The University of Pittsburgh was recently awarded a grant funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study harm reduction approaches for people who… Read more
Category: research
Making Melanoma Immortal: Pitt Scientists Discover Key Genetic Step in Cancer’s Race to Live Forever
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered the missing puzzle piece in the mystery of how melanoma tumors control their mortality. … Read more
Crowded Rooms: How Pitt and Carnegie Mellon Researchers Solved a Decades-Old Mystery
A psychedelic movie of stressed cells under a microscope sent a team of kidney physiologists and biologists from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon… Read more
Pitt Research Points to Policy Tweaks That Could Improve Health Care Among the Most Vulnerable
Medicaid and Medicare are the two largest health insurance programs serving Americans, but they cover care for different populations: Medicaid is an assistance program run… Read more
Majority of Underrepresented Early Career Scientists Experience Psychological Distress; Mentoring Helps Buffer Impact
Social unrest due to systemic racism is causing early career scientists from underrepresented backgrounds to experience psychological distress, according to new results from a research… Read more