6 Pitt alumni and leaders earned 2026 C-Suite Awards

This year’s Pittsburgh Business Times awardees include Vice Chancellor for Alumni Relations Nancy Merritt and Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine Donald Yealy.

Heart assembloids give researchers a new way to study heart valve disorders

Experts from the Swanson School, Pitt Medicine and Carnegie Mellon combined their skills to engineer these stamp-sized, working models of one of our most complex organs.

Introducing Pitt’s latest Fulbright student finalists

Ten students and alumni, including the first-ever winner from Pitt-Greensburg, will teach and conduct research around the world.

International military and civilian leaders visited Pitt to learn from Swanson School experts

Visitors from the National Defense University’s International Fellows program heard talks on nuclear power, bioengineering and Pitt’s Center for Military Medicine Research.

Reinhard Hinterleitner won the Society for Mucosal Immunology Young Investigator Award

The associate professor’s research focuses on how gut microbiota shape immune responses.

2 Pitt researchers received Cytokine Society awards

Assistant Professor Victor S. Cortez and PhD student Catherine Phelps were honored for their immunology work.

Olivera Finn will serve as an at-large director of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer

The Distinguished Professor of Immunology will start her three-year term in January.

A gift from the Cane-Bridge Foundation will expand the depth and breadth of dementia research at Pitt

A newly established fund will support clinical trials within the University of Pittsburgh Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center in the Department of Neurology in the School of Medicine.

A strategic agreement between MWRIF and Pitt Medicine will advance women’s and infants’ health research

Pamela A. Moalli, who has served in an interim capacity since 2024, was named Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation scientific director.

Pitt is once again among the top 2% of universities worldwide

Six programs, five of them in the schools of health sciences, cracked the top 25 on the U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities list.