{"187831":{"#nid":"187831","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Manufacturing Brown Bag Seminar: Todd McDevitt on \u0022Stem Cell Biomanufacturing - Current Practices\/FutureOptions\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI)\u0026nbsp;welcomes Dr. Todd McDevitt, Associate Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University; and Petit Faculty Fellow in the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, who will speak on \u0022Stem cell biomanufacturing - current practices and future options,\u0022 on Monday, March 4, 2013. The seminar begins at Noon in Room 114 of the Callaway Manufacturing Research building.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe McDevitt Laboratory for the Engineering of Stem Cell Technologies (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mcdevitt.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/mcdevitt.bme.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E) is focused on developing enabling technologies for the directed differentiation and morphogenesis of stem cells for regenerative medicine therapies and \u003Cem\u003Ein vitro\u003C\/em\u003E diagnostic applications.\u0026nbsp; In 2009, Dr. McDevitt was appointed the founding Director of the Stem Cell Engineering Center at Georgia Tech (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/scec.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/scec.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E), an interdisciplinary group of ~20 investigators working on novel methods to control and assay stem cell phenotype. \u0026nbsp;Dr. McDevitt has garnered funding from the NIH, NSF, and American Heart Association, including a Transformative R01 award from the NIH and an NSF IGERT on Stem Cell Biomanufacturing (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/stemcelligert.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/stemcelligert.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. McDevitt graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) from Duke University in 1997 double majoring in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering and he received the Howard Clark Award for undergraduate research.\u0026nbsp; He received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Washington in 2001 where he worked for Dr. Patrick S. Stayton, and conducted post-doctoral research in Dr. Charles E. Murry\u2019s laboratory in the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington from 2002-04.\u0026nbsp; Dr. McDevitt started his current faculty position at Georgia Tech in 2004.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Stem cell biomanufacturing - current practices and future options,\u0022 Dr. Todd McDevitt, Associate Professor, Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University; Petit Faculty Fellow, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A weekly seminar series hosted by the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute"}],"uid":"27732","created_gmt":"2013-01-29 17:57:34","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:02:19","author":"Pamela Rountree","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-03-04T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2013-03-04T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-03-04T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-03-04 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-03-04 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-03-04 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"155831","name":"Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"14854","name":"biomanufacturing"},{"id":"14219","name":"Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"49371","name":"Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute"},{"id":"5634","name":"Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"215","name":"manufacturing"},{"id":"497","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"167130","name":"Stem Cells"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tina.guldberg@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ETina Guldberg\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing Institute\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(404) 385-4950\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}