{"387131":{"#nid":"387131","#data":{"type":"news","title":"After the Ice Melts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe summer of 2014 may always be remembered as the summer of the Ice Bucket Challenges, a viral sensation that helped raise awareness of the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd when Bud Peterson, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, accepted the challenge, Cassie Mitchell was right there with him, representing Tech\u2019s effort to find a cure for ALS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor Mitchell, a faculty member in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, this research is personal,\u201d writes Steven Norris in his article, \u201cAfter the Ice Melts\u201d in Georgia Tech \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/after-ice-melts\u0022\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMitchell, who has been diagnosed with neuromyelitis optica (NMO), has a deep interest in neurological disease but says in the feature story, \u201cI don\u2019t want to study myself. NMO is not on my list. I have to live with it, so studying might be a little much.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut Mitchell\u2019s experience with a disease that impacts her nervous system has fueled her enthusiasm for ALS research, so she and her lab \u2013 the largest undergraduate research lab on campus \u2013 are hard at work, looking for a cure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Communications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003E Parker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003E Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Cassie Mitchell and her ALS work featured in Research Horizons"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECassie Mitchell and her ALS work featured in Research Horizons\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Cassie Mitchell and her ALS work featured in Research Horizons"}],"uid":"27159","created_gmt":"2015-03-12 12:28:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:00","author":"Vickie Okrzesik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"387121":{"id":"387121","type":"image","title":"Cassie Mitchell","body":null,"created":"1449246275","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:24:35","changed":"1475894398","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:58","alt":"Cassie Mitchell","file":{"fid":"75444","name":"cassiemitchell.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cassiemitchell.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cassiemitchell.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":27277,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cassiemitchell.jpg?itok=RjHgL5TZ"}}},"media_ids":["387121"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University"},{"url":"https:\/\/neurolab.gatech.edu\/","title":"Laboratory for Neuroengineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2156","name":"ALS"},{"id":"121361","name":"amyotrophic lateral sclerosis"},{"id":"1613","name":"Biomedical Engieering"}],"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":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}