Inside you will find information about CTSI's involvement in research addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, methods of remote consent, funding opportunities, virtual upcoming events, and more!

In this issue: the University of Pittsburgh Mobile Sensing + Health Institute (MoSHI), the Pitt Innovation Challenge winners, the Community Research Advisory Board, funding opportunities, and regulatory notes

Rory Cooper and his team at the Human Engineering Research Laboratories have developed over 100 inventions related to wheelchairs, robotics, and wearable instruments designed to improve the lives of people with disabilities and military veterans.

On Monday, March 2, members of the Pitt CTSI team led a webinar on the Trial Innovation Network (TIN), focused on the Pitt+Me program, the CTSI participant-driven research registry that has helped hundreds of study teams meet their recruitment goals over the past 10 years.

Michael Madison is training lawyers to succeed in the 21st century as leaders and collaborators in the legal profession, in their communities, and in the innovation economy.

A total of $460,000 in prizes was awarded at the Pitt Innovation Challenge (PInCh®) final event where teams presented their bold solutions to important health problems.

Inside you will find information about using the Magee Obstetric Maternal & Infant Database (MOMI) for research, new efforts to engage with people with disabilities in research, funding opportunities, and more!

What do the polio vaccine, CPR, and double-organ transplantation have in common? They were all discovered thanks to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and research volunteers like you who worked together to make these groundbreaking discoveries possible. Click the headline to learn more.

Moving around a bit in their early life has connected Lina Dostilio to the concept of space and place, particularly as it relates to community engagement and Dostilio’s work within that framework.