Research News

The 20th annual Safar Symposium and 13th annual Multi-Departmental Trainees’ Research Day was held on May 18-19, 2023.

Andrea Ibarra, MD, MS, was awarded the inaugural $250,000 Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology/Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research Mentored Research Training Grant for her project “The Effect of Preeclampsia on Cognitive Function.”

We were honored to host the 17th Annual Pennsylvania Anesthesiology Resident Research Conference here in Pittsburgh on Saturday, May 13, 2023, which was our fourth time hosting after our turns hosting in 2008, 2014, and 2019.

We will host the 13th International NPY-PYY-PP Research Conference this summer July 15-18, 2023, here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Paramita Basu won the Best Poster Presentation in Basic Science Award at the US Association for the Study of Pain meeting, April 11-14, 2023, in Durham, NC.

Sonja L. Plasil successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “Long Noncoding RNA Dysregulation Alters Ethanol Drinking Behavior and Ethanol-Related Behavioral Phenotypes” on April 13, 2023. 

The April 2023 edition of Anesthesiology features an article from our multidisciplinary team of cardiovascular, neuroscience, bioengineering, and biophysics researchers with an accompanying editorial and podcast.

Ajay D. Wasan, MD, MSc, ranked in the top 10, per the recently released NIH funding rankings from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.

Our department was ranked #5 in fiscal year 2022.

The research team of Pei Tang, PhD, identified a helical motif in the SARS-CoV-2 spike neck that is responsible for α7nAChR downregulation.