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(EDUC’90, EDUC’92G) [Read More](https://blog.innovation.pitt.edu/wellspring-for-entrepreneurship) ## [Tech Tuesday: New Senotherapeutic Agents for Cancer Therapy](https://blog.innovation.pitt.edu/tech-tuesday-new-senotherapeutic-agents-for-cancer-therapy) August 8, 2023 We're back with another round of Innovation Institute's Tech Tuesdays, where we showcase the most cutting-edge technologies from our impressive portfolio of impactful innovations ready for licensing or strategic partnering! This week we feature a groundbreaking technique that may help improve the health of people dealing with prostate issues. The technology is led by Youko Ikeda, Anthony J. Kanai, and Irina V. Zabbarova, who are all part of the Department of Medicine. [Read More](https://blog.innovation.pitt.edu/tech-tuesday-new-senotherapeutic-agents-for-cancer-therapy) ## [Pitt and UPMC Partner to De-Risk Disease Therapies](https://blog.innovation.pitt.edu/pitt-and-upmc-partner-to-de-risk-disease-therapies) August 7, 2023 Pitt and UPMC, through its Translational Sciences division, are once again collaborating to provide funding support for therapeutics projects that need further de-risking experiments to determine their clinical and commercial potential. We are featuring two projects that received funding from the first request for proposals from 2022. [Read More](https://blog.innovation.pitt.edu/pitt-and-upmc-partner-to-de-risk-disease-therapies) ## [Tech Tuesday: Novel Approach to Enhance Gene Therapy to Treat Diabetes](https://blog.innovation.pitt.edu/tech-tuesday-a-novel-approach-to-enhance-gene-therapy-to-treat-diabetes) July 25, 2023 Every other Tuesday, the Innovation Institute highlights a Pitt technology or a set of technologies from its portfolio of impactful innovations available for licensing or strategic partnerships. This week, we feature a technology that provides a novel approach to enhance gene therapy to treat diabetes. [Read More](https://blog.innovation.pitt.edu/tech-tuesday-a-novel-approach-to-enhance-gene-therapy-to-treat-diabetes) ## [When a Research Project Becomes Something More, Consider I-Corps](https://blog.innovation.pitt.edu/when-a-research-project-becomes-something-more-consider-i-corps) July 24, 2023 Pitt innovators frequently share their stories with us of their moments of epiphany, when they realize that the blood, sweat and tears they have poured into their research has produced something that might have lasting value and can improve the world in some way. Sandra Katz studies peer-to-peer learning techniques at the University of Pittsburgh Learning Research & Development Center. While working with undergraduate seniors in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Science’s Emergency Medicine program to compare the effectiveness of different methods of de-briefing following an emergency medical scenario simulation, something interesting happened. 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