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The world’s leading organization for delivery science and technology has recognized McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine faculty member Steven Little, PhD, with election to its College of Fellows. The Controlled Release Society (CRS) elevated Dr. Little, the William Kepler Whiteford Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, for outstanding and sustained contributions to the field of delivery science and technology over a minimum of ten years.

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In Pennsylvania and other U.S. states, one of the keys to safely reopening society amid the COVID-19 pandemic is providing sufficient testing so that new cases of the disease do not overwhelm the public healthcare system. University of Pittsburgh professors—led by McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine affiliated faculty member Wei Gao, PhD—are  reimagining testing using a device that nearly every American owns — a smartphone.

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McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine affiliated faculty member Jenny Yu, MD, is the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations for the Department of Ophthalmology, UPMC Eye Center.  Dr. Yu also serves on the Orbital, Oculoplastic, and Aesthetic Surgery Service, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh.

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When a person contracts a respiratory viral infection like COVID-19 or influenza, the immune system responds in a myriad of ways to eliminate the virus. Respiratory viral infections are so dangerous, however, because excessive immune responses may cause extreme lung inflammation. However, new modeling research may help doctors better predict and treat patients who are most at risk to that extreme response.

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The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at the University of Pittsburgh has awarded $900,000 to 17 research projects to address different aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.  McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine affiliated faculty members Alan Wells, MD, DMSc, and Louis Falo, MD, PhD, will serve as co-principal investigators on two of the funded projects.  Their projects and funding are:

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