{"692764":{"#nid":"692764","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Emory and Georgia Tech Dual-Degree Pathway Bridges Medicine and Robotics ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new dual-degree pathway from Emory University and Georgia Tech will prepare future physician-innovators to work at the intersection of medicine, robotics, and artificial intelligence. The five-year \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/med.emory.edu\/education\/programs\/md-ms-robotics\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener nofollow noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDoctor of Medicine\/Master of Science in Robotics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E pathway combines medical training at Emory with advanced robotics education at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents will work with faculty mentors from both institutions and complete advanced coursework and a capstone project focused on developing and applying technologies in healthcare. The master\u2019s degree is offered through Georgia Tech\u2019s interdisciplinary \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/academics\/masters-programs\/ms-robotics\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMaster of Science in Robotics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E program, which brings together faculty and expertise from six schools, including the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bio\/jaydev-p-desai\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJaydev Desai\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Chair in the Wallace H. 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They bit him from time to time, he said, but no more than anyone else who spent a lot of time outdoors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI don\u2019t know if I would say I\u2019m prone,\u201d Zuo said. \u201cI do get bitten, but I also think that\u2019s partly because I\u2019m just outside a lot more.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, that assumption did not hold up once he stepped inside a sealed mosquito chamber as part of a Georgia Tech research study.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZuo, a Georgia Tech alum and co-author on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adz7063\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethe study\u003C\/a\u003E, worked alongside Georgia Tech faculty member \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/hu\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E and researchers in Hu\u2019s fluid dynamics lab \u2014 and co-authors Chenyi Fei, Alex Cohen, Jorn Dunkel from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology \u2014 on a multi-year effort to understand how mosquitoes locate people. Using high-speed cameras, careful controls, and mathematical modeling, the research examined how mosquitoes respond to carbon dioxide and visual cues. To confirm whether the data reflected real-world behavior, the team needed a human subject.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZuo volunteered.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore entering the chamber, he knew the mosquitoes were safe. They had been raised in a laboratory environment and were carefully controlled, making the experiment safer than being outdoors during peak mosquito activity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe knew exactly how all of these mosquitoes were reared, so we knew they\u2019re disease-free,\u201d he said. \u201cHonestly, even if I got bitten 100 plus times, the actual danger that I was in was very little.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWearing a mesh suit, Zuo stood nearly motionless inside the chamber while mosquitoes were released and flew freely around him. Any movement could disrupt the data, so remaining still was critical even as mosquitoes gathered close to his face and upper body.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe response was immediate.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou release the mosquitoes, and they\u2019re already on top of you,\u201d Zuo said. \u201cAlmost felt like it was instant.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat surprised him most was not the bites but the sound.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI didn\u2019t realize how loud they were,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen they\u2019re flying around your head, it\u2019s that annoying buzzing sound. I didn\u2019t realize how annoying it can get with just enough mosquitoes flying around.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe experience was not limited to a single trial. Zuo entered the chamber multiple times as the research progressed, testing different variables including posture, clothing, and body positioning. In some experiments, he was required to hold his arms extended so cameras could capture a consistent silhouette.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt felt more like an exercise at the gym,\u201d Zuo said. \u201cI was very much more focused on keeping my arms up and being as still as possible.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAcross those repeated interactions, patterns emerged that closely matched what the data predicted. Mosquitoes found him quickly, clustered in specific areas, and lingered only when certain conditions aligned.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAnd once the conditions were right,\u201d Zuo said, \u201cthey stayed.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZuo\u2019s role helped bridge the gap between abstract modeling and human experience. It also challenged common assumptions about mosquito behavior that many people take for granted.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat follows are some of the most common mosquito myths, and what the Georgia Tech research and Zuo\u2019s firsthand experience actually showed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMosquito Myths vs. Reality\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMyth: Mosquitoes swarm because they are following each other.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReality:\u003C\/strong\u003E Mosquitoes respond independently to the same cues, which creates the appearance of swarming.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETrajectory data collected during the experiments showed no evidence that mosquitoes were coordinating or communicating with one another. Zuo explained that what people often describe as swarming is the result of multiple mosquitoes responding simultaneously to the same environmental signals. When carbon dioxide and a clear visual target are present, many mosquitoes converge on the same area independently. Zuo compared it to people arriving separately at the same crowded place because something there is attractive, not because they are following the crowd.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMyth: Mosquitoes randomly target different parts of the body.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReality:\u003C\/strong\u003E In this study, mosquitoes concentrated near the head and shoulders, but only for the species observed, which is present in parts of the Southeast.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech experiments focused on \u003Cem\u003EAedes aegypti \u003C\/em\u003E(dengue or yellow fever mosquito), a species found in parts of Georgia and other areas of the southeastern United States. Within that species, both trajectory data and Zuo\u2019s experience inside the chamber showed mosquitoes repeatedly clustering near the head and shoulders rather than distributing evenly across the body. Zuo observed this pattern while standing still in the mesh suit, as mosquitoes returned again and again to his upper body. The study also confirmed previous biting studies showing that \u003Cem\u003EAedes aegypti\u003C\/em\u003E mosquitoes target the upper body, while other mosquitoes might focus on other areas. Researchers linked the behavior to carbon dioxide released through breathing near the mouth and nose, paired with a strong visual target. Zuo emphasized that other mosquito species behave differently and that these findings should not be applied to all mosquitoes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMyth: Carbon dioxide alone explains why mosquitoes find people.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReality:\u003C\/strong\u003E Carbon dioxide and visual cues work together, and neither is enough on its own.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZuo described experiments that isolated carbon dioxide using inanimate objects before introducing a human subject. Carbon dioxide alone helped mosquitoes locate the general area of a target but did not consistently keep them there. Visual cues alone helped mosquitoes recognize an object but did not hold their attention. When both signals were combined, mosquito behavior changed significantly. The research showed the response was nonlinear, meaning the combined effect was stronger than simply adding the two cues together.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMyth: Once mosquitoes find a target, they always stay nearby.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReality:\u003C\/strong\u003E Mosquitoes do not linger unless conditions align.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe data showed that mosquitoes often passed by targets unless both carbon dioxide and visual signals were present at the same time. Zuo observed that once those conditions aligned during the mesh suit experiments, mosquitoes stayed close and returned repeatedly to the same areas. Without the full set of cues, they were less likely to remain focused on a target.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMyth: All mosquitoes behave the same way.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReality:\u003C\/strong\u003E Mosquito behavior varies by species and environmental conditions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAedes aegypti\u003C\/em\u003E, Zuo described, are capable of feeding in well-lit conditions rather than relying solely on dusk. He contrasted this with \u003Cem\u003EAnopheles\u003C\/em\u003E (marsh) mosquitoes, which require darker conditions and are closely tied to light and dark cycles during experiments. Zuo emphasized that the findings reflect the behavior of a single species and that different mosquito species respond to different cues.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat the CDC Recommends During Mosquito Season\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the Georgia Tech research explains how mosquitoes locate people, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mosquitoes\/prevention\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECenters for Disease Control and Prevention\u003C\/a\u003E (CDC) outlines steps people can take during mosquito season to reduce the risk of bites.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe CDC recommends using \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/insect-repellents\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEnvironmental Protection Agency-registered insect repellents\u003C\/a\u003E on exposed skin and wearing loose-fitting, long-sleeved shirts and long pants. 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The institute will serve as a multidisciplinary innovation hub focused on advancing healthcare for children. Areas of research will include cell and gene therapies, robotics, artificial intelligence, medical devices, biologics, and data informatics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech is excited to welcome Shriners Children\u2019s to Science Square,\u201d said Georgia Tech President \u00c1ngel Cabrera. \u201cWe developed Science Square to create a leading hub for life sciences research and innovation, and Shriners\u2019 decision to be here will accelerate our progress to drive medical innovation, create high-impact jobs, and greatly strengthen Atlanta\u0027s thriving innovation ecosystem.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s proximity and research strengths were key factors in the decision to locate the institute in Atlanta. The collaboration is expected to enhance the region\u2019s growing reputation in life sciences and advanced research. 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Attending \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECEISMC\u003C\/a\u003E events and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/expandedlearning.ceismc.gatech.edu\/kidsclub\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EK.I.D.S Club\u003C\/a\u003E events, she remembers how expansive the 400-acre campus felt as a child. Over time, it became familiar as she returned often with her dad, who was earning a master\u0027s degree in civil engineering.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When we were on campus with him, he would study in front of the same big tree on Tech Green. While he studied, I would do my homework, and that spot became one of my favorite study spots on campus,\u0022 she said.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn one of her many weekend trips to campus as a high school student, she attended a biomedical engineering student panel and felt an instant connection to the program.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As a high school sophomore, I listened to the panel talk about their experiences, what it meant to be in BME, and everything they do at Georgia Tech, and that was a primary reason why I gravitated toward it. I felt that it fit with who I was as a person, and in hindsight, getting my education here allowed me to pursue my passions,\u0022 Curtis, a John Lewis Leadership Fellow, said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduating, she will join Owens \u0026amp; Minor as an R\u0026amp;D product engineer focusing on medical apparel, combining her interests in sewing and helping others. Owens \u0026amp; Minor was the primary sponsor of Curtis\u0027 capstone project, in which her team created a more inclusive cleaning coverall.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Unfortunately, the hoods currently used in cleaning coveralls don\u0027t accommodate the fact that people have heads and that those heads have hair. That was a glaring complaint we heard, especially from women who wear their hair in puffs or may have braids. 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Pettit Endowed Chair, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, and professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech, has been named co-director of the Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ptc.gatech.edu\/childrens-healthcare-atlanta-pediatric-technology-center\u0022\u003EPediatric Technology Center\u003C\/a\u003E (PTC).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe PTC is a unique partnership that supports interdisciplinary research among clinicians, engineers, and scientists from Georgia Tech, Children\u2019s, and Emory University. Together, they harness the power of artificial intelligence, data science, and cutting-edge medical devices to address the most pressing challenges in pediatric healthcare.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmelianov is driven by a profound dedication to improving children\u0027s well-being. He said, \u201cI am committed to accelerating pediatric research and innovation at Georgia Tech and Children\u2019s, with a sincere aspiration for the patient-centric PTC to transform pediatric healthcare not only in Atlanta and Georgia but also beyond. Together, we aim to set a new standard, positively impacting the lives of children far and wide.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmelianov brings a wealth of experience to the PTC. He has served as the director of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ultrasound.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E since 2015. Among his many accolades and distinctions, he is a nationally renowned trailblazer in advanced imaging methods to diagnose, monitor, and treat cancer and other diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cProfessor Emelianov\u2019s history of scholarship and innovation in medical imaging and his vision to engage and support Georgia Tech faculty and students embarking on pediatric research will be a great asset to the Pediatric Technology Center,\u201d said Julia Kubanek, Georgia Tech vice president for Interdisciplinary Research. \u201cWe are also enormously grateful to Professor M.G. Finn who has served as the leader of the PTC at Georgia Tech for seven years, building collaborations and enabling our research community to tackle research problems of importance to kids\u2019 health.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmelianov will now hold the James A. Carlos Family Chair for Pediatric Technology, which had been held by M.G. Finn since 2017. 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It\u2019s a number between 0 to 1, with 0 indicating complete reliance on turn-by-turn knowledge and 1 indicating complete reliance on map-like knowledge.\u201d He added that the study combines psychology and computer science\/data science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe critical thing which RL brings to the table for human navigation research is it helps us interpret how \u2018adaptive\u2019 a person\u2019s strategy is,\u201d noted Assistant Professor of Psychology \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/thackery-i-brown\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThackery Brown\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cFor example, sometimes navigating a well-learned route is just as efficient as any other path we might come up with to reach a goal \u2014 in this case, the person navigating that route isn\u2019t necessarily a bad navigator, but may actually be allocating their brain\u2019s resources in the most efficient way.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBrown added that in the study, RL was used to characterize how someone\u2019s current navigational choices relate to 1, the quickest option to reach a goal and 2, how this option seems to build on their past experiences. \u201cWe can get a much richer understanding of why a navigator chooses the path that they do and how efficient it is in terms of their current understanding of the environment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EUndergraduate researchers \u2014 and co-authors\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper is unique in that it combines an interdisciplinary group of authors, and that co-authors include two undergraduate students. In addition to Brown and He, co-authors of the paper included undergraduates \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lou-eschapasse-bb60721a9\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELou Eschapasse\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, who is studying \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuroscience.cos.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ENeuroscience\u003C\/a\u003E in the College of Sciences with a concentration in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/\u0022\u003EBiomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E in College of Engineering; and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuroscience.cos.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003ENeuroscience major\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elizabeth-beveridge\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EElizabeth H. Beveridge\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The team also included then-graduate student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jancy-ling-liu-2018416a\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJancy Ling Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, formerly mentored by Brown, who is now with the Georgia Tech School of Economics Ph.D. program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201c[The] two undergraduate students contributed significantly to the research, earning authorship in the paper,\u201d said \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/tansu-celikel-chair\u0022\u003ETansu Celikel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor and chair of the School of Psychology. \u201cThis is a great example of the research ecosystem available to undergraduates at Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn our lab, we place great responsibility on the Georgia Tech undergrads who work with us, and they flourish under this real sense of ownership of the studies which we conduct,\u201d said Brown. \u201cIn my time as a professor we have had many majors from across the breadth of programs at GT \u2014 and Elizabeth and Lou are perfect examples of how brilliant, motivated, and well-trained our students are in neuroscience, psychology, and the related disciplines.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe undergraduate research assistants provided very helpful suggestions during the conceptualization stage of the project,\u201d said He. \u201c[They] collected most of the data, and participated in the writing and revision of this paper.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EElizabeth Beveridge, one of the undergraduate research assistants, has published three papers with Brown and He, won the\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/undergradresearch.gatech.edu\/content\/presidents-undergraduate-research-awards\u0022\u003EPURA\u003C\/a\u003E (President\u0027s Undergraduate Research Award) twice, and has her thesis under invited revision in a prestigious psychology journal. Beveridge\u0027s fellow undergraduate research assistant, Lou Eschapasse, has published two papers, and has finished a follow-up study on neuroimaging.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think these are both great examples of the research ecosystem available to undergraduates at GT, even during the time when we couldn\u2019t meet face to face,\u201d said He.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI always knew I wanted to get involved in research, so I reached out to Professor Brown during my fall semester of freshman year. As a neuroscience major, I have always been interested in memory and how we use those past experiences to make decisions,\u201d Beveridge shared. \u201cI feel so lucky to be named as a co-author, and I am extremely appreciative of Professor Brown and Qiliang He. They have been amazing mentors and taught me so much about research throughout college.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EGood navigators\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u0027s study was conducted between February 2020 and September 2020, at the time COVID was first reported in the United States. \u201cWe discussed this project via an online meeting platform during the pandemic and we deployed this project into apps that could work on participants\u2019 Windows and Mac computers,\u201d He said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBesides using an objective way to quantify navigation strategy, He explained that they were also interested in how consistently people were using their \u2018default\u2019 strategy. \u201cWe hypothesize that good navigators not only use map-like strategy more often, but also adaptively change their strategy according to the environmental characteristics. We reason that the changing navigation strategy can be good but also cognitive demanding (i.e., using more cognitive resources, or to think harder).\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe explained that they predict that in a stable, predictable environment, good navigators tend to stick to one strategy to preserve cognitive resources. In an unpredictable environment, good navigators tend to vary their navigation strategy more often to meet the navigational needs at the expense of cognitive resources. \u201cThe consistency of using a specific navigation strategy can also be estimated by the RL model,\u201d He added.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNavigating is computationally very challenging for the brain (the stimuli, goals, and relevance of our prior knowledge to the choices we need to make are constantly shifting),\u201d noted Brown. \u201cAnd it might be tempting to assume certain navigational strategies are inherently better than others. But following a well-worn route can free up resources for us to hold conversations, plan our next tasks, or monitor for dangers in our environment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe findings are important, because they show most peoples\u2019 navigation reflects a hybrid of different ways we learn from our past successes and failures (different RL models), and a person\u2019s unique mixture of more turn-by-turn and map-like learning helps define individual differences in how well they do under different types of navigational demands, Brown added.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe insights from the study could inform interventions to teach people to be better at navigating challenging situations and can even inform efforts in computer science and robotics to develop artificial agents which can learn to solve navigational problems in the ways people do.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECitation:\u003C\/strong\u003E He, Q., Liu, J.L., Eschapasse, L.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eet al.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;A comparison of reinforcement learning models of human spatial navigation.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESci Rep\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;12, 13923 (2022). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-022-18245-1\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is a top 10 public research university developing leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. 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But, so far, they\u0026rsquo;re not great at keeping people from falling.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHuman balance is a complicated dance, and even the most advanced robots and wearables like robotic exoskeletons have trouble replicating how our brains and bodies work together to keep us upright. A new study from researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University is taking the first step toward addressing the balance problem.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/scirobotics.adf1080\u0022\u003EIn a paper published Feb. 15 in \u003Cem\u003EScience Robotics\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the group showed an ankle exoskeleton must react faster than our bodies to improve balance. Participants didn\u0026rsquo;t recover any more quickly when the exoskeleton delayed applying power until the same time muscles in the leg and ankle activated to restore balance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/02\/help-recover-balance-robotic-exoskeletons-have-be-faster-human-reflexes\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead about the study on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech and Emory found wearable ankle exoskeletons helped subjects improve standing balance only if they activated before muscles fired.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory found wearable ankle exoskeletons helped subjects improve standing balance only if they activated before muscles fired."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2023-02-15 19:00:00","changed_gmt":"2023-03-02 17:17:29","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"665843":{"id":"665843","type":"image","title":"Ankle Exoskeleton Boots","body":null,"created":"1676488001","gmt_created":"2023-02-15 19:06:41","changed":"1676488001","gmt_changed":"2023-02-15 19:06:41","alt":"A person wearing black robotic exoskeleton boots standing on a gray platform.","file":{"fid":"251799","name":"Ankle-Exoskeleton-Boots-by-Candler-Hobbs-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Ankle-Exoskeleton-Boots-by-Candler-Hobbs-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Ankle-Exoskeleton-Boots-by-Candler-Hobbs-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":335708,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Ankle-Exoskeleton-Boots-by-Candler-Hobbs-h.jpg?itok=VR7h1E8Z"}}},"media_ids":["665843"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"108731","name":"School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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It\u0026rsquo;s responsible for diarrheal diseases, peritonitis, colitis, respiratory illness and pneumonia, and other illnesses, and is the main cause in 80% of urinary tract infections, which are the most common bacterial infection.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EConsequently, researchers have been keen to learn everything they can about E. coli for the past century or so. They have probed it from every angle, synthesized it, scrutinized it to the extent that, many people believe, there isn\u0026rsquo;t much else to learn.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s probably the best studied and best understood organism on the planet,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Kyle-Allison\u0022\u003EKyle Allison\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the Coulter Department. \u0026ldquo;And so, there\u0026rsquo;s a tendency among microbiologists, particularly in the last 20 years or so, to focus more on other microbes.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut Allison and his colleagues have taken a closer look at E. coli and their research is yielding novel insights, and raising new questions, about of this prevalent unicellular organism. For one thing, it appears that E. coli may\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Enot\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;always be unicellular. The research team explained it all in their study, \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cell.com\/iscience\/fulltext\/S2589-0042(22)02068-5?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2589004222020685%3Fshowall%3Dtrue\u0022\u003EEvidence of a possible multicellular life cycle in Escherichia coli,\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;published this month in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EiScience\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;ve identified some things that have never been seen before\u0026nbsp;in bacteria,\u0026rdquo; said Allison, whose\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/kyle-allison-lab\/\u0022\u003EEmory-based lab closely studies individual bacteria\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to better understand antibiotic resistance and multicellular biofilms. Collaborating with Allison were two members of his lab, graduate researcher Devina Puri, who was the lead author, and postdoctoral researcher Xin Fang.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMicrobe Communities\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn nature, bacteria live in communities called biofilms, which are clusters of microbes encased in a self-made, self-sustaining slime matrix, and attached to many kinds of wet surfaces. They\u0026rsquo;re everywhere around us and inside of us. Common, everyday examples of biofilms include dental plaque and pond scum.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey can grow on plant and animal tissue, like the inside of our digestive tract, and cause serious infections. On top of that, the bacteria living inside a biofilm\u0026rsquo;s protective matrix are less likely to be affected by antibiotics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We know that biofilms are clinically important, particularly in relation to infection,\u0026rdquo; said Allison, who noted that approximately 80% of all bacterial infections have a biofilm component. \u0026ldquo;And almost any bacteria that\u0026rsquo;s ever been studied can make them.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor this study, Allison\u0026rsquo;s team developed devices that combined microfluidics and agarose pads (which are used for live cell imaging) and used automated microscopy to track and record morphogenesis in E. coli.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey discovered something new \u0026ndash; a multicellular self-assembly process in E. coli. Researchers observed unattached, single-celled organisms combining into four-cell rosettes, a natural multicellular formation thought to be uncommon in bacteria.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Rosettes are rather significant in higher organisms, like mammals, because they initiate developmental processes like embryogenesis,\u0026rdquo; Allison said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMulticellular Chains\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey observed E. coli rosettes grow into constant-width chains, which continue growing for 10 generations before attaching to a surface\u0026nbsp;and creating a biofilm.\u0026nbsp;They saw and recorded the bacterial processes that had never been seen or recorded before.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;What we\u0026rsquo;re seeing here is bacteria maybe are not what we\u0026rsquo;ve considered them to be in the past,\u0026rdquo; Allison said. \u0026ldquo;My suspicion is that what we found is far more common that we knew.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat they learned about the diversity of E. coli and biofilms has implications for synthetic biology, the treatment and prevention of bacterial diseases, and our understanding of multicellular development. For example, Allison can see his lab\u0026rsquo;s study being useful as a blueprint for other areas of research \u0026ndash; biofilm engineering, for example, which harnesses the beneficial uses of microbial communities, resulting in programmable biofilms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Based on what we\u0026rsquo;ve learned, probably the most effective approach to biofilm engineering is to let the organisms do what they want to do,\u0026rdquo; Allison said. \u0026ldquo;Then, for the last stage, the idea would be to program it to do what you need it to do \u0026ndash; create a molecule for drug development, express an enzyme to help degrade a bioplastic, or something harmful in the environment. Our work gives some clear evidence on how to proceed.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Devina Puri, Xin Fang, Kyle R. 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It\u0026rsquo;s the most recipients in a single year for Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBiomedical engineer \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Gabe-A.-Kwong\u0022\u003EGabe Kwong\u003C\/a\u003E will receive $5.5 million over five years through an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/commonfund.nih.gov\/pioneer\u0022\u003ENIH Director\u0026rsquo;s Pioneer Award\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026mdash; the first such award for a faculty member at the Institute. 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Other faculty who engaged with the artists by discussing their research include: Chethan Pandarinath, assistant professor, Annabelle Singer, assistant professor, Garrett Stanley, professor, and Lena Ting, professor, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University; and Doby Rahnev, associate professor in the School of Psychology at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERozell, who has been with the project since its inception, states:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Science and technology research is pushing us to the boundaries of what we know about the human brain, and that forces us to wrestle with ideas that are insufficiently described by our current language. The arts can help us process this emerging understanding in new ways that go beyond language and can do it by creating something beautiful that we can celebrate as a uniquely human experience. I couldn\u0026rsquo;t be prouder of the way that this project has fulfilled the potential of integrating science and the arts.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECreativity plays an important role at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe premiere of \u003Cem\u003EStep the Brain Along a Path\u003C\/em\u003E comes as the final phase of a three-year project that included two work-in-progress showings in 2021 presented by Georgia Tech Arts. Adding to the opportunities for outreach and engagement will be a video installation in the Ferst Center lobby displayed in tandem with the performances of the ballet, offering insight into neuroscience at Georgia Tech. For this installation Georgia Tech Arts connected Atlanta-based creative artist Kimberly Binns with a Georgia Tech team led by Rozell with graduate student lead Abby Paulson, BMED, Kyle Johnsen, BMED, and GT alumnus Timothy Min, M.S. 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This solid tumor cancer develops in the nerve tissue, primarily affects infants, and typically comes with a grim prognosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There is a very high morbidity and mortality rate for these babies,\u0026rdquo; said researcher\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Vahid-Serpooshan\u0022\u003EVahid Serpooshan\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, whose lab develops tissue engineering technologies to study and better understand pediatric cancers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite advances in treatment, neuroblastoma still accounts for about 15% of all pediatric oncology deaths. And more than half of those patients who do respond eventually relapse.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Even with advanced treatments that have been successful, like chemo-immunotherapies, some of these babies will respond, and some won\u0026rsquo;t respond at all,\u0026rdquo; Serpooshan said. \u0026ldquo;We don\u0026rsquo;t really know exactly what is going on, and that is a huge dilemma. Part of the problem is, pediatric cancer in general has not been intensively studied as a specific and distinct disease. The challenge is, we need to develop better research tools.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith that in mind, Serpooshan\u0026rsquo;s lab has collaborated with Emory pediatric oncologist Kelly Goldsmith to create a new 3D printed, dynamic model of pediatric neuroblastoma tumors that could lead to improved, personalized treatments for young patients.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EEnvironmental Impact\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESerpooshan and his team are focused on the neuroblastoma tumor microenvironment and its influence on tumor behavior and the tumor\u0026#39;s response to therapy. These interactions play significant roles in cancer progression, metastasis, and response to therapies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In recent years, this has become an area of great research interest, but there is a lack of reliable and biomimetic experimental models,\u0026rdquo; said Serpooshan, whose team\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/advs.202200244\u0022\u003Erecent study in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Science\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;details their work\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in developing an in vitro model of neuroblastoma using a relatively new technology called 3D bioprinting.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstead of utilizing metals and plastics to create a device or model, as in traditional 3D printing, the bioprinting technique uses materials like cells and hydrogels to create functional 3D tissues. These materials, called bioink, mimic the composition of human tissues.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESerpooshan\u0026rsquo;s lab has been a pioneer in using bioprinting in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications, which is the group\u0026rsquo;s primary focus. For this project, the researchers applied a hydrogel called gelMA as the bioink.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThen human-derived neuroblastoma spheroids (3D cell cultures that mimic tissues and microtumors) and human vascular endothelial cells (the cells lining blood vessels) were incorporated into the bioprinted gelMA to create a working model of the neuroblastoma tumor microenvironment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ESuccessful Test Run\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers manufactured their model and studied the processes of cancer under static and dynamic conditions \u0026mdash; static, when nothing is really moving through the system, is the approach most often used in drug screening with in vitro applications, \u0026ldquo;which is a big limitation,\u0026rdquo; Serpooshan said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo track the tumor under more realistic, or dynamic, conditions, researchers used a bioreactor to simulate blood flow through the vasculature. Their analysis of the tumor environment under these conditions offered the most effective representation of what goes on between tumor cells and the vasculature, demonstrating in three dimensions how aggressively a tumor can grow, and how it may or may not respond to drugs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is just a first step, but we\u0026rsquo;re very excited for having developed such a robust platform that can be adapted for a lot of future research applications,\u0026rdquo; Serpooshan said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey\u0026rsquo;re starting with neuroblastoma, because Goldsmith\u0026rsquo;s lab has access to neuroblastoma cells from a variety of different patients and sources that now can be studied in a new way.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Some of these patients already have shown resistance to chemo-immunotherapy,\u0026rdquo; Serpooshan said. \u0026ldquo;So we can take advantage of this clinical data and create different models, drill down to the basic cellular and molecular mechanisms at play, and potentially come up with scenarios and strategies to help those patients who are resisting the drugs. 