{"216451":{"#nid":"216451","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NIH Director Meets with Research University Representatives","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia\u2019s research university community recently welcomed Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Collins met with administrators and researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, the University of Georgia (UGA), Georgia State University and Morehouse School of Medicine during his May 30 visit to Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch university representatives highlighted NIH-funded projects. Scientists representing Georgia Tech included Robert Guldberg, executive director of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience and mechanical engineering professor, and Todd McDevitt, director of the Stem Cell Engineering Center and associate professor in biomedical engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGuldberg shared information about the Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Center, a partnership between Emory University and Georgia Tech focused on endogenous repair and healing of nerves, bone, metabolic and cardiac applications. McDevitt presented four projects funded by NIH including wound healing studies from a \u201cTransformative Research Award,\u201d a program developed to fund \u201chigh-risk, high-reward\u201d science under the NIH\u2019s Common Fund.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGiven that Dr. Collins recently dedicated a blog post to the ongoing research of Andr\u00e9s Garcia, Todd McDevitt, Hang Lu from Georgia Tech and Steve Stice from UGA, we were excited to share the great work being done in regenerative medicine and in stem cells,\u201d said Steven Cross, Georgia Tech\u2019s executive vice president for research who also attended the briefing. \u201cBob and Todd were able to present ongoing NIH-funded work for which Dr. Collins expressed both admiration and strong support.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESequestration is expected to reduce the NIH budget by $1.71 billion in 2013. As a result of the 5 percent decrease, NIH expects to fund 703 fewer new and competing research grants this year. This decline in funding will have an impact on Georgia universities, including Georgia Tech, which was awarded $41.3 million from the NIH in 2012. While it is unknown how these cuts will affect individual research labs, Collins is seeking anecdotes of the sequestration\u2019s impact via Twitter using the hashtag #NIHSequesterImpact.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech highlights research projects during visit"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia\u2019s research university community recently welcomed Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Collins met with administrators and researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, the University of Georgia (UGA), Georgia State University and Morehouse School of Medicine during his May 30 visit to Atlanta.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia\u2019s research university community recently welcomed Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2013-06-04 17:19:34","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:20","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"215851":{"id":"215851","type":"image","title":"Bob Guldberg and Steve Cross with Francis Collins","body":null,"created":"1449180114","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:01:54","changed":"1475894879","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:59","alt":"Bob Guldberg and Steve Cross with Francis Collins","file":{"fid":"197112","name":"photo_copy_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo_copy_2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo_copy_2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2766081,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/photo_copy_2_0.jpg?itok=i50yQqfL"}},"215861":{"id":"215861","type":"image","title":"Todd McDevitt presenting to Francis Collins","body":null,"created":"1449180114","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:01:54","changed":"1475894879","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:59","alt":"Todd McDevitt presenting to Francis Collins","file":{"fid":"197113","name":"photo_copy_3.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo_copy_3_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo_copy_3_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2048410,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/photo_copy_3_0.jpg?itok=_v_b9Auo"}}},"media_ids":["215851","215861"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/directorsblog.nih.gov\/exploiting-stem-cell-stickiness-for-sorting\/","title":"Francis Collins Blog"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/research\/faculty-and-staff-resources\/sequestration-updates","title":"Georgia Tech Sequestration Updates"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.nih.gov\/","title":"National Institutes of Health"},{"url":"http:\/\/ibb.gatech.edu\/","title":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7158","name":"cross"},{"id":"6973","name":"Guldberg"},{"id":"6217","name":"McDevitt"},{"id":"2076","name":"NIH"},{"id":"171273","name":"sequester"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETeri Nagel, Office of Government and Community Relations, \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tnagel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etnagel@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}