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The Institute for Precision Medicine (IPM) and sciVelo of the Innovation Institute are soliciting proposals for commercial translation project funding. The IPM facilitates the movement of biomedical research into clinical care. PreMIC focuses specifically on driving translational research projects towards both clinical and commercial application through new company formation, licensing to industry partners, or direct implementation into clinical care…

Register now for the Computational Medicine Conference! On Tuesday, October 29, 2019, local and national leaders will gather at the Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center to discuss the use of computational modeling approaches in biomedical research. Computational methods are permeating all aspects of medicine—from understanding the basic nature of disease, to developing more effective therapeutics, to…

Test2Learn™ team and University of Pittsburgh faculty members Philip Empey (Pharmacy), Mylynda Massart (Family Medicine), James Stevenson (Pharmacy), and Lisa Parker (Center for Bioethics & Health Law) are leading the work as part of a three-year $2.8 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation awarded to the Institute for Precision Medicine. The goal of this grant is: to accelerate the adoption of…

The Institute for Precision Medicine (IPM) at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC received a three-year $2.8 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation for implementation of precision medicine initiatives, including whole genome sequencing of critically ill infants, genomics education and translational research pilot projects intended for commercialization. The IPM, a joint effort of Pitt and UPMC, was created…

A genetic test developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the Pittsburgh Liver Research Center and partially supported by the 2016 IPM Pilot Program in precision medicine has been published this week in the journal Gut. The test known as ‘Biliseq’ assesses bile duct cacners for actionable genetic markers. So far, researchers have tested samples from 252 patients…

Biomedical researchers are increasingly reliant on obtaining bioinformatics training in order to conduct their research. We recently published a paper discussing how at Pitt we have been making resources available through our Molecular Biology Information Service (MBIS) of the Health Sciences Library System. The MBIS runs a four-facet service with the following goals: (1) identify, procure…

The Institute for Precision Medicine (IPM) Announce Pilot Project Funding in Support of Human Tissue Requests from the Pitt Biospecimen Core (PBC) The Institute for Precision Medicine (IPM; www.ipm.pitt.edu) is a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC. The IPM facilitates the movement of precision medicine research into personalized clinical care. The over-arching goal is to…

The Institute for Precision Medicine (IPM) Announce Pilot Project Funding in Support of Next Generation Sequencing at the UPMC Genome Center (UGC) The Institute for Precision Medicine (IPM; www.ipm.pitt.edu) is a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC. The IPM facilitates the movement of precision medicine research into personalized clinical care. The over-arching goal is to…