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Pitt innovators were issued 4 U.S. patents in July 2025. Pitt innovators have identified a novel approach to combat antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacterial pathogens using cationic peptides. Additionally, this …
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Pitt innovators were issued 5 U.S. patents in June 2025. Pitt innovators are developing a dual-component drug delivery system for single-dose treatment of inner-ear infections. The innovation includes polymer-based microspheres …
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For Hilary Liu and Ben Leslie, winning the top prizes in the 2024 Wells Student HealthTech Challenge has been a springboard toward commercializing the medical devices they are working to …
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Stephen Badylak no longer scrambles to write research grant proposals or hire and mentor new graduate students and postdocs for his academic lab. But his newly minted professor emeritus status …
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With $40,000 of funding to advance their ideas toward commercial application on the line, the three finalists for the School of Rehabilitation Science’s (SHRS) Innovation Challenge pitched their solutions …
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In a sun-drenched conference room overlooking the Monongahela River at the sparkling new UPMC Vision Institute, Jay Chhablani beamed as he signed a licensing agreement to launch the University of …
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Pitt innovators were issued 12 U.S. patents in May 2025. University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed a machine learning method to quantify the extent of pneumonia and other thoracic diseases …
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Jordyn Ting is this year’s winner of the Hunter Family Foundation Traumatic Brain Injury Translational Research Program, which aims to transform research discoveries made in laboratories into products and treatments …
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Pitt innovators were issued 14 U.S. patents in April 2025. Pitt innovators have developed and prototyped “smart” stents capable of wirelessly reporting the degree of restenosis, or re-narrowing of an …
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When renowned Pitt researchers William (Bill) Klunk and Chester (Chet) Mathis reunited on a recent Zoom call, fishing was the first order of business. “So last night, Bill, I landed …
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The University of Pittsburgh has ranked #20 in the Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents in 2024, published by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). This annual ranking highlights …
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Pitt students are determined to change the world. Their ideas took center stage in the 2025 Big Idea Competition hosted by the Big Idea Center (BIC), part of the …