Research

Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Study Receives Top 10 Award

A groundbreaking Pitt-UPMC project, in which a woman with quadriplegia took a bite of chocolate using a robot arm she controlled with her thoughts, has received a national research award. Read More »
Missing Links

Missing Links

A new technology allows docs to see missing connections in the brain. Read More »
Researching the Slave Trade

Researching the Slave Trade

History professor Rebecca Shumway’s research illuminates fateful 18th-century encounters between West African rulers and European slave traders. Read More »
Restoring Sight

Restoring Sight

University of Pittsburgh ophthalmologists are helping blinded veterans and others to see again—via their tongues. Read More »
Mike Ramsey

NASA Honors Pitt's Mike Ramsey

Ramsey, a professor in the Department of Geology and Planetary Science, is among 22 researchers nationwide featured on NASA's Web site during Earth Month. Read More »
Thought Leaders

Thought Leaders

After taking a survey of what it termed the field's "thought leaders," an orthopedics journal named its top 19 sports-medicine specialists in the United States—and nine of them carry ties to Pitt and UPMC. Read More »
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  • 3 winners of MacArthur Foundation “genius” awards

    5 National Medal of Science winners

    6 National Academy of Sciences members

  • 1st critical care medicine department in the U.S.

    $780.4M in federally funded research annually

    1st DNA bank to share data among colleagues

  • 5th among U.S. medical schools in NIH funding

    1st in National Institute of Mental Health funding

    5th in federally financed R&D funding

Making a Difference

Research Making a Difference

Pitt people beat polio, pioneered TV and heavier-than-air flight, and turned Pittsburgh into the world's organ-transplantation capital, among other breakthroughs. Today's Pitt researchers carry on that tradition in areas ranging from literary criticism to the quest for quantum computers. Learn how Pitt research makes a difference.
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Major Areas of Interdisciplinary Research

With 16 schools, thriving multidisciplinary centers, and close ties to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pitt research reaches across disciplines. Pitt researchers also collaborate with colleagues from 80-plus other universities—including nearby Carnegie Mellon University—and corporate partners near Pitt's urban campus. The following are multidisciplinary research areas where Pitt is a current or emerging leader.

 
undergraduate research

Undergraduate Research

As members of a top public research university, Pitt undergraduates can engage in research, scholarship, and creative projects with faculty members who are leaders in their fields. Read more about undergraduate research opportunities.
Hillman Library

Libraries

Pitt's libraries include the University Library System, the 22nd-largest academic library system in the United States; the Health Sciences Library System, which supports the educational, research, clinical, and service activities of Pitt's schools of the health sciences; and the Barco Law Library, which primarily serves the students and faculty of Pitt's School of Law.
Laboratories

Laboratories

From a gleaming hub for biomedical research...to a Wyoming ranch rich in dinosaur fossils...to a new center for sustainable innovation, Pitt research buildings, labs, and libraries facilitate discovery and innovation. Tour the Labs »