Vision Restoration Research Set to Advance Through Agreement with French Institutions
The Pitt-Paris agreement will enable closer collaboration on research to treat optic nerve problems and age-related eye conditions.
School of Medicine Alumnus Devotes Skills, Time to Treating People in Conflict Zones
As a volunteer with Doctors Without Borders, alumnus Brian D'Cruz has treated trauma patients in Chad, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. In 2013, he headed to Syria.
Pediatrician, Researcher Remembered for Landmark Studies on Lead Poisoning
Herbert L. Needleman, known for his pioneering efforts that linked environmental lead exposure — even at low doses — to cognitive deficits in children, died in Pittsburgh on July 18. He was 89.
Tsinghua-Pitt Biomedical Partnership Celebrates Its First Class of Graduates
The Tsinghua Scholars Program brings Chinese medical school students to Pitt for two years of rigorous biomedical research training.
Vision-to-Touch Innovation, Pitt Researchers Featured in Documentary Airing on PBS
The doc shows a Pitt-researched device called BrainPort — a set of glasses and a lollipop-like combo that allows people with vision impairments the ability to "see" through touch.
Targeting Immune Cells that Help Tumors Stay Hidden Could Improve Cancer Immunotherapy
The discovery shows that the immune system can be tweaked in order to find and destroy cancer cells more effectively.
Cancer Immunotherapy Expert Appointed Director of UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Robert L. Ferris, a 15-year veteran of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, head and neck cancer specialist and a leading voice in immunotherapy, begins July 1.
Researchers Look Beyond the Brain for Answers About Intractable Depression
Someone once told Eve, a teen with severe depression, she just wasn't working hard enough in therapy. Then her doctor, Pitt's Lisa Pan, found that Eve can’t seem to make critical neurotransmitters.