The December 2024 issue of Oral Oncology has an article co-authored by three members of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, along with colleagues […]
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By Roberta Zeff, Director of Strategic Communications at Pitt Health Sciences The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Inserm, will […]
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Hot off the press is an article written by three members of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, along with authors from the Department […]
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Xing Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) New Innovator Award from the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, with $1.5 million […]
EarFlo, a medical device that treats otitis media with effusion, won the World Congress of Audiology (WCA) Innovation Prize this past September in Paris, France. Disguised as a sippy cup, […]
In September, Mohit Singhala, PhD, joined the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery as Research Assistant Professor. He is the lead engineer in Pittsburgh CREATES, where he focuses on healthcare […]
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By Andrew M. Williams, MD and Lisa A. Goldstein The Healthy Vision Lab at the University of Pittsburgh is unique in its focus on social determinants of health, use of […]
A series of early morning seminars is providing education for audiology students on cutting-edge topics while offering continuing education for faculty and clinical instructors. A joint initiative between Pitt and […]
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Jessica H. Maxwell, MD, MPH, FACS, received a $50,000 Telehealth Research and Innovation for Veterans with Cancer (THRIVE) grant from the Office of Rural Health to address barriers like distance […]
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Creating effective drug delivery systems for the inner ear – essential for treating hearing loss – will be made more possible with the addition of Adele Moatti, PhD, to the […]
Elizabeth Wood applied to the Pittsburgh Gene Therapy Bootcamp on a whim. The husbandry technician, or “monkey nanny” at the University of Pittsburgh learned about it from a mass email. […]
The Survivorship Clinic hosted its sixth Survivorship After Cancer of the Head and Neck Multidisciplinary Symposium, with its best turnout yet. “What [was] outstanding was the multidisciplinary aspect of it […]
If you have early or intermediate age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and are between 55 and 80 years old, you can help advance science for your condition and be compensated for […]
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The Departments of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology have three new hires to bolster efforts in the community. Postdoc research fellows Paula A. Sepulveda-Beltran, MD, and Valeria Villabona-Martinez, MD, are the Community […]
In July, Michele Insanally, PhD, had a paper published in Nature Communications. The significant study is titled “Contributions of cortical neuron firing patterns, synaptic connectivity, and plasticity to task performance.” […]
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