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Deep Brain Stimulation Instantly Improves Arm and Hand Function Post-Brain Injury
Pirondini (left) and González-Martínez (right.) Photos courtesy of UPMC.
Deep brain stimulation may provide immediate improvement in arm and hand strength and function weakened by traumatic brain injury or stroke, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers report today in Nature Communications.
Encouraging results from extensive tests in monkeys and...
Shekhar Announces School of Medicine’s Successes and Goals in State of the School Address, Highlighting Commercialization Efforts
“The vision for us is that through research, through education, through our clinical care, we want to radically improve health for the region and for the world,” Anantha Shekhar, Pitt’s senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean, School of Medicine, told School of Medicine faculty members in his Sept. 24 State of the School address.
Pitt Study Is First to Record Signs of Concussion in Slap Fighters
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine experts analyzed visible signs of concussion in individuals participating in professional slap fighting competitions and reported the results in a paper published in JAMA Surgery this week.
Slap fighting is a combat sport involving hits to the head. As the first academic study to provide a quantifiable assessment of possible...
New Pitt Model May Help Find Treatments for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Pitt researchers have made a step toward discovering effective treatments for a rapidly progressive and incurable neurodegenerative disease. In a paper published Sept. 18 in Nature Communications, a team led by Professor of Movement Disorders in Neurology Edward A. Burton, developed a novel zebrafish model of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).
Burton and his group...
Researcher Spotlight: Making Gains in Understanding Hearing Loss
According to a 2024 study by the National Institutes of Health, approximately 55% of adults over the age of 75 experience some type of hearing loss. That is why, for the past 30 years, Maria Eulalia (Lania) Rubio, professor of neurobiology, School of Medicine, has been working to better understand the molecular basis of hearing loss and uncover new scientific data that may one...
Pitt Medical Student Wins 2024 W.Va. Governor’s Service Award
Congratulations to Daniel Pan, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Pittsburgh, for receiving the 2024 West Virginia’s Governor’s Service Award. Pan was one of six recipients of this prestigious award and the only recipient in the adult category.
Established in 1995, the award recognizes individuals who demonstrate exceptional volunteerism and community...
Alexandra E. Mieczkowski Receives AAIM Award
The Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) announced that Alexandra E. Mieczkowski, assistant professor of medicine and of pediatrics, School of Medicine, and program director, UPMC Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Training Program, is the recipient of the 2025 MPPDA Alex Djuricich, MD Award.
This award is presented to a program director of a medicine‐pediatrics...
Pitt Joins NIH Initiative to Facilitate Rapid Response to Emerging Virus Threats
The University of Pittsburgh joins the newly established National Institutes of Health (NIH) pandemic preparedness research network to conduct research on high-priority pathogens most likely to threaten human health. NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases expects to commit approximately $100 million per year to fund the program.
U.S. Department of Defense Awards Pitt $100M to Continue Transformative Trauma Trials
Left to right Wisniewski, Guyette, Sperry
The University of Pittsburgh schools of the health sciences have been awarded approximately $100 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to continue a clinical research program that is advancing trauma care.
The 10-year contract renewal will fund new and ongoing research conducted through the Linking...