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Manu Platt

Regents Professor Ajit Yoganathan and Associate Professor Manu Platt
Yoganathan, Platt Win AIMBE Professional Impact Awards

The organization is honoring Ajit Yoganathan with its Professional Impact Award for Education and Manu Platt with a Professional Impact Award for Diversity.
Manu Platt, in the back, reunites with some of his former students at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting: from left to right, Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks, Monet Roberts, Simone Douglas-Green, and Adeola Michael, whom Platt called a “short but powerful crew.” Platt has won the 2021 Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, thanks to a nomination effort led by Roberts and Douglas-Green. (Photo Courtesy: Manu Platt)
Platt Honored with Mentor Award from AAAS

Nominators said Platt builds a culture of family in his lab and models what it means to be “a socially conscious scientist and engineer.”
Four faculty members in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering have been promoted this spring. From left, James Dahlman, who has earned tenure and promotion to associate professor; and Wilbur Lam, Michelle LaPlaca, Manu Platt, and John Oshinshki, who have each been promoted to full professor.
Dahlman Earns Tenure; Lam, LaPlaca, Oshinski, Platt Promoted to Professor

Along with tenure, Dahman will be promoted to associate professor
Georgia Tech/Emory University biomedical engineering associate professor Manu Platt (standing) and graduate student Keon-Young Park examine gels that display the activity levels of cathepsins, which are protein-degrading enzymes. In a new study, the researchers are studying levels of cathepsins and other signaling chemicals in an effort to predict the invasiveness of breast cancer in individual patients. (Credit: Gary Meek, Georgia Tech)
Predictive Model Could Help Guide Choices for Breast Cancer Therapies

A new technique could give women and their oncologists more personalized information for choosing breast cancer treatment options.
Top row, left to right: Melissa Kemp, Krish Roy, Susan Thomas. Bottom row, left to right: Manu Platt, M.G. Finn, Ravi Bellamkonda.
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