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Since our first students arrived in 2000, the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering has been committed to improving the health and well-being of others by fostering the next generation of leaders in the biomedical field. This year, we celebrate those efforts and our continued progress as a transformative leader in solving unmet clinical needs.
- Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Program starts at 6 p.m.
- The Fox Theatre is located at 660 Peachtree Street NE Atlanta, Georgia 30308
- Directions & Parking
1993
Georgia Tech and the Emory School of Medicine collaborate to become one of three centers in the U.S. to receive a Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Program Development Grant.
1995
Georgia Tech and Emory approve a joint M.D./Ph.D. program
1997
Don Giddens is named inaugural Department Chair
1999
Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering Society created
2000
First students enroll
2001
The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation makes a $25 million landmark grant to the BME department
2002
Ground is broken for U.A. Whitaker Building at Georgia Tech
2003
Larry McIntire is named Department Chair
2009
The Biomedical Research and Opportunities Society founded
2013
Ravi V. Bellamkonda is named Department Chair
2016
C. Ross Ethier is named interim Department Chair
2017
Susan Margulies is named Department Chair
2019
Coulter Translational Fund becomes Biolocity
2020
McCamish Foundation makes landmark gift to support Parkinson's disease research
2021
Machelle Pardue named interim Department Chair
2022
Alyssa Panitch named fifth permanent Department Chair