Innovation and Research

Pitt researchers Jennifer Silk and Bambang Parmantohave developed a tool that helps kids and adolescents better manage their anxiety. And now, they’re working with Pitt’s Innovation Institute, local pediatrics offices and schools to make it widely available to the public.

This flu season, scientists want the public to see the virus through the lens of creativity—and hopefully learn something in the process. Seema Lakdawala, assistant professor in the School of Medicine, teamed up with a virus researcher and an artist in England to develop scientifically accurate worksheets, coloring book pages and games that explain new discoveries involving influenza.

Pitt Professor of Social Work Daniel Rosen and his colleagues have secured a $1.25 million federal grant to not only strengthen opioid abuse training for 70 master of social work students, but to put them in some of Allegheny and Beaver County’s highest areas of overdose deaths and also to train the staff manning the School of Social Work’s community partner organizations.

Ruslan Medzhitov, a Yale University researcher who transformed the understanding of how the immune system detects infections, which paved the way for therapies for a wide range of diseases, received the 2019 Dickson Prize in Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s highest honor.

To address the critical need for long-lasting heart valve replacements, a team of Pitt researchers created a mesh that harnesses the body’s own healing power.

Animals that seek mates and fight rivals that resemble their parents could be setting the stage for the formation of a new species, research from Pitt biology graduate student Yusan Yang and associate professor Corinne Richards-Zawacki indicates.

Dry eye affects millions of Americans a year, but available treatments can require continuous application. A Pitt bioengineering student and an eye doctor with the School of Medicine make up part of a team that invented a more efficient and sustained treatment delivery method.

Dry eye affects millions of Americans a year, and available treatments can require continuous application. A Pitt bioengineering student and an eye doctor with the School of Medicine just invented a more efficient and sustained treatment delivery method.

As Pitt's Advanced Analytics Summit returns this week for its second year, more than 30 academic institutions will gather to explore how to better use deep data in higher education.

The HIV Detective is a solution being developed for early, rapid diagnosis of HIV. The handheld testing platform would allow health care workers to gather a few drops of blood onto a sensor and provide results in one minute instead of the 24 hours currently required. This leap forward in testing is possible due to another recently developed Pitt technology — a THC breath test.