Come celebrate student innovation & entrepreneurship at Pitt with the Big Idea Center during our Student Innovation Showcase. Throughout the evening, we will highlight student and team accomplishments as well as present the awards for our 2023 Randall Family Big Idea Competition and Spirit of Entrepreneurship prize. Join us for our formal presentation followed by […]
You are invited to join us to celebrate the accomplishments of Pitt innovators who are seeking to improve people's lives through the commercialization of their ideas and discoveries. What: Celebration of Innovation When: April 25, 2023, 5 p.m. Where: Petersen Events Center, Campus View Club Hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be provided. In addition to […]
The UpPrize Social Innovation Challenge, powered by Innovation Works and funded by the BNY Mellon Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania, creates cross-sector partnerships to solve some of our community’s most pressing problems. The competition is staged to help ideas and solutions develop to their highest potential. This year’s challenge focuses on technologies and solutions addressing sustainability, […]
The goal of this workshop is to assist participants in refining a pitch that effectively articulates the value of their project to prospective stakeholders. This workshop is intended to help your team and you be more competitive in your fundraising endeavors. Mel Pirchesky is a long-time Pittsburgh entrepreneur and is the founder and President of […]
Join the Pittsburgh Business Times as they gather our region's startups that are positioned to make big moves in the next year, whether that's raising sizable funding rounds, acquiring other companies, scaling rapidly or simply continuing to solve challenging problems through new innovations. Hosted by Nate Doughty, Reporter, Pittsburgh Inno
Clifford P. Brangwynne, PhD, June K. Wu ’92 Professor of Engineering and professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton University, will present the 2023 Dickson Prize in Medicine Lecture, “Living Droplets: A Liquid Phase Paradigm for Biological Organization,” on Friday, May 12 at 3 p.m. in the Frick Fine Arts Building (livestream link: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99561707371). […]
Pitt Health Academy events provide a unique platform to showcase groundbreaking research and advancements in the health sciences. Join these dynamic speakers as they share presentations about SOS: How the COVID-19 Pandemic has Impacted our Mental Health and the mental health crisis, specifically relating to the impacts of COVID-19. About the Experts Gina Perez, […]
Pitt Ventures First Gear is an NSF I-Corps innovation commercialization training program that helps shape innovations originating from Pitt research into products and services that can be taken to market to make an impact on people’s lives. Through a series of six workshops, the program offers hands-on guidance and mentorship that takes an inventor through […]
Pitt Ventures First Gear is an NSF I-Corps innovation commercialization training program that helps shape innovations originating from Pitt research into products and services that can be taken to market to make an impact on people’s lives. Through a series of six workshops, the program offers hands-on guidance and mentorship that takes an inventor through […]
Calling all researchers! If you have been working on a technology innovation and wish to explore its commercialization potential, I-Corps can provide you with entrepreneurial education, mentoring, and up to $50,000 in funding for customer discovery. Hosted by the newly established NSF I-Corps Hub: Interior Northeast (IN I-Corps), the virtual NSF I-Corps Information Session on […]
Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by the Translational Sciences division at UPMC Enterprises (UPMC TS) as we present an exciting initiative to advance transformative life sciences discoveries at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC. This request-for-proposals (RFP) webinar aims to identify and support innovative projects that have the potential to revolutionize the field […]
You are invited to join the 2023 Pittsburgh Gene Therapy Bootcamp for weekly public lectures, starting this Friday, August 25th. These lectures will be followed by light refreshments and a meet-and-greet with the speaker. We have an incredible lineup of speakers for this pilot season of the PGTB program, starting with Dr. Joseph Martel, who will […]