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University of Pittsburgh Professor of Bioengineering Tracy Cui and Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Science and Technology Jonathan Pearlman, have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). …
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]