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Category: Innovation Institute News

Going Back to the Well(s)

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Mike Yeomans

A common pitfall for many who attempt to bring a new technology to market is to present it as a Swiss Army knife capable of several applications all at once. …

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University of Pittsburgh Announces Four Patents Issued in April 2022

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Mike Yeomans

Pitt innovators were issued four patents in April 2022. Huntington’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive neurological dysfunction and selective neuronal loss caused by a mutation in the …

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University of Pittsburgh Announces Patents Issued in December 2021

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Mike Yeomans

Pitt innovators were issued six U.S. patents in December 2021. Featured patent: 11,205,535 “Oxide Interface Displaying Electronically Controllable Ferromagnetism” Magnetism forms the basis for non-volatile storage in hard disk drives. …

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University of Pittsburgh Announces Patents Issued in November 2021

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Mike Yeomans

Pitt innovators were issued nine patents in November 2021. Annually, there are more than 1 million bone-grafting operations in the U.S. Traditional bone grafts consist of porous scaffolds made of …

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University of Pittsburgh Announces Patents Issued in October 2021

Posted on November 22, 2021 by Mike Yeomans

Pitt Innovators were issued 8 U.S. patents in October, 2021. Six are available for licensing, including a blood test to detect cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease has a high death rate …

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CTSI Funds 17 COVID-19 Related Projects

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Mike Yeomans

What started as a program to offer $200,000 to four projects ballooned to $900,000 for 17 after partners stepped up to provide additional funding and more than 150 proposals poured […]

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Pitt and CMU Students Spend Weekend Hacking Healthcare With the Help of IBM

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Mike Yeomans

Pitt and CMU Students Spend Weekend Hacking Healthcare With the Help of IBM October 28, 2019 Pitt students had no shortage of things to do Homecoming weekend. For more than […]

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Blast Furnace Teams Present at AlphaLab Gear

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Karen Woolstrum

  Pitt Student Entrepreneurs Get Tough Love and Encouragement at Demo Day July 2, 2019     View this post on Instagram   Blast Furnace update! Our final presentations Thursday […]

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Trek Wins $25,000 Top Prize in 2019 Randall Family Big Idea Competition

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Mike Yeomans

$100,000 in prize money awarded to student teams from across the University  March 21, 2019 Pitt student innovators with ideas ranging from an automated system for recording medical notes, to […]

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HiberSense Wins $10K in AUTM Venture Challenge

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Karen Woolstrum

Media Release HiberSense Wins $10K in AUTM Venture Challenge AUSTIN, Texas – February 14, 2019 — HiberSense, Inc., a start-up from the University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute, has won the […]

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First IBM Bluehack at a University Reveals Pitt Students’ Passion for Problem Solving

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Mike Yeomans

October 19, 2018 Over 100 students from across the University, and a few from neighboring Carnegie Mellon, took control of the Pitt School of Computing and Information building on Bellefield […]

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Evan Facher Appointed Director of Innovation Institute

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Mike Yeomans

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