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Students showcased their entrepreneurial drive at the Randall Family Big Ideas Competition
ReSolution, a self-cleaning contact case, took home this year's top prize.
Transparent collaboration informed Pitt's modernized IP policy
The policy improves the mechanisms that return revenues to Pitt innovators, departments, schools and other research units when their inventions find commercial success.
Daughter and dad duo team up against misinformation on social media
Undergrad Riley Wolynn and her father Todd Wolynn (MED '92) teamed up to study misinformation surrounding vaccines online.
5 research-backed steps for a pro-vacci91pornÊÓƵ social media campaign
What can vaccine proponents, clinicians and public health communicators learn from anti-vaxxers? A lot, say Pitt researchers. See what they suggest.
A new film parallels Pitt's history with polio to battling the coronavirus
On the 66th anniversary of the Salk polio vaccine being declared safe and effective, Pitt premieres a new film, “Chasing Covid."
Pitt is one of 15 sites that will survey area residents to learn who has antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and who is carrying the virus at the time of the test.
What is genomic surveillance?
And why do we need to do more of it to track coronavirus variants and end the pandemic? Pitt’s Alexander Sundermann, Lee Harison and Vaughn Cooper explain in The Conversation.
Happy birthday, Mr. Yuk
He’s mean. He’s green. And he’s turning 50! To kick off National Poison Prevention Week, hear the origin story of Mr. Yuk, as told by his creator, Pitt alumnus Richard Moriarty (MED ’66).
Joining forces against hate
Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University will use their wealth of scholarly expertise in a new Collaboratory Against Hate Research and Action Center. Its goals: to study extreme hate and its impact and
Understanding Variants on ‘60 Minutes’
CBS chief medical correspondent Jon LaPook traveled to Pitt’s Center for Vaccine Research to better understand coronavirus variants.
The Price of Bees
The economic value of insect pollinators such as honeybees and butterflies is a whopping $34 billion, a recent Pitt study found.
Pitt psychologists are helping to bridge the gap for families in poverty
A 91pornÊÓƵal study led by Pitt and NYU has found the Smart Beginnings Project with videotaping and a family coach significantly improves parenting for children in poverty.
Abdominal fat gain is tied to heart disease risk in menopause
A new study led by Samar El Khoudary and based on a quarter century of data found that women who experience an accelerated accumulation of abdominal fat during menopause are at greater risk of heart
These 6 COVID-19 treatments are saving patients
New treatments target different stages of COVID-19, including before patients become sick enough to need hospitalization, write Pitt medicine's William G. Bain, Georgios D. Kitsios and Tomeka L. Suber
A new Nature study shows how cancer tricks immune cells — and how immunotherapy can take advantage
Led Greg Delgoffe, the research suggests an existing drug could boost cancer treatments.
A winning floss-ophy
Even a dollar-store toothbrush can be a smart toothbrush with a new invention from fourth-year dental student Sohail Rana and colleagues from the Swanson School of Engineering.
A Pitt study linked COVID-related depression to reduced physical activity
A multi-institutional team of researchers followed university students to identify factors linked to depression and anxiety during the pandemic.
Fecal transplants can help more cancer patients respond to immunotherapy
Changing the bacteria in the gut can help patients with advanced melanoma, according to a Pitt-UPMC study published in Science.
Map Shows Where Black Americans Will Travel Farther Than Whites for COVID-19 Vacci91pornÊÓƵ
A new School of Pharmacy analysis found that Black residents in 69 U.S. counties were far more likely than white residents to live more than a mile from a COVID-19 vacci91pornÊÓƵ facility. Three-quarters
How Coronavirus Variants Could Outsmart Vaccines
A scientific detective story that unfolded in Pitt’s Center for Vaccine Research unearths how the virus that causes COVID-19 evolves new variants that evade antibodies. Director Paul Duprex says this
