“About every two hours, someone in Pennsylvania dies of an overdose,” said Dr. Michael Lynch, emergency physician and medical toxicologist at UPMC. “And beyond people… Read more
Category: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pitt and UPMC in Trial that Finds HIV-to-HIV Kidney Transplants are Safe and Effective
Transplanting kidneys from deceased donors who had HIV to recipients with existing HIV is as safe and as effective as using organs from donors without… Read more
Itching for connection: Pitt scientists identify a network of spinal cord neurons that encode itch
Itch is a socially contagious sensation that is familiar to all – but which nerve cells are involved in conveying itch from the skin to… Read more
UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh Name New Chair of Urology
Dr. Quoc-Dien Trinh, a globally recognized urological surgeon-scientist, has been appointed chair of the Department of Urology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine… Read more
Pitt is building a molecular brain map to understand Alzheimer’s disease
Less than a decade ago, when Dr. Hansruedi Mathys launched an ambitious project to create an annotated library of all the gene readouts stored within… Read more