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Dr. William Wagner Receives the 2023 Marlin Mickle Outstanding Innovator Award

Published On: April 26, 2023Categories: Awards and Recognition, Current NewsBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
William Wagner, PhD, Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is the recipient of the 2023 Marlin Mickle [...]
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HeadSMART II Clinical Study of BRAINBox TBI Concussion Diagnostic and Prognostic Test

Published On: April 26, 2023Categories: Current News, NeuroscienceBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
BRAINBox Solutions has enrolled the 1,000th patient in the pivotal HeadSMART II study of its concussion diagnostic and prognostic [...]
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Pitt’s Healthy Home Lab Receives Funding to Make Homes Safer for Older Adults

Published On: April 26, 2023Categories: Current News, Education, RehabilitationBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
Natalie Baney reports for Inside UPMC that Pitt is one of seven institutions to receive a portion of a [...]
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Using 3D Modeling to Stop Cancer’s Spread

Published On: April 19, 2023Categories: Cancer, Computations and Modeling, Current NewsBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
Most women diagnosed with metastatic ovarian cancer have a less than 5-year survival rate. Researchers at the University of [...]
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Searching for Chemical Clues to Uncurable Depression

Published On: April 19, 2023Categories: Current News, NeuroscienceBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
Ana Gorelova, Manager, Science Writing, UPMC, reports that when Lisa Pan, MD, a psychiatrist specializing in treating and preventing [...]
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Better Than a Hole in the Head

Published On: April 19, 2023Categories: Current News, Medical DevicesBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
Just as blood pressure informs heart health, intracranial pressure (ICP) helps indicate brain health. ICP sensing is the burgeoning [...]
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Multi-Center Study Sheds Light on Understudied Breast Cancer Type

Published On: April 12, 2023Categories: Cancer, Current NewsBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
A multi-center analysis of patients with invasive lobular carcinoma, or ILC — the second most common histological subtype of [...]
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Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Can Provide a Cost-Effective Way to Noninvasively Monitor Intracranial Pressure

Published On: April 12, 2023Categories: Current News, Medical DevicesBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
An increase in intracranial pressure (ICP) is a dangerous condition that can be caused by brain bleeds, a brain [...]
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