How this Pitt duo’s startup plans to attack the ‘tricky beast’ that is cancer

A platform developed by Jason Lohmueller and Alex Dieters could allow immunotherapies to be delivered to tumors with more flexibility and precision.

This Pitt medical student wants to make tests for cerebral aneurysms simpler and more effective

Adi Mittal balances research, classwork and business as a student and startup founder.

Peng Liu is unraveling new reactions — and new ways of working together

With a pair of Nature papers among a flurry of recent studies, the computational chemist is on a hot streak that shows no sign of stopping.

Pitt’s first signing day for startups celebrated a milestone for researcher-entrepreneurs

Five new companies founded by Pitt researchers aim to improve wound care, cancer immunotherapy, chronic pain care and more.

A construction milestone for BioForge, Pitt’s biomanufacturing innovation facility

In a topping-off ceremony, leaders celebrated placing the last beam of a facility that promises to help push Pittsburgh into the life sciences century.

Check out Pitt’s newest academic offerings

Pick up a minor in dance, learn about giant monsters in cinema, become a data science expert and more.

Pitt is No. 8 for public universities nationally in U.S. News’ Best Global University Rankings

The University ranked in the top 50 for 12 subjects, including a top 10 ranking for surgery.

Cho-yun Hsu is a 2024 laureate of the prestigious Tang Prize

The award, which confers a $1.7 million cash prize, recognizes the Pitt professor emeritus’ era-spanning scholarship on the history of China.

Pitt biologists are part of a $12.5M NSF grant to study a widespread genetic phenomenon

Tia-Lynn Ashman and Martin Turcotte will use the pond plant duckweed to learn about organisms with more than two copies of their chromosomes.

Michele V. Manuel is the first woman U. S. Steel Dean of the Swanson School of Engineering

The award-winning materials engineer, innovator and leader joins Pitt from the University of Florida Sept. 1.