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Amanda Poholek Promoted to Associate Professor

Dayana Rivadeneira Promoted to Assistant Professor

Rebecca Elsner Promoted to Assistant Professor

Congratulations to the 2025 Annual Retreat Poster and Elevator Pitch Winners

Alok Joglekar Receives Award to Study Potential Treatment for Autoimmunity

Sucralose Could Make Immunotherapy Less Effective

PMI Application portal is NOW OPEN!

“Hygiene Hypothesis in a Can”: New Study Sheds Light on How Parasites Could Improve Health

Healthy Telomeres Key for Cancer-Fighting T Cells

New AI Model “SWING” from the Das and Joglekar Labs Decodes how Proteins Talk to One Another

Press release about a new study by Marlies Meisel

Pitt’s life sciences prowess was on display during PA Gov. Josh Shapiro’s recent Pittsburgh visit

Review from the Das lab in Molecular Therapy describes how machine learning approaches enable the discovery of therapeutics across domains

Delgoffe Lab publishes in Nature Cell Biology on the immunosuppressive functions of tumor nutrients

Spring 2025 MIDS Graduate - Vania Ramirez

Spring 2025 MIDS Graduate - Adraina Arthur

Lupus Research Alliance Grants Lupus Innovation Awards to Eleven Talented Researchers to Accelerate Pace of Discovery in Lupus Research, featuring Rebecca Elsner

The Das and Torok labs uncover transcriptomic signatures underlying localized scleroderma pathogenesis using interpretable machine learning - published in JCI Insight

New Study by Dario Vignali and Colleagues Sheds Light on How the Immune Checkpoint LAG3 Works

Scientists Identify a New Cancer Immunotherapy Target: Dysfunctional B Cells

Congratulations to Douglas Prado and members of the Hawse lab for their recent publication entitled “The phospholipid kinase PIKFYVE is essential for Th17 differentiation.”

Congratulations to graduate student Achyudhan Kutuva of the Hawse and Faeder labs for being selected as a Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology scholar

Andrew Frisch (Delgoffe Lab) publishes in Cell Metabolism on cell therapies for cancer

Jordan Warunek, PMI graduate student in Heth Turnquist's lab, publishes in JCI

Tiffany Taylor, postdoctoral fellow in Tim Hand's lab, awarded HHMI fellowship