The winter ’24-’25 issue is out now! Look for: 🦠 Spatial omics gives an unprecedented look at cells. 🥳 @PittMedMag turns 25. What's changed since we launched? 🩺 @PittDeptofMed chair Anne Marie Lennon will find a way. And much more. Read now:

ICYMI: In September, Hazelwood community members, Pitt leaders and industry representatives gathered to sign the last beam for Pitt BioForge’s frame, marking a milestone in its construction. Read more:

Paul M. Wallach and Abbas Hyderi joined the School of Medicine as vice deans, and Quoc-Dien Trinh has been named chair of the Department of Urology. Learn about their backgrounds here: @UPMCUrology

Want to guess who might win a Nobel Prize? Start with past winners of the Dickson Prize in Medicine, Pitt Med’s highest honor, and you’ll find 17 Nobel laureates. This year, Victor Ambros of @UMassChan, who codiscovered microRNA, joins the lineup.

Brady Grano-Mickelsen already holds a JD and an MBA, but he wasn’t quite done with education. He’s now in his second year of med school at Pitt and planning a career at the intersection of all three disciplines. Read about his journey: @PittHealthSci

A Pitt surgeon gave Orland Bethel life-changing relief from his spinal pain. In gratitude, Bethel has supported Pitt’s Orland Bethel Family Musculoskeletal Research Center Biobank, one of the few comprehensive biobanks of its kind outside of Europe.

Med students know biology and chemistry. But coursework doesn’t usually teach financial literacy, networking or boards preparation, leaving many students without family or peers in medicine in the dark. A new coaching program aims to close that gap.

“Humble beginnings—they provide you with this sense of humility,” says Pitt professor Mohamed Hagahmed (Res ‘18). Read about his path from fleeing war-torn Sudan to attending medical school (twice!) to providing medical care for U.S. Olympians:

Sickle cell shortens lives by about 20 years, often due to chronic kidney disease. Pitt researchers found heme released from fragile red blood cells damages kidney vessels, driving renal failure. The insights pave the way for earlier intervention:

Bright minds in the right place make breakthroughs happen. The School of Medicine, writes Dean Anantha Shekhar in his Winter issue column, is investing in technology and infrastructure to make sure Pitt Med remains the right place for innovation.

Seth C. Hawkins (Res '03, @hawkvox), an emergency and wilderness medicine physician and @wakeforestmed professor, "took a sudden left-hand screaming turn out of anthropology and into medicine” in college. Now, he's back in school at @unccharlotte:

Pancreatic cancer is often deadly, but early detection offers hope. Anne Marie Lennon, who became @PittDeptofMed chair last year, has dedicated her career to finding ways to catch it before symptoms manifest, boosting survival chances. @PittHealthSci

Pitt Med researchers worried nitro fatty acids would accelerate tumor growth. Instead, the team found they could help treat one of the most aggressive and drug-resistant breast cancers. Read more: @PittHealthSci @Pitt_PMI

RT @PittResearch: The Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Research is proud to share our 2023-24 Annual Report. You will see how see…

From her early days at Pitt Med to her current role as dean of @KeckMedicineUSC, @DeanMeltzer has prioritized "servant leadership." She’s also a passionate photographer, capturing nature and social movements.

Pitt researchers think a "heads-and-tails" approach will treat sickle cell disease better than other drugs—and reach more patients in areas like sub-Saharan Africa, where the disease is most prominent. Learn more: @PittHealthSci

Jonathan Weinkle’s (MD ’04) second book, “From Illness to Exodus,” is set to publish in 2025. The story of the Exodus from Egypt, he says, can help us “envision a path from the narrow place of illness to the wide-open space of thriving." @PittHealthSci

Pitt Med Magazine is 25—just like many med students! Look back on a quarter century of stories from Pitt Med and beyond as an imagined student finds her calling: @PittHealthSci

RT @PittHealthSci: Research by @TimAndersonMD and colleagues describe population-wide heart failure risk for U.S. adults using the @America…

RT @PittHealthSci: Gold for Pitt! 🏅 Congratulations to Phillip McKenzie and the PittCrew from the Pitt Rehab Neural Engineering Labs, who…