Can melatonin help prevent neuron damage associated with dementia?

The Clear Thoughts Foundation has awarded $200,000 to co-investigators from Pitt to learn more.

2022 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring winners announced

Each award consists of a $2,500 prize to the graduate faculty member to recognize excellence in mentoring.

Pitt’s annual health sciences symposium is getting a new name

The University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Vanscoy Winter Academy will be supported through 2042, thanks to a gift from alumnus Gordon J. Vanscoy and his wife Bethann.

Pitt graduate programs rise in U.S. News and World Report rankings

Programs in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, School of Education, School of Medicine and Swanson School of Engineering saw jumps in their 2023 Best Graduate Schools rankings.

This new program funds research on climate change and precision public health

The Public Health Trans-Disciplinary Collaboration Pilot Awards support projects that use data science to develop targeted health interventions. Here are the 5 winning projects.

Alejandro Hoberman earns the 2022 Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award

Hoberman is the first person ever to receive this award from the Clinical Research Forum on two separate occasions.

See photos from Match Day 2022

On March 18, fourth-year medical students learned where they’re headed for the next stop in their training.

Nicole Scheff receives 2021 Award in Pain from the Rita Allen Foundation

This year’s Award in Pain Scholars will receive grants of $50,000 annually for up to three years to conduct innovative research on critical topics on the biological mechanisms of pain.

32 faculty projects have earned Momentum Funds awards

The awards support both individual faculty members and large groups that are scaling up world-changing scholarly projects.

Researchers will mimic daycare settings to study flu transmission

Associate Professor Seema Lakdawala is leading a subproject on an $8.8 million grant.