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One of the recipients of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Victor R. Ambros, was the winner of the University of Pittsburgh’s Dickson Prize in 2009. 

Ambros, who is currently the Silverman Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, was awarded the prize for his codiscovery of...

Left to right: Szoko and Culyba

Youths living in neighborhoods with more community assets — like parks, libraries, health services and

transportation options — were less likely to report feelings of hopelessness, according to a new JAMA Network Open study from the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC.

Some researchers and students in three of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s physician scientist training programs have been using their research skills to examine the effectiveness of their own education. And they are finding that having an extra year of basic science training embedded in medical education offers a significant increase in confidence, especially...

When the protein STING (pink) is activated, the transcription factor TFEB (green) is shuttled into the nucleus, where it stimulates the production of lysosomes. (CREDIT: Jay Xiaojun Tan).

By: Asher Jones

A protein called STING, previously shown to control a pathway that contributes to antiviral signaling, also plays an important role in cellular stress clearance...