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Project Receives Pitt’s Center for Medical Innovation Award in Round-1 2019 Pilot Funding

Published On: October 10, 2019Categories: Cellular Therapy, News ArchiveBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
The University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Medical Innovation (CMI) awarded grants totaling $70,000 to three research groups through its 2019 [...]
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Dr. Rory Cooper Appointed to Pennsylvania Department of Health’s Spinal Cord Research Advisory Committee

Published On: October 10, 2019Categories: Awards and Recognition, News ArchiveBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine affiliated faculty member Rory Cooper, PhD, has been appointed to the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s [...]
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NIH Grant: $1.5 Million to Study the Mechanism of Osteoarthritis Pain

Published On: October 10, 2019Categories: Drug Delivery, News ArchiveBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine affiliated faculty members Hang Lin, PhD, and Douglas Weber, PhD, received $1.5 million from the [...]
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Revealed: How Tooth Enamel Is Strong Enough to Last a Lifetime

Published On: October 10, 2019Categories: Computations and Modeling, Dental, News ArchiveBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
Break any bone in the human body and the body can repair the tissue and fix the damage. Yet tooth [...]
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McGowan Institute’s Pediatric VAD Technology, PediaFlow, to One Day Help the Smallest of Heart Transplant Candidates

Published On: October 2, 2019Categories: Medical Devices, News Archive, TransplantationBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
The recent Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper article by Jill Daly highlights the significant challenges infants and children face if they require [...]
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Scientists Listed Ways of Applying Genetic Engineering to Treat Parkinson’s Disease

Published On: October 2, 2019Categories: Cellular Therapy, Neuroscience, News ArchiveBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
Researchers of Sechenov University and University of Pittsburgh—including McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine affiliated faculty members Charleen Chu, MD, PhD, [...]
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Dr. John Pollock Designs App to Improve Mental Health

Published On: October 2, 2019Categories: Neuroscience, News ArchiveBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine affiliated faculty member and Duquesne University professor John Pollock, PhD, and his team aim to [...]
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The State of Cell-Based Therapies for Arthritis and Osteoporosis

Published On: October 2, 2019Categories: Cellular Therapy, Musculoskeletal, News ArchiveBy The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine
A new report highlights the latest advances in cell-based therapies for the treatment of disorders of the musculoskeletal system, such [...]
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