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But antibodies that recognize the virus\u0026rsquo;s internal proteins could also be important for immunity and disease outcomes, according to a new study led by University of Pittsburgh, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Emory University researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the study, online now in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.celrep.2022.111020\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECell Reports\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the team performed the most comprehensive analysis to date of Covid-19 antibodies in a small set of patients with severe disease. They found that antibody profiles of internal viral proteins, including those conserved across coronaviruses, predicted which patients survived or died just as well as corresponding profiles for surface proteins, suggesting that targeting other parts of the virus beyond the spike protein could be important for enhancing Covid-19 vaccines and therapies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The novel aspect of this study is that we conducted very deep profiling of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and looked at many different aspects of these antibodies,\u0026rdquo; said co-senior author \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.immunology.pitt.edu\/person\/jishnu-das-phd\u0022\u003EJishnu Das\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor of immunology and of computational and systems biology in Pitt\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.medschool.pitt.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Medicine\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;The whole world has been focused on the spike protein and the receptor binding domain, but this study is the first concrete evidence that specific antibodies against internal proteins are also positively associated with survival in severe Covid-19.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen the immune system encounters a virus, it produces antibodies that help neutralize and clear the infection. Each antibody specifically recognizes just one antigen, often a viral protein. Most Covid-19 immunity research has focused on the spike and other surface proteins, which form the virus\u0026rsquo;s outer coat, but beyond these so-called \u0026ldquo;canonical antigens,\u0026rdquo; SARS-CoV-2 has about 25 other internal proteins.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo see whether immune responses to these non-canonical antigens could predict survival outcomes in patients with severe Covid-19, Das teamed up with co-senior authors \u003Ca href=\u0022\/bme\/faculty\/Aniruddh%20-Sarkar\u0022\u003EAniruddh Sarkar\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the Wallace H. 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The second is effector function, which relates to the antibody\u0026rsquo;s role in immune response. The third feature is glycosylation, or the addition of carbohydrate molecules to the antibody, which dramatically impacts antibody function.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;By simultaneously profiling these three features, we can get a far deeper understanding of a given antibody than just looking at antibody titers,\u0026rdquo; Sarkar explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers found that no single antibody feature could differentiate between patient survival outcomes. But when they analyzed overall antibody profiles \u0026mdash; either canonical or non-canonical \u0026mdash; they noticed clear differences between survivors and non-survivors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We were surprised to find such compelling evidence that antibodies directed at canonical and non-canonical antigens were equally predictive of survival outcomes,\u0026rdquo; Singh said. \u0026ldquo;Our findings suggest that non-canonical antibodies may play a role in recovery from severe disease, although more research is needed to prove causation and pinpoint the mechanisms.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMost Covid-19 vaccines and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.upmc.com\/coronavirus\/monoclonal-antibodies\u0022\u003Emonoclonal antibodies\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026mdash; artificial antibodies used to treat Covid-19 \u0026mdash; have become less effective with the emergence of delta and omicron variants because mutations in the spike help the virus avoid detection. According to Singh, far fewer mutations have accumulated in the virus\u0026rsquo;s internal proteins, suggesting that augmenting vaccines or therapies to target these non-canonical antigens could elicit more robust immunity against emerging variants of concern.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen the team restricted their analysis to antibodies against non-canonical antigens conserved across coronaviruses \u0026mdash; including those that cause the common cold and other respiratory infections \u0026mdash; in Covid-19 patients, they could still distinguish survivors and non-survivors. These antibodies were also found in nine pre-pandemic, healthy control subjects, suggesting that exposure to coronaviruses besides SARS-CoV-2 could induce antibody responses linked with favorable outcomes in severe Covid-19.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Das, these findings could inform development of pan-coronavirus vaccines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn ongoing work, the team is using their platform to look at antibodies in vaccinated people with breakthrough infections compared with unvaccinated individuals. They\u0026rsquo;re also interested in understanding whether different antibodies play different roles in protection against Covid-19 over time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey also plan to extend the platform to understanding antibodies in other contexts, including rejection of organ transplants and other infectious diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther authors who contributed to this study were co-first authors Sai Preetham Peddireddy, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Syed A. Rahman, Ph.D., of Pitt, as well as Anthony R. Cillo, Ph.D., Godhev Manakkat Vijay, Ph.D., Ashwin Somasundaram, M.D., Creg J. Workman, Ph.D., William Bain, M.D., Bryan J. McVerry, M.D., Barbara Methe, Ph.D., Janet S. Lee, M.D., Prabir Ray, Ph.D., Anuradha Ray, Ph.D., Tullia C. Bruno, Ph.D., Dario A.A. Vignali, Ph.D., Georgios D. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejstewart@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"658731":{"#nid":"658731","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CIFAR Selects Eva Dyer for Global Scholars Research and Leadership Development Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Eva-Dyer\u0022\u003EEva Dyer\u003C\/a\u003E has been selected for a program that previous participants have called transformative for the community, mentorship, and foundational research opportunities it provides.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDyer is among the newest \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cifar.ca\/next-generation\/global-scholars\/\u0022\u003ECIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars\u003C\/a\u003E, a two-year program that aims to accelerate the careers of young researchers with $100,000 of unrestricted research support, mentoring, and a worldwide network. The idea, according to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cifar.ca\/\u0022\u003ECIFAR\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026mdash; originally the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research \u0026mdash; is to foster interdisciplinary collaborations and cutting-edge ideas to address the most important questions facing humanity. Only 18 researchers around the world are part of the new cohort.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDyer is an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. She said the program\u0026rsquo;s core of building community within her field and well beyond is incredibly attractive.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;They have a number of thoughtful approaches for building community among young researchers,\u0026rdquo; Dyer said. \u0026ldquo;As a scholar, you are connected to an amazing network of fellows and advisors for the program, all of whom are luminaries in the field, and provided an opportunity to share your science and get feedback. At the same time, the program connects scholars across different fields and provides opportunities to collaborate and discuss global challenges that need interdisciplinary approaches.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDyer\u0026rsquo;s research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/making-sense-brain\u0022\u003Elies at the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience\u003C\/a\u003E. She \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dyerlab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Edevelops machine learning approaches\u003C\/a\u003E to analyze and interpret massive, complex neural datasets, and at the same time, works to design better artificial intelligence inspired by the organization and function of the brain. As a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar affiliated with the organization\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cifar.ca\/research-programs\/learning-in-machines-brains\/\u0022\u003ELearning in Machines \u0026amp; Brains program\u003C\/a\u003E, Dyer will have access to a senior researcher mentor and focused leadership and communications skills training.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The Global Scholars program will serve as a catalyst to expand my research program into new areas. I want to learn more about how other fields model and interpret data from complex systems and think more about how we can leverage these ideas into our pursuits toward understanding neural computation,\u0026rdquo; Dyer said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECIFAR scholars are in the first five years of their research careers in natural, biomedical, and social sciences or the humanities. The program aims to help this next generation of leaders position themselves for impactful contributions in academia and beyond, according to the organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo-year program provides mentoring, skills development, and unrestricted funding to a small group of early career researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two-year program provides mentoring, skills development, and unrestricted funding to a small group of early career researchers"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-06-07 14:16:50","changed_gmt":"2022-06-07 14:16:50","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-06-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-06-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"658730":{"id":"658730","type":"image","title":"Eva Dyer in Lab","body":null,"created":"1654611148","gmt_created":"2022-06-07 14:12:28","changed":"1654611148","gmt_changed":"2022-06-07 14:12:28","alt":"Eva Dyer leans on a table in her lab with a large monitor behind her showing an illustration of her data research. (Photo: Gary Meek)","file":{"fid":"249692","name":"Dyer-Eva-Lab-180330BR563-by-Gary-Meek-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dyer-Eva-Lab-180330BR563-by-Gary-Meek-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dyer-Eva-Lab-180330BR563-by-Gary-Meek-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":410861,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Dyer-Eva-Lab-180330BR563-by-Gary-Meek-h.jpg?itok=LiprInj2"}}},"media_ids":["658730"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dyerlab.gatech.edu\/","title":"Dyer Lab"},{"url":"https:\/\/cifar.ca\/","title":"CIFAR"},{"url":"https:\/\/cifar.ca\/next-generation\/global-scholars\/","title":"CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program"},{"url":"https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/making-sense-brain","title":"Read more about Dyer\u0027s work: \u0022Making Sense of the Brain\u0022"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"175946","name":"Eva Dyer"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"190756","name":"CIFAR"},{"id":"190757","name":"CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"1304","name":"neuroscience"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWallace H. 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These little lab-grown cultures mimic human organs and provide a sharp view of tissue development, drug interaction, and other biochemical functions, offering an innovative approach to personalized medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Getting detailed 3D images of these miniature models of organs, and getting a good look at how they change under different conditions or stimulation, can tell us a lot about how the body works,\u0026rdquo; said Shuichi Takayama, professor and Price Gilbert Jr. Chair in Regenerative Engineering and Medicine in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0026ldquo;It can tell us how diseases progress, or how mechanical forces and certain drugs may change or affect cellular behavior.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe trick is in getting those detailed images. Fluorescence 3D microscopy has helped transform the study of organoids at the cellular and subcellular levels \u0026mdash; though with a few drawbacks. Conventional methods are time consuming and don\u0026rsquo;t adequately capture the fast, dynamic, sometimes unpredictable cellular and tissue processes of these model systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow, a team of Georgia Tech researchers has\u0026nbsp;built a better system to quickly produce high-resolution 3D images in real time, providing a quantitative analysis of organoids. Led by Coulter BME Assistant Professor Shu Jia, their custom-built microscope can reconstruct a comprehensive 3D representation with a single camera image.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.bios.2022.114201\u0022\u003EThey described their system in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EBiosensors and Bioelectronics.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJia\u0026rsquo;s new system builds on his lab\u0026rsquo;s growing body of work in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/thejialab\/\u0022\u003Enext-generation imaging systems.\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026nbsp;Conventional 3D imaging technologies rely on time-consuming, redundant scanning-based techniques, which can result in damaged cells and compromised images. Jia\u0026rsquo;s team has pioneered a faster light-field system that provides greater resolution and minimizes photo damage. Their new system does all of that and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This latest system is novel because it is entirely custom-built for imaging at the tissue and animal scale,\u0026rdquo; said Jia, who earlier this year received a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022\/bme\/news\/shu-jia-building-next-gen-imaging-live-cells-nsf-career-award\u0022\u003ECAREER award from the National Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;We built everything from scratch on an optical table.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdding a hybrid point-spread function to the new system allows researchers to capture scanning-free recordings of intact organoids in all of their dynamic glory in milliseconds instead of minutes or even hours using conventional methods. With a single camera image, Jia\u0026rsquo;s system can reconstruct a time-lapse observation of the 3D volume of the samples.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We can look \u0026mdash; cell by cell \u0026mdash; throughout the entire organoid, in high spatial and time resolution, and see from multiple angles what happens as a result of an external perturbation, or a response to a specific drug, or any change in the overall environment,\u0026rdquo; Jia said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe said the imaging systems coming out of his lab have the potential to transform conventional 3D microscopy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Because this is a custom-built system, it\u0026rsquo;s very flexible and adaptive,\u0026rdquo; he added. \u0026ldquo;It works with organoids, but similarly, it can work with animal models. I think we can extend this method to different areas of research. There are a number of potential collaborations we are exploring.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the\u0026nbsp;National Institutes of Health (grant Nos. R35GM124846 and AI116482) and the National Science Foundation (grant Nos. EFMA1830941 and 2145235). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of any funding agency.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe custom microscope can reconstruct a comprehensive 3D representation with a single camera image.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The custom microscope can reconstruct a comprehensive 3D representation with a single camera image."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-05-17 21:04:42","changed_gmt":"2022-05-17 21:04:42","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-05-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-05-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"658279":{"id":"658279","type":"image","title":"Jia - Colon Organoid 3D Image","body":null,"created":"1652806037","gmt_created":"2022-05-17 16:47:17","changed":"1652806037","gmt_changed":"2022-05-17 16:47:17","alt":"An image of a colon organoid captured by a new system developed in Shu Jia\u2019s lab that can capture dynamic, 3D information about the lab-grown cultures of tissues in a single image. The raw image was captured in 0.1 seconds. The coloration represents depths of 60 and -60 micrometers from the focal plan to depict the organoid in three dimensions. 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The large image shows depth color coded from yellow (-56.2 micrometers from the focal plane) to purple (+56.2 micrometers from the focal plane). The inset shows a tight crop of the distance between two cells of 3.65 micrometers. The single raw image was captured in 0.1 seconds. 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Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"177784","name":"biomedical imaging"},{"id":"189364","name":"organoids"},{"id":"187116","name":"Shu Jia"},{"id":"190627","name":"Shuichi Takayama"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWallace H. 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By the end of this year, the Ocelot could be in the hands of physicians treating patients with chronic tendon pain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.tendonova.com\/\u0022\u003ETendoNova\u003C\/a\u003E, the company the four former BME students started in 2017, recently \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/tendonova-wins-fda-clearance-for-its-new-microinvasive-ocelot-surgical-tool-301509123.html\u0022\u003Eannounced that its Ocelot tool has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance\u003C\/a\u003E, which means the company can soon begin marketing and selling its device. It will be manufactured in Georgia, a nod the company founders\u0026rsquo; desire to keep the operation close to where their idea was born.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The MBID program played a pivotal role in our journey by providing us with the fundamental tools and frameworks to translate an unmet need into a viable commercial idea,\u0026rdquo; said Luka Grujic, who co-founded TendoNova with fellow MBID grads Shawna Khouri, Brett Rogers, and Jonathan Shaw.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Ocelot device is a handheld tool to perform mechanical fragmentation and debridement of targeted tissues, a common procedure for athletes and others suffering from tendon pain disorders like tennis elbow, plantar fasciitis, and jumper\u0026rsquo;s knee. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 30 million people in the U.S. suffer from chronic tendon pain, and half of them have little or no relief. The fragmentation and debridement procedure encourages growth of healthy tendon to replace the painful tissue.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe need for a new approach to the procedure initially came to the team from Ken Mautner of Emory Sports Medicine, who is head physician for the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks. Shaw, a physical therapist at the time, brought Mautner\u0026rsquo;s needs to his teammates, who started thinking about in-office, ultrasound-guided tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The initial Ocelots built\u0026nbsp;during the MBID program were rough, quick-turn prototypes focused on demonstrating basic functionality and understanding the needs of the clinician,\u0026rdquo; Grujic said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe first prototype was basically a beefed-up tattoo gun. Except, instead of an oscillating needle penetrating the top layer of skin with ink, this model went beneath the skin to reach the pathological tissue.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While in the MBID program, we worked to combine clinical functionality with refinement on the human factors,\u0026rdquo; Grujic said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;We used inspiration from the tattoo gun\u0026rsquo;s human factor design to make the Ocelot usable with a\u0026nbsp;single hand and a pencil\u0026nbsp;grip, since both the tattoo gun and our device require precision\u0026nbsp;and accuracy when being used.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team made modifications, such as adding a cannula\u0026nbsp;around the oscillating component to protect surrounding tissue, making the device more tube-shaped for easier maneuverability inside the body, and lowering the noise with different hardware to\u0026nbsp;reduce patient anxiety.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the end of the MBID program, the team had a prototype that represented a vision of what the Ocelot device and\u0026nbsp;TendoNova\u0026nbsp;could become. MBID Program Director Sathya Gourisankar wasn\u0026rsquo;t surprised by the team\u0026rsquo;s rapid progress.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;They\u0026nbsp;displayed enormous aptitude for innovation from the outset and made tremendous progress on identifying the relevant unmet clinical need, followed by concept phase development, and finalizing it to a viable bench to bedside prototype \u0026mdash; all within three semesters of the MBID program,\u0026rdquo; Gourisankar said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs students, they benefited from the mentorship of MBID faculty with extensive medical technology commercialization experience and business courses that equipped them with project management and business strategy know-how. The program\u0026rsquo;s resources made the team a compelling choice for grants from the Georgia Research Alliance and the \u003Ca href=\u0022\/bme\/news\/nfl-players-association-invests-tendonova\u0022\u003ENFL Players Association\u003C\/a\u003E to continue developing their idea.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We were able to integrate and appropriately strategize design decisions to navigate the barriers of regulatory, reimbursement, and device standards from the ground up,\u0026rdquo; Grujic said. \u0026ldquo;Some of the most unique and valuable aspects of the MBID program are the industry instructors and the ability to take classes at the Scheller College of Business, a unique blend of expertise for a master\u0026#39;s program.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the years since finishing their master\u0026rsquo;s degrees, the team has taken its handheld surgical device from its final prototype into a full-blown system. Based on testing and feedback from TendoNova\u0026rsquo;s growing list of medical advisors, the device has been completely redesigned \u0026ldquo;from the inside out, from improving the internal mechanisms, battery life, and motor performance, to designing for manufacturability,\u0026rdquo; Grujic said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group also added features such as wireless charging, variable speed selection, a detachable Luer lock, and the ability for the clinician to see how the Ocelot is performing in real time through an app that is included with the system.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This FDA clearance is a testament to following\u0026nbsp;through\u0026nbsp;on\u0026nbsp;all the work required to bring the idea from the MBID program to the marketplace,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;Grujic, now a senior global product manager for Medtronic. His teammates also have other jobs beyond their roles as medical device entrepreneurs. Khouri is virtual health manager for Tulsa Innovation Labs, Shaw is director of sales for OXOS Medical, and Rogers is director of operations and engineering for Facet Medical Technologies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETogether, they put in a lot of nights and weekends while working their full-time jobs to build TendoNova and get to this point, according to Grujic, and last year brought on as CEO Mark Samuels, an experienced technology company executive and entrepreneur.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The work ethic of this team has been truly amazing,\u0026rdquo; Gourisankar said. \u0026ldquo;But what I was most impressed with was the team\u0026rsquo;s conviction from the early stages that this was a \u003Cem\u003Ereal\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eproduct that was going to have an impact in clinical settings on a patient\u0026rsquo;s well-being, as opposed to just an academic project. I\u0026rsquo;m sure they\u0026rsquo;re going to build a platform of technologies around their concepts and shape the future of surgical care in these areas in the years to come.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETendoNova\u0026#39;s Ocelot handheld tool aims to help patients with chronic tendon pain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"TendoNova\u0027s Ocelot handheld tool aims to help patients with chronic tendon pain."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-05-12 14:51:45","changed_gmt":"2022-05-12 14:51:45","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"658149":{"id":"658149","type":"image","title":"TendoNova Ocelot with Achilles Tendon Illustration","body":null,"created":"1652366883","gmt_created":"2022-05-12 14:48:03","changed":"1652366883","gmt_changed":"2022-05-12 14:48:03","alt":"  An illustration shows how the Ocelot device can be used to target the Achilles tendon in the heel during a mechanical fragmentation and debridement procedure to promote healing. 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Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"188455","name":"Master of Biomedical Innovation and Development (MBID) Program"},{"id":"190587","name":"TendoNova"},{"id":"190588","name":"Ocelot"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWallace H. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, where researchers are knocking subjects off balance to understand how we move.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe episode, \u0026ldquo;Game Changers,\u0026rdquo; shows how Ting and her colleagues use a unique moving platform to yank the rug from under subjects in their quest to study movement, human balance and gait, and the complex interplay of the nervous system and musculoskeletal system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You don\u0026rsquo;t think about balance,\u0026rdquo; Ting says in the episode. \u0026ldquo;However, it\u0026rsquo;s a super complex interaction of many parts of your brain, your nervous system, your muscles and sensory system, that is constantly shifting around without your awareness.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETing, \u003Ca href=\u0022\/bme\/faculty\/Lena-H.-Ting\u0022\u003EMcCamish Foundation Distinguished Chair and professor\u003C\/a\u003E, also explains how her team collects mountains of data about muscle activity and biomechanical forces alongside data from the brain to deepen our understanding of balance and movement disorders and find new ways to help people suffering from them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.emoryhealthcare.org\/your-fantastic-mind\/season-three\/Episode%203.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWatch the full episode on the Emory Healthcare website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u0026ldquo;Game Changers\u0026rdquo; episode shows how Ting\u0026#39;s team study movement, human balance, and gait.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The \u201cGame Changers\u201d episode shows how Ting\u0027s team study movement, human balance, and gait."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-04-27 16:09:46","changed_gmt":"2022-04-27 16:09:46","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"657678":{"id":"657678","type":"image","title":"Your Fantastic Mind TItle Screen","body":null,"created":"1651075587","gmt_created":"2022-04-27 16:06:27","changed":"1651075587","gmt_changed":"2022-04-27 16:06:27","alt":"Your Fantastic Mind title screen with outline of a brain in a box.","file":{"fid":"249267","name":"Your-Fantastic-Mind-Title-screenshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Your-Fantastic-Mind-Title-screenshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Your-Fantastic-Mind-Title-screenshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":276731,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Your-Fantastic-Mind-Title-screenshot.jpg?itok=QcCHoTqS"}}},"media_ids":["657678"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.emoryhealthcare.org\/your-fantastic-mind\/season-three\/Episode%203.html","title":"Your Fantastic Mind: Game Changers"},{"url":"https:\/\/neuromechanicslab.emory.edu\/index.html","title":"Ting\u0027s Neuromechanics Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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Each received a $25,000 seed grant, \u0026ldquo;to get us started in applying our expertise to address a very big challenge,\u0026rdquo; said Ed Botchwey, who developed the program with fellow Coulter BME faculty member Johnna Temenoff.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Developing these systems that can model the underlying causes of health disparities will eventually allow us to bring the different aspects of biomedical engineering to bear,\u0026rdquo; added Botchwey, an associate professor. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m looking forward to seeing how the seed grant support has impacted these researchers and what they\u0026rsquo;ve been able to do so far.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBotchwey will get his chance April 18 at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/event\/symposium-health-disparities-academy-medicine-distinguished-lecture\u0022\u003ESymposium on Health Disparities\u003C\/a\u003E, when the four research teams will present their work so far. The event also will include the Academy of Medicine Distinguished Lecture from University of Connecticut Professor Cato Laurencin, who basically launched the field of regenerative engineering. He\u0026rsquo;ll talk more about diminishing racial disparities in healthcare and biomedical research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He\u0026rsquo;s the consummate physician-scientist,\u0026rdquo; Botchwey said. \u0026ldquo;I think he\u0026rsquo;ll address the efforts we can make to not only impact health disparities but perhaps also what so many of us were desperate for during the season of protest: making real progress in the area of racial equity. He\u0026rsquo;ll speak powerfully to that, and we\u0026rsquo;ll hear his perspective on the challenges in front of us.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut first, attendees will be briefed on the challenges that the four Coulter Department research teams are tackling right now:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAlopecia Areata\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECheng Zhu, principal investigator; Loren Krueger, Emory University, co-investigator\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlopecia is an autoimmune disorder in which T cells mistakenly attack hair follicles, and to develop a better disease model, Zhu\u0026rsquo;s team has to figure out why. Zhu credited Watson with moving the lab in this direction.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Valencia convinced us,\u0026rdquo; said Zhu, Regents Professor and J. Erskine Love Chair in Engineering in the Coulter Department. His lab studies how immune cells sense, respond to, and adapt in a dynamic environment while being buffeted by natural mechanical forces in the body.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;ve used our approach to study T cells in tumor immunology [and] infection, but not autoimmune diseases,\u0026rdquo; Zhu said. \u0026ldquo;So we think it\u0026rsquo;s a good idea to include alopecia areata, because it\u0026rsquo;s one of the most prevalent autoimmune disorders in the world.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatson said she wasn\u0026rsquo;t totally convinced that her condition was an autoimmune disorder at first, because there is no evident antigen activity to incite the T cells. That\u0026rsquo;s given the research team something to look for. Watson sees it as, \u0026ldquo;an opportunity to contribute to the research by first identifying what is activating the T cells.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir work to this point has manifested in a perspective article, with Watson and fellow grad student Makala Faniel as lead authors, discussing the potential for mechanobiology and mechanoimmunology \u0026ldquo;to contribute to alopecia research by adding new methods, new approaches, and new ways of thinking,\u0026rdquo; they wrote.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EBreast Cancer\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EKarmella Haynes, principal investigator; Curtis Henry, Emory University, co-investigator\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen the seed grant program was announced, Haynes\u0026rsquo; lab was already at work developing an engineered protein to activate genes that are silenced in triple negative breast cancer cells, and she was working with Henry\u0026rsquo;s lab on developing epigenetics experiments for another type of cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Dr. Henry had done some exciting work showing how obese-associated serum affected epigenetics and gene expression,\u0026rdquo; said Haynes, an assistant professor. \u0026ldquo;We started thinking about how to translate this research to triple negative breast cancer, which disproportionately kills African American women.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey are two very different forms of cancer, but their project is investigating how the biochemistry of serum in obese patients might affect epigenetic states in breast cancer, and make the disease more aggressive and deadly.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Once we understand this, we can artificially reprogram the epigenetic state and block cancer cell replication and the formation of new tumors in other parts of the body,\u0026rdquo; Haynes said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELed by postdoctoral fellow Cara Shields, the Haynes lab will share new data at the symposium, showing how fat cells can actually prevent cancer cell death by silencing the genes that would otherwise activate a suicide switch or prevent the cancer from spreading.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile they haven\u0026rsquo;t created the animal model that replicates these conditions yet, Haynes and her collaborators are currently applying for a major external grant and plan to publish their results. First, they want to complete their investigation of gene silencing and demonstrate how epigenetic engineering can be used to activate the affected genes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are working on making our approach, \u0026lsquo;epigenome actuation,\u0026rsquo; more clinically translatable to cancer and generally applicable to other diseases that affect cell development,\u0026rdquo; Haynes said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EGlaucoma\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EC. Ross Ethier, principal investigator; Michael Anderson, University of Iowa, and Michael Hauser, Duke University, are collaborators\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBlack people are three to four times more likely to develop glaucoma than people of Asian or European descent, and it progresses faster: People of African descent are six times more likely to go blind. Cydney Wong, a Ph.D. student who has taken the lead on this research in the Ethier lab, knows this all too well.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My grandmother, who I grew up with, has glaucoma, so I have a personal interest in this disease,\u0026rdquo; Wong said. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve watched as her vision gradually declined. At this point she is almost completely blind.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer grandmother is 90 and loves hearing about Wong\u0026rsquo;s research, which is now focused on a certain genetic risk factor associated with people of African descent all over the globe.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our\u0026nbsp;project is investigating whether a mouse expressing this genetic risk factor exhibits glaucomatous damage in its eye,\u0026rdquo; Wong said. \u0026ldquo;However, I think the more big-picture goal would be to better understand why glaucoma tends to progress so quickly in people of African descent so that we can develop treatments to prevent vision loss in these patients.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ETraumatic Brain Injury\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMichelle LaPlaca, principal investigator; Levi Wood, mechanical engineering, Georgia Tech, co-investigator\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELaPlaca has spent the better part of her career studying traumatic brain injury (TBI) from multiple angles, to understand the underlying mechanisms during and following an injury. The idea is to develop better strategies for diagnosis and treatment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith this project, she\u0026rsquo;s also attempting to probe the risk factors that can make TBI worse, to gain a deeper understanding of why some underrepresented groups, such as African Americans, with TBI are significantly more likely to have post-injury complications. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELaPlaca\u0026rsquo;s team is piecing together how chronic stressors and dietary factors, which have not been applied together for the study of TBI animal models before, may influence outcomes.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve been very interested in the heterogeneous factors that contribute to traumatic brain injury complications,\u0026rdquo; said LaPlaca, who was inspired somewhat by a meeting of the National Neurotrauma Society last year. \u0026ldquo;We held a session for the first time on health disparities in TBI, in which we discussed rural-urban disparities, race disparities, and social determinants. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering for their remarkable support of undergraduate researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe committee selected \u003Ca href=\u0022\/bme\/faculty\/Jaydev-Desai\u0022\u003EJaydev Desai\u003C\/a\u003E for the 2022 Senior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award and \u003Ca href=\u0022\/bme\/faculty\/Cassie-S.-Mitchell\u0022\u003ECassie Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E for the Junior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoth have made bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree students a priority in their labs, giving them opportunities to work with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and to help produce peer-reviewed research publications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am deeply passionate about mentoring our terrific undergraduate students in research and guiding them through their academic journey at Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; said Desai, G.P. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Peterson and Valerie H. Peterson Professor in Pediatric Research. \u0026ldquo;It is gratifying to see some of the undergraduates from my \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robomed.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMedical Robotics and Automation Lab \u003C\/a\u003Eland a job in prestigious Fortune 500 companies. Equally gratifying is to see some of the students who have gone through the research experience in my lab pursue a higher academic degree.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe awards recognize faculty members at Georgia Tech who have demonstrated sustained achievement in mentoring undergraduates in research activities. For Mitchell, that started when she was a research engineer in Coulter BME and continued after she became a tenure-track faculty member.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This award is such an honor, because undergraduate research is a true passion of mine, both personally and professionally,\u0026rdquo; said Mitchell, assistant professor in the Coulter Department. \u0026ldquo;Receiving this award also illustrates that my mentoring and unique undergraduate research program is of great value to Georgia Tech.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMitchell said she often has dozens of undergrad students \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/cassie-mitchell-lab\/\u0022\u003Eworking in her lab\u003C\/a\u003E, and like Desai\u0026rsquo;s group, they often secure positions in industry and prestigious graduate programs after they\u0026rsquo;ve worked in her lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I often say that, while I do not have biological children of my own, I have an extraordinary number of scientific offspring. And my students, both graduate and undergraduate, are like family to me,\u0026rdquo; Mitchell said. \u0026ldquo;When I see them publish or get awards, I am like a parent hollering loudly from the stands.