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The Pitt News T h e in de p e n d e n t st ude nt ne w spap e r of t he University of Pittsburgh

ROBBERY ON FIFTH

September 29, 2015 | Issue 32 | Volume 106

Dale Shoemaker, Elizabeth Lepro and Lauren Rosenblatt News Editors

New Funding for Hiv Research Rina Zhang

For The Pitt News

Police respond to a robbery at Citizens Bank on Fifth Avenue on Monday. Stephen Caruso ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Police are still searching for an unidentified man who robbed the Citizens Bank in Oakland Monday afternoon. According to Pittsburgh Police Sergeant Brian Elledge, a black man in his 50s entered the bank minutes before its closing time at 3718 Fifth Ave. and stole an undisclosed amount of money before fleeing the scene. He headed outbound on Fifth Avenue toward North Oakland and Shadyside, according to Elledge. The release said the man approached the teller with a note and said he had a

gun, but did not reveal the weapon. Both Pittsburgh police and Pitt police responded to the call at 4:50 p.m. on Sept. 28. Another Pittsburgh police sergeant, Michael Piscitelli, said police had reviewed surveillance video footage of the robbery and had obtained an image of the robber from the tape. The man was wearing a black Tshirt, pants, white tennis shoes, a dark baseball cap and glasses, according to a release from the Pittsburgh Police.

Shortly after 5 p.m., four Pittsburgh police units were searching for the unidentified man. Two police units, one from Pittsburgh and one from Pitt, including a police sergeant from the robbery squad, responded to the robbery, according to Elledge. According to Piscitelli, Citizens Bank is responsible for determining how much money the man stole and likely will not release the number to the public.

With millions of federal funding secured, a team of Pitt researchers has set out to do what has never been done — find a cure for HIV. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first published a report about what would come to be known as the AIDS epidemic in 1981. Thirtytwo years later, more than one million people are currently affected with HIV/AIDS in the United States. Effective — but costly and time-consuming treatments — can keep the chronic disease at bay, while dedicated scientists around the world work toward a cure. In Pittsburgh, a pair of researchers at the UPMC Center for Vaccine Research were awarded a total of $6.3 million in grants last week from the National Institute of Health for their work on a cure for HIV/AIDS. The husband-wife team of Dr. Cristian Apetrei and Dr. Ivona Pandrea has reSee HIV on page 2


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