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Team from Pitt’s Rehab Neural Engineering Labs Takes Home a Gold Medal in the 2024 Cybathlon
By Shannon Turgeon
A team from Pitt’s Rehab Neural Engineering Labs (RNEL) recently competed in Cybathlon, an international competition where teams of technology developers and a person with a disability compete to tackle everyday tasks using modern assistive technologies.
The team, called PittCrew, won a gold medal competing remotely in the Brain-Computer...
$1 Million Magee Prize Awarded to Team Studying Endometrial Cancers
On Nov. 13 at the Magee-Womens Summit, Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) awarded the $1 million Magee Prize to a team led by Ronald Buckanovich, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and MWRI, for research focused on developing new approaches to diagnose and treat high-risk types of endometrial cancer.
Pitt's First Signing Day for Startups Celebrated a Milestone for Researcher-Entrepreneurs
At a Nov. 7 signing day event on campus, five high-performing stars donned their hats and signed their papers, affirming their commitment to Pitt in front of light-up letters and balloon arrangements. Roc the Panther posed for selfies, and “Sweet Caroline” played on the speakers.
Experiences of Discrimination Linked to Postpartum Weight Retention
Researchers have been unable to explain why, after giving birth, Black patients are two to three times as likely to retain or gain additional weight compared to their white counterparts, even when prepregnancy weight and gestational-weight trajectories are comparable. A first-of-its-kind study by University of Pittsburgh epidemiologists points to the stress of lived experiences...
Surgical Device Innovations Take Top Prizes in the 2024 Wells Student Healthcare Competition
For the past 13 years the Wells competition has provided Pitt students in health science disciplines the opportunity to explore the commercial potential of their lab’s research and gain skills in innovation and entrepreneurship through a business mentor assigned to each team.
Pitt Researchers to Study Alternate Brain Circuit in Parkinson’s Patients
A Message from Dr. Shekhar: A Transformational Clinical Research Initiative for Pitt
At the University of Pittsburgh, we are reimagining clinical research to enhance our position as a global leader in academic medicine. We will harness the tremendous collective research strengths of our six health sciences schools to bring novel solutions to clinical care in partnership with UPMC.
To that end, we are creating a collaborative Clinical Trials Office and a...
Pitt Dental Medicine PhD Candidate Receives NIH F31 Grant
Brent Vasquez, a PhD student in the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, has received a prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Research Service Award (NRSA).
