Oct 20, 2021 | News
Led by Drs. Toren Finkel (Aging Institute/Cardiology) and Melanie Königshoff (PACCM), the TriState SenNet TMC (tristatesennet.pitt.edu) combines the expertise of faculty from Pitt, CMU, OSU, and URMC to develop a high-resolution map of the senescent cell population in...
Jul 2, 2021 | News
In a recent Nature Communications article, Dr. Bill Chen’s lab discuss how a high-throughput screen could be used to identify FDA-approved compounds that may resist SARS-CoV-2 infection. Read more in UPMC's Inside Life Changing Medicine Read the article in...
May 1, 2021 | News
Dr. Toren Finkel has been appointed as Distinguished Professor of Medicine. Distinguished professorship constitutes the highest honor that the University of Pittsburgh can accord a member of the professoriate....
Oct 6, 2020 | News
When Bokai Zhu, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine at Pitt, started collaborating with a mathematician to solve complex biological problems, he could never imagine that they would discover a “musica universalis” inside living cells. The Greeks saw musica...
Aug 19, 2020 | News
Anne B. Newman, from Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health, was recently awarded the American Heart Association’s 2020 Clinical Research Prize and will be recognized during the Presidential Address at the AHA’s virtual Scientific Sessions in November. The award...
Feb 22, 2020 | News
Defining cellular receptors for the Bacillus cereus hemolysin BL toxin (HBL) and the development of anti-HBL therapies Agency:...