Centers and Institutes
At Pitt Health Sciences, we don’t simply study human health—we help shape its future. Across more than 115 research institutes, centers and hubs, our community of innovators turns curiosity into discovery and discovery into meaningful impact.
Our centers continually push the boundaries of what’s known and what’s possible—uncovering the mysteries of the brain, advancing precision medicine, developing lifesaving cancer and transplant therapies, and driving breakthroughs in immunology, aging, women’s health, pediatrics, global biomedicine and more. Bringing together diverse perspectives and cutting‑edge tools—including advanced imaging, artificial intelligence, regenerative medicine and genomic science—our teams accelerate innovation with a singular purpose: to improve human lives.
This is where bold ideas take flight, where science and compassion work hand‑in‑hand, and where the next era of care is imagined, tested and transformed.
SVC Health Sciences/Other
- Center for Military Medicine Research
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute
- Health Policy Institute
- Health Sciences Center for Interprofessional EducationInstitute for Bioethics
- Institute for Precision Medicine
- Magee-Womens Research Institute
- Pitt Vaccination and Health Connection Hub
- Pittsburgh Integrated Translational Neuroscience Institute (PIT-NI)
- Trivedi Institute for Space and Global Biomedicine
- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
School of Dental Medicine
- Center for Clinical and Translational Periodontal Research
- Center for Craniofacial and Dental Genetics (Pitt Center of Excellence)
- Center for Craniofacial Regeneration (Pitt Center of Excellence)
- Center for Oral Health Research in Appalachia
- Dental Registry and DNA Repository (Pitt Center of Excellence)
- Pittsburgh Center for Interdisciplinary Bone and Mineral Research
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
- Healthy Home Lab (HHL)
- IMPACT Center
- Neuromuscular Research Laboratory (NMRL)
School of Medicine
- Advanced Imaging Center
- Aging Institute
- Alzheimer’s Biomarker Consortium–Down Syndrome (ABC-DS)
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
- Bethel Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC)
- Center for AIDS Elimination
- Center for Adolescent Reward, Rhythms and Sleep (CARRS)
- Center for Biologic Imaging
- Center for Clinical Artificial Intelligence
- Center for Cranial Base Surgery
- Center for Emergency Medicine
- Center for Enhancing Treatment and Utilization for Depression and Emergent Suicidality (ETUDES) in Pediatric Primary Care
- Center for Innovation in Pain Care
- Center for Innovation in Restorative Medicine (CIRM)
- Center for Integrative Organ Systems
- Center for Metabolism and Mitochondrial Medicine (C3M)
- Center for Pediatric Research on Obesity and Metabolism
- Center for Perioperative Research
- Center for Research on Health Care
- Center for Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA)
- Center for Street Medicine
- Center for Systems Immunology
- Center for Transcriptional Medicine
- Center for Vaccine Research
- Clinical and Translational Research Center
- Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence (CPACE)
- Cystic Fibrosis Research Center
- Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease
- Facial Nerve Center
- Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center
- Human Engineering Research Laboratories
- Institute for Infection, Inflammation, and Immunity in Children (i4Kids)
- McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
- Mental Health in Autistic Adults: An RDoC Approach
- MR Research Center
- Multidisciplinary Acute Care Research Organization
NMR Facility - Organ Pathobiology and Therapeutics Institute (formerly Drug Development Institute)
- Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Center
- Palliative Research Center
- PET Research Center
- PIND (Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases)
- Pittsburgh CREATES
- Pittsburgh Center for Cyro-Electron Microscopy
- Pittsburgh Center for Kidney Research
- Pittsburgh Pepper Center
- Pittsburgh Surgical Outcomes Research Center
- Richard King Mellon Foundation Institute for Pediatric Research
- Role of Astrogliosis in Aging and Pathological and Clinical Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
- Scleroderma Center
- Starzl Transplantation Institute
- The Institute for Head and Neck Surgery
- The Pittsburgh Hearing Institute
- The University of Pittsburgh Center for Cardiac Arrest Survival
- Trauma and Transfusion Medicine Research Center
- Trivedi Institute for Space Biomedicine
- UPMC Vision Institute
- VA Center for Healthcare Evaluation, Research, and Promotion (CHERP)
- Vascular Medicine Institute
- Vijayalakshmi Innovation Center in Women's Health Analytics and Research (VIHAR)
- Voice Center
School of Nursing
- Aging and Gerontological Nursing Research Hub
- Cancer Survivorship Hub
- Excellence in Digital Health Research
- Genomics of Patient Outcomes
- Maternal/Perinatal and Reproductive Health Research Hub
- Nursing Education Research and Scholarship Hub
- Nursing Health Services and Policy Research
School of Pharmacy
- Center for Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Center for Education and Drug Abuse Research
- Center for Pharmacogenetics
- Community Leadership and Innovation in Practice Center
- Computational Genomics Screening Center
- Implementation and Research Center for Healthy Communities
- National Center of Excellence for Computational Drug Abuse Research
- Pharmacogenomics Center of Excellence
School of Public Health
- Center for Aging and Population Health
- Center for Bioethics and Health Law
- Center for Global Health
- Center for Health Equity
- Center for Healthy Environments and Communities
- Center for LGBT Health Research
- Center for Public Health Practice
- Center for Research on Health Care
- Center for Social Dynamics and Community Health
- CHEER (Center for Health, Environment, and Engaged Research)
- Concept Mapping Institute
- Diabetes Prevention Support Center
- Epidemiology Data Center
- Evaluation Institute for Public Health
- Health Policy Institute
- Public Health Dynamics Laboratory (PHDL)
- R2R (Rust to Resilience Environmental Chemical Research Center)
- The Caribbean Consortium for Research in Environmental and Occupational Health (CCREOH)
- The Pennsylvania/MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center
- Ultrasound Research Laboratory (URL)
- University of Pittsburgh Asthma and Environmental Lung Health Institute (AELHI)
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