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBoth have made bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree students a priority in their labs, giving them opportunities to work with graduate students and help produce peer-reviewed research publications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Both have made bachelor\u2019s degree students a priority in their labs, giving them opportunities to work with graduate students and help produce peer-reviewed research publications."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-04-21 16:28:04","changed_gmt":"2022-04-21 16:28:04","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"657488":{"id":"657488","type":"image","title":"Undergrad Research Mentor Awards - Desai, Mitchell","body":null,"created":"1650558462","gmt_created":"2022-04-21 16:27:42","changed":"1650558462","gmt_changed":"2022-04-21 16:27:42","alt":"Cassie Mitchell and Jaydev Desai headshots","file":{"fid":"249199","name":"Desai-Mitchell-composite-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Desai-Mitchell-composite-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Desai-Mitchell-composite-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":315967,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Desai-Mitchell-composite-h.jpg?itok=YjRmrWn6"}},"646422":{"id":"646422","type":"image","title":"Cassie Mitchell (2020)","body":null,"created":"1618328767","gmt_created":"2021-04-13 15:46:07","changed":"1618328767","gmt_changed":"2021-04-13 15:46:07","alt":"Cassie Mitchell headshot","file":{"fid":"245380","name":"Mitchell-Cassie-v.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mitchell-Cassie-v.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mitchell-Cassie-v.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":225349,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Mitchell-Cassie-v.jpg?itok=whwKgafl"}},"653002":{"id":"653002","type":"image","title":"Jaydev Desai","body":null,"created":"1637259796","gmt_created":"2021-11-18 18:23:16","changed":"1637259796","gmt_changed":"2021-11-18 18:23:16","alt":"","file":{"fid":"247694","name":"Jaydev-Desai-Hi-Res-Headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jaydev-Desai-Hi-Res-Headshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jaydev-Desai-Hi-Res-Headshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1474151,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Jaydev-Desai-Hi-Res-Headshot.jpg?itok=y8wxPIr-"}}},"media_ids":["657488","646422","653002"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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They also have made a difference in their students\u0026rsquo; lives or made connections between research and teaching.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I love seeing students rise to the challenge of creative problem solving,\u0026rdquo; said Singer, McCamish Foundation Early Career Assistant Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. \u0026ldquo;I push students to think outside the box, and I get a lot of satisfaction out of seeing them realize that with hard work and brainstorming, they can generate new ways to solve important problems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ctl.gatech.edu\/faculty\/awards\/ctl-bp https:\/\/cpn-us-w2.wpmucdn.com\/sites.gatech.edu\/dist\/2\/852\/files\/2022\/04\/Singer_CTL-BP-2022.pdf\u0022\u003EIn nomination materials\u003C\/a\u003E, students praised Singer for her dedication to creating courses that inspired them to give their best, even when they didn\u0026rsquo;t know all the answers. Several credited her courses with helping them discover a passion for neuroscience or a desire to pursue graduate school.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;[The] assignments brought out the best in everyone the way few group projects do: my classmates and I found ourselves capitalizing on each other\u0026rsquo;s diverse skill sets to create concepts that pushed barriers. It was the thrill of experiencing what scientific innovation felt like for the first time that was perhaps the biggest takeaway from her course,\u0026rdquo; one student wrote. \u0026ldquo;The excitement I felt thinking of ideas for her course was a substantial inspiration for me to pursue graduate school. The work I am proudest of from my entire undergraduate career was done in her course, and I have referred back to it many times.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne student wrote that Singer\u0026rsquo;s classrooms are exciting places, where intellectual curiosity is high and all of the students strive to give their best. Others praised Singer for seamlessly transitioning her courses to virtual or hybrid options during the pandemic \u0026mdash; and for keeping a close eye on her students\u0026rsquo; well-being.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The flexibility and empathy Dr. Singer conveyed to all of us alleviated our stress for outside factors during a complex time in our college careers,\u0026rdquo; the student wrote.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESinger teaches courses like BMED 4853, Systems Physiology, and BMED 4803\/NEUR 4803, Introduction to Neuroengineering, a course she developed to fill a gap in the Department\u0026rsquo;s curriculum for students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026#39;s very nice to be recognized because I try to implement the kind of classes I would want to take as a student,\u0026rdquo; Singer said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents praise Singer for her dedication to creating courses that inspired them to give their best, even when they didn\u0026rsquo;t know all the answers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students praise Singer for her dedication to creating courses that inspired them to give their best, even when they didn\u2019t know all the answers."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-04-18 13:23:11","changed_gmt":"2022-04-21 16:22:23","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"649080":{"id":"649080","type":"image","title":"Annabelle Singer (horiz)","body":null,"created":"1627407369","gmt_created":"2021-07-27 17:36:09","changed":"1627407369","gmt_changed":"2021-07-27 17:36:09","alt":"Annabelle Singer headshot","file":{"fid":"246433","name":"Singer-Annabelle-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Singer-Annabelle-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Singer-Annabelle-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":301539,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Singer-Annabelle-h.jpg?itok=HPSKGC3M"}}},"media_ids":["649080"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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We hope that through advancing our understanding the function and logic of these circuits, and through engineering new approaches to controlling their activity, we can pave the way toward new therapeutics for neurological disease,\u0026rdquo; Markowitz said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESome of his primary work is exploring the potential of deep brain stimulation to help patients with neurological disease.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It seems reasonable to assume that one pattern [of stimulation] might work in one context, and a completely different pattern might be required in another. So, a primary thrust in my lab is to develop new closed-loop approaches to deep brain stimulation,\u0026rdquo; Markowitz said. \u0026ldquo;We want to use machine learning to rapidly detect the state of the brain and the body, and then deliver tailored stimulation in response.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarkowitz recently finished his postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School. 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I\u0026rsquo;m honored to be part of a group that is dedicated to making the world better,\u0026rdquo; Keilholz said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESingh called his election as an AIMBE fellow \u0026ldquo;pivotal to my academic career. It will now allow me to work with a cohort of dedicated scientists toward developing and implementing innovative approaches to bioengineering education, research, and advocacy for research funding.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESingh is an associate professor in Coulter BME and Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/singhlab.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EHis research lab\u003C\/a\u003E creates biomaterials-based immune tissues to mimic the structure and function of lymph nodes so they can study interactions between cells and cell decision-making. These models are tiny 3D tissue cultures grown from patient cells called organoids, or \u0026ldquo;on-chip\u0026rdquo; systems that draw inspiration from circuits on a microchip to create tiny channels and chambers on silicon wafers that recreate the flow and forces of tissues in the body.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKeilholz, a professor in the Coulter Department, also has been serving as interim associate chair for faculty development. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/keilholz-lab\/home\u0022\u003EHer work connects\u003C\/a\u003E neuroscience, signal processing, and complex systems analysis to develop imaging methods to study networks of activity in the brain and provide tools to diagnose and treat clinical manifestations of brain dysfunction. The AIMBE College of Fellows also highlighted her work increasing inclusivity in science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lamlab.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ELam\u0026rsquo;s lab\u003C\/a\u003E integrates micro- and nanotechnology and experimental hematology and oncology to study, diagnose, and treat blood disorders, cancer, and childhood diseases. He also leads the Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technology Center, which has played a key role in validating the accuracy of Covid-19 at-home tests for the National Institutes of Health.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELam called himself a late-blooming biomedical engineer, which makes fellowship in AIMBE all the more special, he said. Lam didn\u0026rsquo;t major in engineering in college and was a physician-in-training before he became \u0026ldquo;enamored by the field,\u0026rdquo; and only went back to pursue a Ph.D. in bioengineering after his pediatrics residency.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As such, to receive this bona fide biomedical engineering accolade by the top biomedical engineering society is especially humbling and gratifying for me,\u0026rdquo; Lam said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBecoming a fellow of AIMBE is increasingly difficult, and it comes with expectations, as Keilholz noted: The organization expects fellows to give back, advance excellence, and advocate for medical and biological engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESingh said the competitiveness of the selection process for new fellows is not lost on him, and he is grateful for the opportunity to contribute.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Election to AIMBE underscores the importance of thinking outside the box and championing transformative interdisciplinary research,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;I am fortunate that the outstanding environment at Georgia Tech and my collaborations with Emory Medicine, among others, continue to provide a fertile ground for pushing cutting-edge research.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESingh, Lam, and Keilholz join more than two dozen current Coulter Department faculty members as AIMBE Fellows, including former chair Susan Margulies, who has served as chair of the AIMBE College of Fellows for 2021. Several of the association\u0026rsquo;s fellows are Nobel Laureates, and many are members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/news\/655488\/inan-elected-2022-class-aimbe-college-fellows\u0022\u003EThe 2022 class of fellows also includes another Georgia Tech researcher\u003C\/a\u003E: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/omer-t-inan\u0022\u003EOmer Inan\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of Coulter BME\u0026#39;s Ph.D. program faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new class of fellows will be inducted officially at the organization\u0026rsquo;s annual meeting in March.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFellows represent just the top 2% of medical and biological engineers in the nation, according to AIMBE.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Fellows represent just the top 2% of medical and biological engineers in the nation, according to AIMBE."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-02-18 17:13:01","changed_gmt":"2022-04-21 16:16:01","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"657482":{"id":"657482","type":"image","title":"2022 AIMBE Fellows - Keilholz, Lam, Singh","body":null,"created":"1650557386","gmt_created":"2022-04-21 16:09:46","changed":"1650557386","gmt_changed":"2022-04-21 16:09:46","alt":"Headshots of Shella Keilholz, Wilbur Lam, and Ankur Singh. Text: Elected as Fellows of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).","file":{"fid":"249196","name":"AIMBE-fellows-Keilholz-Lam-Singh-by-Manit-Rambhia-h.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AIMBE-fellows-Keilholz-Lam-Singh-by-Manit-Rambhia-h.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AIMBE-fellows-Keilholz-Lam-Singh-by-Manit-Rambhia-h.png","mime":"image\/png","size":420911,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/AIMBE-fellows-Keilholz-Lam-Singh-by-Manit-Rambhia-h.png?itok=p8t5YBdS"}}},"media_ids":["657482"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1007","name":"AIMBE"},{"id":"16371","name":"AIMBE Fellow"},{"id":"190408","name":"Shella Keilholz"},{"id":"14681","name":"Wilbur Lam"},{"id":"15184","name":"Ankur Singh"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"654974":{"#nid":"654974","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Society for Biomaterials Honors \u2018Pioneer\u2019 Babensee, \u2018Creative\u2019 Singh","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo Georgia Tech faculty members have been \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biomaterials.org\/publications\/news\/society-biomaterials-announces-its-2022-award-recipients\u0022\u003Erecognized by their peers for their contributions to biomaterials research.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Julia-Babensee\u0022\u003EJulia Babensee\u003C\/a\u003E has received the Clemson Award for Basic Research from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biomaterials.org\/\u0022\u003ESociety for Biomaterials\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Ankur-Singh\u0022\u003EAnkur Singh\u003C\/a\u003E the Mid-Career Award for 2022. Both will be honored at the society\u0026rsquo;s annual meeting later this spring and have the opportunity to make a presentation about their work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBabensee has been involved with the society since she was a graduate student \u0026mdash; and won awards for her research as a student and a young investigator \u0026mdash; so her Clemson Award is especially meaningful.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a significant honor for me,\u0026rdquo; said Babensee, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. \u0026ldquo;I have always looked up to the winners of the Clemson Awards for their excellent research and contributions. I have always wanted to receive a Clemson Award, and I am very proud and happy to have done so.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biomaterials.org\/awards#clemsno_awards\u0022\u003EClemson Award for Basic Research\u003C\/a\u003E recognizes contributions to knowledge and understanding of interactions between materials and organic tissues. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/babenseelab.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBabensee is considered a pioneer in immunoengineering\u003C\/a\u003E and host responses to biomaterials. She was among the first to study the interactions of biomaterials with key immune system cells called dendritic cells. She has demonstrated that dendritic cell characteristics can be manipulated by contact with different kinds of biomaterials, allowing researchers to create cells that can stimulate or suppress the immune system\u0026rsquo;s functions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Dr. Babensee\u0026rsquo;s outstanding contributions have significantly advanced thinking about how biomaterials can influence key cells of the immune cells and design strategies using biomaterials for immunomodulation,\u0026rdquo; according to nominator James M. Anderson, a professor of biomedical engineering and pathology at Case Western Reserve University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESingh\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biomaterials.org\/awards#mid_career_award\u0022\u003EMid-Career Award\u003C\/a\u003E honors biomaterials researchers 10-20 years into their career who have demonstrated outstanding achievements. Singh, too, has been involved with the society since grad school and has previously been honored as a young investigator.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This Mid-Career Award is special to me because it recognizes the collective years of my academic journey as an independent researcher, and it reflects the contributions and leadership my laboratory and I have demonstrated towards advancing the biomaterials field,\u0026rdquo; said Singh, associate professor in Coulter BME and the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. \u0026ldquo;I am deeply honored. It has encouraged me to continue with creativity in the biomaterials field, focus on further training a cadre of young researchers, and encourage them towards taking game-changing high-risk, high-impact challenges that could shape science and society in the future.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/singhlab.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESingh\u0026rsquo;s research lab\u003C\/a\u003E creates biomaterials-based immune tissues to mimic the structure and function of lymph nodes so they can study interactions between cells and cell decision-making. These models are tiny 3D tissue cultures grown from patient cells called organoids, or \u0026ldquo;on-chip\u0026rdquo; systems that draw inspiration from circuits on a microchip to create tiny channels and chambers on silicon wafers that recreate the flow and forces of tissues in the body.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There are few biomaterials researchers or biomedical engineers in the world who can match the creativity of Ankur in the areas of immune-biomaterials and immune-engineering,\u0026rdquo; said nominator Kam W. Leong, a biomedical engineering professor at Columbia University, who also noted that Singh\u0026rsquo;s work can \u0026ldquo;significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer and immune diseases.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJulia Babensee has received the Clemson Award for Basic Research and Ankur Singh the Mid-Career Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Julia Babensee has received the Clemson Award for Basic Research and Ankur Singh the Mid-Career Award."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-01-31 17:09:32","changed_gmt":"2022-02-02 19:13:01","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-01-31T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-01-31T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"654970":{"id":"654970","type":"image","title":"Society for Biomaterials Awards 2022 - Julia Babensee \u0026 Ankur Singh","body":null,"created":"1643648520","gmt_created":"2022-01-31 17:02:00","changed":"1643648520","gmt_changed":"2022-01-31 17:02:00","alt":"Julia Babensee and Ankur Singh headshots","file":{"fid":"248342","name":"Babensee-Singh-Biomat-Awards-composite-t.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Babensee-Singh-Biomat-Awards-composite-t.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Babensee-Singh-Biomat-Awards-composite-t.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":394983,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Babensee-Singh-Biomat-Awards-composite-t.jpg?itok=87HDjr9N"}},"654971":{"id":"654971","type":"image","title":"Julia Babensee","body":null,"created":"1643648591","gmt_created":"2022-01-31 17:03:11","changed":"1643648591","gmt_changed":"2022-01-31 17:03:11","alt":"Julia Babensee headshot","file":{"fid":"248343","name":"Babensee-Julia-2021-v.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Babensee-Julia-2021-v.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Babensee-Julia-2021-v.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":256438,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Babensee-Julia-2021-v.jpg?itok=eFAzwjIN"}},"654972":{"id":"654972","type":"image","title":"Ankur Singh","body":null,"created":"1643648683","gmt_created":"2022-01-31 17:04:43","changed":"1643648683","gmt_changed":"2022-01-31 17:04:43","alt":"Ankur Singh headshot","file":{"fid":"248344","name":"Singh-Ankur-new-2021-v.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Singh-Ankur-new-2021-v.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Singh-Ankur-new-2021-v.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":371079,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Singh-Ankur-new-2021-v.jpg?itok=7QBhXU1g"}}},"media_ids":["654970","654971","654972"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/babenseelab.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Babensee Lab"},{"url":"https:\/\/singhlab.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Singh Lab"},{"url":"https:\/\/biomaterials.org\/publications\/news\/society-biomaterials-announces-its-2022-award-recipients","title":"Read More: \u0022Society For Biomaterials Announces its 2022 Award Recipients\u0022"},{"url":"https:\/\/biomaterials.org\/","title":"Society for Biomaterials"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"},{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"14197","name":"Julia babensee"},{"id":"15184","name":"Ankur Singh"},{"id":"3024","name":"biomaterials"},{"id":"189839","name":"Society for Biomaterials"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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In the absolute simplest terms, he\u0026rsquo;s helping scientists, clinicians, and researchers take better pictures of the cells and tissues they\u0026rsquo;re studying.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow Jia, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, is taking the next big step in his work. He\u0026rsquo;s building a next-generation platform for fluorescence microscopes that could reshape how we see live cells, capturing ultrafast 3D images of single cells. His new system would vastly improve the resolution of conventional microscopes, and it would amp up a technique called microfluidics imaging to achieve detailed and clear 3D images of cells in flow in one snapshot.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You can bring any types of cells, any biological questions to this platform for imaging,\u0026rdquo; Jia said, \u0026ldquo;so it would have a broad impact.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Foundation (NSF) seems to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2145235\u0026amp;HistoricalAwards=false\u0022\u003Eagree with the potential for Jia\u0026rsquo;s work to make a real difference\u003C\/a\u003E in the search for answers to difficult questions in health and biology. He has received a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2145235\u0026amp;HistoricalAwards=false\u0022\u003EFaculty Early Career Development Award from the agency this year\u003C\/a\u003E, a five-year grant designed to help promising researchers establish a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in their field. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/beta.nsf.gov\/funding\/opportunities\/faculty-early-career-development-program-career\u0022\u003EKnown as CAREER awards, the grants are NSF\u0026rsquo;s most prestigious funding for untenured assistant professors.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This award is a very important step for our lab,\u0026rdquo; Jia said. \u0026ldquo;We work to build biophotonic tools at the systems level; that means we build hardware, software, algorithms, data science, and applications \u0026mdash; a whole pipeline. In the long term, we hope to establish and advance our leadership in this area, especially at the interface between imaging and the life sciences.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJia calls his advanced imaging platform \u0026ldquo;multiplexing light-field instrumentation and methods,\u0026rdquo; which speaks to his whole-pipeline approach to light-based biological imaging. The idea is to simplify and speed up how researchers and doctors study cells while limiting cell damage from extended exposure to light during the imaging process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis platform includes three modules.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne module will use an array of tiny lenses to collect not just light reflected from a cell sample, but also the angle of that light. Angular information is ignored in conventional 2D microscopes, which means lots of information and context also is ignored \u0026mdash; after all, cells are three-dimensional structures.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a new type of 3D cell imaging that can provide us with a snapshot capability,\u0026rdquo; Jia said. \u0026ldquo;Now we rely on scanning-based techniques \u0026mdash; we have to scan layer by layer or piece by piece to get 3D information. That becomes very slow, and if you scan for too long, it damages the cells. The advantage for this technique is that you can minimize your photo damage and greatly enhance the speed to capture full 3D information.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second component of Jia\u0026rsquo;s proposed system would provide far great resolution than is currently possible, breaking what\u0026rsquo;s known as the diffraction limit of conventional microscopes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We want to achieve tens of nanometers of resolution, versus 200 or 300 nanometers of resolution for conventional microscopes,\u0026rdquo; Jia said. \u0026ldquo;This will allow us to resolve many finer structures in cells.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe third part of Jia\u0026rsquo;s system aims to advance a technique called microfluidics imaging, or optofluidics. That approach collects images of lots single cells as they pass through chips made of silicon or glass or polymers and that have very tiny channels. Jia\u0026rsquo;s platform would capture 3D images of cells in a single snapshot.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Usually in microfluidic imaging, the cells pass by through the flow and then are gone; you\u0026#39;re not able to recycle them to see them again. That means we can only take 2D images,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;With our approach, with one snapshot we have the 3D information. This will greatly enhance the information we can get.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPart of an NSF CAREER award is to integrate research and education, so along the way Jia will work to expand knowledge of biophotonics and advanced imaging beyond solely Emory and Georgia Tech. He hopes to bring in international experts to speak to researchers throughout metro Atlanta and involve high school students in hands-on experiences with optics and imaging concepts. He\u0026rsquo;s also proposing summer programs and training for undergraduate students, particularly veterans.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJia said building his next-gen system will benefit from the Coulter Department\u0026rsquo;s unique bridge between Georgia Tech and Emory, enabling engineers and end-users to work together to create innovations the improve human health and well-being. In particular, he\u0026rsquo;s thinking about the shared imaging resources on each campus \u0026mdash; what are known as \u0026ldquo;core\u0026rdquo; facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Current imaging core facilities mostly use conventional microscopes. The goal for our research is to advance the infrastructure and to bring new techniques to conventional imaging cores,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;We have imaging cores on both campuses; how can we bridge these two cores? 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Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187116","name":"Shu Jia"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"177784","name":"biomedical imaging"},{"id":"6891","name":"fluorescence"},{"id":"7392","name":"microscopy"},{"id":"12427","name":"microfluidics"},{"id":"189890","name":"optofluidics"},{"id":"174710","name":"National Science Foundation CAREER Award"},{"id":"362","name":"National Science Foundation"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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About one in 50,000 babies worldwide are born with the condition, which is almost always fatal.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut this month Ramiah and her family celebrated her 4th birthday thanks to the work of her physicians at Penn State Health Children\u0026rsquo;s Hospital and a 3D-printed tracheal replacement splint developed by researchers in the lab of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Scott-Hollister\u0022\u003EScott Hollister\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We know that children with this condition have not survived past the age of eight or 10,\u0026rdquo; said Hollister, professor and the Patsy and Alan Dorris Chair in Pediatric Technology in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0026ldquo;Our fingers are crossed that this case will be different.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis case is indeed different. It is the first time such a device has been used to treat tracheal agenesis, and Hollister is part of the team of researchers who recently authored a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jtcvstechniques.org\/article\/S2666-2507(21)00596-4\/fulltext\u0022\u003Eclinical case study\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;published in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJTCVS Techniques\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe splint, known as the Airway Support Device, already had a strong track record, having been used in the successful treatment of other pediatric patients with a condition called tracheabronchomalacia \u0026mdash; collapse of the windpipe, which causes severe, life-threatening airway obstruction.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile a professor at the University of Michigan, Hollister collaborated with colleague Glenn Green to develop the first version of a 3D-printed, patient-specific airway splint that is bioresorbable \u0026mdash; it is biodegradable and can be naturally and safely absorbed by the body. The small device is a lifesaving scaffold that opens a child\u0026rsquo;s windpipe, allowing them to breathe.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut Ramiah\u0026rsquo;s case presented a new, daunting challenge. She didn\u0026rsquo;t really have a windpipe to work with. Her esophagus was her windpipe.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Tracheal agenesis is a very unusual clinical case with few positive solutions,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;said the study\u0026rsquo;s lead author, Anthony Tsai, Ramiah\u0026rsquo;s surgeon and\u0026nbsp;co-director of the Surgical Innovation Group at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;I knew about the work Scott and Glenn had been doing, and I\u0026rsquo;d seen their success in using the device for airway issues that are not as dire. But similar principles are in play, and that\u0026rsquo;s what we needed.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey needed the support of a splint to keep her airway open, but this time with an added wrinkle \u0026mdash; Ramiah\u0026rsquo;s surgical team needed a splint that would help her esophagus do the work of an airway.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EA Lifesaving Procedure\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERamiah, whose family lives in Pennsylvania, needed lifesaving surgery almost immediately after being born. Essentially, the surgical team disconnected her lower esophagus, which feeds the stomach, from her upper esophageal airway \u0026mdash; she could take nutrition directly into her stomach through a G-tube. And then they had to turn the upper portion of her esophagus into a trachea, actually creating a pseudo-tracheostomy \u0026mdash; a surgical opening in the neck, providing a direct route for air to reach the lungs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;But that isn\u0026rsquo;t a long-term solution,\u0026rdquo; Tsai said. \u0026ldquo;We prevented air from getting into the stomach and created a pathway to push it into the lungs. But it isn\u0026rsquo;t sustainable. When you take a deep breath, the esophagus collapses, so then you can\u0026rsquo;t get enough air into the lungs.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith Ramiah sedated, ventilated, momentarily stabilized, and just a few days old, Tsai and his colleagues discussed more permanent options for her airway reconstruction. That led them to Hollister and his 3D-printed splint composed of polycaprolactone, a biodegradable polyester.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause of its previous success and because there were no other options, Tsai and his team got permission to use the device from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under the \u0026ldquo;expanded access\u0026rdquo; rule \u0026mdash; sometimes called \u0026ldquo;compassionate use\u0026rdquo; \u0026mdash; which allows fast access to medical devices for life-threatening cases like Ramiah\u0026rsquo;s.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHollister\u0026rsquo;s team re-engineered the Airway Support Device, adding some curvature to accommodate the stoma in Ramiah\u0026rsquo;s neck. The device was ready and installed during airway reconstruction surgery when Ramiah was 20 weeks old.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe gradually progressed and went home when she was a year old, still needing mechanical ventilation. Further tests and imaging showed that her airway was improving and when Ramiah was two years old, she started breathing on her own in the daytime, resting easily at night on a ventilator for safety.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGastrointestinal reconstructive surgery was later performed \u0026mdash; tissue from the colon was used to rebuild Ramiah\u0026rsquo;s lower esophagus, which should eventually allow her to take in food through her mouth. Though she is developmentally delayed, Ramiah is crawling and pushing a walker around, learning to communicate through sign language, going to preschool, and playing with her sisters as another holiday approaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re very low key about celebrating holidays,\u0026rdquo; said Leanne Martin, who recently gave birth to her son. \u0026ldquo;But we recognize the gift of each year, and we always thank God for that. We knew that Ramiah was leading us into uncharted territory.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERamiah may need another 3D device as she gets older to stabilize her reconstructed airway, Leanne said. But right now, her next goal is to see Ramiah walk independently; Leanne has no doubt that her little girl will eventually be navigating the busy household on her own two feet.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;That is the kind of outcome we all hope for,\u0026rdquo; said Hollister, whose Georgia Tech collaborators Sarah Jo Crotts and Harsha Ramaraju were major contributors to the work. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re excited, because we think this is the beginning of a new paradigm for children with this rare condition.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E***\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is a top 10 public research university developing leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute offers business, computing, design, engineering, liberal arts, and sciences degrees. Its nearly 44,000 students representing 50 states and 149 countries, study at the main campus in Atlanta, at campuses in France and China, and through distance and online learning. As a leading technological university, Georgia Tech is an engine of economic development for Georgia, the Southeast, and the nation, conducting more than $1 billion in research annually for government, industry, and society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWriter: Jerry Grillo | \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contact: Ayana Isles |\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:aisles3@gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022mailto:aisles3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eaisles3@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E | \u003Ca href=\u0022tel:(404)%20660-2927\u0022 title=\u0022tel:(404)%20660-2927\u0022\u003E(404) 660-2927\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Hollister lab at Georgia Tech re-engineers airway splint to treat rare, fatal condition in newborns"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHollister lab at Georgia Tech re-engineers airway splint to treat rare, fatal condition in newborns\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Hollister lab at Georgia Tech re-engineers airway splint to treat rare, fatal condition in newborns"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2021-12-15 19:25:04","changed_gmt":"2021-12-17 15:23:29","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"653719":{"id":"653719","type":"image","title":"Scott Hollister","body":null,"created":"1639595362","gmt_created":"2021-12-15 19:09:22","changed":"1639595748","gmt_changed":"2021-12-15 19:15:48","alt":"Scott Hollister","file":{"fid":"247967","name":"Scott Hollister-009.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Scott%20Hollister-009.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Scott%20Hollister-009.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3667065,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Scott%20Hollister-009.JPG?itok=2_CRg-GE"}},"653720":{"id":"653720","type":"image","title":"Airway Support Device","body":null,"created":"1639595434","gmt_created":"2021-12-15 19:10:34","changed":"1639595784","gmt_changed":"2021-12-15 19:16:24","alt":"","file":{"fid":"247968","name":"Scott Hollister-001.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Scott%20Hollister-001.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Scott%20Hollister-001.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2758230,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Scott%20Hollister-001.JPG?itok=BFpZWzj3"}},"653722":{"id":"653722","type":"image","title":"Ramiah at preschool","body":null,"created":"1639595888","gmt_created":"2021-12-15 19:18:08","changed":"1639595888","gmt_changed":"2021-12-15 19:18:08","alt":"","file":{"fid":"247970","name":"IMG_6777.JPEG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_6777.JPEG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_6777.JPEG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":535434,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_6777.JPEG?itok=yYlF2gJx"}},"653721":{"id":"653721","type":"image","title":"Ramiah Martin","body":null,"created":"1639595552","gmt_created":"2021-12-15 19:12:32","changed":"1639595826","gmt_changed":"2021-12-15 19:17:06","alt":"Ramiah Martin","file":{"fid":"247969","name":"IMG_6788.JPEG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_6788.JPEG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_6788.JPEG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":138396,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_6788.JPEG?itok=0Ehf_I5-"}}},"media_ids":["653719","653720","653722","653721"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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While most participants were in-person, teams also had online representatives who were available to talk to online judges who could participate from anywhere in the world, broadening the judging pool.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecognizing the unique setup, extra awards were given out in two categories for those who impressed the online judges. At the end of the night, biomedical engineering teams took home both Best Overall Awards, and also had a student on one of the Best Interdisciplinary Project teams.\u0026nbsp;Mechanical engineering also had a strong showing, with students on both\u0026nbsp;Best Interdisciplinary Project teams earning awards along with prizes for best mechanical engineering project and best industrial design and mechanical engineering project.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) had 20 teams participate in the Capstone Design Expo this year.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/expo.gatech.edu\/prod1\/portal\/portal.jsp?c=17462\u0026amp;p=413142918\u0026amp;g=413665329\u0026amp;id=414154459\u0022\u003EElectromagnetic Material Melting Apparatus\u003C\/a\u003E, or EMMA for short, won the ECE Disciplinary Prize.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/expo.gatech.edu\/prod1\/portal\/portal.jsp?c=17462\u0026amp;p=413142918\u0026amp;g=413665329\u0026amp;id=414154223\u0022\u003EBASKeTS\u003C\/a\u003E, a multi-major team with ECE representation, received the in-person Interdisciplinary Prize. Twenty-six teams participated in the interdisciplinary projects category.