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The Manufacturing Assistance Center at @PittTitusville aims to meet the workforce needs of Northwestern Pennsylvania. With the goal of stopping population loss in the region, the MAC program gives students skills for in demand work in their own region. pittresearchannualreport.com/education-and-…

Undergraduate students across the country are finding bacteriophages and sending them to Graham Hatfull's lab here at Pitt. The program allows students to get research experience that makes a contribution to science in their first year of college. pittwire.pitt.edu/features-artic…

Tracy Cui works at the interface of artificially made implantable devices and the nervous system. She studies how biological responses affect neural interface function, with the end goal of ensuring that implants and brain tissue work together seamlessly. pittresearchannualreport.com/biology-bioeng…

Tiffany Taylor has been awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowship for her work identifying how host and pathogen pathways respond to each other and how those pathways shift throughout an infection. hhmi.org/news/hhmi-name…

Marie K. Norman and her team collaborate with researchers and faculty to bring learning sciences, innovative technologies and multimedia design into their teaching. Her work moves Pitt into the forefront of cutting-edge ways to design engaging instruction. pittwire.pitt.edu/pittwire/pittm…

A multidisciplinary research team led by Stephen Emery and Youngjae Chun received a $2.3 million Blueprint MedTech grant from the @NIH to fast-track the development of a minimally invasive, low-profile fetal shunt for treating fetal hydrocephalus. news.engineering.pitt.edu/pitt-team-rece…

I, along with @mason_lab, were interviewed in the latest Salon news article on the impact of prolonged space missions. Check out the full article here: salon.com/2025/03/15/nas… @PittResearch #SpaceBiomedicine #AstronautHealth #Microgravity #Mitochondria

A team led by 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—autosomal dominant leukodystrophy. inside.upmc.com/gene-silencer-…

Space travel exposes people to a range of physiological and psychological challenges. Afshin Beheshti joins Reuters to discuss how the human body was not built for spaceflight and the research being done to alleviate some of those negative effects. reuters.com/science/how-do…

Alexander Deiters focuses his work on creating synthetic organic molecules with new architectures and biological functions. “We utilize covalent bond formation to provide enhanced treatment for diseases. But we also look to move the field forward.” pittresearchannualreport.com/biology-bioeng…

A study by the Department of Neurological Surgery showed that surgical intervention for Chiari malformation not only relieves classic physical symptoms, but also improves memory and psychological health in patients. @PittNeurosurg neurosurgery.pitt.edu/news/chiari-su…

Fang Peng has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his contributions to the development of high-powered electronic technologies for advanced power grid and energy conversion.

Evan Schneider earned a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a prestigious fellowship for early-career research scientists. Schneider uses supercomputer to understand the processes responsible for shaping galaxies. pittwire.pitt.edu/accolades-hono…

Yuan Liu and Juan Taboas have been elected as Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Liu's work focuses on developing small-molecule therapies while Taboas' work focuses on disease mitigation for craniofacial and skeletal tissues. innovation.pitt.edu/pitt-faculty-e…

Mary Marazita studies the genomic markers associated with malformations of the human face and head. "Our mission is to identify genetic causes of complex human conditions and traits that affect normal development of the craniofacial and oral complexes.” pittresearchannualreport.com/genomics/genes…

Nathan Clark and his team study how animals evolve in response to environmental changes, specifically in species like the Australian marsupial mole. By studying the genome, they can uncover new parts of the genome that help form and maintain eyesight. post-gazette.com/news/health/20…

Anne Newman and Toren Finkel are working to better understand aging. “Most people will have a period of poor health at the end of their lives,” says Newman. “But the goal of what we call healthspan is to optimize health for as long as possible.” pittresearchannualreport.com/healthspan/key…

Michael Ramsey studies volcanoes to understand their behavior and minimize risks for people living nearby. Using his background as an engineer, he has developed unique instruments that allow him to gather data in the field, in the lab and from space. pittresearchannualreport.com/space-2024/blo…