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Enhancing Health in Mozambique
By Lindy Kravec
Pitt is building a relationship that will help enhance health in Mozambique. Earlier this spring, Jessica Griffin Burke, associate vice chancellor for global affairs, health sciences, and professor of behavioral and community health sciences, School of Public Health, and Juan Carlos Puyana, professor of surgery and of critical care medicine, and...
Health Sciences Award Recipients at Faculty Honors Convocation
Photographs by Tom Altany
At the University of Pittsburgh’s 2025 Faculty Honors Convocation on April 3, celebrating outstanding academic accomplishment and leadership, 63 of the 126 honorees were from the schools of the health sciences.
Health sciences faculty members represented 69% of those appointed to distinguished and endowed chairs in 2024 and 52% of the...
Focus on Precision Public Health
By Michele Dula Baum
Discoveries about how genes influence health and disease have outpaced virtually every other avenue of scientific research since the Human Genome Project’s first sequence publication more than 20 years ago, leading to personalized treatment approaches for cancers and cardiovascular disease, and increasingly targeted drug development.
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Breaking the Cycle: How Health Sciences Teams Are Tackling the Overdose Crisis and Opioid Addiction
By Phoebe Ingraham Renda
Illustrations by Stacy Innerst and courtesy of Pitt Med Magazine.
Pitt Scientist Eldin Jašarević to Discuss the Complex Interplay Between the Microbiome and Fertility at Upcoming Senior Vice Chancellor Lecture
By Kat Procyk Photography by Joshua Franzos
When Eldin Jašarević, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and of computational and systems biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, first came to the United States as a 10-year-old refugee from Bosnia, he couldn’t quite grasp what it meant for him or his future.
Two Pitt Faculty Members Named ELAM Fellows
The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program at Drexel University College of Medicine announced on Wednesday, April 9, the selection of its 31st class of fellows and the fellows for its Executive Leadership in Health Care (ELH) program track, which included two Pitt faculty members.
Rebecca Thurston, Pittsburgh Foundation Professor of Women's...
Pitt Health Sciences Programs Shine in U.S. News Best Graduate Schools Rankings
The University of Pittsburgh is committed to advancing scientific discovery and clinical innovation while educating and preparing future researchers, physicians, health care providers and administrators. Pitt’s health sciences programs continue to receive high national recognition with the April 8 release of the U.S. News & World Report 2025 Best Graduate Schools rankings....
Nobel Laureate David Julius to Present Laureate Lecture at Pain Day 2025
Nobel laureate David Julius will present the second Senior Vice Chancellor’s Laureate Lecture of the year through his keynote speech at the inaugural Pain Day on May 7, 2025. Julius, chair of the Department of Physiology at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, will present “Gut Feelings: Probing Mechanisms of Visceral Pain.”
Julius and Ardem...
Some Gut Bacteria Could Make Certain Drugs Less Effective
By: Asher Jones
A new study published April 3 in Nature Chemistry, by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Yale University, shows how common gut bacteria can metabolize certain oral medications that target cellular receptors called GPCRs, potentially rendering these important drugs less effective.
Drugs that act on GPCRs, or G protein-coupled...
Gene “Silencer” in Junk DNA Prevents Fatal Neurological Disease
By Allison Hydzik
A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene “silencer” that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating and fatal progressive neurological disease.
The discovery, published Feb. 5 in Nature Communications, explains why not all people with the genetic mutation...