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEMMA is an electromagnetic induction furnace designed to deliver up to 30KW of inductive heating to melt various metals. The furnace runs on only electricity and does not require any gases to operate, making it a low long-term cost. It would be useful for DIY enthusiasts and small-scale blacksmiths. Members of the EMMA team are Nicholas Meyer, a computer engineering major, and Benjamin Bogard, Dakota Cobb, and Michael Probst, all electrical engineering majors. They were advised by ECE Associate Professor Lukas Graber.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBASKeTS is a low-cost and locally fabricated and maintainable neonatal incubator for use in Ghana. The team worked on this device with\u0026nbsp;William Okyere-Frempong, a physician and superintendent of a hospital in Accra, Ghana. Members of the BASKeTS team are Kennedy Houston, a computer engineering major; Alena Plaskett, a biomendical engineering major; and\u0026nbsp;Sydney Grant, Brittney Krajcovic,\u0026nbsp;Townley Meeske, and\u0026nbsp;Sydney Streib, all mechanical engineering majors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOkyere-Frempong visited Atlanta during the 2019-2020 academic year as a participant in The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, locally hosted through Emory University. While here, he met Whit Smith, an ECE senior academic professional, and described his needs for his hospital, which included incubators for infants. That conversation eventually led to a senior design project advised by Smith that has been ongoing since spring 2020. 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The product can be used by athletes, delivery drivers and busy moms, just to name a few.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESo where did the idea for the LZRD sleeve come from? Pullen, a former high school football wide receiver, wanted a way to protect his arms while simultaneously increasing ball security, since common polyester compression sleeves are slick when they meet the ball, increasing the chance of fumbling. After enrolling in MSE 3300-Materials Science \u0026amp; Engineering of Sports, a course founded and taught by Dr. Ready, Pullen worked with Quon to bring the idea of the LZRD sleeve to life.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPullen and Quon carefully integrated the inner hemisphere of the sleeve with grip-enhancing LZRD technology, creating 4x the amount of friction with cardboard than a cotton sleeve. They also partnered with NexTex Innovations to incorporate NexTex\u0026rsquo;s new TurboDry\u0026trade; technology into their sleeves, a moisture wicking fabric that transports moisture away from the wearer\u0026rsquo;s skin. In addition, they designed the sleeve to block both UVA and UVB rays and provide the wearer with the protection they need to prevent painful abrasions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe product had such promise, Pullen and Quon were chosen to participate in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/startuplaunch2021\u0022\u003ECREATE-X Startup Launch\u003C\/a\u003E accelerator program during the summer of 2020, a program Pullen refers to as a one-stop shop for startups.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFast forward to today: Pullen serves as the CEO of LZRD Tech where he works alongside Quon (COO) and Dr. Ready (CTO) growing his company\u0026rsquo;s brand in the entrepreneurial world. While the LZRD sleeve was the original idea, LZRD Tech is\u0026nbsp;now also selling fabric to big brands for integration into a wider line of products.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/KWv6IdzBgng?t=484\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E to watch the full StarTalk episode featuring CREATE-X student startup LZRD Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECREATE-X\u0026nbsp;is a Georgia Tech initiative to instill entrepreneurial confidence in students and empower them to launch successful startups. 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The symposium took place virtually from September 11-16, 2021.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStrassle is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and is a member of the Ultrasonic Imaging and Instrumentation (UII) Lab. His advisor is Brooks Lindsey, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and adjunct assistant professor in ECE. Strassle is also a peer instructor at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Interdisciplinary Design Commons, commonly known as The Hive.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Strassle\u0026rsquo;s award-winning paper is \u0026ldquo;A Thin, High Penetration Depth Phased Array Transducer with a Metamaterial Acoustic Backing for Cardiac Imaging with X-Ray Computed Tomography Compatibility.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Strassle\u0026rsquo;s co-authors are Lindsey and Srini Tridandapani, a professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Strassle also credits the invaluable support of fellow lab members of the UII lab, including Bowen Jing, Graham Collins, and Saeyoung Kim.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStrassle\u0026rsquo;s work focuses on ultrasound-based cardiac gating and its potential benefits in improving the diagnostic accuracy and reducing radiation dose for non-invasive imaging of coronary artery disease with computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) by providing more accurate detection of cardiac quiescence\u0026mdash;the time period when cardiac motion is at a minimum\u0026mdash;while a patient is undergoing a CT scan of the heart.\u0026nbsp;To achieve this goal, Strassle designed a CT-compatible ultrasound transducer incorporating an acoustic metamaterial within its backing, enabling a thinner transducer with improved CT compatibility.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoronary artery disease is one of the leading causes of death globally; however, diagnosis can be challenging and expensive since a cardiac catheterization lab is typically required for catheter coronary angiography (CCA), the gold standard for diagnosing coronary artery disease. Access to a cardiac catheterization lab is particularly scarce in rural areas. CTCA is an alternative, non-invasive diagnostic tool that is lower cost and more accessible but requires effective gating to produce diagnostic-quality scans in all patients.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Stephan\u0026nbsp;Strassle Rojas was awarded the best student paper at the 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Stephan\u00a0Strassle Rojas was awarded the best student paper at the 2021 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium. 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She is the ideal faculty member to receive this additional support for her research,\u0026rdquo; said Machelle Pardue, interim Wallace H. Coulter Department Chair. \u0026ldquo;Her \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/neuromechanicslab.emory.edu\u0022\u003Ework on the neuromechanics of human balance and gait\u003C\/a\u003E presents many exciting opportunities to transform our understanding of how Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s impairs movement, and she will be an important part of our work with the foundation to develop revolutionary approaches to the disease.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAppointment as the distinguished chair comes with flexible discretionary funds to support student researchers, explore uncharted areas of research that could prompt external grants, and cultivate relationships with industry and research community leaders.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The funding from the McCamish Foundation Distinguished Chair will allow us to more rapidly pursue novel approaches to probing and understanding brain-body interactions in healthy and impaired movement, including Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s disease,\u0026rdquo; Ting said. \u0026ldquo;With these resources, we can undertake impactful collaborative research fueled by our best students and postdocs being trained at the interface of neuroscience, biomechanics, engineering, and clinical research.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe University System of Georgia Board of Regents \u003Ca href=\u0022\/bme\/news\/dahlman-singer-stanley-appointed-new-mccamish-endowed-faculty-positions\u0022\u003Epreviously approved three other McCamish Foundation endowed positions at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E supporting the work of Garrett Stanley, James Dahlman, and Annabelle Singer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELearn more about the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/parkinsons.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMcCamish Parkinson\u0026#39;s Disease Innovation Program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELena Ting\u0026#39;s focus on the neuromechanics of human gait and balance offers opportunities to transform understanding of Parkinson\u0026#39;s impact on movement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Lena Ting\u0027s focus on the neuromechanics of human gait and balance offers opportunities to transform understanding of Parkinson\u0027s impact on movement"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-10-11 16:29:53","changed_gmt":"2021-10-11 16:29:53","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"596763":{"id":"596763","type":"image","title":"Lena Ting, professor in the Wallace H. 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Haynes will serve a three-year term.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While I don\u0026#39;t deeply investigate biocontainment in my own research, I care about it and have spoken up about it because I care about the broader, real human impact of biotechnology,\u0026rdquo; said Haynes, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHaynes has been involved in biosafety and biocontainment issues for several years, previously serving on an advisory panel on the topic for the L. Craig Venter Institute and actively reviewing grants in the area for the Joint Genome Engineering Institute. She also has spoken to Congress about synthetic biology and been invited to international conversations about synthetic biology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I hope to offer a lucid perspective on what we should be concerned about versus what people are suspicious or scared of,\u0026rdquo; Haynes said, \u0026ldquo;and to remind policymakers that the greatest enemy is uncertainty, not necessarily the biotech. The greatest solution to uncertainty is proactive science, not moratoriums.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a member of the advisory board, Haynes will help develop recommendations for proper oversight of federally conducted dual-use biological research, balancing the needs of the research community with national security concerns.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKarmella Haynes will help advise the government on oversight of biological research that could prove harmful if misused.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Karmella Haynes will help advise the government on oversight of biological research that could prove harmful if misused"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-09-08 15:57:21","changed_gmt":"2021-09-08 15:57:21","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-09-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602068":{"id":"602068","type":"image","title":"Karmella Haynes, Ph.D. (vertical)","body":null,"created":"1518030773","gmt_created":"2018-02-07 19:12:53","changed":"1622210932","gmt_changed":"2021-05-28 14:08:52","alt":"Karmella Haynes, Ph.D. headshot","file":{"fid":"229471","name":"Karmella Haynes 1_small.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Karmella%20Haynes%201_small_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Karmella%20Haynes%201_small_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":76729,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Karmella%20Haynes%201_small_0.jpg?itok=1I2Nbe8T"}}},"media_ids":["602068"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/osp.od.nih.gov\/biotechnology\/national-science-advisory-board-for-biosecurity-nsabb\/","title":"National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Karmella-Haynes","title":"Karmella Haynes"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187959","name":"Karmella Haynes"},{"id":"2270","name":"National Institutes of Health"},{"id":"171033","name":"Synthetic Biology"},{"id":"175113","name":"biosecurity"},{"id":"174976","name":"biosecurity policy"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"650022":{"#nid":"650022","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cassie Mitchell Heads to Her 3rd Paralympics Riding Renewed Passion and Strong Performances","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s pretty much gold medal or bust for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.teamusa.org\/usparatrackandfield\/athletes\/Cassie-Mitchell\u0022\u003ECassie Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E at the 2021 Paralympics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Cassie-S.-Mitchell\u0022\u003Ebiomedical engineering assistant professor\u003C\/a\u003E brought home a silver and a bronze medal from Rio in 2016 after a few fourth-place finishes in the 2012 London Games, but you never know when it may be your last chance to compete on the world\u0026rsquo;s stage. So, on this third trip to the elite Paralympic Games, Mitchell has her eyes on the top of the podium.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I have World Championships gold medals, world titles, world records, and Paralympic medals. But I don\u0026#39;t have the Paralympic gold medal,\u0026rdquo; Mitchell said. \u0026ldquo;And it\u0026#39;s not just the gold medal, itself. I want to see the American flag raised; I want to hear our national anthem. It\u0026#39;s the process and what it means to \u0026lsquo;never, never, never give up\u0026rsquo; to reach the top, and to compete with honor for the USA. I\u0026#39;m sentimental and very patriotic when it comes to competing for Team USA.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMitchell will compete in two events in Tokyo during the Paralympic Games Aug. 24-Sept. 5, the club throw and the discus throw. Already, she\u0026rsquo;s having quite a year: she\u0026rsquo;s No. 1 in the world in both events for her F51 classification, and, in May, she set a new world record in the women\u0026rsquo;s F51 discus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMaybe things are shaping up just right for her to hear \u0026ldquo;The Star-Spangled Banner\u0026rdquo; in Japan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I have to hedge: I\u0026#39;m currently No. 1 in the world this year in club throw, but the F51 club throw world record holder is Zoia Ovsii, and she has thrown 2 meters farther. She hasn\u0026#39;t done it in competition this year, but that doesn\u0026#39;t mean she won\u0026#39;t. It also doesn\u0026#39;t mean that I won\u0026#39;t go and have a breakout performance in Japan,\u0026rdquo; Mitchell said. \u0026ldquo;As an athlete, I\u0026#39;ve learned that you have to control what you can control. I can control my attitude, my work ethic, my choices.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMitchell won a bronze medal in club throw in 2016 and a silver in discus. She suspects her best shot at gold this year will be in F51 club throw. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.paralympic.org\/classification\u0022\u003EParalympic athletes are grouped into classifications according to their disability\u003C\/a\u003E; Mitchell is classified as a 51 athlete; they are the most severely disabled athletes who have impairments in all four limbs. However, unlike F51 club throw, the F51, F52, and F53 classifications have been combined for the discus event. That means Mitchell will face other athletes who are less disabled: \u0026ldquo;It probably will take a F51 world record to get a medal in the combined F51-53 discus event, based on current world ranking performances . I would likely need to throw another F51 world record to get into bronze. But you never know.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMitchell is a faculty member in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, where her research focuses on harnessing the power of big data and machine learning to forecast disease, identify new therapeutics, and optimize treatments. Her work is at the intersection of engineering, data science, and pathophysiology \u0026mdash; she calls herself a \u0026ldquo;pathology forecaster.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMitchell has always been a talented athlete, even before an autoimmune disorder left her paralyzed at age 18. Instead of gymnastics, track, and equestrian events, Mitchell was forced to shift to wheelchair sports \u0026mdash; and it turned out, she was very good. Over the years, as her disease progressed and the landscape of Paralympic sports shifted for quadriplegic athletes with Mitchell\u0026rsquo;s level of disability, she found herself switching from cycling to track events and finally to throwing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong the way (just before the Rio Games, in fact), Mitchell was diagnosed with leukemia. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.teamusa.org\/USParaTrackandField\/Features\/2021\/January\/17\/Cassie-Mitchell-Has-Made-A-Medal-Winning-Career-Out-Of-Adapting-To-Changes\u0022\u003ELike everything else, though, she hasn\u0026rsquo;t let that stop her\u003C\/a\u003E. In fact, competing has helped her quality of life as she fights the cancer, she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Oncologists have said most people in my condition, even now as I do treatment, struggle to get out of bed, much less go and train at an elite level. I think that the act of training and competing \u0026mdash; it\u0026#39;s not just about the medals, but how it helps you in other ways mentally and physically as well,\u0026rdquo; Mitchell said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor many athletes, the coronavirus pandemic disrupted a fairly regimented four-year rhythm of trying to make it to the Olympics or Paralympics. Mitchell said she surely would\u0026rsquo;ve preferred to skip the pandemic and the havoc it has wreaked on people\u0026rsquo;s lives and families. But the extra year has given her a chance to reflect on why she competes and stoked her competitive fire.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026#39;ve always been one to push myself, but I find I have a really exceptional desire to push forward this time, even maybe greater than I would have had last year,\u0026rdquo; Mitchell said. \u0026ldquo;I think that\u0026#39;s [the result] of losing one of the things that you love to do: You remember, I didn\u0026#39;t start competing just to get a medal; I started doing it because it was fun.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe extra year of practice has Mitchell set up well. She mostly was able to continue training since her events are a naturally socially distanced individual sport. She trains outside with the aid of a trusted personal care assistant. It\u0026rsquo;s also given her a chance to apply her engineer\u0026rsquo;s mind to her athletic endeavors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am not a research expert in biomechanics, but I do specialize in biomedical data science. I definitely use analytics to tweak my technique,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;I do an engineering analysis on all my throws. I have pages of math and simulation. Sometimes the engineering analysis is spot on, and sometimes what is mathematically optimal is not physiologically possible for me. But, overall, I do think my engineering perspective has made me a better thrower.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the meantime, she\u0026rsquo;ll continue to balance the demanding world of academia with the demanding world of elite international athletics \u0026mdash; even when it means teaching bioengineering statistics from her car at the U.S. Paralympic trials. She said sometimes she wishes she could isolate the two worlds \u0026mdash; academics and sports \u0026mdash; and focus on one at a time. Mostly, though, she finds them to be a synergistic combination.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The athletic endeavors keep me from getting overly consumed with the often fiercely competitive academic environment, and vice versa. It gives me balance in my life.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe biomedical engineering assistant professor brought home a silver and a bronze medal from Rio in 2016. Now it\u0026#39;s gold or bust.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The biomedical engineering assistant professor brought home a silver and a bronze medal from Rio in 2016. Now it\u0027s gold or bust."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-08-24 13:55:59","changed_gmt":"2021-08-24 13:55:59","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"650020":{"id":"650020","type":"image","title":"Cassie Mitchell Paralympic Trials 2021 Discus Throw Prep","body":null,"created":"1629812818","gmt_created":"2021-08-24 13:46:58","changed":"1629813085","gmt_changed":"2021-08-24 13:51:25","alt":"Assistant Professor Cassie Mitchell prepares for her discus throw at the Paralympic Trials in June, where she secured a spot on Team USA for the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Mitchell will compete in discus and club throw, events where she\u2019s currently ranked No. 1 in the world in her classification. 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The biomedical engineering assistant professor is headed to her third Paralympic Games this year, where she hopes to complete her medal set with a long-sought-after gold in discus or club throw. 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Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"23101","name":"cassie mitchell"},{"id":"186859","name":"2021 Paralympics"},{"id":"3058","name":"Paralympics"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"649517":{"#nid":"649517","#data":{"type":"news","title":" Dahlman, Singer, Stanley Appointed to New McCamish Endowed Faculty Positions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe newest evidence of the deepening impact of a landmark gift from the McCamish Foundation is the appointment of three biomedical engineering faculty members to endowed positions. The University System of Georgia Board of Regents approved the action at its August meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/James-Dahlman\u0022\u003EJames Dahlman\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Annabelle-Singer\u0022\u003EAnnabelle Singer\u003C\/a\u003E have been awarded McCamish Foundation Early Career Professorships; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Garrett-B.-Stanley\u0022\u003EGarrett Stanley\u003C\/a\u003E is the inaugural McCamish Foundation Distinguished Chair. These newly established endowments recognize high-performing faculty members in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering who are working in areas related to Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s disease or whose research has great potential to impact treatment of the condition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is my honor to be able to support the work of these three talented members of our Coulter BME family,\u0026rdquo; said Susan Margulies, Wallace H. Coulter Chair and Professor of Coulter BME. \u0026ldquo;Each of them continues to make outstanding and impactful contributions to our Department and to the biomedical engineering profession. Their work will be an important piece of our partnership with the McCamish Foundation to transform our understanding of Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s and develop revolutionary approaches to the disease.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe appointments come with flexible discretionary funds that professorship and chair holders can use to support student researchers, explore uncharted areas of research that could prompt external grants, and cultivate relationships with industry and research community leaders.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My laboratory develops and utilizes engineering approaches to control neural circuits that underlie many aspects of brain function,\u0026rdquo; Stanley said. \u0026ldquo;The McCamish Chair will enable us to push in innovative directions that are not supported by traditional research funding \u0026mdash; and to specifically target the circuits that underlie Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s disease and other related neurological diseases.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDahlman\u0026rsquo;s lab focuses on targeted drug delivery, gene editing, and nanomedicine. He has led development of DNA-barcoded nanoparticles that are used to deliver targeted therapies based on RNA molecules.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am honored and excited to join the McCamish team as an early career professor. This opportunity will give my lab something invaluable: the freedom to pursue promising high-risk, high-reward solutions to Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s,\u0026rdquo; Dahlman said. \u0026ldquo;It will also allow me to stay engaged with Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s clinical and patient communities. I have enjoyed getting to know these communities over the last few years, and look forward to continually learning about what they really need to fight this disease, so my lab can work to provide those solutions.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESinger studies the brain\u0026rsquo;s immune system and how memories are created. Her work is developing new approaches to Alzheimer\u0026rsquo;s disease and new ways to stimulate the immune system in the brain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am very excited about the McCamish Early Career Professorship. We have been developing novel, non-invasive stimulation to treat Alzheimer\u0026#39;s disease. Based on our ongoing studies, we think this stimulation is broadly applicable to multiple neurodegenerative diseases, but we have not had a chance to test that yet,\u0026rdquo; Singer said. \u0026ldquo;With the McCamish professorship, we will be able to determine if this stimulation reduces pro-inflammatory immune signaling and prevents neurodegeneration in circuits that deteriorate in Parkinson\u0026#39;s disease to ultimately prevent or halt motor impairment.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn late 2020, the McCamish Foundation made a significant commitment to the Coulter Department to establish the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/parkinsons.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMcCamish Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s Disease Innovation Program\u003C\/a\u003E. Stanley directs the program, which already \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/mccamish-blue-sky-grants-take-aim-parkinsons-disease\u0022\u003Ehas issued its first round of \u0026ldquo;blue sky grants\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E to seed new projects with exciting potential.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe newly endowments recognize high-performing faculty members in biomedical engineering whose research has great potential to impact treatment of Parkinson\u0026#39;s disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The newly endowments recognize high-performing faculty members in biomedical engineering whose research has great potential to impact treatment of Parkinson\u0027s disease."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-08-11 23:50:16","changed_gmt":"2021-08-11 23:50:16","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"649516":{"id":"649516","type":"image","title":"McCamish Endowed Faculty Members","body":null,"created":"1628725531","gmt_created":"2021-08-11 23:45:31","changed":"1628725531","gmt_changed":"2021-08-11 23:45:31","alt":"Assistant Professors Annabelle Singer, left, and James Dahlman, center, have been appointed to McCamish Foundation Early Career Professorships. Garrett Stanley is the inaugural McCamish Foundation Distinguished Chair.","file":{"fid":"246570","name":"Singer-Dahlman-Stanley-McCamish-Fac-composite-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Singer-Dahlman-Stanley-McCamish-Fac-composite-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Singer-Dahlman-Stanley-McCamish-Fac-composite-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":331779,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Singer-Dahlman-Stanley-McCamish-Fac-composite-h.jpg?itok=FkP7wz8o"}}},"media_ids":["649516"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/parkinsons.gatech.edu\/","title":"McCamish Parkinson\u0027s Disease Innovation Program"},{"url":"https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/mccamish-blue-sky-grants-take-aim-parkinsons-disease","title":"Read More: McCamish Blue Sky Grants Take Aim at Parkinson\u0027s Disease"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"186733","name":"McCamish Foundation"},{"id":"13471","name":"Parkinson\u0027s"},{"id":"77121","name":"parkinson\u0027s disease"},{"id":"181421","name":"Annabelle Singer"},{"id":"145161","name":"James Dahlman"},{"id":"14462","name":"Garrett Stanley"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"649083":{"#nid":"649083","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Science ATL Fellowship Will Help Wong Build Her Science Communication Skills","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor Cydney Wong, studying glaucoma is about more than finding new ways to treat a leading cause of irreversible blindness. It\u0026rsquo;s also about spreading awareness in communities where glaucoma is more common and, often, more severe.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am really passionate about science communication in communities that have historically \u0026mdash; and rightly so \u0026mdash; distrusted health professionals and biomedical researchers. Glaucoma disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic\/Latinx people in the U.S., and Black Americans tend to develop glaucoma earlier and lose vision faster compared to white Americans,\u0026rdquo; Wong said. \u0026ldquo;Because of this, it\u0026rsquo;s really important to spread more awareness about glaucoma in Black and Hispanic communities and encourage those who are able to get their eyes checked regularly.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWong will strengthen her communication muscles to help in that mission over the next year as one of 12 new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scienceatl.org\/scicommfellow\/\u0022\u003EScience ATL Communication Fellows for 2021\u003C\/a\u003E. The professional development program teaches Atlanta-area graduate students skills to close the communication gap between scientists and the public.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Communication is such an essential part of doing research. Exciting experimental results have little impact if you can\u0026rsquo;t properly communicate your findings to others, so I hope that this fellowship will help me to better communicate my research to other scientists as well as the general public,\u0026rdquo; said Wong, who\u0026rsquo;s entering her second year of Ph.D. studies in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWong works with C. Ross Ethier on primary open angle glaucoma, a disease caused by higher-than-normal pressure in the eye that damages the optic nerve. She\u0026rsquo;s focused on finding ways to increase flow in the eye\u0026rsquo;s trabecular meshwork, tissues that normally drain fluid from the eye to maintain proper pressure but that stiffen in glaucoma.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScience ATL Communication Fellows spend a year learning about and practicing narrative storytelling, how to tailor information to specific audiences, and strategies for demonstrations and public programs related to their field of study. The fellows this year are studying biosciences, chemistry, aerospace engineering, psychology and more at Emory and Georgia Tech as well as Morehouse School of Medicine and Georgia State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student Cydney Wong is passionate about spreading awareness about glaucoma in communities where it is more common and, often, more severe.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ph.D. student Cydney Wong is passionate about spreading awareness about glaucoma in communities where it is more common and, often, more severe."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-07-27 19:01:56","changed_gmt":"2021-07-27 19:01:56","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"649082":{"id":"649082","type":"image","title":"Cydney Wong","body":null,"created":"1627412287","gmt_created":"2021-07-27 18:58:07","changed":"1627412287","gmt_changed":"2021-07-27 18:58:07","alt":"Cydney Wong headshot","file":{"fid":"246434","name":"Wong-Cydney-v.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Wong-Cydney-v.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Wong-Cydney-v.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":269447,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Wong-Cydney-v.jpg?itok=6h_Cp4WZ"}}},"media_ids":["649082"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/scienceatl.org\/scicommfellow\/","title":"Science ATL Communication Fellowships"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188362","name":"Cydney Wong"},{"id":"168651","name":"science communication"},{"id":"188301","name":"Science ATL Communication Fellowship"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"649081":{"#nid":"649081","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Singer Wins Young Scholar Award from American Neurological Association","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/myana.org\/\u0022\u003EAmerican Neurological Association\u003C\/a\u003E has recognized \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Annabelle-Singer\u0022\u003EAnnabelle Singer\u003C\/a\u003E for achieving significant stature in neurological research and demonstrating the promise of major contributions to come.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESinger has received a Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholars Award from the association and will \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/2021.myana.org\/program\/speakers\/anabelle-singer-phd\u0022\u003Edeliver a talk about her work virtually in October at the association\u0026rsquo;s 2021 national meeting.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This award is especially gratifying because, coming from the American Neurological Association, it recognizes that our work has important translational impact,\u0026rdquo; said Singer, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0026ldquo;Ultimately, we hope our discoveries lead to new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. All of this would not have been possible without my amazing lab and collaborators at Georgia Tech and Emory.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESinger is one of three to receive young scholars awards this year from the association. She studies how neural activity produces memories and activates the brain\u0026rsquo;s immune system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The individuals recognized this year are conducting exciting work that is transforming our understanding of the brain and helping move treatment forward,\u0026rdquo; said Justin C. McArthur, president of the association and director of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Neurology. \u0026ldquo;We hope that this recognition will inspire the awardees to even greater achievements and encourage a new generation of physician-scientists to pursue careers that bring research and teaching together with clinical practice.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong her recent work, Singer has been \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/early-feasibility-study-shows-flickering-lights-and-sound-could-be-new-weapon-against\u0022\u003Edeveloping an Alzheimer\u0026rsquo;s treatment using flickering light and sound to stimulate gamma waves in the brain\u003C\/a\u003E. In May, she reported the first promising results for the approach in a human feasibility study. That work will form the basis of her Young Neurological Scholars Award talk in October.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026#39;ve discovered that gamma frequency stimulation spurs the brain\u0026#39;s immune system into action, ultimately reducing pathology in mouse models of Alzheimer\u0026#39;s disease. We\u0026#39;ve developed non-invasive light and sound flicker to achieve these effects and tested this in a human trial,\u0026rdquo; Singer said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnnabelle Singer has been recognized for achieving significant stature in neurological research and demonstrating the promise of major contributions to come.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Annabelle Singer has been recognized for achieving significant stature in neurological research and demonstrating the promise of major contributions to come."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-07-26 17:36:13","changed_gmt":"2021-07-27 17:42:34","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"649080":{"id":"649080","type":"image","title":"Annabelle Singer (horiz)","body":null,"created":"1627407369","gmt_created":"2021-07-27 17:36:09","changed":"1627407369","gmt_changed":"2021-07-27 17:36:09","alt":"Annabelle Singer headshot","file":{"fid":"246433","name":"Singer-Annabelle-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Singer-Annabelle-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Singer-Annabelle-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":301539,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Singer-Annabelle-h.jpg?itok=HPSKGC3M"}}},"media_ids":["649080"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/myana.org\/","title":"American Neurological Association"},{"url":"https:\/\/2021.myana.org\/program\/speakers\/anabelle-singer-phd","title":"Annabelle Singer\u0027s Talk at the ANA Annual Meeting"},{"url":"https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/early-feasibility-study-shows-flickering-lights-and-sound-could-be-new-weapon-against","title":"Read More: Early Feasibility Study Shows Flickering Lights and Sound Could Be New Weapon Against Alzheimer\u0027s"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181421","name":"Annabelle Singer"},{"id":"188361","name":"American Neurological Association"},{"id":"44881","name":"Alzheimer\u0027s Disease"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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Despite the impact and widespread nature of coronary artery disease, gaps in information make treating the condition a challenge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the support of a four-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Brooks-Lindsey\u0022\u003EBrooks Lindsey\u003C\/a\u003E will \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/reporter.nih.gov\/project-details\/10298582\u0022\u003Elead a team developing an imaging system to fill these gaps and guide treatment based on assessing the risk of heart attack in patients with coronary artery disease.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMany of those patients are treated via a minimally-invasive procedure that places a stent to re-open arteries that have become narrowed with plaques. Partially occluded coronary arteries can result in heart attack in some of these patients. However, other patients have a similar blockage but have stable disease and do not require intervention. The challenge is deciding which patients are which.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In the cardiac catheterization lab where these procedures are performed, there are a number of separate approaches for quantifying functional markers, such as local blood pressure, blood flow velocity, and plaque composition. However, all of these tools function independently and in isolation from one another,\u0026rdquo; said Lindsey, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0026ldquo;Most are one-dimensional measurements, which makes it difficult to measure everything going on in the complex, 3D, local biomechanical environment. This includes tissue and plaque mechanical properties, artery geometry, and hemodynamics, all of which vary dynamically as the heart beats.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile current tools can measure blood flow velocity or blood pressure and characterize plaque composition independently, all of these factors together contribute to the likelihood of plaque rupture and heart attack. No current method can acquire all this information with spatial and temporal information intact.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELindsey\u0026rsquo;s lab will address this gap by developing a tiny ultrasound imaging device approximately 1 millimeter in diameter to measure these properties in 3D from the tip of the catheter during procedures in the cardiac catheterization lab. Their approach will be designed to allow simultaneous measurement of blood flow velocity, mechanical properties of tissue, and artery geometry for the first time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;More than 1 million cardiac catheterizations are performed each year in the U.S.,\u0026rdquo; Lindsey said. \u0026ldquo;Even patients who ultimately do not require intervention undergo diagnostic catheterization, but there is no way to measure all the properties simultaneously. The goal of this project is to develop a system that uses ultrasound on the tip of catheter to give cardiologists a complete picture of the patient\u0026rsquo;s individual anatomy and physiology, including dynamic behavior in coronary arteries as the heart beats. This imaging information, in turn, allows development of improved computational models of coronary arteries in health and disease.