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Liver Transplant: Patients Without Anti-Rejection Drugs
19 May 2026
An important breakthrough has been achieved by researchers at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh. Through an innovative clinical trial, patients who underwent living-donor liver transplantation remained off immunosuppressive drugs for more than three years. This represents a significant step toward one of the most ambitious goals of transplant medicine: immune tolerance.
Diagnosis of Bile Duct Cancer: New Molecular Test
1 April 2026
A team of researchers at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has developed BiliSeq, an innovative molecular test that identifies bile duct cancer with twice the sensitivity of traditional diagnostic methods.