2026 Regional Business of the Year: Mancini’s Bakery
A Century of Tradition: Meet COIE 2026’s Regional Business of the Year, Mancini’s Bakery This year, one of Pittsburgh’s most beloved food businesses reached a milestone few companies ever see: …
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A Century of Tradition: Meet COIE 2026’s Regional Business of the Year, Mancini’s Bakery This year, one of Pittsburgh’s most beloved food businesses reached a milestone few companies ever see: …
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Some people are destined to be entrepreneurs, even if it’s a secret they keep from themselves for a while. Case in point: Priscilla Prem. Prem had planned to earn her …
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Pitt innovators were issued nine U.S. patents in September 2026. Featured patent: 12,746,258: Hydrogel Systems for Skeletal Interfacial Tissue Regeneration Applied to Epiphyseal Growth Plate Repair University of Pittsburgh researchers …
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Pitt’s Senior Vice Chancellor for Research, Dr. Rob Rutenbar introduced MIT professor Robert Langer to a packed room of Pitt faculty as the nation’s preeminent “rock star” of academic innovation …
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The University of Pittsburgh Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) teamed with its counterparts at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a pair of panels for academic innovators interested in commercializing …
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The bathroom is the most dangerous room in a house, and for people with balance and mobility challenges, it can be especially treacherous. A new innovation from the University of …
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Pitt innovators were issued five U.S. patents in August 2026. Featured patent: 12,715,902 “Methods of Treating Cancers Containing Fusion Genes” Inside every cell, genetic instructions have to be “edited” before …
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Fiscal Year 2026 marked a year of remarkable progress across the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and its four operating units, reflecting the commitment of Pitt faculty …
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Evan Facher’s mission over the past decade has been to grow the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE), to maximize the societal benefit of the groundbreaking ideas …
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Pitt innovators were issued 11 U.S. patents in July 2026. Featured patent: 12,692,547 “Methods of Treating Cancers Containing Fusion Genes” Pitt researchers have found a set of genetic “fusions” — …
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The licensing team at the Innovation Institute is often the first point of contact for Pitt innovators with the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. They are the ones who review …
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Every week, a group of cross-disciplinary, geographically dispersed researchers holds a virtual meeting to chart the path forward for commercializing their long-running research project. As their careers have sent them …
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