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Binge-Worthy Biomedicine
By Phoebe Ingraham Renda
Illustration by Phoebe Ingraham Renda
Just as machine learning can guide our entertainment choices, University of Pittsburgh researcher Afshin Beheshti, professor of surgery in the School of Medicine, asks it to do a more serious task: predict small molecule drugs that can target microRNAs.
Small, But Mighty
New Pitt Dental Medicine Specialty Practice Opens at UPMC Montefiore
The University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine has opened the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Prosthodontics specialty practice at UPMC Montefiore. This new clinic will specialize in treating surgical cases, including patients with cancer and those who have experienced facial trauma or have facial conditions that require coordinated care with other services at UPMC....
Sleep Science Supports Later School Start Times
by Kat Procyk
Sleep experts and some state legislators believe it’s time for a wake-up call for schools and their start times.
Panelists at a Nov. 12 event hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Sleep and Circadian Science discussed the evidence for shifting the start of high school to later than the typical time, while acknowledging the challenges...
Pitt Faculty Members and Medical Student Win First Place at 2024 MOLA-NAMS Conference
Jenny Ruiz (left), Alejandra Curbelo-Paz (middle), Elizabeth Contreras (right)
One Health Day Event Highlights the Links Between Climate and Health
Bill Mallon (left) and Mike Boninger (right)
Pitt’s first observance of One Health Day, an international, transdisciplinary forum on global health, featured a presentation by William T. Mallon, senior director of strategy and innovation development at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), who serves as the point person for sustainability and climate action. ...
Team from Pitt’s Rehab Neural Engineering Labs Takes Home a Gold Medal in the 2024 Cybathlon
By Shannon Turgeon
A team from Pitt’s Rehab Neural Engineering Labs (RNEL) recently competed in Cybathlon, an international competition where teams of technology developers and a person with a disability compete to tackle everyday tasks using modern assistive technologies.
The team, called PittCrew, won a gold medal competing remotely in the Brain-Computer...
$1 Million Magee Prize Awarded to Team Studying Endometrial Cancers
On Nov. 13 at the Magee-Womens Summit, Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI) awarded the $1 million Magee Prize to a team led by Ronald Buckanovich, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and MWRI, for research focused on developing new approaches to diagnose and treat high-risk types of endometrial cancer.