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELindsey will lead engineering efforts, including development of the imaging device and algorithms to quantify hemodynamics. Clinical aspects of the project will be handled by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doctors.nghs.com\/provider\/Habib+Samady\/1805181\u0022\u003EHabib Samady\u003C\/a\u003E, a cardiologist at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville who is an expert in imaging hemodynamics in clinical practice. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.math.emory.edu\/people\/faculty\/individual.php?NUM=126\u0022\u003EAlessandro Veneziani\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in Emory\u0026rsquo;s Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, will lead computational modeling efforts. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.surgery.emory.edu\/about-us\/faculty_directory\/faculty_profile_muralidhar_padala.html\u0022\u003EMuralidhar Padala\u003C\/a\u003E, director of the Structural Heart Research \u0026amp; Innovation Program and associate professor in Emory\u0026rsquo;s Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, will lead testing in coronary artery disease models. Coulter BME Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/John-Oshinski\u0022\u003EJohn Oshinski\u003C\/a\u003E will provide expertise in imaging-derived fluid dynamics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe catheter-based ultrasound system will simultaneously measure plaque composition, artery structure, and hemodynamics in 3D.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The catheter-based ultrasound system will simultaneously measure plaque composition, artery structure, and hemodynamics in 3D"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-07-22 14:20:06","changed_gmt":"2021-07-22 14:20:06","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648982":{"id":"648982","type":"image","title":"Catheter Ultrasound Design","body":null,"created":"1626960177","gmt_created":"2021-07-22 13:22:57","changed":"1626960177","gmt_changed":"2021-07-22 13:22:57","alt":"Proposed design of a 1mm catheter-based ultrasound device designed to simultaneously measure plaque composition, artery structure, and hemodynamics in 3D in coronary arteries. 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Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"180398","name":"coronary artery imaging"},{"id":"94271","name":"coronary artery disease"},{"id":"7677","name":"ultrasound"},{"id":"23701","name":"heart attack"},{"id":"188318","name":"Brooks Lindsey"},{"id":"2270","name":"National Institutes of Health"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=303000\u0026amp;org=NSF\u0026amp;from=news\u0022\u003EMargulies will step down as chair in August to answer that call\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026mdash; as head of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/dir\/index.jsp?org=ENG\u0022\u003EDirectorate of Engineering at the U.S. National Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E (NSF). She is the first biomedical engineer to lead the directorate, which supports fundamental research, enhances the nation\u0026rsquo;s innovation through a range of initiatives, and is a driving force behind the training and development of the United States\u0026rsquo; engineering workforce. Margulies appointment at the NSF begins in mid-August.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Susan\u0026rsquo;s NSF appointment will impact the nation, and I congratulate her on this high honor,\u0026rdquo; said Vikas P. Sukhatme, dean of the Emory School of Medicine and Woodruff Professor. \u0026ldquo;Her leadership at Coulter BME over the last four years has been transformative. I have enjoyed working closely with her and respect the high standards she has set for all our missions.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMargulies has been chair of Coulter BME since August 2017, overseeing a unique collaboration between a leading public engineering school and a highly respected private medical school that graduates more women and underrepresented students than any other biomedical engineering program in the nation. She is the first woman to chair a basic science department in the Emory School of Medicine and the second woman chair in the history of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThough she\u0026rsquo;s stepping down as chair of the Coulter Department, Margulies will remain a member of the Emory and Georgia Tech faculties.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I congratulate Susan on this incredible honor and opportunity to serve our nation at the National Science Foundation,\u0026quot; said Raheem Beyah, dean and Southern Company Chair of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Engineering. \u0026ldquo;She has served as a pioneer while leading BME, diligently working to increase access and diversity, while also strengthening our cross-university collaboration with a sincere commitment to research excellence.\u0026nbsp;I look forward to continuing the College\u0026rsquo;s partnership with the NSF as Susan and the Foundation expand its engineering goals and initiatives.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs chair, Margulies worked to building a deeper sense of community in Coulter BME, including increasing shared governance with faculty, staff, and students and convening a 50-member committee charged with developing and implementing programs to boost the Department\u0026rsquo;s community, diversity, and inclusion. Margulies helped raise $41 million in philanthropic gifts to support the Department; led development of a new strategic plan for Coulter BME to increase impact, enhance engagement, and enrich community; and provided leadership to campus-wide strategic planning efforts at both Emory and Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The opportunity to serve the NSF resonates with my values \u0026mdash; catalyzing impact through innovation, rigor, partnership, and inclusion. It\u0026rsquo;s an irresistible invitation, and it has to be to pull me away from my Coulter BME family,\u0026rdquo; Margulies said. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m so proud to have worked alongside this unmatched group of students, staff, and faculty in our shared drive to improve health and well-being.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBuilding on initiatives she developed at the University of Pennsylvania, Margulies prioritized\u0026nbsp;career development for\u0026nbsp;faculty members and\u0026nbsp;Ph.D. graduates\u0026nbsp;during her years leading Coulter BME. She added dedicated staff to help doctoral students prepare for increasingly popular career paths outside of academia. The Department increased the diversity of Ph.D. students and improved faculty diversity at all ranks during her tenure. Margulies oversaw hiring of 20 new faculty members and launched formalized mentoring for early career professors, including creating a new associate chair position dedicated to faculty development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMargulies also introduced a new leadership position, executive director of learning and training, to formalize the integration of pioneering teaching methods developed through federal and foundation grants. These initiatives infuse elements of story-driven learning across the curriculum and build inclusive environments in required courses and research labs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMargulies\u0026rsquo; popular weekly office hours with the chair were a year-round forum for students to share their ideas and consult with her one-on-one on all kinds of topics. Those weekly hours became one of her favorite parts of the job.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our students inspire me, and these conversations emboldened students\u0026nbsp;to create their unique pathways to\u0026nbsp;integrate who they are with\u0026nbsp;their studies in\u0026nbsp;biomedical engineering\u0026nbsp;\u0026mdash; to become who they want to be,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMuch as she has in the Coulter Department and throughout her career, Margulies said, she plans to forge partnerships in her new role across industry, foundations, academia, and around the world to help NSF address some of the most pressing challenges in science and engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Susan Margulies\u0026#39; extensive experience and expertise is a valuable addition to the National Science Foundation\u0026#39;s work to advance the frontiers of science and engineering research,\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=303000\u0026amp;org=NSF\u0026amp;from=news\u0022\u003Esaid NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;Her strong leadership combined with her deep knowledge of research translation will help accelerate our nation\u0026#39;s progress to be at the vanguard of discovery and innovation. I am looking forward to her insights and perspectives.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMargulies is a renowned scholar in pediatric traumatic brain injury and lung injury associated with mechanical ventilators, where she has worked to open avenues for prevention, intervention, and treatment. Her career has been marked by interdisciplinary research and education, thanks in part to her training in mechanical and aerospace engineering, bioengineering, and physiology and biophysics. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe has conducted more than $35 million in research with funding from the NSF, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and industry sources. Her research group has trained dozens of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students who\u0026rsquo;ve gone on to careers in consulting, federal agencies, industry, academia, and startups. She is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the Biomedical Engineering Society, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInterim leadership for the Department will be announced soon, along with more details on a search to find the next permanent chair of Coulter BME.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUPDATE JULY 21:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/machelle-pardue-named-interim-chair-coulter-bme\u0022\u003EMachelle Pardue has been named interim chair of the Coulter Department, starting Aug. 16.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMargulies has been chair of Coulter BME since August 2017 and will be the first biomedical engineer to lead the directorate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Margulies has been chair of Coulter BME since August 2017 and will be the first biomedical engineer to lead the directorate."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-07-01 17:10:52","changed_gmt":"2021-07-21 15:36:36","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648488":{"id":"648488","type":"image","title":"Susan Margulies 2020 (vertical)","body":null,"created":"1625087327","gmt_created":"2021-06-30 21:08:47","changed":"1625087327","gmt_changed":"2021-06-30 21:08:47","alt":"Susan Margulies headshot","file":{"fid":"246184","name":"Margulies-Susan-alt-by-Jack-Kearse-Emory-v.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Margulies-Susan-alt-by-Jack-Kearse-Emory-v.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Margulies-Susan-alt-by-Jack-Kearse-Emory-v.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":273000,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Margulies-Susan-alt-by-Jack-Kearse-Emory-v.jpg?itok=kGl7xk7-"}}},"media_ids":["648488"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=303000\u0026org=NSF\u0026from=news","title":"NSF selects Susan S. 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Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"184882","name":"Susan Margulies"},{"id":"362","name":"National Science Foundation"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"},{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, effective Aug. 16.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPardue is the Department\u0026rsquo;s associate chair for faculty development and has been a member of the Coulter BME faculty since 2015, when she moved her academic appointment from the Emory University Department of Ophthalmology. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/s1.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/susan-margulies-appointed-lead-nsf-engineering-directorate\u0022\u003EShe takes over for Susan Margulies, who has been appointed head of the Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I welcome the opportunity to lead the transition to a new chair for the Coulter Department and to continue to promote the success of our one department on two campuses,\u0026rdquo; Pardue said. \u0026ldquo;I am focused on supporting the positive culture of innovation, inclusion, and impact in Coulter BME that we have built together.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPardue\u0026rsquo;s research focuses on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pardue.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Edeveloping life-changing treatments for people with vision loss\u003C\/a\u003E, particularly those with retinal degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and myopia. Her work has been supported by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and private industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In addition to conducting high-impact research, Machelle has been a tremendous advocate for our faculty by formalizing mentoring programs and advancing initiatives to promote diversity,\u0026rdquo; said\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003ERaheem Beyah, dean of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Engineering and Southern Company Chair. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m thankful for her willingness to lead the Department during this time of transition and confident in her ability to expand programs that serve BME\u0026rsquo;s students and faculty.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more than 20 years, Pardue has been a leading teacher and researcher in Atlanta. In addition to her positions at Emory and Georgia Tech, Pardue is a research career scientist at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and executive associate director of the Atlanta VA Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With more than 20 years of experience in research and education at Emory, the Atlanta VA, and Georgia Tech, Dr. Pardue\u0026rsquo;s track record of collaboration and expertise in navigating multiple institutions position her well to lead this joint Department,\u0026rdquo; said Vikas P. Sukhatme, dean of the Emory School of Medicine and Woodruff Professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPardue earned her doctorate in vision science and biology at the University of Waterloo and completed her postdoctoral training in visual electrophysiology at Loyola School of Medicine and the Hines VA Hospital in Chicago. Her bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree is in zoology from the University of Wyoming.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoulter BME is a unique public-private partnership that combines the resources of a highly respected private medical school and a top-ranked public engineering college. The Department is the linchpin of the many collaborations and partnerships between Emory and Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyah and Sukhatme will appoint a committee in the coming weeks to begin the search for the next permanent chair of the Coulter Department.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPardue is the Department\u0026#39;s associate chair for faculty development and a research leader at the Atlanta VA.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Pardue is the Department\u0027s associate chair for faculty development and a research leader at the Atlanta VA"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-07-21 14:35:55","changed_gmt":"2021-07-21 15:32:17","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648957":{"id":"648957","type":"image","title":"Machelle Pardue (vertical)","body":null,"created":"1626877931","gmt_created":"2021-07-21 14:32:11","changed":"1626877931","gmt_changed":"2021-07-21 14:32:11","alt":"Machelle Pardue headshot","file":{"fid":"246375","name":"Pardue-Machelle-v.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pardue-Machelle-v.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pardue-Machelle-v.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":286255,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Pardue-Machelle-v.jpg?itok=6gLmc1Rq"}}},"media_ids":["648957"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/susan-margulies-appointed-lead-nsf-engineering-directorate","title":"Read More: \u0022Susan Margulies Appointed to Lead NSF Engineering Directorate\u0022"},{"url":"https:\/\/pardue.gatech.edu\/","title":"Pardue Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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It appears to act as a critical blood flow sensor, keeping everything humming along as it should when blood flow is good and turning on inflammatory signals, a critical step toward atherosclerosis, when blood flow is bad.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJo wants to know just how HEG1 works \u0026mdash; with the hope that a deeper understanding could lead to new options for preventing or curing atherosclerotic diseases \u0026mdash; and he has the chance with a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/reporter.nih.gov\/project-details\/10272942\u0022\u003Enew $2.68 million grant from the National Institutes of Health\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are really excited about this flow-sensitive protein, HEG1, because this could be potentially a new sensor that detects how blood is flowing in the vessel \u0026mdash; whether it goes one way or multiple directions, at a high speed or low speed \u0026mdash; and this flow sensor could then play a very important role in preventing or causing atherosclerosis,\u0026rdquo; said Jo, Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Chair and Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0026ldquo;We have shown some evidence, which allowed us to get this grant, that good flow makes more of this HEG1 gene and protein, preventing inflammation. If you have a bad flow, this potential flow sensor is reduced, causing inflammation.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJo described the protein produced by the HEG1 gene like a big tree with lots of branches sticking out to catch the wind as it blows. The HEG1 protein has branches jutting out from endothelial cells into arteries to catch the blood flowing by: \u0026ldquo;It is just perfectly shaped and positioned, but nobody has studied it. So, we are studying it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScientists have known for a while that HEG1 is important. Other researchers removed the gene in zebrafish and mice and the results were catastrophic: blood vessels \u0026mdash; normally tightly sealed conduits \u0026mdash; started to leak, and hearts without HEG1 grew very large and very fragile. That\u0026rsquo;s where HEG1 gets its name: It\u0026rsquo;s the \u0026ldquo;heart of glass\u0026rdquo; gene.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe question now is, does HEG1 have another crucial role in cardiovascular disease?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJo and his team \u0026mdash; including M.D.\/Ph.D. student Ian Tamargo and postdoctoral fellow Aitor Andueza \u0026mdash; want to establish the link. If it\u0026rsquo;s there, it opens up new targets for therapies to treat atherosclerosis, a disease that can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and peripheral artery disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We already know how important HEG1 is,\u0026rdquo; Jo said. \u0026ldquo;We just don\u0026#39;t know whether flow has anything to do with it and whether it really plays a role as a sensor. And if it does act as a sensor, then how does it control the atherosclerosis-related functions? These are all unknown questions.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the four-year NIH project, Jo and his team will dive deeply into how HEG1 works. Extending Jo\u0026#39;s tree analogy, researchers will trim the tree in different ways to see how cells respond. They may adjust how the roots grow \u0026mdash; Jo said the junction between the protein outside the cell and inside of the cell looks like it could be a critical sensing area. Maybe they\u0026#39;ll remove the tree altogether, or keep the tree in some areas but not in others. All of that will help them understand the mechanisms of HEG1\u0026#39;s functions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJo\u0026rsquo;s collaborators will be key in the investigation, including several Coulter BME researchers: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/James-Dahlman\u0022\u003EJames Dahlman\u0026rsquo;s lab\u003C\/a\u003E will help to develop ways to either delete or overexpress various forms of the HEG1 gene in the artery walls of mice; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Cheng-Zhu\u0022\u003ECheng Zhu\u0026rsquo;s lab\u003C\/a\u003E will help with studies to quantify how much and what types of mechanical forces can turn on or off the HEG1 molecule\u0026rsquo;s response at the single-cell level; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Sung-Jin-Park\u0022\u003ESung Jin Park\u003C\/a\u003E will study calcium signaling in live cells in response to flow; and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Sandeep-Kumar\u0022\u003ESandeep Kumar\u003C\/a\u003E will carry out single cell RNA sequencing studies to understand the effect of HEG1 in cells, animals, and human patient tissues with atherosclerosis. Emory cardiologist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/med.emory.edu\/directory\/profile\/?u=KGRIEND\u0022\u003EKathy Griendling\u003C\/a\u003E will collaborate on understanding how HEG1 signals inside the cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We will really look inside the cells and explore the inflammatory response that is happening,\u0026rdquo; Jo said. \u0026ldquo;If the HEG1 proteins are sensing blood flow, what are the next steps? Are they talking to other proteins? Which ones, and how do they trigger the next events?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Knowing that detail of the mechanisms will actually help us to figure out how to develop therapeutics.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHEG1 appears to act as a blood flow sensor that plays a critical role in preventing or causing atherosclerosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"HEG1 appears to act as a blood flow sensor that plays a critical role in preventing or causing atherosclerosis"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-07-19 15:13:05","changed_gmt":"2021-07-19 15:13:05","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648871":{"id":"648871","type":"image","title":"Red Blood Cell Illustration","body":null,"created":"1626706425","gmt_created":"2021-07-19 14:53:45","changed":"1626706425","gmt_changed":"2021-07-19 14:53:45","alt":"Illustration of red blood cells in a blood vessel. 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However, the entire Jeopardy! crew was super energetic and friendly and they helped make the experience memorable,\u0026rdquo; said Shah, a first-year Ph.D. student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My experience was a bit different than usual because of Covid-19 protocols, but I loved getting to meet the other contestants and hear their stories. They\u0026#39;re all so bright and come from such different backgrounds,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShah has been trying for a few years to make it through the highly competitive screening process to appear on Jeopardy! Of the thousands who try, only about 400 make it to the stage each season. He passed the online test in the fall and had an audition over Zoom earlier this year. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t the first time he\u0026rsquo;d made it that far in the process: he passed the test and auditioned in-person for the College Championship and the regular show as a second-year undergraduate at Virginia Tech. Aspiring contestants only remain in the active pool for 18 months after an audition, however, and he never got the call back then.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis time, it was only a few weeks before producers invited him to Los Angeles for a taping.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Being on stage honestly feels a bit surreal, and it is very different compared to playing along at home,\u0026rdquo; Shah said. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026#39;s so easy to sit at home and say, \u0026lsquo;Wow, I can\u0026#39;t believe none of the contestants answered that clue correctly,\u0026rsquo; but Jeopardy! is nerve-wracking, and things on TV sometimes don\u0026#39;t always go smoothly. The host may misspeak, or the judges may have to make a lengthy ruling on an answer. All those little things can interrupt what viewers perceive as a constant flow of the game.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere\u0026rsquo;s also that famed buzzer \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;which Shah called the \u0026ldquo;great equalizer.\u0026rdquo; Contestants who buzz in before the host finishes reading the clue are locked out for a fraction of a second. That\u0026rsquo;s all it takes to lose a shot at providing a response. Like many contestants, Shah said he spent a great deal of time practicing his buzzer technique at home with a clicker pen.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a fun twist, Shah\u0026rsquo;s appearance coincided with the guest-hosting stint of fellow Atlantan and CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;His easygoing personality was great for the show. He is definitely someone I admire and have looked up to for his work as a medical professional and correspondent for CNN,\u0026rdquo; Shah said. \u0026ldquo;Meeting him was a dream come true.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/temenoff.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EShah works with Professor Johnna Temenoff\u003C\/a\u003E, where he is focused on biomaterial- and stem-cell-based strategies to treat muscle degeneration after rotator cuff injuries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOf course, there\u0026rsquo;s one answer we don\u0026rsquo;t know: how well Shah did in his turn behind a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jeopardy.com\/\u0022\u003EJeopardy!\u003C\/a\u003E podium. We\u0026rsquo;ll all have to watch July 7 to find out.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUPDATE:\u003C\/strong\u003E Shah started slow but stormed to the lead and entered Final Jeopardy! ahead of his two competitors. 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Yet they\u0026rsquo;re all changing the world for the better wherever they are \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;which has earned them a place among the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtalumni.org\/40under40\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Alumni Association\u0026rsquo;s 2021 class of 40 Under 40\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere are the six alumni from the Wallace H. 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I remain in touch with many of my former classmates; their success is inspirational,\u0026rdquo; Al-Husseini says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtalumni.org\/s\/1481\/alumni\/19\/interior.aspx?sid=1481\u0026amp;gid=21\u0026amp;pgid=21302\u0026amp;cid=47461\u0026amp;ecid=47461\u0026amp;crid=0\u0026amp;calpgid=21309\u0026amp;calcid=47776\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAmbika Bumb,\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EBME 2005\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPresident\u0026#39;s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology | White House\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My initial exposure at Georgia Tech to developing nanotechnology led me to Oxford to do a PhD and then the NIH for two post-docs, all related to nanomedicine. I launched a biotech startup Bikanta from that academic research and for five years enjoyed the nimbleness and innovation that a startup allows for,\u0026rdquo; Bumb says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtalumni.org\/s\/1481\/alumni\/19\/interior.aspx?sid=1481\u0026amp;gid=21\u0026amp;pgid=21316\u0026amp;cid=47521\u0026amp;ecid=47521\u0026amp;crid=0\u0026amp;calpgid=21309\u0026amp;calcid=47776\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECory Sago, Ph.D. BME 2019\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESenior Director, Head of LNP Discovery | Beam Therapeutics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As scientists and engineers, many of us are wired to try to understand the facts of our world (the \u0026lsquo;what\u0026rsquo;). I\u0026rsquo;d encourage GT students and new graduates to also consciously pursue the \u0026lsquo;why\u0026rsquo; behind the world,\u0026rdquo; Sago says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtalumni.org\/s\/1481\/alumni\/19\/interior.aspx?sid=1481\u0026amp;gid=21\u0026amp;pgid=21379\u0026amp;cid=47729\u0026amp;ecid=47729\u0026amp;crid=0\u0026amp;calpgid=21309\u0026amp;calcid=47776\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMike\u0026nbsp;Weiler, BME 2010, MSME 2012, Ph.D. BioE 2015\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECofounder and CEO | LymphaTech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;During grad school at Georgia Tech, I was a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a graduate of the NSF Innovation Corps, and a TI:GER Fellow. The TI:GER program was particularly instrumental in my career, as it provided an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of business model generation and customer discovery applied to my dissertation research. The final business plan that we created in the TI:GER program is very similar to the business plan that LymphaTech still follows today,\u0026rdquo; Weiler says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtalumni.org\/s\/1481\/alumni\/19\/interior.aspx?sid=1481\u0026amp;gid=21\u0026amp;pgid=21314\u0026amp;cid=47513\u0026amp;ecid=47513\u0026amp;crid=0\u0026amp;calpgid=21309\u0026amp;calcid=47776\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVarun Yarabarla, BME 2016\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDevelopment Lead | VentLife\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I was honestly a little disappointed that I would be leaving engineering behind when I chose to pursue medical school. However, when there is a will, people can always find a way; in medical school, I still used my engineering-based computer coding skill to land a position in a distinguished neurology lab,\u0026rdquo; Yarabarla says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtalumni.org\/s\/1481\/alumni\/19\/interior.aspx?sid=1481\u0026amp;gid=21\u0026amp;pgid=21310\u0026amp;cid=47496\u0026amp;ecid=47496\u0026amp;crid=0\u0026amp;calpgid=21309\u0026amp;calcid=47776\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EY. 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Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"15050","name":"40 under 40"},{"id":"170066","name":"Mahdi Al-Husseini"},{"id":"188261","name":"Ambika Bumb"},{"id":"188262","name":"Cory Sago"},{"id":"73751","name":"Mike Weiler"},{"id":"188263","name":"Varun Yarabarla"},{"id":"188264","name":"Y. Shrike Zhang"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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The goal is to better understand the functional changes in the brain from the stimulation, which induces a small, safe electrical current in targeted areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Despite the significant impact of TMS in treating PTSD patients, an unresolved issue is that the response varies across individuals,\u0026rdquo; said Sendi, who is pursuing his doctorate in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0026ldquo;Quantifying transcranial magnetic stimulation\u0026rsquo;s functional and neurophysiological effects and their link to changes in symptom severity is an essential step towards understanding TMS\u0026rsquo;s neural mechanisms and developing more effective, and individualized, TMS therapies.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thefnnr.org\/grants-and-awards\/bio-medical-instruments-mini-grant\/\u0022\u003EThe $3,000 mini-grant\u003C\/a\u003E was designed to support projects with the potential of enhancing knowledge of basic processes involved in neuromodulation methods or understanding the clinical effects of those methods, especially in under-researched areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESendi will integrate his portable EEG approach before, during, and after brain stimulation treatments that are part of the ongoing \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/psychiatry.emory.edu\/research\/programs\/ata\/grady_trauma\/index.html\u0022\u003EGrady Trauma Project at Emory\u003C\/a\u003E. 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Axons are the long, thin part of nerve cells that transmit impulses, and diameter influences how fast the information is conducted. She\u0026rsquo;s one of two undergraduates from Georgia Tech selected for the program this summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I was attracted to the program by the variety of project opportunities and the availability of researchers in my field of interest,\u0026rdquo; said Sheft, who is entering her fourth year of studies in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESheft was able to select several potential projects from faculty members across Canada. She interviewed with Martin\u0026rsquo;s lab and was invited to join in their work. Though she wasn\u0026rsquo;t able to travel to Canada because of the ongoing pandemic, she\u0026rsquo;s been deeply involved in data analysis and writing papers and grants.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESheft said she\u0026rsquo;s planning to graduate in December and will be applying to Ph.D. programs in the fall \u0026mdash; making the Fulbright Canada program a valuable experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduate Maxina Sheft is working on a project at the University of Winnipeg using MRI techniques to determine the diameter of axons in the brain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Undergraduate Maxina Sheft is working on a project at the University of Winnipeg using MRI techniques to determine the diameter of axons in the brain"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-07-14 15:27:48","changed_gmt":"2021-07-14 15:27:48","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648750":{"id":"648750","type":"image","title":"Maxina Sheft (vertical)","body":null,"created":"1626276174","gmt_created":"2021-07-14 15:22:54","changed":"1626276174","gmt_changed":"2021-07-14 15:22:54","alt":"Maxina Sheft headshot","file":{"fid":"246259","name":"Sheft-Maxina-v.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sheft-Maxina-v.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sheft-Maxina-v.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":160005,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sheft-Maxina-v.jpg?itok=2HGyCX8D"}}},"media_ids":["648750"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.fulbright.ca\/","title":"Fulbright Canada"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.uwinnipeg.ca\/physics\/people\/melanie-martin.html","title":"Melanie Martin Lab \u2013 University of Winnipeg "}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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It also could help equipment manufacturers reimagine their prototyping and design process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the last year and a half, Caroline Means has been designing a putter using an advanced metal-depositing 3D printer that is usually used to make aircraft parts. Working with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/jud-ready\u0022\u003EJud Ready\u003C\/a\u003E, principal research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the idea was to be able to adjust the putter\u0026rsquo;s key characteristics, toe hang and loft, and explore new kinds of face materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We wanted to design a club that was able to be customized to a golfer in those three areas without having to get a new club or go to a professional and have them bend your club, and without significantly and permanently altering the structure or composition of the club,\u0026rdquo; said Means, a fourth-year student who has pursued the idea as part of a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.undergradresearch.gatech.edu\/content\/presidents-undergraduate-research-awards\u0022\u003EPresident\u0026rsquo;s Undergraduate Research Award\u003C\/a\u003E at Tech. \u0026ldquo;There hasn\u0026#39;t been as much innovation in the area of putter heads, and so, we decided to take on that challenge.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u0026rsquo;s prototype putter is made from stainless steel (eventually they\u0026rsquo;ll explore a multi-material composition), with an innovative shaft attachment method that allows for continuous adjustment of the toe hang. Its face inserts are made of either metal or a polymer created by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.carbon3d.com\/\u0022\u003ECarbon, a California-based 3D-printing company\u003C\/a\u003E. The inserts come in a variety of angles to adjust the club\u0026rsquo;s loft. They can be combined or stacked and easily removed via a unique attachment system Means and Ready created.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The 3D printing in collaboration with mechanical engineering associate professor Chris Saldana gives us an advantage to create structures that could not be machined through traditional methods,\u0026rdquo; Means said. \u0026ldquo;That means that after it\u0026#39;s been manufactured, a golfer can pick what face surface material they want for the putter. They can decide how many degrees of loft is best for the green conditions that day. As their swing changes and improves, they are able to adjust the toe hang of the golf club.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPerhaps it\u0026rsquo;s worth pausing for a quick putter primer: Toe hang is a measure of the center of gravity of the putter, which affects how the clubhead moves during a stroke. The idea is to hit the ball with the putter\u0026rsquo;s face squared up, but every golfer\u0026rsquo;s stroke is different, and most rotate the face during their swing. Changing the toe hang can help the putter and the golfer\u0026rsquo;s swing work together for improved directional control of the ball.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELoft is the angle of the putter face when it rests on the green \u0026mdash; usually just a degree or two. Too little loft, and the ball is pushed into the green when the putter hits it, slowing it down; too much, and the ball may hop at contact instead of rolling. All of that affects whether the ball reaches its intended target: the bottom of the cup.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo create their patent-pending design, Means and Ready contacted the golf pros at Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s historic \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bobbyjonesgc.com\/\u0022\u003EBobby Jones Golf Course\u003C\/a\u003E. They also enlisted a pretty famous Georgia Tech alumnus who knows a thing or two about golf clubs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I come from a unique perspective on things like product development and innovation,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/players\/player.20229.stewart-cink.html\u0022\u003EStewart Cink\u003C\/a\u003E, a former Tech golfer and eight-time winner on the PGA Tour, including two wins in 2021. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026#39;ve got the on-course experience and knowledge, and I\u0026#39;ve been through a lot of product innovation with companies that I\u0026#39;ve worked with in the past. Jud had no way of knowing that it would be something that I would like really like, but this is part of my job that I really enjoy doing.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter many months of design and a nearly day-long printing operation with the help of Saldana\u0026rsquo;s graduate students Elliott Jost and Jaime Berez in Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/manufacturing\/ampf\u0022\u003EAdvanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility\u003C\/a\u003E, Cink and his son Reagan tested the putter this summer at Bobby Jones Golf Course. The Cinks were hooked up to a system that collects mountains of data to help the pros at the course teach golfers about their stroke and where they can improve.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECink said the adjustable putter could help golfers explore new putter configurations that might help their game without breaking the bond they have with their club.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One of the biggest challenges with the pros and their putters is how to go from something that\u0026#39;s really cozy and warm and comfortable to something that has a little bit different specs,\u0026rdquo; Cink said. \u0026ldquo;What their putter does is, it gives you the chance to take the old baby and change a little bit about it at a time. If you decide you want to go back to the other way, just change it back.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESo how does a biomedical engineering student end up elbows-deep in golf putter design?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMeans met Ready when she took two of his courses, including Materials Science and Engineering of Sports.