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Pitt Researcher Helped Set Dental Pain Management Guidelines That Are Receiving Professional Endorsements
By Shannon Turgeon
A Pitt researcher was part of a group that wrote new dental pain management guidelines that are now being widely endorsed among dental professionals. The guidelines are meant to help manage acute pain while minimizing opioid use.
Deborah Polk, visiting associate professor of dental public health, School of Dental Medicine, and of behavioral and...
Pitt Health Sciences Researchers Receive Grant to Improve Disclosure of Krabbe Disease Newborn Screening Results
(Left to right) Laura Kirkpatrick and Deepa Rajan
Primary investigator Laura Kirkpatrick, assistant professor of pediatrics and of neurology, School of Medicine, and coinvestigator Deepa Rajan, associate professor of pediatrics, School of Medicine, have been awarded a $375,000 grant from the Rosenau Family Research Foundation. The grant will support Kirkpatrick's work to improve...
When the Sterols Align
By Phoebe Ingraham Renda
Across genetic, clinical and basic research, oxysterols reveal a key genetic-metabolic-inflammatory paradigm linking dysfunctional lysosomal biology with increased mortality from pulmonary hypertension. Illustrated by Phoebe Ingraham Renda.
Pitt team receives $2.3 million to develop new device for treating fetal hydrocephalus
By Youngjae Chun, Edited by Kat Procyk
Photo courtesy of Professor Youngjae Chun’s lab.
A multidisciplinary research team led by Stephen Emery, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of the Center for Innovative Fetal Intervention at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, and Youngjae Chun,...
Ann Cohen Wins Award at Human Amyloid Imaging Conference
Ann Cohen, associate professor of psychiatry, School of Medicine, was awarded the Christopher Clark Award at the 17th annual Human Amyloid Imaging Conference held Jan. 15-17, 2025, at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
This award is in recognition of Cohen’s research focusing on risk and resilience to Alzheimer’s disease pathology in communities...
Bedside to Bench: The Many Ways of Being a Nurse
By Maureen Passmore Photo by Joshua Franzos
Sarah Belcher was pursuing her clinical doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, planning to be a clinical nurse specialist, when a series of conversations with a mentor changed the course of her career.
“She said, ‘You know you’re a scientist, right?’,” says Belcher, assistant professor of...
Trastuzumab Emtansine Improves Long-Term Survival in HER2 Breast Cancer
In patients with high-risk HER2-positive breast cancer, postsurgery, or adjuvant, treatment with trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) reduced the long-term risk of death or invasive disease by 46% and improved survival compared to trastuzumab alone, according to the final results of the phase 3 KATHERINE clinical trial led by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer...
Self-Destructing Vaccine Offers Enhanced Protection Against TB in Monkeys
A self-destructing vaccine administered intravenously provides additional safety and protection against tuberculosis (TB) in macaque monkeys, suggests new University of Pittsburgh research published Jan. 10 in Nature Microbiology.
The built-in safety mechanisms circumvent the possibility of an accidental self-infection with weakened mycobacteria, offering a safe and...
New Pitt Study Highlights Scope of Economic Abuse in Teens
By Asher Jones
Adolescence is a formative time for attaining education, gaining financial independence and building the foundations of a future career. At the same time, many young people are navigating their first romantic relationships.
So, when an intimate partner sabotages or controls a young person’s finances or interferes with their education—a phenomenon...
Healing Can be Too Much of a Good Thing for Transplanted Hearts
By Phoebe Ingraham Renda
Treg repair responses reveal a delicate balance in healing transplanted hearts. Illustrated by: Phoebe Ingraham Renda.
In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers from The University of Pittsburgh’s Departments of Surgery and of Immunology and the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute discovered that a molecule...
