Pitt Therapeutics Pipeline
The road to taking university research from the lab and translating it into a therapy approved by the Food and Drug Administration is long and perilous. Fiscal 2020 marked significant …
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The road to taking university research from the lab and translating it into a therapy approved by the Food and Drug Administration is long and perilous. Fiscal 2020 marked significant …
Posted on by Mike Yeomans
The University of Pittsburgh made a significant move up the list of the top recipients of U.S. utility patents among worldwide universities in 2020, according to the National Academy of …
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Dan Broderick, an experienced healthcare and biotech investor and entrepreneur, is joining the University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute as Entrepreneur in Residence effective June 1, 2021. Most recently Broderick …
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Industry partnerships provide an important channel for the translation of research to societal impact. In FY 2020, Pitt faculty partnered with 375 different companies on research projects totaling more than …
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As Autism Awareness Month draws to a close, we check in with Pitt spinout Diamond Kinetics, which struck up a serendipitous relationship with Progress City Autism Employment Network to offer …
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Today is World IP Day, celebrating the innovation made possible by the protection of intellectual property that allows for the investment that fuels the commercial dissemination of new discoveries and …
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If ever there was a time to celebrate the power of innovation, it is in the wake of the wave of innovation unleashed by the SARS CoV-2 pandemic. At the …
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Two innovation teams from the School of Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS) were awarded $10,000 each to advance their projects towards the market and the clinic in the second annual SHRS Innovation …
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Since forming a startup around his oncolytic virus cancer therapy research six years ago, Steve Thorne has managed to attract two major pharmaceutical partners to develop portions of his platforms …
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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 …
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The Henry L. Hillman Foundation has committed $25 million to the University of Pittsburgh to support research into vision restoration and care, in addition to supporting the region’s burgeoning life …
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In honor of Black History Month, the Innovation Institute is highlighting the life of William Hunter Dammond, a civil engineer and inventor of a train signaling system that bore his …