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Caroline was a stand-out student,\u0026rdquo; said Ready, who also leads innovation initiatives at the Georgia Tech Institute for Materials. \u0026ldquo;She asked great questions, got good grades, had wonderful oral presentation and organizational skills \u0026mdash; so I offered her a job after the semester was over.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the class, Ready\u0026rsquo;s class visited Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility, where they learned about Saldana\u0026rsquo;s 3D printer that uses metal powder and lasers to build metal objects. Before long, Ready and Means were thinking about golf clubs and how they might be able to innovate while exploring the potential of the machine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My background in biomedical engineering really came in strong. We spend a lot a lot of time focused on learning how to put users at the center of the design process,\u0026rdquo; Means said. \u0026ldquo;I talked to professionals at Bobby Jones Golf Course to learn what makes a person come back to a putter. Our team wanted to know what kind of things they have to account for when they\u0026#39;re fitting a club to someone, and how we can make this something that is unique and that people will want to use.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis spring, Means and Ready were joined by Brittan Pero, a second-year student in mechanical engineering and an avid golfer who played for Oglethorpe University before transferring to Georgia Tech. He\u0026rsquo;s been helping with the testing, and he has secured his own President\u0026rsquo;s Undergraduate Research Award to continue the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026#39;ve always wanted to design golf clubs, and I saw that Dr. Ready taught a class on engineering of sports equipment, so I figured I\u0026#39;d email him see if there was an internship or maybe undergrad research somewhere in the field,\u0026rdquo; Pero said. \u0026ldquo;It turned out that he had the exact field that I wanted to be in \u0026mdash; putter design \u0026mdash; which is crazy.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile Pero works on refining the putter head to get it closer to a market-ready design, Means is off doing an internship this summer in pursuit of a career in medical device design. She said she hopes their testing data will show the idea is viable and they can create a small startup or even use some of their collaborators\u0026rsquo; connections to club-makers to interest them in the concepts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Caroline will be back in the fall, and I expect the two of them to make even greater advancements as a team,\u0026rdquo; Ready said. \u0026ldquo;I can\u0026rsquo;t wait for Caroline\u0026rsquo;s patent to get fully prosecuted, and for Britt to file his own.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe project\u0026rsquo;s goal is to allow golfers to adjust parts of their club to find a better stroke rather than having to buy a new club.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" The project\u2019s goal is to allow golfers to adjust parts of their club to find a better stroke rather than having to buy a new club."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-07-12 17:14:06","changed_gmt":"2021-07-13 20:08:36","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648694":{"id":"648694","type":"image","title":"3D Printed Putter Closeup","body":null,"created":"1626102187","gmt_created":"2021-07-12 15:03:07","changed":"1626102187","gmt_changed":"2021-07-12 15:03:07","alt":"This custom-designed stainless steel golf putter features continuous adjustment of toe hang and a unique attachment system for custom face inserts to adjust the club\u2019s loft. 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Perhaps more significantly, she said, \u0026ldquo;I also found a passion for community outreach, activism, and mentorship.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd now that she\u0026rsquo;s earned a Ph.D. from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, Lokugamage is ready for the next new experience on her polymathic journey. She\u0026rsquo;ll make the transition this summer from graduate researcher in a university lab to venture capital associate for Massachusetts-based Alloy Therapeutics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As a graduate researcher, I was taught to think critically about data,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;This thinking can help me evaluate and identify promising new technology. Joining Alloy will allow me to apply my deep understanding of drug delivery to new biotech company development.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAtypical Path\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer Ph.D. advisor James Dahlman is confident in what Lokugamage brings to the table, even though going into venture capital straight from a research Ph.D. isn\u0026rsquo;t a typical path.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m not surprised Melissa was able to do it,\u0026rdquo; said Dahlman, assistant professor in the Coulter Department. \u0026ldquo;She can see around corners, so to speak, meaning she is great at identifying large scale trends before others. At the same time, she can evaluate the nitty gritty details of the science.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat attention to the details, the kind of investigative skills developed over years in a lab, will allow Lokugamage, \u0026ldquo;to predict whether a company\u0026rsquo;s scientific foundation is sturdy enough to survive the valley of death between early stage science and the clinic,\u0026rdquo; Dahlman added. \u0026ldquo;I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see what world-changing technologies she helps develop at Alloy.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith her colleagues in Dahlman\u0026rsquo;s lab, Lokugamage\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. research focused on RNA drug delivery. Now she wants to expand on that.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While I enjoyed my time as a scientist and researcher, I was ready to use my understanding of drug delivery and medicine in a new way,\u0026rdquo; Lokugamage said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe didn\u0026rsquo;t really have a career in mind when she entered Missouri, where Lokugamage also earned a minor in women\u0026rsquo;s and gender studies that nurtured her interest in service and community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It started when I took a course on women\u0026rsquo;s health and history,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;The subject was interesting, the students were thoughtful, and it felt deeply personal as a woman of color. I continued to fill my schedule with courses like this. I learned the importance of intersectionality and the role it plays in my life and my career. From there, I started joining service organizations.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EScientific Journey\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMeanwhile, an influential professor provided Lokugamage with the tools to constructively pose important scientific questions, treating her as if she already was a grad student. Early and often, he sent her to speak at conferences. He encouraged her to apply for a summer internship at NASA, where she participated in the space agency\u0026rsquo;s Space Life Science Training Program. At the Ames Research Center in California, she was as a member of the BioSentinel Team, working on development of a biosensor to monitor the long-term effects of radiation on DNA.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe worked in an RNA-focused lab at Missouri, exploring the theory that RNA was the precursor molecule to DNA in the origin of life\u0026nbsp;\u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;and falling hard for the biomolecule. As she considered grad schools, Coulter BME was interesting because, while she\u0026rsquo;d been studying RNA in a more exploratory manner, \u0026ldquo;the Dahlman lab was applying RNA therapies to treat diseases. This felt like a way for me to continue working in the RNA space but grow as well,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELooking back on it, joining Dahlman\u0026rsquo;s research group was almost like a ground-floor opportunity \u0026mdash; he\u0026rsquo;d only been on the Georgia Tech campus a year at the time, \u0026ldquo;and they were building a novel barcoding platform from the ground up,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;It was really exciting. Dr. Dahlman provided the necessary support and guidance I needed to thrive during my Ph.D. The mistakes I made and the insight I gained in that type of environment were invaluable.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlong the way, she developed a deep expertise in drug delivery, according to Dahlman.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Melissa is a rising star, and that expertise will be critical as clinicians work with emerging companies to develop new gene therapies for patients,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother new interest, another new experience, and Lokugamage is ready for it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The space of venture capital and investing are very new to me,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;My biggest goal is to learn as much as possible. 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As a member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/public.csr.nih.gov\/StudySections\/DBIB\/IMST\/CMT\u0022\u003ECellular and Molecular Technologies Study Section\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Ankur-Singh\u0022\u003EAnkur Singh\u003C\/a\u003E will consider applications focused on developing and applying new methods, tools, and techniques for studying cellular processes. LaPlaca is a professor and Singh is an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s truly an honor to serve the NIH. Membership on a study section is a major commitment of professional time and energy as well as a unique opportunity to contribute to the national biomedical research effort,\u0026rdquo; said Singh, who also is a Woodruff Faculty Fellow and a member of the faculty in the George W. 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Singh said the panels provide great value to biomedical research in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Service on a study section also requires mature judgment and objectivity as well as the ability to work effectively in a group, which was quite attractive to me,\u0026rdquo; Singh said. \u0026ldquo;I look forward to serving the NIH and the research community in best possible ways.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELaPlaca\u0026rsquo;s work focuses on traumatic brain injury \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;understanding injury mechanisms to develop better diagnostics and strategies for protection and repair from neurological trauma.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESingh\u0026rsquo;s research centers on creating biomaterials-based \u0026ldquo;living\u0026rdquo; immune organoids or on-chip tissues that mimic lymph node structure and function with application to infectious diseases, inflammatory diseases, and cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey\u0026rsquo;ll serve as members of the study sections for a four-year term.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe panels, called study sections, review grant applications and make recommendations to the agency\u0026rsquo;s national advisory council\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The panels, called study sections, review grant applications and make recommendations to the agency\u2019s national advisory council"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-06-29 18:06:41","changed_gmt":"2021-06-29 18:06:41","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648442":{"id":"648442","type":"image","title":"Ankur Singh and Michelle LaPlaca composite","body":null,"created":"1624989675","gmt_created":"2021-06-29 18:01:15","changed":"1624989675","gmt_changed":"2021-06-29 18:01:15","alt":"Ankur Singh, left, and Michelle LaPlaca, faculty members in the Wallace H. 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Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"8664","name":"Michelle LaPlaca"},{"id":"15184","name":"Ankur Singh"},{"id":"2270","name":"National Institutes of Health"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"648333":{"#nid":"648333","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Grad SGA VP PJ Jarquin Balances Service, PhD Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBiomedical engineering Ph.D. student PJ Jarquin has always been passionate about serving his campus and his fellow students. He has a significant chance to do that this year as executive vice president of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sga.gatech.edu\/grad-exec\/\u0022\u003EGraduate Student Government Association (GSGA)\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt may seem like a big responsibility on top of the all-consuming work of pursuing a doctorate, but it\u0026rsquo;s the kind of thing Jarquin has been doing his whole college career \u0026mdash; first as an undergraduate and then as an executive cabinet member in Tech\u0026rsquo;s Graduate SGA last year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Research and lab work and classes are important, but GSGA is something for me to kind of get away from all the research while still being productive with my time and making a positive impact,\u0026rdquo; said Jarquin, who is entering his third year of doctoral work in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0026ldquo;I really enjoy working to make campus a better place, and SGA has always been my avenue or outlet.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJarquin was \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/2021\/05\/04\/sga-welcomes-new-executives-upcoming-year\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eelected this spring alongside Stephen Eick\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student in computer science. They\u0026rsquo;ll serve over the next year in what Jarquin said is a critical time as more people return to campus and find ways to reconnect and rebuild some of the community that has been lost during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Definitely our main priorities center around student well-being and mental health. There are grad students, and of course also undergrads, who really never got to interact with their peers as much. The biggest challenge is, how do we transition safely to more meaningful interactions that aren\u0026#39;t virtual,\u0026rdquo; Jarquin said, noting that returning to large in-person events will be an adjustment \u0026mdash; albeit an important one.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJarquin said the pandemic has underscored the importance of mental health for students, so he expects he and Eick will work with campus leaders to ensure services meet students where they are.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026#39;s not just adding counselors,\u0026rdquo; he said, praising the satellite counseling program that has put a therapist right in the Whitaker building and other academic spaces to improve access for students. \u0026ldquo;There are particular populations of students that, for counseling sessions, it\u0026rsquo;s important to see someone who understands your specific struggles or specializes in what you\u0026#39;re dealing with. It\u0026#39;d be nice, maybe, for you to have profiles of the counselors and what they specialize in, what they look like, and the kind of experience they have, to select a particular counselor who suits your unique needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re going to develop a lot of initiatives around supporting mental health for students, well-being, and engagement.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOf course, Jarquin will continue to push forward on his graduate work with Coulter BME Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Sakis-Mantalaris\u0022\u003ESakis Mantalaris\u003C\/a\u003E and Emory Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/winshipcancer.emory.edu\/bios\/faculty\/panoskaltsis-nicki.html\u0022\u003ENicki Panoskaltsis\u003C\/a\u003E, who co-lead the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bsel.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBiological Systems Engineering Lab\u003C\/a\u003E. Jarquin studies the process of red blood cell formation called erythropoiesis using a unique 3D model that mimics the architecture of bone marrow and produces functional cells so the team can study the linkages between the marrow microenvironment and the cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The only kind of model that usually can do that is a mouse model. So being able to link that to the human condition really interests me,\u0026rdquo; Jarquin said. In particular, he focuses on anemia and is using the model to find possible treatment targets for the disease. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026#39;s mainly the unknown \u0026mdash; and I guess that\u0026#39;s science in general \u0026mdash; it\u0026#39;s just that there are a lot of unknowns or unanswered questions, and that is what interests me the most about it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJarquin came to Coulter BME after studying biomedical engineering at Mississippi State University. He said he was drawn to the Mantalaris and Panoskaltsis lab because of the collaboration between a bioprocess engineer and a clinician \u0026mdash; a hallmark of the Department he discovered early on in his search for graduate programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn fact, it was a talk by Coulter BME Associate Professor Manu Platt at the Biomedical Engineering Society conference in Atlanta that stuck with Jarquin as he was exploring programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One of the first things that he stressed was that the research isn\u0026#39;t as important as whoever is going to be guiding you through that research,\u0026rdquo; Jarquin said, \u0026ldquo;so that\u0026#39;s the approach I took [looking for an advisor and a lab].\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPerhaps unsurprisingly, Jarquin already has an idea of how he\u0026rsquo;ll blend service and uncovering the unknown even after he leaves Emory and Georgia Tech. He plans to pursue a career as a research scientist at a federal agency, where he wants to ensure underrepresented voices are heard.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;For me, it\u0026#39;s like serving the country,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;You\u0026#39;re not doing it for a financial gain for a company; the research that\u0026#39;s being done belongs to the people, belongs to us.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWorking with the Student Government Association has always been Jarquin\u0026#39;s chance to get out of the lab and still have a positive impact\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Working with the Student Government Association has always been Jarquin\u0027s chance to get out of the lab and still have a positive impact"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-06-24 15:30:08","changed_gmt":"2021-06-24 21:20:18","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648332":{"id":"648332","type":"image","title":"BME Ph.D. Student PJ Jarquin","body":null,"created":"1624548029","gmt_created":"2021-06-24 15:20:29","changed":"1624548053","gmt_changed":"2021-06-24 15:20:53","alt":"PJ Jarquin, Ph.D. student in the Wallace H. 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Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187695","name":"PJ Jarquin"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"14397","name":"graduate sga"},{"id":"11840","name":"graduate student government association"},{"id":"171634","name":"hematology"},{"id":"63841","name":"anemia"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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They\u0026rsquo;re created from stem cells, and often they function only for a month or two.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Sung-Jin-Park\u0022\u003ESung Jin Park\u003C\/a\u003E is working to create a better model of this complex process, one that includes all the different kinds of cells and tissues involved in autonomous cardiac contractions and better reproduces the functions of the sinoatrial node responsible for heart beats. The American Heart Association is investing in the project with a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/professional.heart.org\/en\/research-programs\/application-information\/career-development-award\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethree-year career development award\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026mdash; a highly selective grant intended to recognize and support promising researchers just beginning their careers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I want to recapitulate the unique structure of the sinoatrial node so we can overcome this kind of transient pacemaker behavior,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Sung-Jin-Park\u0022\u003EPark, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo create his model, Park plans to a use a kind of tissue manufacturing that\u0026rsquo;s a bit like the inverse of 3D printing. Rather than depositing lines of cells in layer after layer to bioprint tissues, Park aims to create a layer of cells and then sculpt or etch them using light. By repeating the process with layer after layer of different kinds of cells, he aims to create functional, multicellular organoids that replicate the sinoatrial node.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The career development award presents a great opportunity for me to build my career in cardiac research,\u0026rdquo; said Park, whose training is in mechanical and electrical engineering. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s a stepping stone toward pursuing future research grants from the National Institutes of Health or other significant funding agencies.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe American Heart Association has designed the career development award to help early career scientists develop their skills and prepare them to pursue and win more significant grants. As part of the program, Park built a team of mentors to help him \u0026mdash; senior faculty members who will offer counsel and help guide his scholarship. Park\u0026rsquo;s mentoring team includes Coulter BME faculty members Hee Cheol Cho, Hanjoong Jo, and Shuichi Takayama.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESung Jin Park plans to a use a kind of tissue manufacturing that sculpts or etches layers of cells using light to create functional, multicellular organoids that replicate the functions of the sinoatrial node.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sung Jin Park plans to a use a kind of tissue manufacturing that sculpts or etches layers of cells using light to create functional, multicellular organoids that replicate the functions of the sinoatrial node."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-06-18 16:23:42","changed_gmt":"2021-06-18 16:23:42","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648222":{"id":"648222","type":"image","title":"Sung Jin Park (horiz)","body":null,"created":"1624032936","gmt_created":"2021-06-18 16:15:36","changed":"1624032936","gmt_changed":"2021-06-18 16:15:36","alt":"Sung Jin Park headshot","file":{"fid":"246074","name":"Park-Sung-Jin-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Park-Sung-Jin-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Park-Sung-Jin-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":297447,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Park-Sung-Jin-h.jpg?itok=0AvpVwl9"}}},"media_ids":["648222"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/professional.heart.org\/en\/research-programs\/application-information\/career-development-award","title":"American Heart Association Career Development Award"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Sung-Jin-Park","title":"Sung Jin Park"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188117","name":"sinoatrial node"},{"id":"174313","name":"heartbeat"},{"id":"7104","name":"cardiovascular"},{"id":"185067","name":"3D Bioprinting"},{"id":"188116","name":"Sung Jin Park"},{"id":"188118","name":"American Heart Association"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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I like they are saying the word racism.\u0026rdquo; But he cautioned that the agency may not be moving fast enough to fix structural problems that result in Black scientists receiving far fewer grants, which are critical to supporting faculty members and earning them tenure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s very difficult out there,\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/06\/10\/nih-releases-plan-to-confront-structural-racism-critics-say-its-not-enough\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehe told STAT\u0026rsquo;s Usha Lee McFarling.\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026ldquo;Funding Black investigators needs to be the linchpin.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlatt, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Manu-O-Platt\u0022\u003Eassociate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, was one of several advocates who told STAT the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(21)00631-0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eplan released in the journal \u003Cem\u003ECell\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/a\u003Ewas an important step, but perhaps not enough.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As scientists, administrators, staff, and leaders at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), we take this opportunity to acknowledge that structural racism has been a chronic problem in our society, and biomedical science is far from free of its stain,\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(21)00631-0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ea group of agency leaders, including director Francis Collins, wrote\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;Structural racism has significantly disadvantaged the lives of many people of color across our society, including those who conduct or support the science funded by NIH.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe leaders pledged to \u0026ldquo;enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion and using every tool at our disposal to remediate the chronic problem of structural racism.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/06\/10\/nih-releases-plan-to-confront-structural-racism-critics-say-its-not-enough\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFrom STAT:\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlatt, who was recently asked to advise the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering on diversity issues, said his experience serving on funding review panels showed him that systemic racism plays a clear role, even though race is not listed on grant applications. \u0026ldquo;They look at where people trained, who they trained with, and what institution they\u0026rsquo;re at. If you\u0026rsquo;re at an HBCU (historically Black college and university) or a smaller institution, you get penalized,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;And structural racism may be playing a role in why people are not being hired at those larger institutions to begin with. It all feeds forward.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NIH could easily prioritize funding for scientists from underrepresented groups, Platt said, as it does for early-career scientists to help them establish a funding track record and improve their chances of success and tenure. He said such a program would be a more direct route to increasing racial parity in funding than running programs to help improve the skills of minority scientists, such as grant-writing workshops.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;d like to see more programs that don\u0026rsquo;t want to fix the investigators but want to fix the system,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/06\/10\/nih-releases-plan-to-confront-structural-racism-critics-say-its-not-enough\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead McFarling\u0026rsquo;s full story in STAT.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPlatt and other advocates cautioned, however, that the agency may not be moving fast enough to fix longstanding problems\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Platt and other advocates cautioned, however, that the agency may not be moving fast enough to fix longstanding problems"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-06-11 13:58:29","changed_gmt":"2021-06-11 13:58:29","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648080":{"id":"648080","type":"image","title":"STAT News - NIH Racism Plan screenshot","body":null,"created":"1623418893","gmt_created":"2021-06-11 13:41:33","changed":"1623418893","gmt_changed":"2021-06-11 13:41:33","alt":"A screenshot of a story about the NIH\u0027s plan to address structural racism from STAT News. 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Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"10832","name":"Manu Platt"},{"id":"2270","name":"National Institutes of Health"},{"id":"166918","name":"structural racism"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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Zhang also received a M.S. degree in materials engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2001 and 2002, respectively. She earned her B.S. degree in materials science and engineering from Tongji University in 1995.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZhang\u0026rsquo;s research interests focus on systems-level interdisciplinary problems in wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things, biomedical engineering, structural health monitoring, and intelligent monitoring and diagnostic systems. She has graduated five Ph.D. students and two M.S. students, and is currently advising five Ph.D. students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Zhang has advised nine M.S. special problems students, 48 undergraduate researchers, and 14 capstone design teams during her career at Georgia Tech. She has published more than 130 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings in multiple engineering disciplines. She has been an associate editor of the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Sensors Journal\u003C\/em\u003E since 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZhang is highly involved in enhancing education for both undergraduate and graduate students. As a Provost Teaching and Learning Fellow, she is working with colleagues to develop strategies that can help faculty to incorporate best practices for blended, face-to-face, and online teaching during and after the pandemic. Zhang has developed instructional materials for ECE 2040 Circuit Analysis based on Blended Learning to improve student engagement and learning experiences. In addition, she developed a special topics course, Intellectual Property for Engineers, which has been approved to be offered to both undergraduate and graduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThroughout her career, Zhang has served on many school-, college-, and Institute-level committees, including the ECE Graduate Committee; ECE Undergraduate Committee; ECE Faculty Recruitment Committee; ECE Statutory Advisory Committee; the College of Engineering Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee; General Faculty Assembly Committee; and most recently as a member of the current search committee for the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZhang has received numerous awards for her commitment to excellence in both teaching and research. She received the Lockheed Dean\u0026#39;s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2012, NSF CAREER Award in 2013, Hesburgh Award Teaching Fellow in 2017, TechConnect National Innovation Award (with Zongyang Xia) in 2017, TechConnect Defense Innovation Award (with Zongyang Xia) in 2017, Provost Teaching and Learning Fellow in 2020, and the Georgia Tech Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award (Senior Faculty) in 2021. She was honored in both 2013 and 2017 by being included in the Faces of Inclusive Excellence, a publication produced each year by the Institute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYing Zhang has been appointed as the senior associate chair for the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1, 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ying Zhang has been appointed as the senior associate chair for the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective August 1, 2021."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2021-06-08 18:33:07","changed_gmt":"2021-06-08 18:33:07","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"129561":{"id":"129561","type":"image","title":"Ying Zhang","body":null,"created":"1449178634","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:37:14","changed":"1475894754","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:54","alt":"Ying Zhang","file":{"fid":"194616","name":"ying_zhang.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ying_zhang_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ying_zhang_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":91810,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ying_zhang_0.jpg?itok=9bawdfOD"}}},"media_ids":["129561"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/ying-zhang","title":"Ying Zhang"},{"url":"http:\/\/zhang.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Sensors and Intelligent Systems Laboratory"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"33141","name":"Ying Zhang"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"188007","name":"Sensors and Intelligent Systems Laboratory"},{"id":"188008","name":"systems-level engineering"},{"id":"175887","name":"wireless sensor networks"},{"id":"68951","name":"Internet of Things"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"188009","name":"structural health monitoring"},{"id":"188010","name":"intelligent monitoring"},{"id":"188011","name":"diagnostic systems"},{"id":"83401","name":"IEEE Sensors Journal"},{"id":"177708","name":"blended learning"},{"id":"188012","name":"online teaching"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"647815":{"#nid":"647815","#data":{"type":"news","title":"COLOR Magazine Honors Haynes with Innovator in STEM Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECOLOR Magazine has recognized Karmella Haynes as a leading innovator in science, technology, engineering, and math at its inaugural \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/colormagazine.com\/women-of-color-stem-achievement-awards\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWomen of COLOR STEM Achievement Awards\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHaynes was one of the eight women celebrated at a virtual ceremony in late May. The Innovator in STEM is \u0026ldquo;a leader who identifies, supports, and promotes innovative practices that address important challenges in expanding access to quality STEM education,\u0026rdquo; according to the magazine. Award nominations came from scientists and health professionals across the country.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am honored to receive this year\u0026rsquo;s Women of COLOR STEM Achievement Award for innovation in STEM,\u0026rdquo; Haynes said in her acceptance remarks. \u0026ldquo;Thank you to the award committee for this great opportunity.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Karmella-Haynes\u0022\u003EHaynes is an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech and Emory University, where she uses engineering and molecular biology to design and build proteins that target and control cancer cells. She\u0026rsquo;s especially focused on triple-negative breast cancer, which disproportionately affects Black women.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHaynes also has created the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aiche.org\/sbe\/conferences\/afrobiotech-conference\/2020\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAfroBiotech Conference\u003C\/a\u003E to showcase the innovation, contributions, and leadership of the diverse engineering community and to inspire the next generation of students and scholars. In its two years, Haynes said the conference has highlighted innovations from more than 200 young and established Black scientists.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Beyond my own research, I hope to grow a biotech community here in the Southeast that offers more lucrative and flexible opportunities to our marginalized community,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoulter BME assistant professor recognized as leader who works to expand access to quality STEM education\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Coulter BME assistant professor recognized as leader who works to expand access to quality STEM education"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-05-28 14:06:24","changed_gmt":"2021-05-28 14:06:24","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602068":{"id":"602068","type":"image","title":"Karmella Haynes, Ph.D. (vertical)","body":null,"created":"1518030773","gmt_created":"2018-02-07 19:12:53","changed":"1622210932","gmt_changed":"2021-05-28 14:08:52","alt":"Karmella Haynes, Ph.D. headshot","file":{"fid":"229471","name":"Karmella Haynes 1_small.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Karmella%20Haynes%201_small_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Karmella%20Haynes%201_small_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":76729,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Karmella%20Haynes%201_small_0.jpg?itok=1I2Nbe8T"}}},"media_ids":["602068"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Karmella-Haynes","title":"Karmella Haynes"},{"url":"https:\/\/colormagazine.com\/women-of-color-stem-achievement-awards\/","title":"Women of Color STEM Achievement Awards"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.aiche.org\/sbe\/conferences\/afrobiotech-conference\/2020","title":"AfroBiotech Conference"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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He has proven to be a talented and enthusiastic advocate for our programs, and I look forward to tapping his creativity and leadership in a new way,\u0026rdquo; said Susan Margulies, Wallace H. Coulter Chair of the Department. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m also deeply grateful to Mike Davis for his guidance and dedication over the last five years. He has been a tireless champion for our students and graduate programs.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlatt said he will build on a long tradition of success that includes a true commitment to diversity and inclusion, engaging and empowering students to chart their own unique path, and preparing graduates for success across a variety of careers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As an alumnus of this Ph.D. program, I take great pride in this program,\u0026rdquo; Platt said. \u0026ldquo;I truly believe that we have the best program in the country, and I am grateful for the opportunity to build on our many strengths and long tradition of success.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlatt has led the Department\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/graduate\u0022\u003Egraduate admissions\u003C\/a\u003E and recruiting efforts for the last four years, helping establish Coulter BME as a leader in attracting and retaining students from historically underrepresented backgrounds. He also serves as deputy director of the interdisciplinary bioengineering graduate program at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlatt said his priorities as associate chair will include adding greater structure to the student-advisor matching process, creating more opportunities for new students to meet and interact with faculty members, and improving mental health training to help students distinguish between transient issues and more severe problems. He said he would like to use thesis and dissertation committees to foster new connections and collaborations among faculty members. And he plans to offer more professional development and career planning guidance for students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While an academic career is rewarding and exciting, the truth is that a number of our graduates will not pursue this pathway. Preparation for success in all career paths empowers students to choose their own adventures \u0026mdash; whether industry, government, nonprofit, entrepreneurship, and more. This is a critical component of developing the whole biomedical engineer that we must retain and strengthen,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlatt has been a member of the Coulter BME faculty for more than a decade. His research focuses on understanding how cells sense, respond to, and remodel their immediate mechanical and biochemical environments for tissue repair and regeneration. 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Now researchers at Keio University in Japan, Cincinnati Children\u0026rsquo;s Hospital Medical Center, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Emory University have discovered that the protective effects of violet light depend on a newly discovered photoreceptor protein in the eye called OPN5, or neuropsin, which was known to be sensitive to violet light.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Among all the light that reaches our eyes, we have known for sure that violet light is special,\u0026rdquo; says \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/lab.ophthal.med.keio.ac.jp\/program\/kuriharas-lab\u0022\u003EToshihide Kurihara, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor at Keio University in Japan\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;The human eye seems to use it as a clue to control its size, whereas we knew neither the mechanism nor the necessity behind this phenomenon. We believe to elucidate this mystery might be the key to stop myopia pandemic and worked on it for years.