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Denis Tsygankov, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, has won a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.
Denis Tsygankov Wins Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

National Science Foundation supporting the integrative study of the biomechanics of collective cell migration
Susan Margulies, chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech
Susan Margulies Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Marilyn Brown, Thomas Kurfess, Susan Margulies, and Alexander Shapiro join 83 other new National Academy of Engineering members…
Anderson Speed and Bilal Haider
Paying Attention to Attention

BME researcher Bilal Haider investigates the mechanisms of how we process what we see
Researcher Annabelle Singer models an experimental visor and earphones that play 40 Hertz light and sound. The current study was performed on mice. The pictured device is in human testing as a possible Alzheimer's treatment. Results from those tests are to be published in later studies separate from the current study in mice. Credit: Georgia Tech / Allison Carter
Flickering Light Mobilizes Brain Chemistry That May Fight Alzheimer’s

The hope of flickering light to treat Alzheimer's takes another step forward in this new study, which reveals stark…
Dakshitha Bashettyhalli Anandakumar, a doctoral student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, was awarded a Women in Technology Scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year from Zonta International. 
Dakshitha Anandakumar Awarded Women in Technology Scholarship

Biomedical engineering graduate student receives scholarship award from Zonta International
Aaron Morris, Ph.D., M.S. 
Aaron Morris Selected as a TED Fellow

Georgia Tech BME alumnus to present at TED2020, joining the newest class of 20 global visionaries
Susan Margulies, chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech-Emory Partnership Receives Funding for Single Ventricle Heart Defect Research

The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering will share in a $5.7 million award from Additional Ventures
Cathepsins eat away at collagen and elastin in Manu Platt's Georgia Tech lab.
New Discovery About Cathepsins May Improve Drug Research

Certain enzymes implicated in cancer and other diseases also annihilate each other
Professor Clinton H. Joiner, M.D., Ph.D.
Clint Joiner Appointed to the Sharon and Matthew Price Chair for Pediatric Research

Physician and researcher Clint Joiner honored by Georgia Tech and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as recipient of the Sharon and…
Model of an adolescent patient’s pulmonary arteries, created by 3D printing. From Tomov et al JAHA (2019) via Creative Commons.
Model of a Sticky Situation

3D printing applied to pediatric cardiology
Figure: Dual-color image before and after ACsN denoising of F-actin (cyan) and mitochondria (orange) in fixed bovine pulmonary artery endothelial (BPAE) cells obtained by TIRF microscopy with an exposure time of 2 ms. Scale bar 4 um.
Fast, Accurate Scientific CMOS Noise Correction Advances Imaging for Fluorescence Microscopy

New algorithm advances scientific imaging by automatically correcting scientific CMOS-related noise
Gari Clifford (pictured left), professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, and chair of the Biomedical Informatics Department in the Emory University School of Medicine, and Chethan Pandarinath (pictured right), assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech.
Two BME Faculty Awarded Emory School of Medicine Imagine, Innovate and Impact (I3) Nexus Awards

BME researchers Gari Clifford and Chethan Pandarinath are on interdisciplinary research teams receiving Emory I3 Nexus funding in…
Stanislav Emelianov, a jointly appointed professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and professor in the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech
Stanislav Emelianov Named IEEE Fellow

Innovator in advanced imaging methods appointed IEEE Fellow
Architectural rendering of future Health Sciences Research Building II (HSRB II)
Emory University Breaks Ground on Innovative Biomedical Research Facility

New building will help advance collaborative and translational research
Rob Mannino (B.S. BMED, 2013; Ph.D. BMED, 2018) and Erika Tyburski (B.S. BMED, 2012) were recognized as top young entrepreneurs on the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Two BME Alumni Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur List

Rob Mannino and Erika Tyburski were named to the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 list
Ahmet Coskun
The Future of Poster Sessions

Coskun lab presents concept for digital posters for interactive cellular media and bioengineering education
Nate Frank and Mike Weiler
New Enterprise for LymphaTech

