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SHRS and Dr. Bradley Nindl Receive DOD Project Funding

Published On: January 22, 2018Categories: News Archive, RehabilitationBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS) recently received a combined $7.5 million [...]
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Dr. John Kellum Hails FDA Approval of Drug as a Major Advance in Treatment for Septic or Distributive Shock

Published On: January 22, 2018Categories: Drug Delivery, News ArchiveBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company announced recently that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved GiaprezaTM (angiotensin II) to [...]
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One Week. Two Authors. Two Journal Covers.

Published On: January 22, 2018Categories: Awards and Recognition, News Archive, Tissue Engineering, VisionBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
In one week in December 2017, Steven Little, PhD, Chairman of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and the [...]
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Dr. Robert Parker Receives 2017 Pommersheim Award for Excellence in Teaching

Published On: January 22, 2018Categories: Awards and Recognition, News ArchiveBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
Recognizing his significant accomplishments over the past year, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine affiliated faculty member Robert Parker, PhD, [...]
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Gene Therapy Reverses Autoimmune Diabetes in Mice

Published On: January 10, 2018Categories: Cellular Therapy, News ArchiveBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
Reversing autoimmune type 1 diabetes without immunosuppression has proven to be extremely difficult, but in a study published in [...]
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Scientists Identify Mechanism of Impaired Dendritic Cell Function that Weakens Immune and Therapeutic Response to Cancer

Published On: January 10, 2018Categories: Cancer, Cellular Therapy, News ArchiveBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
A new study from The Wistar Institute, in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh and others, revealed the mechanism [...]
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Christopher Mahoney, a 2017 Recipient of the TERMIS-AM Student Scientist Award

Published On: January 10, 2018Categories: Awards and Recognition, News ArchiveBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
Christopher Mahoney, bioengineering PhD candidate, is one of the 2017 recipients of the TERMIS-AM Student Scientist award. The TERMIS-AM [...]
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Video Game Improves Doctors’ Recognition and Triage of Severe Trauma Patients

Published On: January 10, 2018Categories: Education, News ArchiveBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
Playing an adventure video game featuring a fictitious, young emergency physician treating severe trauma patients was better than text-based [...]
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