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Constant Dieters Might Be Choosing the Wrong Way to Lose Weight

Should dieters worry about portion sizes or “light” versions of a snack? Assistant Professor Peggy Liu led a series of studies to find out.

  • Innovation and Research

A Man Was Reinfected with Coronavirus After Recovery—What Does This Mean for Immunity?

Virologist Megan Culler Freeman has been curious about reinfections since the pandemic began. For The Conversation, she addressed some questions raised by a man who reportedly was reinfected with SARS

  • Innovation and Research

Innovation Institute Reports Record Number of Invention Disclosures, Despite Pandemic

From swimming devices to rare disease gene therapies, Pitt inventors never stop: The Innovation Institute reported a record 394 invention disclosures for last fiscal year, and Director Evan Facher

  • Innovation Institute
  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Sports Medicine and Nutrition
  • Department of Health and Human Development

Bioengineering Student Plugs in to Complex Tech

Ever wondered how to move a mechanical arm using only your mind? Third-year student Audrey Case can explain.

  • Innovation and Research

New Research Sheds Light on How Body Parts ‘Talk’ to Each Other

MicroRNAs, tiny molecules that circulate in the bloodstream, could be the key to how diseases from pulmonary hypertension to cancer spread throughout the body, a new study led by Stephen Chan has

  • Vascular Medicine Institute
  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Medicine

New AI Research Looks to Better Diagnose Heart Attacks Before Hospital Arrival

Diagnosing a heart attack can be difficult, especially for prehospital emergency personnel. Using computer modeling, a team led by nursing’s Salah Al-Zaiti identified 37% more heart attacks in a study

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Emergency Medicine
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Non-Invasive Nerve Stimulation Boosts Learning of Foreign Language Sounds

Native English speakers often have trouble with tonal languages like Chinese. A new study showed that vagus nerve stimulation allowed research participants to pick up some Mandarin tones more quickly.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Communication Science and Disorders

Study: Men Scoring Higher on ‘Man Box’ Scale are Prone to Violence, Mental Illness

New research published in Preventive Medicine shows men who subscribe to strong gender norms are more likely to harm themselves and others.

  • Innovation and Research

‘There’s Just No Voice for Us’: Pandemic Creates More Difficulties for Caregivers

A new report from Pitt’s National Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Family Support has found that caregivers of all ages are facing increased worry, mental health issues and financial

  • Innovation and Research

Answers About Universe’s Age Could Be Found in the Dark

A multinational team including Professor Arthur Kosowsky, graduate student Yilun Guan and alum Simone Aiola from the Department of Physics and Astronomy is making progress toward solving mysteries of

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy

Watch: Spinal Stimulators for Pain Relief Repurposed to Restore Touch in a Lost Limb

A new study from the Rehab Neural Engineering Labs created the illusion of sensations in missing limbs. See how the technology works.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Boosting Immune Memory Improves Immunotherapy and Reduces Cancer Recurrence in Mice

Research led by Dario Vignali and published in Nature Immunology found a protein that plays an important role in suppressing immune responses to cancer.

  • Innovation and Research

How a T-shirt is Helping in the Fight against COVID-19

Proceeds from a new Pitt Athletics T-shirt are supporting the Center for Vaccine Research in its work developing a COVID-19 vaccine to emerge “Over Fate and Foe Victorious.”

  • Innovation and Research
  • Center for Vaccine Research
  • Covid-19

UPMC and Pitt Join ‘Operation Warp Speed,’ Offer Opportunity to Participate in COVID-19 Vaccine Trial

Hundreds of people in Western Pennsylvania will have the opportunity to participate in clinical research trials for vaccines against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, UPMC and the University of

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Pediatrics
  • Division of Infectious Diseases

Pandemic and Protests Through Lens of Black Literature

Robin Brooks, assistant professor of Africana Studies, is co-editing a journal issue that looks at protests, violence and COVID-19 through the lens of Black female literary giants. Members of the Pitt

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Africana Studies

Doctor's Orders

Ensuring that the vulnerable and isolated get medical care is as important as ever. Enter Jim Withers (MED ’84), founder of the Street Medicine Institute.

  • Innovation and Research

Racial Data and COVID-19: Why it Matters

When it comes to data on COVID-19, there are disparities between what information states are recording and reporting—especially when it comes to race. Utibe Essien, an assistant professor in the

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Medicine

Perplexing Havana Cases Give Way to New Diagnostic Technique

Carey Balaban from the School of Medicine led a study into a curious 2016 case concerning U.S. diplomats in Havana, Cuba, and their families, who had mysterious symptoms including dizziness, ear pain

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Otolaryngology
  • Department of Communication Science and Disorders

Eleven Faculty and Staff Proposals Receive Pitt Seed Funding

The 2020 Pitt Seed Grant winners span departments, Community Engagement Centers and regional campuses in subjects as varied as dependent care, STEM research and National Science Foundation grant

  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
  • Department of Psychology

Grad Student Examines Intersection of Culture and Medicine

Steven Moon, a doctoral student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Science's Department of Music, studies musical healing in Turkish biomedical research and investigates how humans

  • Students
  • Innovation and Research
  • Department of Music