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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. While these...
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...
Pitt Launches Pitt.INC to Accelerate University Ideas into Real-World Solutions
By Kat Procyk
All great inventions start as an idea, but the process of turning that idea into a reality can be a challenging, years-long process.
The University of Pittsburgh is launching the Pitt Idea Navigation to Commercialization (Pitt.INC) program to help University innovators in Pitt’s Schools of the Health Sciences navigate the crucial first steps to...
New Approach Could Treat Anthrax Beyond the “Point of No Return”
Anthrax, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is often treatable in its early stages. But once the disease has progressed beyond the “point of no return” after just a few days, patients are almost certainly doomed.
In a Nature Microbiology study published on March 28, University of Pittsburgh researchers show that a cocktail of growth factors...