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA few years ago, the Keio team reported that violet light could prevent myopia progression. Violet light is abundant in outdoor sunlight but largely absent indoors, where it\u0026rsquo;s not emitted by artificial lights and ultraviolet protective coatings on windows also filter out violet light wavelengths.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a paper \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2018840118\u0022\u003Epublished online May 24 in the \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the research team explained the molecular mechanism behind this violet light effect on myopia progression and presented a new function of the OPN5 protein. OPN5 is part of a group of photoreceptor proteins called opsins found in the membranes of cells that are not involved in forming visual images but that play other important roles in the eye.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers used an established mouse model of myopia to demonstrate that without OPN5, violet light did nothing to halt elongation of the eye. Mice without the OPN5 protein also saw continued thinning of the choroid, a vascular layer that decreases in thickness in myopic eyes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Cincinnati Children\u0026rsquo;s, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cincinnatichildrens.org\/bio\/l\/richard-lang\u0022\u003ERichard Lang, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E, has played a key role in detailing unexpected roles that opsins play in the skin and the brain in addition to the eye. Some of his previous work has shown that Opsin 5\u0026nbsp; could regulate dopamine levels in the eye.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause dopamine has a role in myopia development, he says, \u0026ldquo;it then became obvious that Opsin 5 was likely to be the light sensor that explained the observations of the Keio group \u0026mdash; that violet light could suppress myopia. When we approached Machelle Pardue, Toshi Kurihara, and Kazuo Tsubota, they were keen to assess this question. My group has been delighted to take part in this collaboration.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnderstanding how violet light protects against worsening myopia is key as the condition\u0026rsquo;s prevalence accelerates. Already, roughly a third of people around the world are myopic, and some projections suggest nearly 5 billion people will have the condition by 2050. Nearsightedness typically begins in school-age children, and it\u0026rsquo;s often not considered a significant problem since it can be corrected with glasses. Yet, in China, myopia is the second-leading cause of blindness.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESlowing or stopping the changes in the eye that lead to myopia will limit the number of people who develop what\u0026rsquo;s called high myopia\u0026mdash;elongation so severe that it can lead to detached retinas, glaucoma, and other problems that cause vision loss. A \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26875007\/\u0022\u003E2016 study in the journal \u003Cem\u003EOphthalmology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E predicted nearly 10% of the world\u0026rsquo;s population will have high myopia by 2050.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This study really does point to the fact that violet light is protective, and now there\u0026#39;s a mechanism, this OPN5, that may underlie that,\u0026rdquo; says \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Machelle-Pardue\u0022\u003EMachelle Pardue, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory and a co-author of the study. \u0026ldquo;Next is to understand how you could use violet light to be protective in the human population. There are still some mechanistic aspects that need to be investigated to really understand how OPN5 may be doing this. This process is complex \u0026mdash; if OPN5 is detecting violet light, it still has to have some sort of signaling molecule that\u0026#39;s telling the eye to grow excessively.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe time of day of any potential violet-light therapy for myopia also could matter. The researchers exposed mice to the light at different times of day, and their data showed treatment in the evening hours seemed to be most effective.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (grant No. 18K09424); the Tsubota Laboratory, Inc.; the United States National Eye Institute (grant Nos. EY016435, EY027077, EY027711; the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (grant No. IK6 RX003134; and the Emma and Irving Goldman Scholar Endowed Chair at Cincinnati Children\u0026rsquo;s Hospital Medical Center. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of any funding agency.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInternational team uncovers the mechanism in eyes that allows violet light to stop the progression of myopia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"International team uncovers the mechanism in eyes that allows violet light to stop the progression of myopia."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-05-25 13:44:06","changed_gmt":"2021-05-25 13:44:06","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647714":{"id":"647714","type":"image","title":"OPN5 Expression in Mouse Retina","body":null,"created":"1621900332","gmt_created":"2021-05-24 23:52:12","changed":"1621900332","gmt_changed":"2021-05-24 23:52:12","alt":"A series of fluorescent green lines and dots extending radially from the center.","file":{"fid":"245877","name":"OPN5-Expression-Mouse-Retina-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/OPN5-Expression-Mouse-Retina-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/OPN5-Expression-Mouse-Retina-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":332204,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/OPN5-Expression-Mouse-Retina-h.jpg?itok=auPBiR-r"}},"647726":{"id":"647726","type":"image","title":"OPN5 Violet Light Illustration","body":null,"created":"1621949766","gmt_created":"2021-05-25 13:36:06","changed":"1621949766","gmt_changed":"2021-05-25 13:36:06","alt":"A diagram illustrating how violet light interacts with the photoreceptor protein OPN5 to prevent progression of myopia. At top, A, a normal eye. In the middle, B, shows a myopic eye with characteristic elongation between the cornea and the retina and a thinning of the vascular layer called the choroid. The bottom, C, shows that violet suppresses the elongation and thinning of the choroid. (Illustration: Toshihide Kurihara)","file":{"fid":"245883","name":"OPN5-Violet-Light-Myopia-Figure-sq.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/OPN5-Violet-Light-Myopia-Figure-sq.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/OPN5-Violet-Light-Myopia-Figure-sq.png","mime":"image\/png","size":611844,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/OPN5-Violet-Light-Myopia-Figure-sq.png?itok=qjcx85fv"}},"647727":{"id":"647727","type":"image","title":"Machelle Pardue (horiz)","body":null,"created":"1621949862","gmt_created":"2021-05-25 13:37:42","changed":"1621949862","gmt_changed":"2021-05-25 13:37:42","alt":"Machelle Pardue headshot","file":{"fid":"245884","name":"Pardue-Machelle-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pardue-Machelle-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Pardue-Machelle-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":211846,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Pardue-Machelle-h.jpg?itok=0UZPOnNQ"}}},"media_ids":["647714","647726","647727"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2018840118","title":"\u0022Violet light suppresses lens-induced myopia via neuropsin (OPN5) in mice\u0022"},{"url":"http:\/\/lab.ophthal.med.keio.ac.jp\/program\/kuriharas-lab","title":"Toshihide Kurihara"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.cincinnatichildrens.org\/bio\/l\/richard-lang","title":"Richard Lang"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Machelle-Pardue","title":"Machelle Pardue"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187924","name":"myopia"},{"id":"187925","name":"violet light"},{"id":"187918","name":"OPN5"},{"id":"187919","name":"photoreceptor protein"},{"id":"187926","name":"nearsightedness"},{"id":"820","name":"vision"},{"id":"38581","name":"eye disease"},{"id":"168838","name":"Machelle Pardue"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This loss shifted my passion and redirected both my personal activities and my academic teaching, research, and service activities at Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; Gleason said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a result, he has mentored dozens of students on trips to sub-Saharan Africa. He has developed courses focused on global health challenges and bioengineering. He has built research collaborations with scientists and clinicians in developing countries. And he mentors teams of Capstone Design students who focus on projects to improve health and medicine in Ethiopia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow his work is being recognized with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oie.gatech.edu\/denning-award\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESteven A. Denning Award for Global Engagement \u003C\/a\u003Efrom the Office of the Vice Provost for International Initiatives at Tech. The award honors a faculty member who has demonstrated sustained outstanding achievement and commitment to the advancement of the Institute\u0026rsquo;s global engagement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Receiving the Denning Award is a tremendous honor,\u0026rdquo; Gleason said. \u0026ldquo;It is my hope that this award will provide a platform for me to continue to engage students, faculty, and international students and scholars in research, teaching, and service activities at the interface of bioengineering and global health to reduce disparities in health around the world.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Ethiopia, that work is focused on developing resource-appropriate biomedical devices to reduce maternal and child mortality. As Gleason has learned \u0026mdash; and as his students learn, too \u0026mdash; the challenges are not always about resources or technology; sometimes, the challenges are about culture and social norms. He has been supported in his efforts by a variety of funders, including the Fulbright Scholars Program, the Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn campus, Gleason developed a course called Engineering for Global Health and Development to teach students how to use their skills to address economic and health disparities in the developing world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe also helped create a special section of the Coulter BME Capstone Design course focused on creating solutions for the developing world. One of the projects from those design teams, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UlScKbzDuLY\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ea device to prevent neonatal hypothermia in Ethiopia\u003C\/a\u003E, is the subject of pending grant applications to the NIH and the Gates Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGleason\u0026rsquo;s passion for this work stretches beyond his professional life. He and his wife have started a nonprofit that focuses on women and family empowerment and child development in vulnerable families in Ethiopia. It\u0026rsquo;s called Because of Kennedy. They also continued to pursue adoption, and they have two daughters who are now 11 and 12 years old.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs Gleason sees it, though, the work is just beginning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In the years ahead, I hope to broaden collaborations between Georgia Tech students and faculty and international researchers in the developing world,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;I hope to explore the development of research and teaching centers aimed at translating bioengineering innovation to the developing world and joint biomedical engineering institutes between Georgia Tech and universities in the developing world.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Associate Professor Rudy Gleason wins Georgia Tech\u2019s Denning Award for work on health disparities in sub-Saharan Africa"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor Rudy Gleason wins Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Denning Award for work on health disparities in sub-Saharan Africa\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Associate Professor Rudy Gleason wins Georgia Tech\u2019s Denning Award for work on health disparities in sub-Saharan Africa"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-05-13 21:05:08","changed_gmt":"2021-05-13 21:05:08","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614002":{"id":"614002","type":"image","title":"Rudy and kids","body":null,"created":"1541686976","gmt_created":"2018-11-08 14:22:56","changed":"1541686976","gmt_changed":"2018-11-08 14:22:56","alt":"","file":{"fid":"233746","name":"Rudy and kids.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Rudy%20and%20kids.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Rudy%20and%20kids.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5053531,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Rudy%20and%20kids.jpg?itok=X0AoHlgu"}}},"media_ids":["614002"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/oie.gatech.edu\/denning-award","title":"Steven A. Denning Award for Global Engagement "},{"url":"https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Rudy-Gleason","title":"Rudy Gleason"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"8665","name":"Rudy Gleason"},{"id":"9084","name":"Ethiopia"},{"id":"181163","name":"Steven A. Denning Faculty Award for Global Engagement"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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They were recognized in late March at a virtual awards ceremony alongside five other winners from around the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYoganathan\u0026rsquo;s award cites his long record of innovation in development of biomedical engineering education as well as his involvement in developing international standards in cardiovascular devices. In the 1990s, Yoganathan helped create Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioengineering.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ecross-disciplinary bioengineering Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E and then the unique \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/georgia-tech-emory-bme-phd-program\u0022\u003Ejoint Georgia Tech-Emory University Ph.D. program\u003C\/a\u003E. He also helped develop the Master of Biomedical Innovation and Development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am extremely proud of what we have done in this space, because there was really nothing at Tech in the bio space when I started,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Ajit-Yoganathan\u0022\u003EYoganathan, Regents Professor Emeritus and Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;The impact I\u0026#39;ve seen \u0026mdash; how it impacts the graduate students that we\u0026#39;ve developed \u0026mdash; and the students\u0026rsquo; contributions makes me extremely proud.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Manu-O-Platt\u0022\u003EPlatt, associate professor in the Department\u003C\/a\u003E, was honored for \u0026ldquo;visionary leadership and an established track record of improving diversity and inclusion\u0026rdquo; in biomedical engineering, according to AIMBE. He was cited for \u0026ldquo;changing the culture for historically underrepresented students and faculty across the nation.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong his work, Platt leads \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/projectengage.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EProject ENGAGES at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E, a high school science education program that works with seven minority-serving public schools in Atlanta. He also runs a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/esteemed.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENational Institutes of Health-funded initiative at Tech\u003C\/a\u003E to build a pipeline of future researchers in biomedical engineering and biomedical sciences from groups that are historically underrepresented in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe organization is honoring Ajit Yoganathan with its Professional Impact Award for Education and Manu Platt with a Professional Impact Award for Diversity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The organization is honoring Ajit Yoganathan with its Professional Impact Award for Education and Manu Platt with a Professional Impact Award for Diversity."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-05-10 19:06:01","changed_gmt":"2021-05-10 19:06:01","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647325":{"id":"647325","type":"image","title":"Yoganathan-Platt Composite","body":null,"created":"1620672836","gmt_created":"2021-05-10 18:53:56","changed":"1620672836","gmt_changed":"2021-05-10 18:53:56","alt":"Regents Professor Ajit Yoganathan and Associate Professor Manu Platt","file":{"fid":"245778","name":"Yoganathan-Ajit-Platt-Manu-composite-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Yoganathan-Ajit-Platt-Manu-composite-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Yoganathan-Ajit-Platt-Manu-composite-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":272621,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Yoganathan-Ajit-Platt-Manu-composite-h.jpg?itok=wukkQMb8"}}},"media_ids":["647325"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/aimbe.org\/awards\/professional-impact-award\/","title":"Professional Impact Awards - American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering"},{"url":"https:\/\/esteemed.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"GT-ESTEEMED"},{"url":"https:\/\/projectengage.gatech.edu\/","title":"Project ENGAGES"},{"url":"https:\/\/bioengineering.gatech.edu\/","title":"Bioengineering Ph.D. Program"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Manu-O-Platt","title":"Manu Platt"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Ajit-Yoganathan","title":"Ajit Yoganathan"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"2582","name":"Ajit Yoganathan"},{"id":"10832","name":"Manu Platt"},{"id":"60841","name":"American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering"},{"id":"1007","name":"AIMBE"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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Now the idea is reaching other disciplines in the College of Engineering at Tech with the support of a $3.1 million grant from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kffdn.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKern Family Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnder the new project, led by Coulter BME Professor Joe Le Doux, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, and the College\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECREATE-X entrepreneurial program\u003C\/a\u003E will infuse story-driven learning into their curricula to help students build \u0026ldquo;entrepreneurial mindsets.\u0026rdquo; The idea is to help students see themselves as engineers ready and able to act, using all the skills they\u0026rsquo;re learning to solve problems and improve the human condition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Throughout engineering education, I would argue, we often don\u0026#39;t give students a chance to sit back, reflect, and make connections about what they\u0026rsquo;re learning and how they can use it,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Joe-Le%20Doux\u0022\u003ELe Doux, executive director of training and learning in the Coulter Department\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;Some students do it on their own. But some don\u0026#39;t. Those who do, really benefit from it. So, the whole concept of the story-driven learning piece is to help students make these connections about what they\u0026#39;re learning, who they are, where they\u0026#39;re going.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Coulter Department has been developing this story-driven learning idea for a few years through the Foundation\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.engineeringunleashed.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN)\u003C\/a\u003E. It has developed into a thread that weaves throughout students\u0026rsquo; courses: All along their journey, students have significant learning experiences that add to their bank of stories (Le Doux thinks of it like a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wizardingworld.com\/writing-by-jk-rowling\/pensieve\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Epensieve from the Harry Potter novels\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026mdash; a storehouse of memories and stories).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOften, students are asked to reflect on what they\u0026rsquo;re learning and how it connects to their own life experiences. They spend significant time talking to each other about their work and doing peer reviews. They interview people to discover real-world problems to solve and understand user needs. They even write articles in the style of the New York Times.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThen, near the end of their coursework, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/bmed-4000-curious-students-making-connections-and-creating-value\u0022\u003Ethey take BMED 4000, The Art of Telling Your Story, where they pull from all their experiences at Tech and beyond\u003C\/a\u003E. It\u0026rsquo;s here that they learn what makes a good story with the help of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/janeceshaffer.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eaward-winning Atlanta playwright Janece Shaffer\u003C\/a\u003E. She co-teaches the course alongside Le Doux and another faculty member, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Cristi-Bell-Huff\u0022\u003ECristi Bell-Huff\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026#39;re teaching them how to tell real stories that make the movie run in your head, so to speak,\u0026rdquo; Le Doux said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new grant expands these ideas into the other programs, scaling up story-driven learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026#39;s really exciting, because 40% of College of Engineering students will be impacted,\u0026rdquo; Le Doux said. \u0026ldquo;Every civil, environmental, aerospace, and CREATE-X student will get it \u0026mdash; but in different ways.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECREATE-X \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe idea of an entrepreneurial mindset isn\u0026rsquo;t really about creating startups or taking ideas to market. That can be one piece, but it also can manifest when students work for existing firms. The goal is for students to always be thinking about how they, and their companies, can solve problems and create value for society using the resources at hand.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We believe that entrepreneurial confidence is a life skill that every Georgia Tech student should possess when they graduate,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/create-x-team\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJoyelle Harris, associate director of CREATE-X LEARN programs\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;We see story-driven learning as an effective methodology to help students understand the entrepreneurial confidence they have gained by participating in CREATE-X programs, regardless of whether they have launched a successful startup.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECREATE-X will infuse story-driven learning techniques in each component of the LEARN-MAKE-LAUNCH pathway that forms the core of the program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMost of the 2,000 students who participate in CREATE-X courses each year don\u0026rsquo;t launch a company. Those who don\u0026rsquo;t sometimes wonder what they\u0026rsquo;ve gotten out of the experience, so using story-driven learning techniques can help them reflect on the confidence and skills they have learned and internalize them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECivil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the project will build on a larger, multi-year effort to transform the School\u0026rsquo;s culture and curriculum by improving students\u0026rsquo; sense of belonging and connection.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool leaders are designing a series of four vertically integrated courses \u0026mdash; for freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors \u0026mdash; focused on interactive problem-based learning and problem solving around the grand societal challenges that civil and environmental engineers work to solve. The classes will feature elements of computational and team development, include reflective teaching and learning, and aim to create a greater sense of belonging among civil and environmental students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The overarching objective of this initiative is to incorporate entrepreneurially-minded learning pedagogies into our engineering programs, with a focus on value sensitive design and story-driven learning, to support the development of entrepreneurially minded engineers,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/people\/Faculty\/391\/overview\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAdjo Amekudzi-Kennedy, associate chair and professor\u003C\/a\u003E in the School. \u0026ldquo;That means engineers who have a mindset and culture of value creation: for society, for the advancement of the economy, and for themselves in ways that formally incorporate societal values and minimize negative consequences.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAerospace Engineering \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAerospace engineering students will find storytelling modules integrated into several courses throughout their programs of study \u0026mdash; again, with the goal of helping them reflect and articulate why they chose the field and how they can translate skills into solutions that create value.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our School is excited to be a part of the KEEN grant at Georgia Tech to make significant improvements to our educational program that enable students to think and act with an entrepreneurial mindset as they are exposed to and solve problems that enhance the human condition,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-francis-costello\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMark Costello, William R. T. Oakes Professor and chair \u003C\/a\u003Eof the Guggenheim School.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School plans to create social learning spaces, where students and faculty can engage in activities outside the classroom and forge stronger connections. Leaders also will create do-it-yourself small-scale experiments for students to build, perform, and improve on their own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s About More Than Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor Le Doux and Coulter BME, where innovative engineering education is built into the Department\u0026rsquo;s DNA, the goals are to continue developing story-driven learning as a teaching approach and create tools to train engineering faculty anywhere to use it. Building out the approach in disparate disciplines at Tech will offer key insights in how to do that.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;How does this roll out in the different units? Each unit has a different culture. We want to impact all of engineering education \u0026mdash; it\u0026rsquo;s an ambitious goal \u0026mdash; so we\u0026#39;re looking at it from the prospective of organizational change,\u0026rdquo; Le Doux said. \u0026ldquo;When people try to adapt this in different programs, different cultures, what are the barriers? What works?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELe Doux said adopting entrepreneurial-minded learning as a key part of the curriculum throughout the College will be significant: Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s size and reputation mean we have a major influence on engineering education around the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I would like to see as many colleges of engineering as possible adopting these kinds of approaches. We can share what we\u0026#39;ve learned with other campuses \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;and even expand these ideas beyond engineering,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;Helping students see themselves as people who create value will make them more likely to actually do that when they get out in the world. And more generally, they end up knowing themselves better, and they know how to tell really good stories. That\u0026#39;s a leadership skill.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe approach helps students an develop entrepreneurial mindset, where they see themselves as engineers ready and able to act with the skills they\u0026#39;re learning\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The approach helps students an develop entrepreneurial mindset, where they see themselves as engineers ready and able to act with the skills they\u0027re learning"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-04-01 18:30:31","changed_gmt":"2021-05-07 15:36:47","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"646008":{"id":"646008","type":"image","title":"Stories Matter Typewriter","body":null,"created":"1617298902","gmt_created":"2021-04-01 17:41:42","changed":"1617312124","gmt_changed":"2021-04-01 21:22:04","alt":"Closeup of a typewriter ribbon and a sheet of paper with the words \u0022Stories matter.\u0022 (Photo Courtesy: Suzy Hazelwood via Pexels)","file":{"fid":"245253","name":"Typewriter-Stories Matter-by-Suzy-Hazelwood-Pexels-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Typewriter-Stories%20Matter-by-Suzy-Hazelwood-Pexels-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Typewriter-Stories%20Matter-by-Suzy-Hazelwood-Pexels-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":314350,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Typewriter-Stories%20Matter-by-Suzy-Hazelwood-Pexels-h.jpg?itok=qluBJwlP"}}},"media_ids":["646008"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/bmed-4000-curious-students-making-connections-and-creating-value","title":"Read More: \u0022BMED 4000: Curious Students Making Connections and Creating Value\u0022"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.engineeringunleashed.com\/","title":"Kern Eentrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN)"},{"url":"https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/","title":"Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering"},{"url":"https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"},{"url":"https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/","title":"CREATE-X"}],"groups":[{"id":"583966","name":"CREATE-X"},{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"},{"id":"1253","name":"School of Civil and Envrionmental Engineering"},{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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Of course, when Covid hit, we said, \u0026lsquo;That\u0026#39;s not our priority anymore; we have to focus on Covid,\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo; Lonsberry said recently, fresh from handing the reins over to a new team of student leaders.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELonsberry estimates probably half of her \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sga.gatech.edu\/undergrad-exec\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EStudent Government Association (SGA)\u003C\/a\u003E time was focused on Covid-19 and helping campus leaders as they worked to get students safely back in classes and figure out how to operate campus. Twice a week, she joined the Georgia Tech recovery task force meetings to hear the latest and represent students while offering the hands and voice of SGA for the work that had to be done.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I keep joking that when I graduate, I\u0026#39;m expecting my bachelor\u0026#39;s in BME, but also my master\u0026#39;s in public health,\u0026rdquo; Lonsberry said, \u0026ldquo;because I have learned so much about public health this last year.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs she prepared to graduate with her bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degree this weekend, the biomedical engineering student said it was certainly a difficult time to be SGA president \u0026mdash; but perhaps the most rewarding time, too.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Even before Covid, I was interested in public health,\u0026rdquo; Lonsberry said. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026#39;ve learned that I really am passionate about public health. And [this year] confirms that I do want a career in public health.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs things have calmed somewhat this spring, Lonsberry and her team in SGA have been able to revisit some of those original pre-pandemic ideas. She said her team worked to hold the line on mandatory student fees, working with the committee that sets the fees to make adjustments without increasing the total amount. Lonsberry said she\u0026rsquo;s been most proud of their work on Title IX policy in Georgia, which had to be updated based on new federal guidance for responding to complaints of sexual misconduct on campuses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I was able to work closely with some of my cabinet members, and we started a University System of Georgia-wide SGA campaign to make sure that the new Title IX policy written and adopted by the state was very survivor-focused. That was a really cool part of this year,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat is a lot of impact for someone who had no connection to Georgia, Georgia Tech, or Emory University a few years ago. Lonsberry is originally from West Palm Beach, Florida, and she knew biomedical engineering would nicely blend her interests in math and science with her passion for people and their health. She also knew the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering was one of the nation\u0026rsquo;s best programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I was really able to fall in love with the school on my own and decide, this is the place that I love. I love the culture, I love the people, I love the opportunities that I\u0026#39;ll be able to have on this campus,\u0026rdquo; she said. Looking back four years later, she said she was right: \u0026ldquo;I\u0026#39;ve been able to experience more and accomplish more at Georgia Tech than I ever thought that I would and could.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo wit: Lonsberry has served as a student ambassador and a member of the Coulter BME Undergraduate Student Advisory Board. She studied abroad in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/programs-study-abroad-galway-ireland\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBME Galway Summer Program in Ireland\u003C\/a\u003E, and she traveled to Eastern Europe through the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ile\/study_abroad\/index.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELeadership for Social Good Study Abroad Program\u003C\/a\u003E. She joined a sorority and added a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/leadership.gatech.edu\/content\/minor-leadership-studies-0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eminor in leadership studies\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn other words, she squeezed every drop out of her years at Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs she celebrates what\u0026rsquo;s to come, Lonsberry is also been reflecting on what she\u0026rsquo;s learned, especially over the challenging past year \u0026mdash; that her voice is more powerful than she realizes sometimes; that how she approaches people and problems really does matter; and that things that seem really crazy and scary sometimes aren\u0026rsquo;t that crazy and scary when you have the right people supporting you. And she thinks a lot about something a Tech administrator she\u0026rsquo;s worked with this year told her: \u0026ldquo;He said, \u0026lsquo;Brielle, when you win, who wins with you?\u0026rsquo; That\u0026#39;s really powerful.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter graduation, Lonsberry has a job lined up as an associate at Boston Consulting Group in Atlanta, and she already has her eye on getting that master\u0026rsquo;s degree in public health down the road.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I\u0026#39;ve loved every second of being at Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;It has not been easy. It has definitely been very challenging at times, and life has thrown crazy curveballs. But I have never been prouder to be a Yellow Jacket. And I\u0026#39;m so proud to have been a part of the BME Department.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDo you have any key memories from your years here that have stuck with you?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI think what I\u0026#39;ll value most about the last four years are, of course, my friendships with people my age, but then also the relationships I\u0026#39;ve been able to build with faculty and administrators here on campus. Especially within the BME Department, being able to get to know my professors really well, like Dr. [Wendy] Newstetter. We would just hang out and get coffee and just catch up and talk about careers and random things.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne cool memory that I\u0026#39;ve been thinking about the last few days is about Austin [Stachowski] on my \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/tool-assess-newborns-ability-breastfeed-takes-top-bme-prize-spring-capstone-expo\u0022\u003ECapstone Design team\u003C\/a\u003E. We were in our very first class ever at Georgia Tech together \u0026mdash; so, Monday at 8 a.m., we were in that class together. And now we were in our very last class at Georgia Tech together. It is really cool to see some of the friendships that have just stayed throughout all four years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWas there a particular class or a professor that had a significant impact on you?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/todd\/index.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EProfessor Bill Todd. \u003C\/a\u003EI\u0026#39;m very close with him. He\u0026#39;s actually a professor of the practice in Scheller [College of Business]. I took his Management in the Healthcare Sector course, and I\u0026#39;ve been able to do a practicum with him at Children\u0026#39;s Healthcare of Atlanta. He\u0026#39;s just been such a great mentor to me. 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Department faculty and staff nominate students, who then submit applications and letters of recommendation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn announcing this year\u0026rsquo;s winners, the selection committee noted that the awards represent only a small fraction of the great things that happen in the course of a year in Coulter BME and that the committee had to make difficult decisions among a group of talented and worthy nominees.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 2021 winners are:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAna Cristian\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EOutstanding Academic Service\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award honors a graduating senior who has challenged themselves through involvement both inside and outside the classroom and contributed to the\u0026nbsp;student\u0026nbsp;educational experience at Georgia Tech. Cristian served as a PLUS mentor, a FOCUS tutor, a teaching assistant for Quantitative Engineering Physiology Laboratory (BMED 3110), a BME Peer Advising Leader (PALS), and an Undergraduate Research Ambassador.