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Staff Spotlight: Tim McCann
September 1, 2026
What is your position?
Human Resources Director
Trainee Spotlight: Douglas Prado, PhD
August 25, 2026
Trainee Spotlight: Catherine Phelps
August 5, 2026
Secondary Snapshot: The Question That Launched Daniella Schwartz’s Career in Rare Disease
July 24, 2026 | By Asher Jones
One night in 2013, while on call as a clinical rheumatologist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Daniella Schwartz assessed a patient with a bacterial infection. A 23-year-old woman, the patient had been diagnosed with lupus seven years earlier. Schwartz saw a note in her chart that said “Adopted; no family history,” but she decided to ask anyway.
That simple question would change the course of Schwartz’s career.
After 13 Years in Department, 33 at Pitt, Bert Erickson Retires
July 17, 2026 | By Asher Jones
One Saturday in 2013, while Roberta (Bert) Erickson was working as the business manager at the City Music Center of Duquesne University, Fadi Lakkis, former chair of transplantation biology at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, brought his kids in for violin lessons.
Trainee Spotlight: Trirupa Chakraborty, MS
July 9, 2026
What is your position?
I am a fifth year graduate student in the Cell Molecular and Systems Biology (CMSB) PhD Program working in Jishnu Das's lab.
Trainee Spotlight: Onyekachi Onyedikachi Victor
June 30, 2026
What is your position?
Program in Microbiology and Immunology graduate student in Lawrence Kane's lab.
