computation and Experimentation Closer Together

08/06/19 - 2019 Wiegand Intern Completes Assignment

08/01/19 - Dr. Garrett Coyan Receives the 2019 Resident Academic Leadership Award

08/01/19 - Grant: Role of Extracellular Matrix in Age-Related Declines of Muscle Regeneration

08/01/19 - Creating Lungs “From Scratch”

08/01/19 - Using Hep C Infected Organs in Heart Transplant Operations

July

07/24/19 - NSF Awards $500,000 to Pitt Researchers to Create Neuromorphic Vision System Mimicking Human Sight

07/24/19 - Shedding Light on ‘Black Box’ of Inpatient Opioid Use

07/24/19 - Dr. Anthony Delitto Appointed Member of National Advisory Council

07/24/19 - Dr. Freddie Fu Weighs In On Unproven Stem Cell Treatments

07/17/19 - ALung: Update on US and UK Clinical Trials

07/17/19 - Dr. Anne Robertson Delivers Keynote Lecture at International Conference

07/17/19 - Dr. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Researchers Develop Semi-Liquid Metal Anode for Next-Generation Batteries

07/17/19 - Pitt Launches Online Master of Science in Health Informatics with Noodle Partners

07/12/19 - Dr. Stephen Badylak to Receive BioMed SA’s 2019 Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience

07/10/19 - Critical Care Medicine Professor Michael Pinsky, MD, Becomes Society Fellow

07/10/19 - Pitt and CMU Researchers Discover How the Brain Changes When Mastering a New Skill

07/10/19 - Preventive Drug Therapy May Increase Right-Sided Heart Failure Risk in Patients Who Receive Heart Devices

07/10/19 - Dr. Tetsuro Sakai to Head Transplant Anesthesia Society

07/05/19 - Summer “Happenings”: Regenerative Medicine Summer School and 8-Week Internships

07/03/19 - Challenges of Pancreatic Cancer and Treatment Advances

07/03/19 - In-Utero Surgery in Pittsburgh Region to Treat Spina Bifida

07/03/19 - Rapid Fluid Removal Increases Death Risk in Kidney Patients

07/03/19 - Winners of First RoosterBio Inc. hMSC Development Grant Announced

June

06/26/19 - Dr. Peter Wearden: RN For A Day

06/26/19 - Boninger Lab Student Receives NIH F30 Award

06/26/19 - Startup Focuses on Developing Catalysts for Industry

06/26/19 - Dr. Timothy Billiar Receives Honor from the Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine

06/20/19 - How Learning and Decision-Making Share a Common Underlying Brain Mechanism

06/20/19 - Pitt, CMU to Create an Autonomous Robotic Trauma Care System

06/20/19 - Drs. Peter Rubin and Albert Donnenberg Bring Adipose Cell Therapy to Italy

06/20/19 - Researchers Create Soft, Flexible Materials with Enhanced Properties

06/12/19 - Scientists Remind Immune Cells Whose Side They Should Be On

06/12/19 - Sedation, Paralysis Do Not Improve Survival of ICU Patients

06/12/19 - The New Wave of Brain-Computer Interface Technology

06/12/19 - Brown Lab Student/sciVelo Alumna Spotlight on Elizabeth (Abby) C. Stahl, PhD

06/05/19 - Direct Oxidative Stress Damage Shortens Telomeres

06/05/19 - Big Data Reveals Hidden Subtypes of Sepsis

06/05/19 - HERL Director Dr. Rory Cooper Joins Hall of Inventors

06/05/19 - Following Injury, A New Approach Could Help Rebuild Muscle

May

05/30/19 - Robertson/Debski/Vorp Lab Students Participate in Three Minute Thesis Competitions

05/30/19 - Researchers Receive a $2.5M NIH Award to Create an Improved Repair Device for POP

05/30/19 - Dr. Abhinav Humar Selected an Essential Pittsburgher

05/30/19 - FLARE IDE Study Results Published; FLASH Study Continues

05/23/19 - TEDx: Dr. Jelena Janjic, “When in Pain, Innovate!”

05/23/19 - One Valve Takes 2nd Place in 2019 Randall Family Big Idea Competition, Wins $15K Prize

05/23/19 - McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine 2019 Best Doctors

05/23/19 - UPMC Insurance Services Division Names Joon S. Lee, MD, Chief Medical Officer

05/16/19 - Tuan Lab Student Awarded 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

05/16/19 - Beckman Coulter’s Early Sepsis Indicator Receives 510(k) Clearance from the U.S. FDA

05/16/19 - Balazs Lab Team Replicate Feed, Fight and Flight Responses in Catalytic Chemical Reactions

05/16/19 - Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, PhD, Has Been Elected to the NAS

05/09/19 - “Zero Lift” Patient Transfer and Repositioning System

05/09/19 - Efforts Toward Human Performance Optimization

05/09/19 - Stimulation Remodels the Epileptic Brain to Prevent Seizures

05/09/19 - Dr. Julie Phillippi Promotes STEM Excellence to Fox Chapel Area Students

05/01/19 - Study Shows Key Factors in Sustaining Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery

05/01/19 - Brain-Machine Interface Research Receives $12 Million from the NIH

05/01/19 - McGowan Institute Visits Local Elementary School

05/01/19 - Bioengineering’s Role in Regenerative Medicine–From the Swanson School of Engineering

April

04/24/19 - Separating Stem Cell Therapy Hope vs. Hype: More from Dr. Peter Rubin

04/24/19 - Dr. Antonio D’Amore Weighs in on First 3D Printed Heart

04/24/19 - Dr. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Admitted to the Australian Academy of Science

04/24/19 - Clinical Trials Moving Forward for ALung Technologies, Inc.

