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Left to right: Cory Sago, Nicholas Beskid, Midori Maeda, David Francis, Katily Ramirez, Jeffery Noble, and Julie Babensee.
Training the Next Generation

Georgia Tech wins NIH grant to develop new wave of ImmunoEngineers
Lena Ting, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory and Georgia Tech
Lena Ting Receives $2.6 Million NIH Grant to Identify Balance Impairment Mechanisms for those with Parkinson’s Disease

Her research seeks to identify optimal treatments for the rehabilitation of balance impairments using neuromechanical approaches
Left to right: Steve Stice (University of Georgia), Johnna Temenoff (Georgia Tech), and Ned Waller (Emory University) are the co-directors of the Regenerative Engineering and Medicine research center, which just awarded $700,000 in seed grants to eight interdisciplinary research teams.
REM Nurturing Collaborative Research

Seed Grants awarded to eight interdisciplinary teams from Georgia Tech, Emory, and UGA
BME students had the opportunity to meet biotech industry representatives and discuss their ideas during the Biotech Career Fair.
Biotech Career Fair Was One for the Books

Fall event draws 16 companies and more than 400 students in wake of Hurricane Irma
Coulter Foundation Provides Translational Funding

Five Projects Win Translational Funding to Accelerate Innovation
Andrés García, a Regents’ Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Jessica Weaver, a Georgia Tech postdoctoral researcher, discuss pancreatic islet cells being studied in their laboratory. (Credit: Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech)
Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance Receives $51 Million NIH Grant

The Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance has received a $51 million NIH grant
Melissa Kemp, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory
Researchers join the Cancer Systems Biology Consortium with $3.2 Million NCI Grant

Will study metabolic features predictive of tumor response in head and neck cancers
Researchers work in the cell manufacturing laboratory of Krishnendu Roy at Georgia Tech. Shown (l-r) are NSF Graduate Research Fellow Joscelyn Mejias, Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program student Angela Jimenez, (background) Postdoctoral Fellow Randall Toy, Georgia Tech Research Institute TAG-Ed High School Intern Gita Balakirsky, and Project ENGAGES High School Intern Ayanna Prather. (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)
Engineering Research Center Will Help Expand Use of Therapies Based on Living Cells

A $20 million engineering research center will help expand the uses of cell-based therapies.
Emory University has appointed Vikas P. Sukhatme, MD, ScD, a distinguished physician-scientist, as the new Dean of Emory University School of Medicine.
Emory University names new Dean for School of Medicine

Emory University names new Dean for School of Medicine
The Nation's Top Ranked BME Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Program
Biomedical Engineering Again Ranked No.1 in U.S. News Undergraduate Rankings

The Nation's Top Ranked BME Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Program
C. Ross Ethier, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology.
C. Ross Ethier Named BMES Fellow

Inducted into the Biomedical Engineering Society’s 2017 Class of BMES Fellows
The Georgia Center for Medical Robotics is the newest research center at Georgia Tech.
Georgia Tech launches multidisciplinary Georgia Center for Medical Robotics

Advancing research in medical robotics to improve patient quality of life
Manasi Deshpande
Driven to Make Healthcare Better

First person: BME undergrad shares her internship experience
Master in Biomedical Innovation and Development Students Graduate!
MBID Students Graduate — then Jump into Their Biomedical Careers

Year-long medical device projects end with in-depth presentations to clinicians, faculty, and industry leaders
Front, from left: Dan Whitfield, Elizabeth Martin, and Jacob Klamm from the U.S. Military Academy spent four weeks working in the lab of Manu Plat (in back).
Duty, Honor, Country … Research!

U.S. Military Academy cadets gain biomedical research experience in Manu Platt’s lab
With kidney and liver transplant patients in mind, Emory and Georgia Tech researchers are exploring non-invasive imaging for the detection of immune rejection. With "immunoPET," they can see particular types of immune cells infiltrating a transplanted organ.
NIAID supports transplant imaging research at Georgia Tech and Emory

Researchers are exploring non-invasive imaging for the detection of immune rejection.
Susan Margulies, Ph.D., the new Wallace H. Coulter Chair of the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Injury Biomechanics.
Meet New Chair Susan Margulies

Margulies is the fourth chair in the department’s history
James Dahlman
Testing Boosts Gene Therapies

Researchers use DNA "barcodes" to develop new technique for rapidly screening nanoparticles
Elizabeth Coyle and Josh Liebowitz
BioID Planting Leadership Seeds

Grads leverage intensive experience to earn rare opportunities, launch careers
Kihan Park
Kihan Park Wins Research Award

Ph.D. candidate from Jaydev Desai’s robotics lab earns top honor for best student paper
Cosmos in the Cranium

Georgia Tech neuroscience researchers explore our most magnificent and vast organ
Yury Chernoff
Alzheimer's: Killing the Mind First

This could be your story one day, unless medical research makes significant strides
Chunlei Zhu
A Good Use for Bad Cholesterol

Xia lab gives LDL particles an interior upgrade to improve drug delivery
When going up, the stairs give people a boost by releasing stored energy, making it 37 percent easier on the knee than using conventional stairs.
Climbing Stairs Just Got Easier with Energy-Recycling Steps

Energy-recycling stairs developed to store a user’s energy during descent and return energy to the climber during ascent.
Ed Botchwey and Greg Gibson
Seeds of Collaboration

Petit Institute seed grants awarded to three interdisciplinary research teams
T. Richard Nichols is Newest Honorary Member of National Physical Therapists’ Organization

The American Physical Therapy Association makes T. Richard Nichols an honorary member.
Gabe Kwong, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory.
Gabe Kwong Invited to Join Nation’s Brightest Young Engineers at 2017 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

It’s a highly competitive and prestigious invitation, according to the National Academy of Engineering
Joseph Novack, biomedical engineering undergraduate student. Photo by Jacob Iacino.
Building a Better BME with Problem-Based Learning

One student says his problem-based class has been integral to his education. 
Left to right: Don Giddens, Larry McIntire, Ross Ethier, Bob Guldberg, Bill Todd
The Georgia Tech-Emory Connection

Public, private universities enjoy unique, longtime collaboration in biomedical research and academics
B.S. in Neuroscience Takes Off at Georgia Tech

New undergraduate program builds on strength of research across campus, from neurons to behavior .
Yonggang Ke, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory.
DNA Mini Machines

They store information and look like security gates, but change shape in a cascade
Peng Qiu, associate professor, recently won the conference-wide image analysis challenge held during the 32nd Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry.
Peng Qiu Wins CYTO 2017 Image Analysis Challenge

Competition held during the 32nd Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry