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The University of Pittsburgh Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) is pleased to report that Pitt supported Innovators continued to drive extremely strong results despite the headwinds they were facing …
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As Pitt innovators continue to set new records for the amount of innovation coming from their classrooms and labs, the University has stepped up its support for translating those ideas …
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Transcriptional Therapy Startup Seeks to Coax Failing Liver Cells Back to Health
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Innovation doesn’t rest.
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The road to taking university research from the lab and translating it into a therapy approved by the Food and Drug Administration is long and perilous. Fiscal 2020 marked significant …
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Industry partnerships provide an important channel for the translation of research to societal impact. In FY 2020, Pitt faculty partnered with 375 different companies on research projects totaling more than …
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As Autism Awareness Month draws to a close, we check in with Pitt spinout Diamond Kinetics, which struck up a serendipitous relationship with Progress City Autism Employment Network to offer …
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Today is World IP Day, celebrating the innovation made possible by the protection of intellectual property that allows for the investment that fuels the commercial dissemination of new discoveries and …
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Two innovation teams from the School of Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS) were awarded $10,000 each to advance their projects towards the market and the clinic in the second annual SHRS Innovation …
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Since forming a startup around his oncolytic virus cancer therapy research six years ago, Steve Thorne has managed to attract two major pharmaceutical partners to develop portions of his platforms …
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Late in 2020, the Innovation Institute was honored to host the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Andrei Iancu, for a fireside chat with our Director, Evan …
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In honor of Black History Month, the Innovation Institute is highlighting the life of William Hunter Dammond, a civil engineer and inventor of a train signaling system that bore his …