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UPMC Enterprises Translational Sciences and the University of Pittsburgh Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship are teaming on a second request for proposals for sponsored research projects in specific therapeutic areas. …
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Michael Wells had already developed an innovation mindset while earning both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. (EDUC’90, EDUC’92G) An avid marathon runner, …
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Pitt and UPMC, through its Translational Sciences division, are once again collaborating to provide funding support for therapeutics projects that need further de-risking experiments to determine their clinical and commercial …
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Pitt innovators continued to pursue and achieve impact for their ideas and discoveries in Fiscal 2023 at near-record levels as the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) enhanced its outreach, …
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Beth and Jeff Gusenoff are a podiatrist and a plastic surgeon by trade, but entrepreneurs at heart. Over the past five years they have been developing a supportive pressure-reducing shoe …
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Pitt innovators were issued 15 patents in June 2023. Pitt investigators have identified a group of cancer-related long non-coding RNAs as novel biomarkers of cancer. They have additionally developed methods …
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Four innovation projects have been selected to receive funding from the Innovation Institute’s Commercialization Gap Fund to have prototypes of their innovations created in collaboration with the Swanson School of …
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The Innovation Institute recently awarded grants from the Chancellor’s Gap Fund to four Pitt innovation teams working on small molecule drug discovery projects. The funds will enable experiments to validate …
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Pitt innovators were issued eight patents in May 2023. Current CPR techniques don’t take into account the individual psychology of the patient, such as chest size, blood perfusion signals and …
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Apollo Neuroscience is a spinout from the University of Pittsburgh that began in 2018. The company has developed a wearable device and software platform technology that delivers patented vibration patterns, …
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Pitt innovators exploring entrepreneurship have many resources to assist them on their journey to impact through commercialization. None may be as valuable as the corps of volunteer mentors who give …
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Continuing our recognition of Pitt Innovators feted at the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Celebration of Innovation on April 25, 2023, at the Petersen Events Center Campus View Club, we …