Pitt Climbed in Issued Patents Ranking Industry Partnerships Office Re-Launched Student Startup Fund Created Small Business Center Received Top National Honor The University of Pittsburgh Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) is pleased to report that Pitt supported Innovators continued to drive extremely strong results despite the headwinds they were facing the entire year.
As Pitt innovators continue to set new records for the amount of innovation coming from their classrooms and labs, the University has stepped up its support for translating those ideas and discoveries into products and services that can make a difference in peoples’ lives.
Transcriptional Therapy Startup Seeks to Coax Failing Liver Cells Back to Health
The road to taking university research from the lab and translating it into a therapy approved by the Food and Drug Administration is long and perilous. Fiscal 2020 marked significant progress for companies that have licensed Pitt technologies in the therapeutics space in advancing from the pre-clinical development stage to FDA approved clinical trials.