Carnegie Mellon & UPMC Sign Five-Year $10 Million Research Agreement

December 18, 2006 Carnegie Mellon & UPMC Sign Five-Year $10 Million Research Agreement Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) signed a five-year, $10 million agreement for sponsored research in health care-related computer science, engineering, robotics and other technologies. The agreement builds upon UPMC's long-standing partnership with the University of Pittsburgh in the health sciences and will use UPMC settings to test emerging technologies developed at Carnegie Mellon.A primary focus will be on improving the use of health care information. Other projects will focus on the use of technology to . . .