{"240801":{"#nid":"240801","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Faculty Member Selected as One of Georgia Trend\u2019s \u201c40 Under 40\u201d","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the seventeenth year, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.georgiatrend.com\/October-2013\/2013-Forty-Under-Forty\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Trend Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E has selected a group of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.georgiatrend.com\/October-2013\/2013-Forty-Under-Forty\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E40 Georgians under the age of 40\u003C\/a\u003E who they consider the state\u2019s \u201cBest and Brightest\u201d across different sectors, including business, government, politics, nonprofits, arts, finance and the military. Todd McDevitt, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, was chosen among this year\u2019s selections. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMcDevitt\u2019s service to the Georgia community has been through a combination of research, education and policy efforts.\u0026nbsp; His research program is focused on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/mcdevitt.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eengineering stem cell technologies\u003C\/a\u003E, which represents efforts to transform the potential of stem cells into clinically viable and useful regenerative therapies and diagnostic tools. To date, McDevitt has been responsible for over $10 million of research funding and has employed more than 30 trainees and advised over 50 undergraduate researchers.\u0026nbsp; He has published over 45 journal articles in the top journals in his field and he has a number of national awards to his credit. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cTodd is a young leader helping to define the emerging field of stem cell engineering,\u2019\u201d Ravi Bellamkonda, chair of the BME department stated. \u201cFrom early on in his career, he has had a vision for what it is going to take for stem cells to become useful for scientific discovery and help heal cardiac and other tissues for Georgians and beyond.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMcDevitt\u2019s research, at the interface of biomaterials, tissue engineering and stem cell biology, has been recognized by receipt of the 2010 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Biomaterials and he was chosen as one of 30 U.S. scientists age 45 and under to be invited to participate in a Frontiers of Engineering symposia series hosted by the National Academy of Engineering. In addition, McDevitt was recently appointed to a six-member panel of North American experts by the National Science Foundation to a conduct an international assessment of stem cell engineering research and development efforts that is intended to inform strategic investments by the U.S. in this emerging area of biotechnology. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cHaving creative and potentially \u2018disruptive\u2019 ideas from the outset can be particularly challenging for a younger faculty member because of limited resources to pursue new concepts and the number of times that grant proposals are usually rejected for truly ground-breaking science,\u201d said Robert M. Nerem, professor emeritus, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine at Georgia Tech. \u201cTodd\u2019s sincere desire is to work on things that really matter and are often one or two steps ahead of the current thinking of many in the field.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn support of this, McDevitt was awarded a $2 million \u201cTransformative\u201d grant from the National Institute\u2019s of Health from the Office of the Director in 2011. Some of his recent work, published in \u003Cem\u003ENature Methods\u003C\/em\u003E, was featured by Francis Collins, the director of the National Institute\u2019s of Health, on his personal blog. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELocally, he has been recognized as one of Georgia Trend\u2019s Most Influential Georgians (Notables) in 2010 and 2011.\u0026nbsp; At Georgia Tech McDevitt has been recognized with the \u201cBest Advisor\u201d Award from the BioEngineering Graduate Program in 2013, the Above and Beyond (Eagle) Award from the Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering Society student chapter in 2011, the Junior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award in 2010 and the Petit Institute Interdisciplinary Research and Education Above \u0026amp; Beyond Award in 2009. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn addition to his scholarly activities, McDevitt is dedicated to educating the public about stem cell research and its potential applications.\u0026nbsp; Examples of his community service include visits to high schools, speaking at public events throughout the state, including TEDx Georgia Tech, as well as regularly hosting tours and visitors in his lab. In addition, McDevitt is also the director of a $3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program on \u003Ca href=\u0022Stem%20Cell%20Biomanufacturing%20\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EStem Cell Biomanufacturing\u003C\/a\u003E that was highlighted in the journal, \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E, as an \u0022out-of-the-box\u0022 novel graduate training program. This program will train 30 graduate students over 5 years for careers in this rapidly emerging field.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMcDevitt joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology \/ Emory in 2004. In 2009 he was appointed as a Petit Faculty Fellow in the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience and was named as the Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/stemcellengineering.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EStem Cell Engineering Center\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech. As the director of the center, his\u0026nbsp; main goal has been to expand the scope of stem cell-related research at Georgia Tech, expand collaborations with other Georgia universities, develop competitive large multi-investigator grants, and attract industrial research and foster start-up companies to contribute to biotechnology economic development in the state. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cI was very surprised and honored when Georgia Trend notified me that I was receiving this recognition,\u201d McDevitt stated. \u201cGeorgia is an amazing state, with tremendous potential to become a hot bed for biotech and I am just happy to contribute in whatever way I can to this growing bio-economy in addition to spreading the word about the potential of stem cells to revolutionize biomedical therapies.\u201d \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.georgiatrend.com\/October-2013\/2013-Forty-Under-Forty\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Trend Article - 40 Under 40\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Todd McDevitt recognized for achievements in stem cell engineering research and service."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETodd McDevitt recognized for achievements in stem cell engineering research and service.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Todd McDevitt recognized for achievements in stem cell engineering research and service."}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2013-09-27 07:36:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:56","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-09-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-09-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"70133":{"id":"70133","type":"image","title":"Todd McDevitt\/Marissa Cooke\/Alyssa Ngangan","body":null,"created":"1449177288","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:48","changed":"1475894616","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:36"},"242911":{"id":"242911","type":"image","title":"Todd McDevitt - 40 Under 40","body":null,"created":"1449243704","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:41:44","changed":"1475894919","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:39","alt":"Todd McDevitt - 40 Under 40","file":{"fid":"197841","name":"georgiatrend_page_26.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/georgiatrend_page_26_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/georgiatrend_page_26_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":361827,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/georgiatrend_page_26_0.jpg?itok=P_MFyxW3"}},"242901":{"id":"242901","type":"image","title":"40 Under 40","body":null,"created":"1449243704","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:41:44","changed":"1475894919","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:39","alt":"40 Under 40","file":{"fid":"197840","name":"georgiatrend_page_18.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/georgiatrend_page_18_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/georgiatrend_page_18_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":140214,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/georgiatrend_page_18_0.jpg?itok=rgRFhINh"}}},"media_ids":["70133","242911","242901"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/mcdevitt.gatech.edu\/","title":"McDevitt Research Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/scec.gatech.edu\/","title":"Stem Cell Engineering Center"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. 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