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Pitt Researcher Thomas Karikari to Discuss Knocking Down Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Obstacles in Next Senior Vice Chancellor’s Research Seminar
Photography by Joshua Franzos
One day during his childhood in Ghana, Thomas Karikari was helping with his family farm when he saw his father observing him. Karikari recalls his father telling him, “I understand you’re very good in school. Take that seriously because you’re not very good at farm work.”
Data Collection and New Connections: Health Sciences Students Collaborate with Special Olympics Pennsylvania
By Shannon Turgeon
Photography by Rayni Shiring/University of Pittsburgh
Students from three of the University of Pittsburgh's health sciences schools teamed up with Special Olympics Pennsylvania to collect health data for Project ALL STAR, a new initiative designed to analyze how Special Olympics programming improves the health and well-being of its athletes...
The 2025 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology- Megan Sykes, MD
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the Department of Surgery, and the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute are honored to present the 2025 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology to Megan Sykes, MD, Michael J. Friedlander Professor of Medicine and professor of microbiology and immunology and surgical sciences, Columbia University, in recognition of...
Congratulations, Health Sciences Graduates!
Cathedral of Learning photograph by Anneliese Harp, School of Pharmacy
Congratulations to the Spring 2025 graduates in the University of Pittsburgh’s schools of the health sciences! After years of training and preparation, you are ready to take the next steps in your journeys to help shape a healthier future.
On Friday, May 2, the Schools of Pharmacy, of Public...
Pitt Health Sciences Honored for Advancing Sustainability Beyond Campus
Caption: Student Sustainability Champions accepting their awards at the 2025 Pitt Sustainability Awards on April 18, 2025. (Photo provided by Pitt Sustainability)
By Kat Procyk
Several University of Pittsburgh schools of the health sciences faculty, students and staff were honored for their meaningful contributions to campus sustainability as part of the 2025 Pitt...
Pitt Teams Up with Amazon Web Services to Drive Health Care Solutions
Caption: From left - Uduak Ndoh, vice chancellor and deputy chief information officer for Pitt's schools of the health sciences; Mark Henderson, Pitt’s chief information officer; Dominic Delmolino, vice president, worldwide public sector technology and innovation at Amazon Web Services; and Ryan Varley, senior associate athletic director, CFO.
By Shannon Turgeon
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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.
