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Pitt Innovation Teams Awarded $60,000 to Advance Their Ideas

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Karen Woolstrum

The eponymous founder of the Michael G. Wells Healthcare Competition, Mr. Wells, names the winners of this year’s 2019 competition. A total of $35,000 was given to deserving Pitt technologies with the potential to impact diseases like ovarian cancer and conditions such as aortic aneurysms and postoperative complications.Reflecting on the student pitch competition that bears […]

Innovations in Cancer Treatment and Predictive Modeling Capture 2018 Wells and Kuzneski Competitions

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Mike Yeomans

A year ago the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first gene therapy in the U.S. The drug, Kymyriah, from pharmaceutical company Novartis, is a type of immunotherapy called chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy. It was approved to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a cancer of the blood. It works by drawing blood […]