Pitt Med student Adi Mittal is a Collegiate Inventors Competition finalist
He will pitch his blood-based cerebral aneurysm test on Oct. 24.
Cristina Murray-Krezan will chair the PCORI Clinical Trials Advisory Panel
The associate professor of medicine and clinical and translational science at Pitt will advise researchers on patient-centered outcomes.
Pitt ranks No. 3 in NIH funding for fiscal year 2022
The University landed $675 million in National Institutes of Health awards, a 13% increase from the previous year.
José-Alain Sahel won the International Prize for Translational Neuroscience
The Pitt ophthalmologist and his longtime collaborator Botond Roska were honored for their work on optogenetic therapy for blindness.
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.