04/18/19 - Potential Treatment for Chronic Pain Getting Closer

04/18/19 - Physical Therapists Play Key Roles in Innovative Rehabilitation Technologies

04/18/19 - How Immune Cells Help Tumors Escape Body’s Defenses

04/10/19 - A Surgical Option to Treat Chronic Pancreatitis

04/08/19 - Dr. Ivet Bahar Receives “Kadir Has” Outstanding Achievement Award in Turkey

04/08/19 - Dr. Ipsita Banerjee Wins 2019 Faculty Diversity Award

04/08/19 - Vorp Lab Student Represented Pitt at the ACC Meeting of the Minds

04/08/19 - Genomics Could Guide Pancreatic Cancer Treatment

04/08/19 - Harnessing the Power of the Lymph Node

March

03/20/19 - Video: “Hope vs. Hype of Stem Cell Therapy”

03/20/19 - McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine Holds Its Annual Scientific Retreat

03/20/19 - Extracellular Matrix: Communication Matters

03/13/19 - 2019 CSC Awards Winner: Dr. William Federspiel

03/13/19 - New Hope for Heart Transplants

03/13/19 - Targeting Deadly Tumors in Unborn Babies

03/10/19 - The Hype and the Hope Surrounding Stem Cell Therapies

03/07/19 - Penn Team Eradicates Hepatitis C in Nine Patients Following Lifesaving Heart Transplants from Infected Donors

03/07/19 - CMU’s Drs. Cohen-Karni and Whitehead Awarded Dean’s Early Career Fellowships

03/07/19 - Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Awareness

February

02/27/19 - Pitt Bioengineers Create Ultra-Small, Light-Activated Electrode for Neural Stimulation

02/27/19 - Campbell Lab Student Receives Award and Scholarship

02/20/19 - Dr. Ron Poropatich: MTEC New Board Member and Healthcare Transformation Editor

02/20/19 - Scientists ‘See’ Dual-Layered Scaffolding of Cellular Nuclei

02/20/19 - Dr. Adam Feinberg Elected to Leadership Advisory Committee of ARMI

02/13/19 - Anti-Rejection Drug Could Be Repurposed to Treat Cancer

02/13/19 - Dr. Bernard Costello Begins Tenure as Medical Association President

02/06/19 - Three Novel Biomedical Projects Receive Center for Medical Innovation Awards Round-2 2018 Pilot Funding

02/06/19 - Clinical Trial: Withdrawal of Immunosuppression in Living Donor Liver Transplantation

02/06/19 - Dr. Anna Balazs: Longtime Pitt Mentor, Engineer Works on the Future with Soft Robotics

02/05/19 - The Matrix

January

01/31/19 - Celebrating a Milestone—Dr. Stephen Badylak’s H-index Reaches 100

01/31/19 - Dr. Thomas Gilbert: Swanson School of Engineering 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient

01/31/19 - Changing Frequencies: Pitt Bioengineers Look Deeper into How Electrical Stimulation Activates Neurons

01/31/19 - A Catalytic Flying Carpet

01/23/19 - BYU Radio Hosts Interview with Dr. Stephen Badylak

01/23/19 - Study Funded to Enable Treatments for Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy

01/23/19 - Dr. John Kellum Leads Study on Information from Urine Output in ICU Patients

01/23/19 - Pitt-led Research Describes How Neurons Could Disconnect From Each Other in Huntington’s Disease

01/17/19 - Pennsylvania Pediatric Medical Device Consortium

01/16/19 - University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute Q&A with Dr. William Wagner

01/16/19 - System Designed to Remove Large Clot Volume from Large Veins Enrolls First Clinical Patient

01/16/19 - Technology Developed in Brown and Cheetham Laboratories Receives $2.4 Million DoD Award to Advance Its Peripheral Nerve Matrix Technology to the Clinic

01/16/19 - First Patient Dosed with VY-AADC Gene Therapy in Parkinson’s Phase 2 Trial

01/11/19 - One Researcher’s Path to Control a Machine with a Brain: Dr. Andrew Schwartz’s Experience

01/11/19 - Dr. John Pollock Named AAAS Fellow

01/11/19 - Pitt Engineer-Clinician Team Uses “Active Wrinkles” to Keep Synthetic Grafts Clean

01/11/19 - The Self-Healing Heart

01/09/19 - Kumta Lab Work Receives Funding by DoD CDMRP

01/09/19 - Innovative Approaches to Metabolic Disease

01/09/19 - Bradley Nindl, PhD, Delivers Keynote on Research

01/09/19 - Boninger Lab Student Receives Clinical and Translational Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

01/04/19 - Dr. Stephen Badylak Named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

01/04/19 - A Single Injection May Mean a Permanent Cure

01/04/19 - Badylak Lab Student Receives Bioengineering Graduate Student Award

01/04/19 - Pittsburgh Business Times Selects Jelena Janjic, PhD, for 2018 Innovator Award

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