Evan Facher has been named the inaugural associate dean for commercial translation in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, effective July 1.
Pitt hosted the first National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Transnational Dialogues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies Summer Institute from June 6 -17.
Octavia Peck Palmer, associate professor of pathology, critical care medicine, and clinical and translational sciences in the School of Medicine, has been elected to serve on the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) board of directors as president-elect.