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Matthew Eric Piraino Awards for Excellence in Infectious Disease
This award is to be given to a fourth-year medical student with an interest in infectious diseases. This year’s award is presented to Alexander Layden
Frank...
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![Congratulations to Gabby Gilmer, G3 for her 3rd Place at AR3t_p2c](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/Gabby%20Image.jpg?itok=xhSbtn7A)
Congratulations to Gabby Gilmer on achieving 3rd place in the Poster Presentation at AR3T-Alliance for Regenerative Rehabilitation Research & Training!...
![Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi receives the Distinquished Research Award](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/Mehret%20Image.jpg?itok=7edh3VGM)
Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi from @PittRheum...
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Anna Kirillova wins the prestigious Rupert Swift Award at the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute annual meeting in London, England.
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In brain, the striatum is a heterogenous region involved in reward and goal-directed behaviors. Striatal dysfunction is linked to psychiatric disorders, including opioid use disorder (OUD). Striatal subregions are divided based on neuroanatomy, ea...
![Omission of surgery, primary endocrine therapy adherence, and effect of comorbidity in older women with estrogen receptor positive breast cancer](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/2024%20Carleton%20better.jpg?itok=g0bgiqyF)
Most women ≥70 years undergo breast surgery for primary treatment of estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancer. Only a small minority forego surgical intervention despite a growing body of literature, mainly from the United Kingdom (UK) and Th...
![Holistic processing and face expertise after pediatric resection of occipitotemporal cortex](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/2024%20Simmons.png?itok=HdDA2ti4)
The nature and extent of hemispheric lateralization and its potential for reorganization continues to be debated, although there is general agreement that there is a right hemisphere (RH) advantage for face processing in human adults. Here, we exa...
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Congratulations to Gabby Gilmer, G3, for winning the Mininder S. Kocher Award for Most Promising Career from the Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine group
![Pittsburgh Project Paves Way for Revolutionizing Treatment of Fatal Brain Diseases](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/brain-funding-web.jpeg?itok=42PFOaJx)
A collaborative group of neuroscientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine received a $6.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neu...
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![G2, Olivia Parks, was awarded the Achievement Rewards for College Scientist Foundation (ARCS) for her work titled Age-dependent differences in the immune response to human metapneumovirus](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/mstp_parks_1.jpg?itok=OWSf_7pp)
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![Evaluation of Therapies for Peripheral and Neuraxial Opioid-induced Pruritus based on Molecular and Cellular Discoveries by Eileen Nguyen](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/nguyen_2_1.jpg?itok=91Y3R3Fm)
![Strategies for Achieving Gender Equity and Work–Life Integration in Physician-Scientist Training by Shohini Ghosh-Choudhary](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/ghosh-choudhary_shohini_2.jpg?itok=rAAO34H6)
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![Michael Granovetter is awarded the American Epilepsy Society's Early Career Fellowship](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/granovetter_aes.png?itok=Csfrj2ot)
![Compensatory hepatic adaptation accompanies permanent absence of intrahepatic biliary network due to YAP1 loss in liver progenitors by Laura Molina](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/molina_2.png?itok=2VOzZws9)
![Joshua Tashman PhD Thesis Defense titled Moving FRESH Towards the Clinic: In-Process Quality Control of Patient-Specific ECM Scaffolds](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/tashman_defense_3.jpg?itok=L9uTPwab)
Tissue engineering utilizes our understanding of biomechanics, biomaterials, and biology to build tissues and organs from scratch for diagnostics and therapeutics. This approach has been leveled at clinical and research problems in all organ syste...
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Please join Pitt/CMU MSTP for Edgar's Thesis Defense titled "Towards patient specific direct cardiac compression" on June 28th at 1pm.
Join Zoom Meeting https://cmu.zoom.us/j/99613388722?pwd=U0RWZWJ1bU5sRDh1Yk95bENRcytqUT09
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![Graft IL-33 regulates infiltrating macrophages to protect against chronic rejection by Gaelen Dwyer in The Journal of Clinical Investigation](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/gaelen_image.jpg?itok=BL6e_CYw)
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Initial evidence suggests that state-level regulatory mandates for sepsis quality improvement are associated with decreased sepsis mortality. However, sepsis mandates require financial investments on the p...
![Co-Director, Russell Schwartz,PhD, Named Head of CMU’s Computational Biology Department](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/scs_russell_schwartz_2019_kl002-300x196.jpg?itok=AdjZFYQd)
PITTSBURGH— Martial Hebert, dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has named Russell Schwartz the new head of the Computational Biology Department, effective July 1.
Schwartz, a professor in both the Computational...
From the Article In Cell Press: The lateral parabrachial nucleus (lPBN) is a majortarget of spinal projection neurons conveying noci-ceptive input into supraspinal structures. However,the functional role of distinct lPBN efferents indiverse nocife...
From the article in Pediatric Transplant: The high discard rate of pediatric donor hearts presents a major challenge for children awaiting heart transplantation. Recent literature identifies several factors that contribute to the disparities in pe...
Maxwell Wang was selected for one of the most prestigious awards of its kind, the Hertz Fellowship. This Fellowship supports five years of graduate research and the freedom to pursue innovative ideas, wherever they may lead. Hertz Fellows also rec...
![Tolani Olonisakin Defended her Thesis](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/tolanidefense_photo.jpg?itok=umpkqrNK)
From the article in The Journal of Neuroscience: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized partly by atypical attentional engagement, reflected in exaggerated and variable responses to sensory stimuli. Attentional engagement is known to be r...
From the article in Journal of Neurophysiology: Separating neural signals from noise can improve brain-computer interface performance and stability. However, most algorithms for separating neural action potentials from noise are not suitable for u...
![Congratulations to Maria Ly](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/maria_ly_defense_.jpg?itok=sS6E0MQg)
From the article in Chemical Communications: Site-specific placement of unnatural amino acids, particularly those responsive to light, offers an elegant approach to control protein function and capture their fleeting ‘interactome’. Herein, we have...
![Gabby Gilmer presents her poster at PRiSM](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news-img/gilmer.jpg?itok=-alI7rhL)
Increasing evidence implicates metabolic pathways as key regulators of cell fate and function. Although the metabolism of glucose, amino acids, and fatty acids is essential to maintain over...