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Several Pitt innovators and startups took center stage as leaders of Pittsburgh’s rapidly expanding AI sector convened in the heart of the city’s innovation corridor at Bakery Square to map …
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Sue Hunter’s eyes widened as Jordyn Ting played a recording of a man with a chronic traumatic brain injury from a stroke, attempting to say words like “mother” and “zucchini,” …
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Pitt innovators were issued nine U.S. patents in August 2025. Featured patent: 12,401,022: Methods of Fabrication of Engineered Carbon Nanofiber/Cu Electrode Architectures for Dendrite Free High-Efficiency Li-ion Metal Batteries Lithium …
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At the turn of the new millennium, after spending the first 20 years of her career as a pharmacist, Carolyn Weber wanted to do something different. But she wasn’t quite …
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Pitt innovators were issued 4 U.S. patents in July 2025. Pitt innovators have identified a novel approach to combat antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacterial pathogens using cationic peptides. Additionally, this …
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Pitt innovators were issued 5 U.S. patents in June 2025. Pitt innovators are developing a dual-component drug delivery system for single-dose treatment of inner-ear infections. The innovation includes polymer-based microspheres …
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For Hilary Liu and Ben Leslie, winning the top prizes in the 2024 Wells Student HealthTech Challenge has been a springboard toward commercializing the medical devices they are working to …
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Stephen Badylak no longer scrambles to write research grant proposals or hire and mentor new graduate students and postdocs for his academic lab. But his newly minted professor emeritus status …
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With $40,000 of funding to advance their ideas toward commercial application on the line, the three finalists for the School of Rehabilitation Science’s (SHRS) Innovation Challenge pitched their solutions …
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In a sun-drenched conference room overlooking the Monongahela River at the sparkling new UPMC Vision Institute, Jay Chhablani beamed as he signed a licensing agreement to launch the University of …
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Pitt innovators were issued 12 U.S. patents in May 2025. University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed a machine learning method to quantify the extent of pneumonia and other thoracic diseases …
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Jordyn Ting is this year’s winner of the Hunter Family Foundation Traumatic Brain Injury Translational Research Program, which aims to transform research discoveries made in laboratories into products and treatments …