{"id":244155,"date":"2026-07-15T17:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244155\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:59:09","slug":"pitt-signs-deal-with-biotech-firm-to-study-mitochondria-in-space-and-long-covid-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244155\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitt signs deal with biotech firm to study mitochondria in space and long Covid \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/university-of-pittsburgh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Pittsburgh<\/a> announced an agreement with biotech company MitoSense Inc. to research opportunities in space biomedicine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">In 2024, Pitt announced the Center for Space Biomedicine, which focuses on transforming biomedical research conducted in orbit into terrestrial outcomes. That center is also associated with a number of other efforts at Pitt, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/29\/pitt-trivedi-institute-launch-event.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently unveiled Trivedi Institute for Space and Global Biomedicine.<\/a> Now, Pitt announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding between itself and Massachusetts-based MitoSense to explore how research into mitochondrial biology can be used in both aerospace efforts and to better understand long Covid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cMitochondria may be one of the most important biological frontiers of the 21st century,\u201d MitoSense Chairman Van Hipp said in a prepared statement. \u201cIf humanity is serious about long-duration spaceflight, lunar operations and future Mars missions, we have to understand how human cells generate energy, respond to stress and recover from injury. That same science may also help explain why millions of people affected by long Covid and other post-viral conditions struggle with fatigue, brain fog and impaired recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/07\/13\/pitt-space-mitosense-research-deal.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/07\/13\/pitt-space-mitosense-research-deal.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The University of Pittsburgh announced an agreement with biotech company MitoSense Inc. to research opportunities in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[104560,104559,104557,73,75,74,104558,2553],"class_list":["post-244155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-long-covid","tag-mitochondrial-biology","tag-mitosense-inc","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-space-biomedicine","tag-university-of-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}