Effective January 1, 2021, Tal Heppenstall is stepping down from his positions as executive vice president and treasurer, UPMC, and president, UPMC Enterprises. After joining… Read more
September 2020
Pitt Helping to Create ‘Atlas’ for Human Body
A human adult is made up of trillions of cells invisible to the human eye. And despite modern technology stripping away layers of mystery, our… Read more
How to use precision medicine to personalize COVID-19 treatment according to the patient’s genes
Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, were among the earliest celebrities to catch the novel coronavirus. In an interview at the beginning of July,… Read more
CRISPR can Help Combat the Troubling Immune Response Against Gene Therapy
One of the major challenges facing gene therapy – a way to treat disease by replacing a patient’s defective genes with healthy ones – is… Read more
UPMC Data Reveal Important Lessons for Managing COVID-19
At a virtual press briefing today, UPMC leaders Drs. Donald Yealy, Oscar Marroquin and Derek Angus shared the health system’s most recent findings related to… Read more