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Giving to the Coulter Department

Thank you for your interest in supporting the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. Private support is critical for the Department’s ability to deliver a first-class education and to cultivate the next generation of leaders in this field. At the same time, your support can have a meaningful impact on the caliber of research the Department is engaged in to improve healthcare outcomes and quality of life for people in Georgia, across the nation, and around the world.

Because of the unique nature of Coulter BME — a joint venture between the Georgia Tech College of Engineering and the Emory University School of Medicine — charitable gifts must be directed to either the Georgia Tech Foundation or Emory University. In some instances, gifts made to one of these specific institutions may benefit the partner university through a mechanism known as the “Common Fund.”

For questions about you giving — including inquiries related to multi-year commitments, gifts of securities, endowments or estate gifts — please contact

for gifts through

Emory University

Jonathan Russell

Jonathan Russell

Managing Senior Director of Development

Email

Phone: 404.727.6416

 

 

for gifts through

Georgia Tech

Luke O'Connell

Luke O'Connell

Director of Development

Email

Phone: 404.385.0471

BME Fund for Excellence

BME Fund for Excellence

The BME Fund for Excellence helps support the Department’s greatest and most pressing needs by providing flexible funds for students, faculty, research, programs and facilities. Funds may be used to support both Georgia Tech and Emory University initiatives per the Common Fund agreement between the two institutions.

Other Suggested Funds

At Emory University

Supports faculty and their research projects. Funds support related expenses such as: personnel, equipment, travel, testing, and supplies costs.

Please contact Shawn Stern to make a gift.

Biolocity is a life sciences incubator that supports both Emory and Georgia Tech faculty seeking to commercialize their research. Biolocity provides faculty with seed funding, project management support, and consulting services as they seek to create an early-stage company centered on their research.

Please contact Shawn Stern to make a gift.

Supports innovative research into single-ventricle defects, which is when there is only one ventricle large enough to do the normal job of pumping blood. Selected projects went through a competitive process where they had to present their groundbreaking research and explain short- and long-term milestones.

Please contact Shawn Stern to make a gift.

At Georgia Tech

Supports the BME Capstone program and other immersive instructional design and innovation initiatives throughout the BME curriculum and undergraduate problem driven learning experience. Related expenses associated with the delivery of these programs include, but are not limited to, prototyping and testing, equipment, expertise and supplies, and fees and travel expenses for student design conferences and competitions.

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Provides direct support to or for projects and initiatives connected to BME students, with preference that it benefit underrepresented minority students.

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Supports the work of the Biolocity program to guide medical innovation to market and related efforts at BME to advance translational research and commercialization efforts. Funds may be used to support both Georgia Tech and Emory University initiatives per the Common Fund agreement between the two institutions.

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Supports the work of the McCamish Parkinson’s Disease Innovation Program and related efforts to accelerate and advance technology-driven research innovations to enable the understanding, treatment, and cure for Parkinson’s disease and other complex neurological disorders. Funds may be used to support both Georgia Tech and Emory University initiatives per the Common Fund agreement between the two institutions.

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Thank you

for considering a gift to support the people of the Coulter Department.