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Pitt Startup ECM Therapeutics Set to Begin Clinical Trial for First Application of its Regenerative Medicine Technology

Posted on June 24, 2025 by Mike Yeomans

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 …

It Takes a Village to Raise a University Startup, But an Entrepreneur is Key to Making it Happen

Posted on February 13, 2023 by Mike Yeomans

There are many routes for a university-developed invention to travel before crossing the Rubicon to be licensed to an industry partner or become a startup company. And at Pitt there …

Duo Oncology Penetrating Therapy-Resistant Tumors With Nanoparticle Polymers

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Mike Yeomans

Pancreatic cancer. Just hearing those words produces a chilling feeling of dread. It is among the most deadly and difficult to treat cancers, in part because it forms dense tumors …

Pitt Startup BlueSphere Bio Receives $45 million Investment

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Mike Yeomans

BlueSphere licensed technology from the lab of Mark Shlomchik, chair of the Department of Immunology at the Pitt Medical School, aimed at developing personalized T-cell therapies for cancer and other …