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 – 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
08/21/23 – Dr. Chandan Sen is appointed the new McGowan Institute Director, effective September 1, 2023
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 – 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
07/12/23 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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
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
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
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 - 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
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 - 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
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
08/03/22 - 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
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 - 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
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
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
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
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
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 - 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
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
01/12/22 - 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
01/05/22 - 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
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
11/24/21 - Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Training Program Receives $1.6 Million Funding
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
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
09/29/21 - Dr. Steven Little Named Distinguished Professor
09/29/21 - Podcast: Ectopic Organogenesis with Drs. Lagasse and Hufford
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
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. 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
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
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
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
04/29/21 - Study Reveals Roadmap of Muscle Decline with Age
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’
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 - 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
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
01/27/21 - McGowan Institute Faculty Support Student Winners at iGEM
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
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
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
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 - 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
10/14/20 - 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
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 - 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
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 - 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
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
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
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 - Let’s Do the Twist
04/29/20 - Potential Portable Individual Biocontainment Unit to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission
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
04/15/20 - 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
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
02/26/20 - Dr. Cecelia Yates Receives CSL Behring and University City Science Center Funding
02/26/20 - Why Inclusivity Matters
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
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 - 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
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
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
11/06/19 - 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
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 - 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
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
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
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 - 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
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 - 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 - 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
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
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
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
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 - CMU’s Drs. Cohen-Karni and Whitehead Awarded Dean’s Early Career Fellowships
03/07/19 - Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Awareness
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 - 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
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 - 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 - 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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