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A NASA-funded Pitt team is exploring the benefits of sleeping in space
Kate Flickinger, principal physiologist of the Applied Physiology Lab in Pitt’s Department of Emergency Medicine and a researcher studying how lower metabolic rates would affect astronauts’ muscular and skeletal health, has been selected as a Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) fellow.
Five New Papers Highlight Cancer Inequities, Challenges and Opportunities in South Asia
By Asher Jones and Cynthia Patton
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries — Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka — are shown in blue. Credit: Created with mapchart.net.
Study Untangles How COVID-19 Wreaks Widespread Damage in the Body
By Asher Jones
New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds light on the pathways that drive organ damage and death in severe COVID-19 and helps explain why survivors of the disease can experience long-term complications.
“Our study resolves some of the long-standing unanswered questions about how the SARS-CoV-2 virus impacts...
Pitt Welcomes ABRCMS Community to City
By Kat Procyk
More than 6,000 people from across the globe gathered in Pittsburgh last week for the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS), held here for the first time.
Carl Lawson, associate vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion, health sciences, says hosting the event was an opportunity to showcase Pitt as a...
Pitt Team Gets Millions From ARPA-H for Whole Eye Transplant Project
By Lisa A. Goldstein
To make whole eye transplants that restore sight a reality, the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh is part of a project team for a program called Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts, or THEA.
The project will receive an award of up to $56 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an...
Leading Pitt Researcher Receives Prestigious Award for Breast Cancer Research Excellence
Steffi Oesterreich, The Shear Family Foundation Professor in Breast Cancer Research at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, will be honored by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium on Dec. 12, 2024.
Binge-Worthy Biomedicine
By Phoebe Ingraham Renda
Illustration by Phoebe Ingraham Renda
Just as machine learning can guide our entertainment choices, University of Pittsburgh researcher Afshin Beheshti, professor of surgery in the School of Medicine, asks it to do a more serious task: predict small molecule drugs that can target microRNAs.
Small, But Mighty
New Pitt Dental Medicine Specialty Practice Opens at UPMC Montefiore
The University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine has opened the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Prosthodontics specialty practice at UPMC Montefiore. This new clinic will specialize in treating surgical cases, including patients with cancer and those who have experienced facial trauma or have facial conditions that require coordinated care with other services at UPMC....
Sleep Science Supports Later School Start Times
by Kat Procyk
Sleep experts and some state legislators believe it’s time for a wake-up call for schools and their start times.
Panelists at a Nov. 12 event hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Sleep and Circadian Science discussed the evidence for shifting the start of high school to later than the typical time, while acknowledging the challenges...
