Recent News

• Robert S.B. Clark, MD Named Interim Director of the Safar Center August 7, 2025
• Safar Center T32 Fellow Hugues Yver, MD August 4, 2025
• Achievements by Kline and Bondi Trainees Highlight Safar Center Research Excellence August 4, 2025
• Safar Center Faculty Members Honored at the 2025 meeting of the National Neurotrauma Society July 2, 2025
• Safar Center T32 Fellow Dr. Eleni Moschonas June 23, 2025
• 2025 Safar Symposium Focuses on the Safar Vision II June 18, 2025
• Bondi and Kline Lab Trainees Presented at NCUR 2025 May 16, 2025
• Dr. Amery Treble-Barna Promoted to Associate Professor April 10, 2025
• Dr. Corina Bondi Honored at Pitt Faculty Honors Convocation April 10, 2025
• Ashley Russell Receives Young Investigator Grant January 16, 2025
• Ruchira M. Jha, MD, MSc visits the Safar Center and presents her work on “Decoding heterogeneity in acute brain injury: From single cell to bedside.” December 18, 2024
• Brain Injury Biomarker Mini-Symposium Features Keynote Lecture by Stefania Mondello, MD, MPH, PhD October 10, 2024
• Dr. Corina Bondi Received Two Prestigious Mentoring Awards October 7, 2024
• Drs. Manole and Vazquez receive Transformational Project Grant from the American Heart Association September 5, 2024
• Gabriela Berger wins “Top Scientific Poster” award at UPMC Children’s Hospital Summer Research Internship Poster Day Celebration August 8, 2024
• Investigators at Barrow Neurological Institute, Rangos Research Center, and the Safar Center collaborate to publish a pre-clinical multi-model traumatic brain injury single cell RNAseq atlas in the journal Neuron August 7, 2024
• Safar Center T32 Fellow Sarah Svirsky, PhD August 7, 2024
• Safar Center T32 Fellow Amanda Dave, MD, MS August 7, 2024
• T32 Scholar Dr. Michael Taylor Selected as the 2024 Fellow of the Year June 28, 2024
• T32 Scholar Dr. Caitlin McNamara Received the 2024 National Neurotrauma Society Travel Award June 20, 2024
• The 21st Safar Symposium a Smashing Success May 21, 2024
• Microglial Breakthroughs in Longevity, Aging, and Senescence after TBI (MicroBLAST) May 13, 2024
• 2024 Fink Scholar Abstract Winner April 29, 2024
• T32 Scholar Dr. Michael Taylor Received the 2024 In Training Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine March 1, 2024
• Courtney Robertson, MD gives the 21st Annual Distinguished Alumna Award Lecture February 20, 2024
• T32 Scholar Dr. Bailey Petersen Awarded 2-Year Early Investigator Seed Grant January 12, 2024
• Safar Center investigators and collaborators receive two grants from the Chuck Noll Foundation January 9, 2024
• Drs. Yijen Wu and Shaun Carlson awarded a Partnering PI grant from the Department of Defense January 9, 2024
• T32 Scholar Dr. Bailey Petersen Awarded Early Career Poster Award November 3, 2023
• CCM Department Celebrates the Retirement of Dr. Ann Thompson September 27, 2023
• Safar Trainee Wins 2023 Anthony Marmarou Award at NNS Neurotrauma Conference in Austin August 28, 2023
• Associate Director, Shaun Carlson, selected as a Mellon Scholar of the Richard King Mellon Institute for Pediatric Research August 28, 2023
• Digital Version of Peter Safar’s Autobiography made available by the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology August 16, 2023
• Safar Center T32 Fellow Dr. W. Michael Taylor August 10, 2023
• Drs. Corina Bondi and Mioara Manole receive Children’s Neuroscience Institute Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Award July 12, 2023
• Corina O. Bondi, Ph.D., is promoted to Tenured Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neurobiology July 12, 2023
• 20th Annual Safar Symposium a Smashing Success June 27, 2023
• Former Safar Center Member, Raymond (Ray) Griffith, Passes Away May 1, 2023
• NINDS Provides Supplemental Funding to Drs. Bondi and Kline to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research April 11, 2023
• Three Distinguished Guest Professors Visit the Safar Center March 21, 2023
• T32 Fellows Caitlin McNamara and Jeremy Herrmann Receive Awards at 2023 SCCM Congress February 3, 2023
• Freedom House Ambulance: The FIRST Responders – A WQED Documentary January 31, 2023
• Graduate trainee from the laboratories of Drs. Bondi and Kline receives two separate dissertation awards January 20, 2023
• Multi-PI NINDS R01 Awarded to Safar Center Associate Directors Dennis Simon, Robert Clark January 3, 2023
• T32 Fellow Caitlin McNamara Awarded PNCRG Fellow Travel Award October 27, 2022