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Finding the Balance: Aravind Cherukuri to Discuss How Transplant Patients’ Immune Response Affects Outcomes at Senior Vice Chancellor Lecture
By Maggie Lindenberg
Photography by Joshua Franzos
When Aravind Cherukuri first began his clinical nephrology fellowship over a decade ago in England at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, he didn’t intend to work with transplantation—or to conduct research.
But Cherukuri’s path shifted toward clinical transplantation and transplant immunology with the influence...
Breaking Health Data Barriers: Pitt Medical Researcher Collaborates with Health Sciences and Sports Analytics Cloud Innovation Center
Caption: Christopher Horvat, associate professor of critical care medicine, of pediatrics and of biomedical informatics, School of Medicine, and associate professor of clinical and translational science at the University of Pittsburgh.
By Shannon Turgeon
In electronic health records (EHRs), every piece of information (such as a lab test result) has a proprietary reference...
Pitt Faculty Members Selected for 2026 Senior Vice Chancellor's Research Seminar Series
The office of Anantha Shekhar, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean of the School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, is proud to announce the selection of 12 outstanding faculty members who will present their research for the 2026 Senior Vice Chancellor’s Research Seminar Series.
Interdisciplinary Pitt Team Awarded $20M Grant to Continue Low Back Pain Research
Caption: Low back pain affects an estimated 619 million people and is the leading cause of disability worldwide.
Note: This article was originally published on the website of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.
An interdisciplinary team within the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences schools and the Swanson School of Engineering has been awarded a nearly...
Our Mouths Have a Lot to Say About Our Hearts
By Kat Procyk
Caption: A series of research papers from a group of researchers at Pitt’s Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine are trying to understand what connects oral and heart health and—if identified—how to develop prevention and predictive strategies.
It’s long been understood that cardiovascular and oral health are intertwined. Research shows that poor oral...
Pitt's 2025 Winter Commencement for Health Sciences Students in Photos
By Kat Procyk
Photography by Rayni Shiring, University of Pittsburgh
Despite frigid temperatures and snow-covered roads, hundreds of University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences graduates and their families and friends turned out to celebrate at Pitt’s 2025 Winter Commencement ceremony on Dec. 14, 2025, at the Petersen Events Center.
Of the 1,133...
Pitt Study Finds Signature of Pediatric Brain Injury
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh discovered a promising new biomarker of “complicated” mild to severe pediatric traumatic brain injury, or TBI. Unlike a concussion—which usually resolves within weeks—complicated TBI requires at least an overnight hospital stay, signaling a more serious injury.
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Pitt’s One Health Day Explores the Relationship of Sustainability and Health Care
By Kat Procyk Photography by Rayni Shiring/University of Pittsburgh
The second annual One Health Day on Nov. 14 hosted speaker Ann-Christine Duhaime, Nicholas T. Zervas Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, and senior pediatric neurosurgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital. The event included awards for the Sustainable Healthcare Challenge...
Skill Shot: Deconstructing the “Pinball Mechanics” of TGF-β Cell Signaling
By Phoebe Ingraham Renda
Photography by Rayni Shiring, University of Pittsburgh
Cell signaling is how cells communicate at the molecular level to coordinate biological processes that shape our development, maintain our health and sometimes contribute to illness. That communication is an intricate blur of molecular motion, where molecules collide, bind and separate...
15 Pitt researchers were named to Clarivate’s annual Highly Cited list
Fifteen University of Pittsburgh faculty members have been named to this year’s Highly Cited Researchers list, an annual compilation of researchers whose work has made a significant impact across a broad range of disciplines.
