University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA·Public·Medical school
83 labs on PI Pages. It spends $1.5B a year on research and awards 403 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 36,696: 26,103 undergraduates, 10,593 graduate
- Postdocs
- 826
- Faculty
- 4,664 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Wei Li
Microbiology & Immunology
Engineer soluble CD4 D1-domain variants with improved binding kinetics and isolate single-domain VH binders against CD4-induced epitopes on HIV envelope, combining computational structure design, phage display and time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy.
James Pipas
Microbiology & Immunology
Test whether BKV establishes latency in renal proximal tubule epithelia, the kidney tubule cells it infects best, by comparing viral gene expression in sparse versus growth-arrested dense cultures.
Stephanie Mutchler
Physiology·Early-career
Determine how aldosterone and the mineralocorticoid receptor regulate Piezo1 levels and activity in the distal nephron, using tdTomato-tagged Piezo1 mice, RNAscope, immunostaining and calcium and current recordings from isolated collecting ducts.
Rajesh Narendran
Neuroscience
Test whether hydrocortisone-induced increases in NOP receptors, imaged with the PET tracer [11C]NOP-1A, are smaller in cocaine use disorder than in healthy controls and predict faster relapse over 12 weeks.
Cynthia McMillen
Microbiology & Immunology·Early-career
Compare mother-to-offspring transmission of four Oropouche virus strains (BeAn19991, BeH759021, LET2083, AM0088) from four genetically distinct lineages, to test whether genomic reassortment underlies changes in tissue targeting and virulence.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.