Tag: Innovation showcase

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 […]

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 […]