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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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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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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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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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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 in.
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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 100 students of all levels from across the university, plus some from neighboring Carnegie Mellon, the opportunity to hack solutions to healthcare problems was more […]
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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 June 27th and the teams are hard at work each week working on their ideas and improving their business plans. Check out these pics from […]
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$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 a game app for teaching computer coding to young girls, another for helping kids to learn to learn health eating habits, a device for more […]
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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 $10,000 top prize in AUTM’s Pitch and Play business plan competition at the Association’s 2019 Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas. New company creation and development […]
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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 Avenue last weekend hacking their ideas for improving healthcare, the Internet of Things (IoT), and any other idea they could think of to transform data […]
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July 30, 2018 A team of Pitt researchers developing a high resolution microscope at a fraction of the size and cost of existing products was awarded $20,000 from the Chancellor’s Innovation Commercialization Funds at the demonstration day for the Pitt Ventures First Gear commercialization program. Under the name miniSTORM, the team is led by Hongqiang […]