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2 new spaces in the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center will enhance treatment options and patient care

The Mario Lemieux Immunotherapy Center and the Pietrandrea Clinic are officially open after a Nov. 13 dedication ceremony.

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  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • School of Medicine
Sensor with a liquid sample being added with a dropper

This new antibody test only takes 10 minutes, no blood draw necessary

A highly selective sensor developed by Pitt researchers can quantify immune responses — but may also have implications for everything from cancer treatments to allergy detection.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Medicine
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Graham Hatfull showing a tray of bacteriophages in a lab freezer

A new way to make phage DNA lays groundwork for better infection treatments

The study, by Graham Hatfull and colleagues, surmounts a long-lasting barrier to constructing the genomes of bacteria-killing viruses.

  • Innovation and Research
  • It's Possible at Pitt
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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A global competitiveness expert will deliver Pitt’s winter commencement address

The Honorable Deborah L. Wince-Smith, president and CEO of the Council on Competitiveness, will speak to the Class of 2025 during the University’s Dec. 14 ceremony.

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  • Innovation and Research
  • Cultivate student success
Christian Martin-Gill in helmet

From data to display, Pitt is giving the EKG an upgrade

A machine learning-based system could save lives and anxiety when it comes to suspected heart attacks.

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  • Community Impact
  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • School of Medicine
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What really led to the decline of Maya kingdoms?

Researchers tend to blame drought for the downfall of these cities — but it’s not that simple, according to Pitt’s Claire Ebert.

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  • Global
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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The Surukuchi Lab is helping solve mysteries of the universe with CUORE

These Pitt physicists are pushing boundaries in the hunt for neutrinoless double beta decay.

  • Innovation and Research
Colner watches as Gabel speaks into a microphone.

AI’s transformative impact is already here — and other takeaways from this week’s ‘Forging the Future’ summit

Leaders from around the globe gathered at Pitt to explore how emerging technologies are reshaping health care, economic competitiveness and the global innovation economy.

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  • It's Possible at Pitt
Blue and gold circuit board

How SHREC went to the moon — without even knowing

The NSF lab’s radiation-hardened computer system was adopted by the NASA Kennedy Space Center.

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  • Space
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Adam Lowenstein in front of a display showcasing horror films

Pitt has launched a first-of-its-kind Horror Studies Center

Just in time for Halloween, the new Dietrich School center approaches the genre through an interdisciplinary and global lens. See some of the chilling materials.

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  • Arts and Humanities
  • Innovation and Research
  • David C. Frederick Honors College
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Feet walking on a treadmill

These Pitt researchers are making steady progress toward a confident gait

A recent study, led by Gelsy Torres-Oviedo, shows an assured walk may start with being able to perceive changes.

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  • Swanson School of Engineering
A crew removes a damaged train car from the track

A new Pitt study helps identify where train derailments pose the greatest risk

In the wake of East Palestine, a new study by Pitt Water Collaboratory researchers maps 26 years of accidents in the Ohio River Basin.

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  • Pittsburgh Collaboratory for Water Research, Education, and Outreach
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
A person lays in a CT scan machine.

How Pitt is building additional awareness and support for research

The University is highlighting the vital importance of research through its Research Matters program.

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  • Innovation and Research
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  • Promote accountability and trust

Most people turn inward to make tough decisions, a new Pitt study found

Center for Philosophy of Science director Edouard Machery was a senior author on the research, which spanned 13 languages, 12 countries and five continents.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Person with yellow shirt typing on cellphone

New Pitt research suggests cellphone data could help clinicians identify and treat mental health disorders

Colin E. Vize says passive sensing could give clinicians access to more (and more reliable) data about their patients’ lives.

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  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Pika with a mountain in the background

What’s the difference between a mountain pika and a rabbit? Their noses.

A surprising new Pitt study suggests that mammals living at high elevations switch off many of the genes that help them smell.

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  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Artistic depection of Venus lava flows

Pitt findings point to lava as a source of Venus’ CO2-rich atmosphere

Ian Flynn is among a group of researchers who found the planet’s extreme environment may be the result of early outgassing rather than its position in our solar system.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Space
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Byrd

John C. Byrd has been named UPMC Hillman Cancer Center director

The internationally lauded researcher will lead one of the nation’s premier National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers.

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  • School of Medicine
TENG Biosensor next to a small model of HIV virus

Pitt researchers earned Gates Foundation funding to develop an HIV sensor

Amir Alavi and Alan Wells are building a handheld device that can report viral load at the press of a button, enabling care in resource-limited or decentralized settings.

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  • Innovation and Research
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation
  • School of Medicine
  • Swanson School of Engineering
Sketch of William Shakespeare and other poetic symbolism

If ChatGPT wrote this poem, would you like it more?

A study from Pitt Professor Edouard Machery suggests "AI-generated poems are now 'more human than human.'"

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Propel scholarship, creativity and innovation