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Georgia Tech receives $6.5 million grant from The Marcus Foundation for tumor monorail project

The tumor monorail project, a collaboration between the Georgia Institute of Technology, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and…
Garrett Stanley and Shannon Barker were co-hosts for the first BME Graduate Student Awards.
First Time Honor

BME presents inaugural Graduate Student Awards
Shunt Doubles took the top prize in overall competition at the Capstone Design Expo.
BME Takes Top Prize in Capstone Design Expo

Coulter Department completes sweep for 2014-2015 school year
BioID student Erin Roberts, reflected in the screen of her laptop, pays close attention to another team's end-of-semester presentation.
Bridging the Gap

BioID graduate program giving students real-world biomedical exposure
Raja Schaar, BME design instructor, created new exhibit space to showcase student achievement.
BME On Display

New exhibit space showcases award-winning work of students
Ten undergraduate students from across the country will have the unprecedented opportunity to participate in the Nation’s only pediatric bioengineering program.
Emory Pediatric Bioengineering Summer Program Accepting Undergraduate Applications

Application deadline February 2, 2015
Pictured are MCF-7 human breast cancer cells, stably transformed with SNAIL (right) or an empty vector control (left). Cells expressing SNAIL show an increased mesenchymal phenotype and malignant characteristics. The control cells display a cobblestone morphology, whereas cells overexpressing SNAIL are more elongated. Credit: MgGrail, et al., FASEB 2014.
Study shows how breast cancer cells break free to spread in the body

A new study has identified how one important gene helps cancer cells break free from the primary tumor.
Prausnitz named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Mark Prausnitz, a ChBE faculty member, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). There are only 414…
Researchers have developed a technique for activating biological signals through the skin of a living animal using light. In this illustration, ultraviolet light is shining through a pattern, initiating fluorescence in the biomaterial implanted in a biomaterial located under the skin of a living animal. (Credit: García Laboratory at Georgia Tech)
Molecular “hats” allow in vivo activation of disguised signaling peptides

Using molecular "hats," researchers have developed a way to sneak biomaterials containing the signaling molecules into…
The BME team, OculoSeal, was the overall winner in the Fall Capstone Expo.
BME Team Takes Capstone Crown

Senior design teams from Coulter Department win big in Fall Expo
Call for BioEngineering Award Nominations

Submission deadline January 31, 2015
Top row, left to right: Melissa Kemp, Krish Roy, Susan Thomas. Bottom row, left to right: Manu Platt, M.G. Finn, Ravi Bellamkonda.
The Buzz on Bioscience

The biosciences are big at Georgia Tech. Researchers discuss what’s happening and how they see the future.
Tech4Good, Capstone Showcase Student Innovation

December welcomes two of Tech's major student showcases.
Yogi Patel won a Young Investigator Award at the recent BRAIN Grand Challenges Conference.
Patel Wins Young Investigator Award

BioE grad student’s innovative research grabs honors at national conference
Jeff Wren, president of UCB's North American region, gives Georgia Tech students an insider's look at the biopharmaceutical industry.
UCB-Georgia Tech Day

Students get close-up view of biopharmaceutical powerhouse
M. Prausnitz Microneedle
Tiny Needles Offer Potential New Treatment for Two Major Eye Diseases

Needles almost too small to be seen with the unaided eye could be the basis for new treatment options for two of the world’s…
Magnus Egerstedt, a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is conducting research on controlling swarms of robots that coordinate their own activities to accomplish tasks. (Photo: Rob Felt)
Co-robots Team Up with Humans

Robots are teaming up with humans to perform tasks in manufacturing, health care, national defense and other areas.
Atlanta’s importance to engineering’s future brings National Engineering Forum to region

The National Engineering Forum (NEF), along with the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Georgia Research Alliance, hosted a…
The Coulter Translational Partnership team: (left to right) Program Managers Shawna Hagen and Katie Merritt, and Program Director Rachael Hagan. 
Coulter Partnership Blasts Off

Emory-Georgia Tech translational funding program gets re-launched
iDETECT is an easily administered, comprehensive system designed to improve neurologic assessment following mild traumatic brain injury, such as concussion sustained in athletic events and military conflict.
NFL honors Georgia Tech-Emory team for brain injury detection system

Georgia Tech-Emory team wins award from NFL for brain injury detection system.
Request for Applications for Seed Grant Funding for Annual Pediatric Device Innovation Competition

The Atlantic Pediatric Device Consortium (APDC) is pleased to announce its 4th annual Pediatric Device Innovation Competition -…
Candice Cheung, BME undergrad, at the mic.
Candice Cheung: The Re-Americanization of a Third Culture Kid

BME undergrad making easy transition from Hong Kong to Atlanta
Rachael Hagan is director of the Coulter Translational Program.
Coulter Partnership

Translational funding program re-launches Tuesday
Researchers have achieved 32 different–shaped crystal structures using the DNA–brick self–assembly method. Credit: Harvard's Wyss Institute
Research team scales DNA bricks to size of a speck of dust

Scaling up to a speck of dust
BBUGS member Torri Rinker gives tour of a state-of-the-art lab for Buzz on Biotechnology guests
The BUZZ

Annual biotech open house draws 400 visitors
Associate professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
BRAIN Initiative

Georgia Tech researchers among part of first wave of NIH funding
Biomaterials Day

Student and faculty researchers converge at Georgia Tech for first-time event.
Emily Evans: Where Biomedical Engineering Meets Medicine

Emily Evans plans to join the Peace Corps, and perhaps go on to become an emergency room trauma surgeon.
Planting Brain Seeds

Neural Engineering Center becomes official, launches new seed grant program
Georgia Tech Researchers Publish Findings of Significant Cardiovascular Study

A group of Georgia Tech researchers has demonstrated a tangible connection between exercise performance and energy efficiency in…
Allison Kramer: Changing Lives for the Better Through Biomedical Engineering

With two parents in the medical field and an older brother who attended Georgia Tech, Allison Kramer’s path toward becoming a…
Georgia Tech Researchers Discover New Tri-Molecular Complex

A group of Georgia Tech researchers has discovered a new type of molecular interaction that could have important implications in…