Could vision, once lost, ever be regained? From using gene therapies to implanting pinhead-size electronic chips in the retina, Pitt scientists are making great progress… Read more
Category: neurology
Pitt Brain Tumor Expert Awarded Prestigious Research Grant
A University of Pittsburgh expert in aggressive brain tumors is one of five scientists awarded a prestigious 2022 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Sontag Foundation…. Read more
Pitt’s J. Timothy Greenamyre Receives Prestigious Prize for Leadership in Parkinson’s Research
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) has awarded the 2022 Robert A. Pritzker Prize for Leadership in Parkinson’s Research to J. Timothy Greenamyre, M.D., Ph.D., vice… Read more
Pitt Researchers Awarded Over $40 Million to Study Alzheimer’s Disease
For decades, the field of Alzheimer’s disease research was plagued by a dilemma: Scientists and clinicians knew that accumulation of tau protein – tangles of jumbled protein fibers… Read more
Pitt Neuroscientists Will Lead a Multicenter Study to Discover and Treat ALS
University of Pittsburgh neurobiologists received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Transformative Research Award to lead an ambitious $9 million, five-year multicenter effort to identify the molecular and… Read more