Oasis Farm in Pittsburgh partners with Pitt’s Rust to Resilience Center to study and address pollutants like metals and PFAS while modeling sustainable urban farming. The collaboration combines community engagement, culturally relevant food production and student training in aquaponics and hydroponics, with more than 30 Pitt researchers and local organizations working together on environmental health solutions.

Since the Human Genome Project, genetic discoveries have advanced personalized medicine, but genes account for only a small share of health risk. Today, artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data are driving precision public health, which integrates genetics, environment and lifestyle to predict and prevent disease at the community level.

A team at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is in the process of securing patents on a way to develop therapies that can halt, prevent or reverse aortic valve calcification by intercepting the relationship between two proteins.

The Grace Lamsam Pharmacy Program has teamed up to serve vulnerable populations for 30 years.

University of Pittsburgh researchers discover how dysfunction in cells' garbage disposal-like lysosomes contribute to inflammation and increased mortality risk in pulmonary arterial hypertension—revealing potential treatment targets.

Pitt researcher Jay Xiaojun Tan is finding out what types of lysosomal stress and what level of stress can make these lysosomes healthier and make the whole cells healthier.