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Wilbur Lam

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 Researchers Helping Develop Game to Improve STEM Learning in Chronically-Ill Children

With an emphasis on STEM subjects, researchers from the Schools of Interactive Computing and Biomedical Engineering are teaming with Thrust Interactive, Inc., to create digital games that can help these kids learn.
Wilbur Lam and patient
Lam Brings BME to ASCI

Petit Institute researcher elected to national honor society for physician-scientists
Researchers Yongzhi Qiu (left) and Wilbur Lam discuss their research on platelets. Lam is assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Qiu is a research associate in the Emory School of Medicine. (Credit: Rob Felt)
Platelets modulate clotting behavior by “feeling” their surroundings

Blood platelets can "feel" the physical environment around them, researchers have learned.
Erika Tyburski is shown with a prototype device for point-of-care testing of anemia. The device could enable more rapid diagnosis of the common blood disorder and allow inexpensive at-home self-monitoring of persons with chronic forms of the disease. (Photo: Gary Meek)
One-minute point-of-care anemia test shows promise in new study

A simple point-of-care testing device for anemia could provide more rapid diagnosis of the common blood disorder.