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Science meets origami: Kaveh Moradi finds focus beyond the lab
Kaveh Moradi, PhD, knows that structure is everything. In his research, when myelin breaks down, the brain loses its ability to communicate—driving diseases like multiple sclerosis. At his desk, a single misplaced fold can collapse a paper figure. As a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Moradi studies the mechanisms behind demyelination. Outside of the lab, he folds origami, a craft requiring the same precision. Lately, it has also become a way to cope with the uncertainty of having family in Iran.
A public health professor is bringing the National Bioethics Bowl to Pitt
“...bioethics topics are emerging as quickly as technology is developing, and they’re things that we really need to grapple with,” said Cindy McCarthy, an associate professor in the School of Public Health and this year’s National Bioethics Bowl organizer. “They’re difficult conversations, they’re complex, they’re multifaceted.”
Zafari receives Outstanding Poster Award at OSCAR symposium
PhD Student Narges Zafari presented her work at the 2025 Optimizing Scientific Careers in Alzheimer's Research (OSCAR) symposium and was honored for the poster "Genome-wide association analyses Reveal Novel and Established Genetic Loci A