Ora Weisz will receive the 2023 Sandra K. Masur Senior Leadership Award
The American Society for Cell Biology will honor the professor for her scientific achievements and work mentoring underrepresented groups.
Abby Overacre-Delgoffe earned an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Her project, which won her the New Innovator honor, could pave the way for new therapies to improve cancer outcomes.
Pitt welcomed its newest class of medical students
More than 150 incoming students received their white coats and recited the Hippocratic Oath during ceremonies this summer.
6 Pitt faculty earned NSF CAREER Awards
The awards are the foundation’s most prestigious honor and will provide more than $3.5 million in research funding to these early-career professors and researchers.
Oscar Marroquin was named vice dean for clinical affairs
The cardiologist will also oversee more than 5,000 physicians and staff as president of UPMC’s Physician Services Division.
Pitt’s Center for Vaccine Research is already preparing for the next pandemic
Three years after the emergence of COVID-19, Pitt scientists are studying the families of viruses that might produce the next one.
A $1 million grant will fund aging research at Pitt
These latest awards, which will fund four faculty projects, follow $750,000 in grants also made by the Richard King Mellon Foundation in fall 2022.
Breast milk contains unique antibodies, Pitt researchers found
A new study from Pitt Med researchers might explain why some babies develop life-threatening gut diseases and others don’t.
3 Pitt Med researchers were named AAAS policy fellows
Stephanie Mutchler, Amelia Stephens and R. Anne Stetler will learn the ins and outs of policymaking while sharing their scientific knowledge during yearlong assignments at federal agencies.
Pitt Medicine researchers were published in Molecular Cell
The study, led by Aging Institute members Shiori Sekine and Yusuke Sekine, discovered a new way that cells monitor iron levels.