Pitt Chronicle

A tiny sensor composed of carbon nanotubes that will alert asthma suffers to impending attacks. Training materials for educators that are changing classrooms around the country. Those are just two of the innovations highlighted in the Pitt Office of Technology Management’s 2008 Annual Report.

Pitt alumnus Lucile L. Adams-Campbell has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, a component of the National Academy of Sciences that serves as a national advisory body on matters of health and science policy.

Pitt School of Medicine researchers have been awarded $2.7 million to develop a drug that could counter the effects of radiation exposure in case of large-scale public exposure.