Company founded on innovation developed at Georgia Tech forms partnership with leading compression garment manufacturer
BME students Katherine Strickland, Cameron Bennett, and Will Kamnick give their medical device prototype a test run.
Critical Test Runs for BME Capstone Teams

GCMI and T3 Labs help students evaluate device prototypes in clinical setting
Chris Rozell addresses the room during the Intelligent Interactions with the Brain (I2B) Workshop.
New Levels of Brain Understanding

First-time neuro-workshop at Georgia Tech brings together consortium of universities to focus on research, technology, education…
The winning BME team members are Oscar Gutierrez, Doraville, GA; Ahmed Alnamos, Watertown, MA; Nishani Kanthasamy, Alpharetta, GA; and Sondos Alnamos, Watertown MA. The team’s project sponsor was gastroenterologist Dr. Anand Sagar Jain at Emory Healthcare.
Device that Reduces Risk of Aspiration Wins Biomedical Engineering Category at Capstone Design Expo

Winning BME team Bullseye developed a device to reduce risk of aspiration during upper gastrointestinal procedures
The AfroBiotech Conference brought 100 researchers together a this first-time event.
AfroBiotech Was About More Than Science

First time conference, co-chaired by BME researchers, makes its debut in Atlanta
CMAT attendees poised for a group picture in Athens, GA.
Highlights of the 2nd Annual CMaT Retreat

CMaT newsletter highlights the 2nd annual retreat in Athens, Georgia
Sakis Mantalaris
The Balance of Bioprocess Models

Complex enough to matter, but not so much that it can’t be validated
Kendreze Holland, a 2019 Petit Scholar, discusses his research at a recent poster session.
New Scholars for a New Decade

Introducing the Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars for 2020
University Innovation Fellows (UIF) program, which trains and encourages students to be better leaders and bring new opportunities, creativity, and entrepreneurship to their campuses.
Three BME Students Named University Innovation Fellows

The Stanford program helps students create new ideas for Georgia Tech
Erin Buckley, assistant professor, in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory
Erin Buckley Receives Hidden Gem Award

Emory University’s School of Medicine recognizes Buckley’s outstanding contributions
  Ajit Yoganathan, Regents Professor at Georgia Tech and Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. 
King of Hearts

Mick Jagger owes some thanks for the fact he’s alive and strutting to Ajit Yoganathan and his lab crew
The Nakatani agreement being signed by Yves Berthelot, vice provost for international initiatives at Georgia Tech.
New Student Exchange Program Established Between Japan and Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech BME undergraduate students can participate in a new fellowship exchange program
Two teams of BME students were awarded their prizes from the DEBUT Challenge at last week's BMES Meetings in Philadelphia. Pictured are (left to right), James Rains (professor of the practice, and director of the BME Capstone program), and BME students Pranav Dorbala, Madhu Baskaran, Bailey Eaton, Rachel Mann, and NIBIB Program Director Zeynep Erim.
BME Teams Make Big Impact in DEBUT

Undergrads’ innovations earn prize money in annual biomedical engineering design competition
Petit Institute researchers were given the comic book treatment by NASA. The top panel features (from left) Bradley Burcar, Facundo Fernandez, and Martha Grover. Below that are panels featuring renderings of Loren Williams, Nick Hud, and Grover in outer space.
NASA Research Isn’t All Rocket Science

Petit Institute’s multidisciplinary investigators at Georgia Tech working to discover life and protect astronauts
Adam Marcus, Emory University: SaGA for Cancer Drug Discovery
Technologies Selected for Biolocity Commercialization Funding

Five promising biomedical research innovations across three campuses have been chosen for Biolocity’s newest cohort
Figure: Physical and chemical properties of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) structure.
A Path Forward for Overcoming the Blood–Brain and Blood–Tumor Barriers

Getting cancer drugs to their target can be difficult under the best of circumstances, but in the case of brain cancer the…