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Breathing Easier Now

Years of research persistence are paying off for Engineering Professor William Federspiel, left, who helped develop an artificial lung device that is the basis for start-up ALung Technologies, Inc...Learn more >

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TissuGlu Start-Up Success

Engineering professor Eric Beckman co-founded Cohera Medical, Inc., around a medical adhesive that he and his Pitt collaborator developed. But he is the first to admit the company needed a CEO...Learn more >

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NETL Research Partners

Pitt engineering professors Jeff Vipperman,left, and William Clark have transformed their collaborative valve research into a long-term partnership with the National Energy Technology Laboratory...Learn more >

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Cold, But No Ice

On the surface, engineering professor Di Gao’s research effort doesn’t look like much to the naked eye. But look closely and you’ll see a hairy surface coating that actually prevents water from...Learn more >

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Tiny Bubbles

Pitt professor Flordeliza Villanueva and her colleagues are using tiny microbubbles to pioneer new ultrasound techniques for detecting and treating cardiovascular and other diseases—a field with...Learn more >

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Wheelchair Safety Champ

The pages of visiting professor Linda van Roosmalen’s personal lab notebook are filled with sketches of wheelchairs, casters, ratcheted restraint systems, and other retention devices—all new ideas...Learn more >

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Radio-Frequency Energy

Engineering professor Marlin Mickle has become, arguably, the most active Pitt Innovator at the University of Pittsburgh, thanks to a large portfolio of innovations developed around ambient, or...Learn more >

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Sonic Flashlight

Bioengineering professor George Stetten has devoted much of the past 10 years developing at least eight prototypes for an ultrasound-based device that provides real-time tomographic images from...Learn more >

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Randall Family Big Idea Competition

Welcome to the 2014 Randall Family Big Idea competition! This competition is designed to be an experience-based learning opportunity for Pitt students interested in finding a big idea and discovering how to take it to the next steps towards new venture creation. Details and the competition application are below....Learn more >
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With the BodyExplorer, 'You won't feel a thing...'

Douglas Nelson, a Ph.D. student in bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, handed me a syringe he had prepared. His adviser, Joseph Samosky, assistant professor of anesthesiology and bioengineering, encouraged me to inject the drug as fast as possible into the patient on the gurney in front of us. So I did. "Owww!" the patient screamed....Learn more >
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Celebrating our 2013 Pitt Innovators

We’re excited to report that the Pitt Innovator community at the University of Pittsburgh continued to expand in fiscal year 2013 as more collaborating faculty, staff and students actively participated in the innovation commercialization process....Learn more >
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