UPMC joins Italian government to create $398 million biomedical research center in Sicily
PITTSBURGH Building on its successful transplant center and clinical facility in Palermo, Italy, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) today announced a partnership with the Italian government, the Region of Sicily and Italy's National Research Council to create a $398 million (330 million) Biomedical Research and Biotechnology Center (BRBC), also to be located in Sicily....... Fund...UPMC begins study of heart support device as a bridge to transplantation
... ...UPMC performs first beating heart transplant procedure in the US
... The patient, who is from Por...Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and UPMC surgeons save two lives with domino transplant
... Domino transplants are so named for the sequential nature of the transplants an organ from a deceased donor is transplanted into the first recipient. The first recipient's organ then is transplanted into a second recipient. Domino transplants are a rare but effective way of overcoming the shortag...