Research News

Annalisa M. Baratta, PhD, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “Neuroimmune Gene Expression in Alcohol Use Disorder” on December 11, 2023.

Ajay D. Wasan, MD, MSc, leads a dynamic multidisciplinary team who are pioneering a groundbreaking study focused on developing and testing a biomarker for lumbar myofascial pain.

Mihaela Visoiu, MD, takes center stage in a Pitt Med Magazine article on groundbreaking collaborations between medical professionals and University of Pittsburgh engineering students.

These promising students not only engaged in rigorous research training, but also actively participated in clinical anesthesia activities.

Kumiko Chino, MD, was awarded funding to study correlations between viscoelastic testing and traditional labs among parturients with thrombocytopenia.

Marsha Ritter Jones, MD, PhD, was awarded a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences/National Institutes of Health for her project “Neuroimmune Signaling in Surgical Wound Healing and Modulation by Regional Anesthesia.”

We were honored to host the 13th International NPY-PYY-PP Research Conference, an international gathering of scientists who are interested in the meeting topic of peptides and their role in conditions like pain, psychiatric disorders, the brain, metabolism, and stress.

An artificial intelligence-based model developed by our Chair Dr. Aman Mahajan with Dr. Oscar Marroquin and other Pitt/UPMC researchers was featured in a news release and several news articles.

The “Surgical Opioid Stewardship Program” will focus on multidisciplinary approaches to perioperative pain.

Aman Mahajan, MD, PhD, MBA, earned two grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop innovative cardiovascular monitoring technologies.