Raising the Bar for Pediatric Research event, which will be Held virtually through Zoom on Wednesday, November 15 from 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
Our Raising the Bar speaker series provides an opportunity to hear from experts at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh as they aim to transform care and make... Read more
We hope you were able to join for our virtual Earth Day Presentation on April 22nd.
If you missed the presentation, below is information about the presentation, with links to materials and websites of interest, as well as the video of the presentation itself. It was very informative and is... Read more
Andrew was worried. Several years ago, a storm had just cut electricity to the home in Export, PA, that he shared with his parents and his brother, Henry. Both young men suffered from Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a neuromuscular illness similar to Stephen Hawking’s.
Being able to control one’s environment through thought may seem like science fiction, but the advance of technology has brought a new reality to people with paralysis.
ARCS Scholar Nathan Brantly and his research team at University of Pittsburgh are studying neural stimuli in two participants with tetraplegia. Also... Read more
Michelle Heusser, a bioengineering graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh and an ARCS Scholar Alum, received a scholarship from the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM). Although the 2020 meeting did not take place, the society recently recognized the scholarship winners and celebrated their work.
Alexis Nolfi, bioengineering graduate student in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and an ARCS Scholar Alum, is recognized by the Carnegie Science Awards
Nolfi is involved in numerous projects centered on how the immune system is involved in the pathogenesis of disease and how we can... Read more
Sam Foley recently finished his third year as an ARCS Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University in the Physics Department, where he continues to study biological physics, specifically the soft condensed matter of lipid membranes. The lipids in these membranes form the foundation of our cells.
Gary Yu recently completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, and is now a third-year medical school student in the joint degree Medical Scientist Training Program, earning his M.D. As a third-year medical student, he is beginning to see patients for the first time,... Read more
