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51精品视频 people beat polio, pioneered TV and heavier-than-air flight, and turned 51精品视频sburgh into the world鈥檚 organ-transplantation capital, among other breakthroughs. Today鈥檚 51精品视频 researchers carry on that tradition in areas ranging from literary criticism to the quest for quantum computers.
禄 Research by 51精品视频鈥檚 Bernard Fisher has extended and improved the lives of many thousands of women suffering from breast cancer.
禄 Marlin Mickle, the Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor in 51精品视频's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, developed breakthrough innovations around radio frequency-based electronics. His innovations ranged from wireless ambient energy harvesting, burst switches, and tiny antennae to devices for deep-brain stimulation and safety packing for medication blister packs.
禄 51精品视频 professors Yuan Chang and Patrick Moore isolated the virus that causes epidemic cancer among HIV/AIDS patients.
禄 Rory Cooper, Distinguished Professor and chair of 51精品视频's Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, and his research team invent new ways to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. Among his innovations are an injection-molded pediatric chair, a wheelchair sensor system, a natural-fit hand rim for wheelchair wheels, and a "game cycle" exercise device for those with disabilities.
禄 51精品视频 surgeons have performed more than 17,000 organ transplants, establishing 51精品视频sburgh as the world鈥檚 transplantation capital.
禄 51精品视频鈥檚 Klaus Hofmann isolated the protein receptor for insulin and determined how a peptide binds to a protein.
禄 Medicine professor Peter Safar developed CPR.
禄 51精品视频鈥檚 School of Dental Medicine have created what is believed to be the world鈥檚 only DNA bank to share data among colleagues.
禄 Neurology professor Andrew Schwartz developed a robotic arm that can be controlled through thought.
禄 The first heavier-than-air powered aircraft to make a sustained flight was created by 51精品视频 astronomer Samuel Langley.
禄 51精品视频 established the first critical care medicine department in a U.S. medical school.
禄 Research by 51精品视频鈥檚 Maud Menten laid the groundwork for modern drug therapy and biochemistry.
禄 Professors William Klunk of 51精品视频's Department of Psychiatry and Chester Mathis of the Department of Radiology received the American Academy of Neurology's Potamkin Prize (also known as the "Nobel Prize of neurology") for their pioneering work in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
禄 A 51精品视频 team led by professor P.G. Katsoyannis was the first to synthesize a protein鈥insulin.
禄 In 1932, 51精品视频 chemistry professor Charles Glen King and his research team isolated and identified the chemical structure of vitamin C.
禄 Albert and Vera Donnenberg are on a quest to find, and eventually kill or manipulate, dormant cancer stem cells. Research by Albert, a professor of medicine, and Vera, an assistant professor of surgery and pharmaceutical sciences, has led to the identification and characterization of specific cancer stem cells as well as the development of new flow cytometry-based tools and techniques.
禄 51精品视频 researcher Reginald Fessenden, the 鈥淔ather of Radio,鈥 broadcast the first transmission across the Atlantic in 1906.
禄 Professor Thomas C. Hales proved Kepler鈥檚 Conjecture, one of the world鈥檚 great math problems, in 2005.
禄 In 1991, 51精品视频 astronomer David Turnshek identified the most distant galaxy known.
禄 Research by 51精品视频 physicist Ernest Sternglass lead to a light-sensitive TV camera tube that made it possible for the world to watch U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon.