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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [546 KB]
Doling out happiness, in key!
Pitt’s new research festival was also fertile
ground for biotech recruiters.
Most wanted study partners..

INVESTIGATIONS [219 KB]
Macular degeneration genes found.
Learning the ins and outs of clinical research.
Biological markers for brain damage,
and abuse, in children.

98.6 DEGREES [97 KB]
The Simmons family has given millions
to understand the pulmonary disease that eventually
killed Dorothy Simmons.

ATTENDING [302 KB]
Your family circle widens when you enroll here.
When Dr. Spock came to Pittsburgh.

ALUMNI NEWS [359 KB]
Meet the Dixie Doc.
Timothy Eberlein and divine intervention.

LAST CALL [1.14 MB]
Program?

COVER STORY

Okay, maybe Pitt crusaders prefer lab coats to capes, but their research is definitely super. (Photo by Craig Thompson)

Give My Grand Rounds to Broadway [1.06 MB]
How do you follow a chicken? A Scope and Scalpel retrospective.
COVER STORY BY SALLY ANN FLECKER

FEATURES

A Memorial Day to Remember [1.24 MB]
David Whitcomb has told the world more about pancreatitis than probably
anyone has in a century. It all started with a family get-together.
BY DOTTIE HORN

Trial Runs [1.19 MB]
Meet medical science’s heroes: clinical trial volunteers.The first in a series on people who play quiet roles in advancing new therapies.
BY DAVID R. ELTZ

California Dreaming [533 KB]
Frank Dixon’s work at Pitt marks immunopathology’s beginnings.
BY LEAH KAUFFMAN

The Director [533 KB]
Olivera Finn chooses the cast who’ll make Pitt’s next generation of immuno-logical breakthroughs.
FOLLOW UP BY DAVID R. ELTZ