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Diploma Day 2024 Speakers Highlight Themes of Humility, Compassion and Connection

May 20, 2024

137th graduating class of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

“When the start of your graduate or medical school career coincides with that of a deadly pandemic, and you make it to the other side able to articulate such hope and clarity, there's only one word to describe you, and that is ‘awesome,’” Jeanne Marrazzo, director of the National Institute of Allergy and...

3 Pitt Health Sciences Faculty Graduate as ELAM and ELH Fellows

May 20, 2024

By Megumi Barclay

Three University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences faculty members were among the graduates of the 29th class of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) and Executive Leadership in Health Care (ELH) fellows. The graduates are Jessica S. Merlin (middle) and Kristin Ray (left) from the School of Medicine and Tiffany Gary-Webb...

School of Medicine Diploma Day 2024

May 14, 2024

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s Diploma Day Ceremony will be held on Sunday, May 19, beginning at 2 p.m. at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, 4141 Fifth Avenue.

Parking options include the Soldiers and Sailors Parking Garage, accessible via the entrance at 4390 Bigelow Blvd. Street parking is also available.

Staying home? You can watch the live stream...

Pitt Researchers Find Cellular Feeding Frenzy Fuels Pulmonary Hypertension

May 2, 2024

Chan, Vitalant Chair in Vascular Medicine and professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology

Blood vessels in the lungs aren’t like the others in the body. This difference becomes clear in pulmonary hypertension, in which only the lungs’ blood vessels stiffen progressively, leading to chronic lung disease, heart failure and death. The underlying reasons for this...

Pittsburgh has a “right to win” in biomanufacturing

April 26, 2024

Pittsburgh’s strength in life sciences research is well established, but turning breakthroughs in the lab into companies that spur the local economy is a challenge of its own. In a panel discussion on April 24, local leaders highlighted how Pitt BioForge, the biomanufacturing innovation facility the University of Pittsburgh is building at Hazelwood Green, will help promising life...

Pitt and UPMC Launch Computational Pathology and AI Center

April 25, 2024

From left: Curtis Stratman, Liron Pantanowitz, Hooman Rashidi

The Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence (CPACE), a Pitt/UPMC joint venture, unveiled its new facility in the UPMC Cancer Pavilion, Suite 201, on April 24. The center is designed to bring together experts in computational pathology, artificial intelligence and related fields to collaborate, innovate,...