August 15, 2016 The University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute reported that Pitt Innovators were issued five U.S. patents in July 2016.
The University of Pittsburgh has licensed technology for a microneedle patch to deliver drug to treat and immunize skin cancer patients. SkinJect, Inc., is a Pittsburgh-based company formed around technology developed by Louis Falo, M.D., who chair's Pitt's Department of Dermatology, and O.Burak Ozdoganlar, Ph.D., Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Read more
Nicole Xu, John Frazier, and Lujing Gao now start their mornings collaborating in their new space at AlphaLab, a nationally ranked Pittsburgh accelerator program aimed at launching startup tech companies in Internet-based sectors.
The E-Scale team at the Human Engineering Research Lab is (from left) Anand Mhatre, Jonathan Pearlman, Jonathan Duvall, Phil Brooks (Innovation Institute entrepreneur-in-residence) and Sam Bucior.