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAnabel Alonso\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EOutstanding Community Service\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award honors a graduating senior who has made service an integral part of their college experience through their commitment and significant contributions to the community. Alonso co-founded \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/gtablealliance\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EABLE Alliance\u003C\/a\u003E, a new student organization dedicated to improving disability inclusion on campus. The group was voted Best New Organization by the Georgia Tech Student Government Association in 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EJulia Woodall\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EOutstanding Research\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award honors a graduating senior who has demonstrated outstanding research skills and has shared their work with the broader research community through presentations at local, regional, or national conferences, or through one or more peer-reviewed publications. Woodall contributed to multiple articles, presented at conferences, and held several leadership positions as an Undergraduate Research Ambassador for three years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAustin Stachowski\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EOutstanding Industrial Experience\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award honors a graduating senior who has performed exceptional work in, and demonstrated significant commitment to, the biomedical engineering industry through internships, cooperative education, or international work experiences. Stachowski interned for five semesters, including stints at MiMedx Group, MD Innovate, and Edwards LifeSciences. He also received a certificate in business strategy and innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EMichael Pullen\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EOutstanding Entrepreneur\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award recognizes a student or student team who has demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit and initiative and who has made significant progress toward turning their innovative ideas into reality. Pullen is co-founder and CEO of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lzrdtech.com\/\u0022\u003ELZRD Tech LLC\u003C\/a\u003E, an apparel company based on internationally patented grip-enhancing technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAmanda Wijntjes\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EOutstanding Senior\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award honors a student who has exemplified all-around excellence through their significant accomplishments in several of the following categories of activities: service, academics, research, industry, and entrepreneurship. Candidates for this award must have a GPA of at least 3.75. Wijntjes completed two internships, conducted research during several semesters, co-authored a publication, and completed a minor in computer science. Wijntjes also served as vice president of finance for the Society of Women Engineers and volunteered as a BME FUTURES Ambassador and a HealthReach volunteer. Her Capstone Design team \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/tool-assess-newborns-ability-breastfeed-takes-top-bme-prize-spring-capstone-expo\u0022\u003Ewon the top BME award at the Spring 2021 Capstone Design Expo\u003C\/a\u003E with their screening device to assess the ability of newborns to properly breastfeed.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EJared Meyers\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EOutstanding Academic Achievement\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his biomedical engineering degree, Meyers has minored in computer science and co-founded\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/augmenthealth.org\/\u0022\u003EAugment Health\u003C\/a\u003E, which is developing a device to replace urine collection bags for patients with catheters. Meyers completed three internships, performed research for several semesters, was co-author on a publication, and served as president for the Medical Robotics Club. 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Jarquin has won a 2021 Minority Hematology Graduate Award, which includes two years of funding from the professional society for stipends and research costs along with connections to mentors and other researchers studying blood and blood disorders.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This award gives me a chance to conduct independent research that will hopefully lead to a career in transforming hematological research into engineered solutions to treat hematological disorders,\u0026rdquo; Jarquin said. \u0026ldquo;I see this as a stepping stone for enhanced mentoring and professional activities that are usually more difficult for Hispanic students, like myself, to access.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hematology.org\/awards\/medical-student\/minority-hematology-graduate-award\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMinority Hematology Graduate Award\u003C\/a\u003E encourages graduate students from historically underrepresented minority groups to pursue careers in academic hematology, according to the society. It comes with society membership, invitations to present research, and opportunities to meet leaders in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJarquin studies red blood cell development in health and disease with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Sakis-Mantalaris\u0022\u003ECoulter BME Professor Sakis Mantalaris\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/winshipcancer.emory.edu\/bios\/faculty\/panoskaltsis-nicki.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENicki Panoskaltsis\u003C\/a\u003E in the Emory University School of Medicine. He previously received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and an Emory Centennial Scholars Fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;What makes my training in the field of hematology and biomedical engineering unique is the partnership between my mentors \u0026mdash; Dr. Panoskaltsis is a physician practicing hemato-oncology and Dr. Mantalaris is a bioprocess engineer \u0026mdash; a partnership that is made possible by our joint BME program between Georgia Tech and Emory,\u0026rdquo; Jarquin said. \u0026ldquo;The unique mentor setup of tackling complex hematological processes from both a clinical standpoint and an engineering standpoint was a highlight in why I was given the award.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs Jarquin uses this latest award to work toward his goal of a federal research position, he\u0026rsquo;s also keeping his eyes on his true mission: to make a real difference in the lives of Hispanic Americans.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There is a lack of minority scientists in [federal agency research] roles, which leads to gaps in the research areas pursued,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;With more minority scientists at the helm in our federal government, this will lead to more equitable research being pursued and, then, better health outcomes for these populations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Minority Hematology Graduate Award encourages graduate students from historically underrepresented minority groups to pursue careers in the study of blood and blood disorders\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Minority Hematology Graduate Award encourages graduate students from historically underrepresented minority groups to pursue careers in the study of blood and blood disorders"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-04-29 13:18:23","changed_gmt":"2021-04-29 13:18:23","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647042":{"id":"647042","type":"image","title":"PJ Jarquin vertical (BME)","body":null,"created":"1619701765","gmt_created":"2021-04-29 13:09:25","changed":"1619701765","gmt_changed":"2021-04-29 13:09:25","alt":"Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student PJ Jarquin.","file":{"fid":"245648","name":"Jarquin-PJ-v.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jarquin-PJ-v.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jarquin-PJ-v.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":274073,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Jarquin-PJ-v.jpg?itok=N4G5nynt"}}},"media_ids":["647042"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.hematology.org\/awards\/medical-student\/minority-hematology-graduate-award","title":"Minority Hematology Graduate Award"},{"url":"https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Sakis-Mantalaris","title":"Sakis Mantalaris"},{"url":"https:\/\/winshipcancer.emory.edu\/bios\/faculty\/panoskaltsis-nicki.html","title":"Nicki Panoskaltsis"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"187695","name":"PJ Jarquin"},{"id":"171634","name":"hematology"},{"id":"187696","name":"American Society of Hematology"},{"id":"18691","name":"graduate student awards"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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The \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/designgarden.bme.gatech.edu\/s21-project-milk-maids\/\u0022\u003EMilk Maid\u003C\/a\u003E measures how well an infant is able to create the negative pressure necessary to properly draw in milk, giving doctors clinical data to decide if medical intervention is necessary or if other issues, like technique, are at play.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There are so many experts, all with different opinions about the potential problems in breastfeeding, but there\u0026rsquo;s no objective evidence,\u0026rdquo; said Brielle Lonsberry, a senior from West Palm Beach, Florida.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam Milk Maids was one of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/designgarden.bme.gatech.edu\/s21-digital-expo\/\u0022\u003E30 solutions presented by Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering undergraduates at the expo\u003C\/a\u003E. More than 180 teams showcased their work in a virtual version of the event that typically packs Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s McCamish Pavilion each fall and spring to show off senior design projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team worked with their sponsors at Emory Healthcare to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/designgarden.bme.gatech.edu\/s21-project-milk-maids\/\u0022\u003Edevelop a device to fill that gap\u003C\/a\u003E. They also reached out to physicians at Children\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta for expertise, and before long, they had a whole cadre of doctors there helping to refine their ideas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our novel device offers exactly what clinicians identified as the greatest need: quantifying infants\u0026rsquo; sucking ability,\u0026rdquo; said team member Simran Dhal from Milton, Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team has filed a provisional patent on the screening tool they created, with hopes that it could progress to a clinical trial \u0026mdash; even if they\u0026rsquo;re not involved.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We all really view this as the first step in quantifying breastfeeding, to helping doctors feel like they\u0026rsquo;re really able to support their patients better,\u0026rdquo; said Austin Stachowski, another member of the team from Milton. \u0026ldquo;This is one quantification that opens the door to so much more and to better treatment.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/designgarden.bme.gatech.edu\/s21-project-milk-maids\/\u0022\u003ETeam Milk Maids\u003C\/a\u003E also included Emma Kate Costanza from Columbus, Georgia and Amanda Wijntjes from Annapolis, Maryland. Wijntjes said they\u0026rsquo;ve all known each other since their first year on campus, but they never had the chance to work together \u0026mdash; until now. She said it has been an appropriate culmination of everything they\u0026rsquo;ve done over the last four years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe overall best project at the spring expo went to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/expo.gatech.edu\/prod1\/portal\/portal.jsp?c=17462\u0026amp;p=413142918\u0026amp;g=413665329\u0026amp;id=413949754\u0022\u003ETeam StrideLink\u003C\/a\u003E, an interdisciplinary team that included biomedical engineering student Cassandra McIltrot. They designed a simple, cheap, wearable device for gait analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther biomedical engineering teams included some work on gait \u0026mdash; developing a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/designgarden.bme.gatech.edu\/s21-project-gait-keepers\/\u0022\u003Evirtual reality game to help people with difficulty walking improve their gait\u003C\/a\u003E. Teams also created a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/designgarden.bme.gatech.edu\/s21-project-bees-knees\/\u0022\u003Erobotically assisted knee rehabilitation device\u003C\/a\u003E, built a machine to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/designgarden.bme.gatech.edu\/s21-project-kidney-kids\/\u0022\u003Emake at-home hemodialysis easier\u003C\/a\u003E for patients, and much more. \u003Cstrong\u003E(\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/designgarden.bme.gatech.edu\/s21-digital-expo\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESee all of their work in the Coulter BME Virtual Expo\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/designgarden.bme.gatech.edu\/s21-project-scolalign\/\u0022\u003ETeam ScolAlign\u003C\/a\u003E created a system to help doctors accurately measure the position of a patient\u0026rsquo;s spine during spinal realignment surgery. They developed a deep learning algorithm that automatically detects markers and calculates two key measurements of spine alignment, the Cobb angle and plumb line. It sets up quickly and reduces the need for X-rays in the operating room.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;ScolAlign has developed a fully integrated system that measures spinal curvature and spinal balance with no radiation \u0026mdash; all with just the click of a button,\u0026rdquo; said Yoel Alperin, a senior from Sandy Springs who worked on the project with Sindhu Kannappan from Marietta; Parth Gami from York, Pennsylvania; and Kelly Qiu from Cranbury, New Jersey.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team said the device proved more than 90% accurate in their testing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Surgeons will no longer have to use makeshift gadgets to measure spinal alignment, expose themselves to more radiation than needed, or risk the patient developing an infection due to surgery length,\u0026rdquo; Alperin said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo other projects tackled issues that have come to the forefront during the coronavirus pandemic. One group developed a system for putting on and removing powered respirators that are critical personal protective equipment for hospital workers. The other created a tool to help doctors collect physiological data during telemedicine visits.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/designgarden.bme.gatech.edu\/s21-project-rock-papr-scissors\/\u0022\u003EPAPR MagStand\u003C\/a\u003E uses magnets and an adapted design of the Powered Air-Purifying Respirator (PAPR) hood to allow health professionals to quickly suit up. Designed by Abby Kettle and Maria Luna from Atlanta; Gianni Natale from Allendale, New Jersey; Dwayne Watkins from McDonough; and Ming Wen from Shenzhen, China, the MagStand uses magnets to hold the hood, which has metal strips on the side, and a small shelf for the purifier\u0026rsquo;s battery pack. The design minimizes contact and potential contamination.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Since the start of Covid-19, there have been no adaptations of the PAPR to the fast-paced environment that healthcare workers face on a day-to-day basis in hospitals. There are no specific instructions on donning and doffing procedures, much less decontamination procedures for the PAPR itself,\u0026rdquo; Natale said. \u0026ldquo;The MagStand presents the quickest and most effective solution in reducing risk of contamination for healthcare workers.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/designgarden.bme.gatech.edu\/s21-project-heartthrobs\/\u0022\u003ETeam HeartThrobs\u003C\/a\u003E tackled a key limitation of virtual doctor visits: the inability to touch patients or listen to their heart, lungs, and other organs. This practice, called auscultation, usually requires listening through a stethoscope. Ram Akella from Lilburn; Keval Bollavaram from Snellville; Ahdil Gill from Roswell; and Atharv Marathe and Sil Savla from Johns Creek came up with a way to stretch that stethoscope across the virtual miles with their \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/designgarden.bme.gatech.edu\/s21-project-heartthrobs\/\u0022\u003EAusculBand\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The AusculBand improves the physician\u0026rsquo;s diagnostic capabilities by enabling audio recordings and real-time audio transmission that can be sent directly from the patient to his or her physician,\u0026rdquo; Gill said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESavla added: \u0026ldquo;Our device underwent rigorous frequency-response testing to ensure it captures all critical sounds. We conducted noise-comparison tests against the competition and even redesigned our stethoscope head to maximize sound clarity. 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Coleman Hilton, Shriners\u0026rsquo; Research Informatics manager, who is responsible for addressing resource needs from the teams, noted that \u0026ldquo;these seven projects represent the breadth of care provided at Shriners and they are very focused on the specific research needs for each of the patient populations.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe teams, awarded two-year seed grants of either $50,000 or $150,000, are led by principal investigators from each institution. May Dongmei Wang, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, is the Georgia Tech principal investigator for three of the seven projects this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer lab has been busy working with SHC, \u0026ldquo;to establish a new Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) prototype as the backend server. We want to enable interoperable clinical data management across all SHC hospitals,\u0026rdquo; Wang said. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is the standard for joining disparate systems together in the exchange of electronic health records. It was developed by HL7 International, the non-profit organization that develops standards and solutions to empower global health data interoperability.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the 2021 round of seed projects, Wang said, \u0026ldquo;we\u0026rsquo;ll assist four Shriners hospitals to develop three FHIR applications to showcase the acceleration of the clinical informatics pipeline from idea, to data, to insights, using FHIR.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This program will allow us to capture, access, share, and analyze data, including diagnostics, radiographic images, and genomics in a way that is not currently available in existing Shriners Hospital for Children patient registries and research databases,\u0026rdquo; said Marc Lalande, vice president of SHC\u0026rsquo;s research programs. \u0026ldquo;The infrastructure that will be developed will not only enhance our clinical research capabilities, but also advance our clinical practices.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026rsquo;s a rundown of the seven projects funded for 2021:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E3D Graphical Scale for Assessing Hip Functional Range of Motion\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrincipal Investigators:\u003C\/strong\u003E Megan Denham, Senior Research Associate, Georgia Tech Research Institute; Harold van Bosse, SHC-Philadelphia\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject Synopsis:\u003C\/strong\u003E Hip pathology in babies and children can affect long-term development and lead to malformations and deformations and other conditions. While surgery can correct pediatric hip conditions and optimize functionality and range of motion, there currently are no outcome measurements that can adequately analyze hip function across the spectrum of conditions; no way to compare results of different treatment modalities; and none that follow results over time and growth.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUtilizing a computer model to graph range of motion, the team will develop a pediatric hip score system, allowing for more precise evaluation of various treatments of hip contractures in children across the spectrum of neuromuscular conditions (such as cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophies). They intend to develop a mobile application that can quantify function with a single figure, to help clinicians make more practical evaluations, leading to more valid comparisons of treatment options.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECraniofacial Microsomia (CFM) Informatics Infrastructure\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrincipal Investigators:\u003C\/strong\u003E May Dongmei Wang, Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (Georgia Tech and Emory University); Chad Purnell, M.D., SHC-Chicago\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject Synopsis:\u003C\/strong\u003E CFM is a clinical conundrum \u0026ndash; it is the second most common craniofacial anomaly, but its pathogenesis is not clearly understood. The research team\u0026rsquo;s long-term goal is to develop an AI model of how genes and environmental factors conspire in CFM. This seed grant will establish the first step in the process, creating a framework for sharing phenotypic, clinical, radiologic, and genetic data between SHC-Chicago and Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESpecific aims for the seed project include creating a set of minimum common data elements for CFM research data, and developing a system to allow secure, high-volume data sharing between institutions, which will leverage the Wang lab\u0026rsquo;s expertise in developing parallel FHIR infrastructure, enabling flexible integration of data sets within the SHC system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGL-SMART (Greenville-Lexington Shriner Multisite AI-enabled Rehabilitation Technology)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrincipal Investigators:\u003C\/strong\u003E May Dongmei Wang, Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering; J. Michael Wattenbarger, M.D., Chief of Staff, SHC-Greenville; Henry J. Iwinski, M.D., Chief of Staff, SHC-Lexington\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject Synopsis: \u003C\/strong\u003EThis is a multi-site collaboration between Shriners Hospitals for Children in Greenville (SC) and Lexington (KY), the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Together, they intend to develop an advanced technology platform to improve scoliosis patient care at multiple Shriners sites.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe two Shriners sites involved in the study have accumulated extensive data from more than 1,000 patients over the past decade \u0026ndash; insight that can help clinicians make better care decisions. Wang\u0026rsquo;s lab will develop a FHIR application to enable clinicians at both Shriners sites to share and access clinical data seamlessly. Wang also is developing a multimodal AI algorithm to streamline the process of predicting clinical outcomes in scoliosis patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHR-pQCT Informatics Infrastructure\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrincipal Investigators:\u003C\/strong\u003E May Dongmei Wang, Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering; Gary S. Gottesman, M.D., Center for Metabolic Bone Disease, SHC-St. Louis\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject Synopsis:\u003C\/strong\u003E For patients with musculoskeletal disorders, bone mineral density scans are critical in the evaluation, surveillance, and treatment. High resolution peripheral computed tomography (HR-pQCT) is a revolutionary advancement as a new 3-D skeletal imaging tool with the ability to differentiate internal structures from cortical bone, and inform the pathophysiology of bone diseases, providing insights into bone biology, and better treatments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing all of that illuminating information is hampered by the inability to query the data based on significant research parameters, which is crucial to gaining deeper insight into bone disorders. So the researchers plan to build an integrative, relational database to house the data, design a FHIR interface, then populate the database with patient data, and explore options for automating the extraction, transformation, and loading of new HR-pQCT data as it is generated.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMachine Learning to Predict Fentanyl Efficacy and Adverse Effects to Advance Precision Medicine\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrincipal Investigators:\u003C\/strong\u003E Jeffrey Skolnick, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech; Kristin Grimsrud, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California-Davis\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject Synopsis:\u003C\/strong\u003E Personalized pain management continues to be a challenging issue for patients and clinicians. Although advances in pharmacogenetics aid in decoding genetic variants, no one really knows how a given patient will respond to a particular drug until it is administered.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo address this problem, data from two ongoing SHC studies will be used as input for machine learning (ML) algorithms to predict if a patient will experience a decrease in pain or adverse events following fentanyl administration. Skolnick\u0026rsquo;s lab will then use an ML tool it developed, MEDICASCY, for disease indication, mode of action, small molecule drug efficacy, and side effect predictions. MEDICASCY predictions will then be combined with an enzyme inference algorithm, patient clinical data, and information on fentanyl blood concentrations to generate specific predictions for fentanyl efficacy and adverse effects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPlatform Architecture and Machine Learning for Arthrogryposis\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrincipal Investigators:\u003C\/strong\u003E Tony Pan, Research Scientist, institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) at Georgia Tech; No\u0026eacute;mi Dahan-Oliel, SHC-Montreal\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject Synopsis: \u003C\/strong\u003EThree Shriners Hospitals \u0026ndash; Chicago, Greenville, and Montreal \u0026ndash; are involved in this project with Georgia Tech to address important knowledge gaps in understanding arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC), a rare (1 in 3,000 live births) chronic musculoskeletal disease. Shriners will identify the underlying causes, risk factors, and distribution of AMC, documenting interventions and outcomes, and determining genetic and\/or environmental factors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPan and his team at Georgia Tech are essentially going to help make the data more accessible, developing a computational framework for machine learning to ultimately enable precision medicine. The researchers will design and implement a system to meet the needs for this project, deploying high-performance computing and cloud friendly cyber infrastructure to enable ad-hoc, on-demand, and reproducible data analysis with low deployment cost.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESports Medicine Registry\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrincipal Investigators:\u003C\/strong\u003E Minoru Shinohara, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech; Corinna Franklin, director of sports medicine, SHC-Philadelphia\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProject Synopsis:\u003C\/strong\u003E Six Shriners Hospitals for Children (Northern California, Erie, Chicago, Portland, Philadelphia, Montreal), as part of the Shriners Sports Medicine Consortium, are working with researcher Minoru Shinohara, who directs the Human Neuromuscular Physiology Lab at Georgia Tech. Their goal is to develop a comprehensive registry that will help clinical researchers answer many large-scale questions in pediatric sports medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShinohara, and his Georgia Tech and SHC colleagues will identify the core data elements to use from Shriners system motion analysis centers, surgical procedures, and rehab\/clinical information. Ultimately, they intend to create a sports medicine registry that will be easily accessible to researchers within the consortium, giving Shriners clinicians an opportunity to have a greater impact in the treatment of pediatric sports injuries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"BME\u0027s May Wang leading three of the seven projects in new initiative to improve lives of pediatric patients"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBME\u0026#39;s May Wang leading three of the seven projects in new initiative to improve lives of pediatric patients\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"BME\u0027s May Wang leading three of the seven projects in new initiative to improve lives of pediatric patients"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2021-04-19 15:28:18","changed_gmt":"2021-04-19 15:34:33","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"646600":{"id":"646600","type":"image","title":"May Wang","body":null,"created":"1618845414","gmt_created":"2021-04-19 15:16:54","changed":"1618845414","gmt_changed":"2021-04-19 15:16:54","alt":"","file":{"fid":"245449","name":"MayWang.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MayWang.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MayWang.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":322853,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/MayWang.jpg?itok=FJUg5jlh"}}},"media_ids":["646600"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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They were chosen for their academic excellence in undergraduate research work and dedication to furthering research and development in their respective fields. From medical robotics to electrochemical energy solutions to wireless communications technology, these engineers are already making research advances in their respective fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShovan Bhatia\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3rd-year biomedical engineering student\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShovan Bhatia is a third-year student from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E on a pre-med track. He has been involved in Professor Jaydev Desai\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/robomed.gatech.edu\/jaydev-p-desai\/\u0022\u003EMedical Robotics and Automation (RoboMed) Lab\u003C\/a\u003E since Fall of 2019, where he has been able to blend his love of robotics with his goal of working in the medical field. Bhatia is currently working on creating an assistive robotic exoskeleton to improve the quality of life for those living with spinal cord injury.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESeokhwan Jeong and Phillip Tran have also served as mentors for Bhatia and encouraged him to independently discover and pursue his interests in medicine and robotics from his first day in the lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Through the research I\u0026rsquo;m performing, I have had the unique opportunity to design and iterate at the benchtop and then translate our work into the clinical space through spinal cord injury human subject testing,\u0026rdquo; said Bhatia. \u0026ldquo;I plan on carrying what I learn from my research into medical school and beyond, where I hope to use innovative techniques to improve people\u0026rsquo;s lives.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBhatia\u0026rsquo;s on-campus activities extend past the academic sphere \u0026mdash; he is President of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ewbgt.org\/\u0022\u003EEngineers without Borders\u003C\/a\u003E at Tech and serves as a board member on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtindiaclub.com\/\u0022\u003EIndia Club at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBhatia applied for the Goldwater Scholarship to become part of a community of highly motivated individuals that the program cultivates. Receiving the scholarship has further encouraged him to pursue his goal of practicing medicine and finding ways to translate engineering and robotics principles into his work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPradyot Yadav\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3rd-year electrical and computer engineering student\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPradyot Yadav is a third-year student from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. Yadav worked in Professor James Kenney\u0026rsquo;s lab investigating radio frequency and microwave power amplifier design, which led to his winning the IMS Student Design Competition in 2019 and a publication in the Microwave Journal in 2020. As a member of Professor Yang Wang\u0026rsquo;s lab, the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab (GEMS), Yadav helped to implement the group\u0026rsquo;s first Gallium Nitride (GaN) MMIC design. He is currently working as a technical fellow with the Hughes Research Laboratory GaN process, which is the fastest GaN process in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOutside of the academic sphere, Yadav also works as a Radio Operator for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wrek.org\/\u0022\u003EWREK FM\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rsquo;s Rock, Rhythm, and Roll segment and is a member of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ieee.org\/\u0022\u003EThe Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers\u003C\/a\u003E (IEEE), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hkn.gtorg.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEta Kappa Nu\u003C\/a\u003E, and the IMS 2021 Steering Committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYadav applied for the Goldwater Scholarship to expand his horizons in terms of future research and graduate studies, and for him, becoming a Goldwater scholar is a testament to the extensive work he has put into research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My being awarded this scholarship marks the start of a career focused on the cutting edge in RF\/mmWave research,\u0026rdquo; said Yadav. \u0026ldquo;The scholarship also provides me with a solid academic foundation for when I apply to graduate school and seek funding for my future research.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYadav plans to intern this summer at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.qorvo.com\/\u0022\u003EQorvo\u003C\/a\u003E, a leading radio frequency company, where he will work with a device physics Fellow to develop a new GaN device model that would provide its designers with more flexibility. This will be his second summer interning for the company. After he graduates next Spring, he will be pursuing a PhD in Microwave Engineering, with a focus on III-IV semiconductor research and mmWave circuit design and ultimately aims for a career in industry research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKatie Groenhout\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3rd-year chemical and biomolecular engineering student\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKatie Grouenhout is a third-year student from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. Since the fall of 2019, she has been part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/kohl.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Elab \u003C\/a\u003Erun by Professor Paul Kohl, her research advisor, and she is currently working on a project on anion-exchange membrane electrolyzers for clean production of hydrogen. Grouenhout met two of her other mentors in Kohl\u0026rsquo;s lab: Garrett Huang, a recently graduated Ph.D. student, and Mrinmay Mandal, a post-doc currently in Kohl\u0026rsquo;s lab, both of whom Grouenhout has worked closely with. In addition to research, Grouenhout works as an undergraduate teaching assistant for the School.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGrouenhout was encouraged to pursue a career in research by her research advisor at a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at The University of Mississippi the summer after her freshman year. She was motivated to apply for the scholarship because of the many ways in which it would aid her goal of pursuing a Ph.D. after graduation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Receiving the Goldwater scholarship reinforces my goal to pursue chemical engineering at the doctorate level,\u0026rdquo; said Grouenhout. \u0026ldquo;With this scholarship, I plan to take on more independent experiments in the lab and continue to develop my knowledge of electrochemistry.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter earning her Ph.D. in chemical engineering, Grouenhout plans to pursue a career in research and academia, with a focus on electrochemical energy solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Scholarship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Goldwater Scholarship, the most prestigious one of its kind for natural science, engineering and mathematics students, awards college sophomores and juniors who plan to pursue careers in STEM research. Its goal is to cultivate scientific talent and aid in the creation of highly qualified professionals in science and engineering fields in the US. More than 1250 STEM students were nominated for the scholarship by 438 different schools, and out of the 410 who were selected, a little over half are women. 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Mitchell\u0026rsquo;s lab received a $10,000 seed grant to use her tools to dig through millions of peer-reviewed articles, seeking hidden patterns that would be relevant to Covid-19 \u0026mdash; perhaps identifying patient risk factors or even drugs that might be repurposed to treat the virus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing Covid-19 as a test case, the lab adapted a process called link prediction, an important tool in artificial intelligence and machine learning that predicts the existence of a link between two entities. It\u0026rsquo;s kind of like filling in the blanks after identifying the blanks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELink prediction is at play when your social media platform suggests a new friend for you, or when an online marketplace predicts which customers will buy what products.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Though it\u0026rsquo;s used for other things, we adapted it to biomedical text \u0026mdash; as you might imagine, a biomedical application is more difficult than dealing with customer segmentation data,\u0026rdquo; Mitchell said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pwp.gatech.edu\/cassie-mitchell-lab\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMitchell\u0026rsquo;s team\u003C\/a\u003E excavated information from the articles and built a \u0026ldquo;knowledge graph, or network that links symptoms, drugs, antecedent diseases, genes, proteins, and much more to Covid-19 or similar coronaviruses,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team ranked relationships with the coronavirus to find the most promising research paths, with the intent of expediting translational research. They highlighted thousands of potential repurposed drugs for further research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The process can be applied to any emergent or poorly understood biomedical issue for a quicker and more diligent meta-analysis of research, compared to existing methods,\u0026rdquo; said Kevin McCoy, a third-year BME student who was technical team lead of the lab\u0026rsquo;s Covid-19 study and co-authored a journal article on the work that\u0026rsquo;s currently under review.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The most important finding is that machine learning techniques can be used to rapidly ingest and summarize biomedical literature to generate insightful and accurate summaries of the current research.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMitchell said the grant primarily supported student researchers, who took part in several conferences during the year in addition to writing their study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd what started as a modest seed grant could yield results for years to come \u0026mdash; the data mining technology, \u0026ldquo;which we intend to use for other biomedical issues,\u0026rdquo; Mitchell said \u0026mdash; and a new course for McCoy\u0026rsquo;s future.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I quickly fell in love with the applications of data science to biomedical engineering,\u0026rdquo; McCoy said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe joined Mitchell\u0026rsquo;s lab in Summer 2020 and is now looking at Ph.D. programs in statistics and machine learning, \u0026ldquo;to continue learning about and using their respective techniques to solve pressing biomedical problems.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduate researchers help Cassie Mitchell turn millions of studies into actionable insight\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Undergraduate researchers help Cassie Mitchell turn millions of studies into actionable insight"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-04-13 16:02:29","changed_gmt":"2021-04-13 16:02:29","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"646426":{"id":"646426","type":"image","title":"Coronavirus Data Mining Illustration","body":null,"created":"1618329219","gmt_created":"2021-04-13 15:53:39","changed":"1618329219","gmt_changed":"2021-04-13 15:53:39","alt":"Illustration of a coronavirus against the backdrop of computer code. 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Coulter Chair of the Department. \u0026ldquo;This challenging year has reinforced what a special place Coulter BME is, and I am incredibly proud of the work our students, faculty, and staff have done through it all to continue our mission of improving people\u0026rsquo;s health.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe updated rankings mark the 14th time in the last 18 years that the master\u0026rsquo;s and Ph.D. programs in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering have earned the second spot on the list. The consistently high ranking speaks to the Department\u0026rsquo;s recognized tradition of excellence, innovation and impact since its inception.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We work every day to educate the next generation of pioneering biomedical engineers and engage in fundamental and translational research at the interface of engineering and medicine,\u0026rdquo; Margulies said. \u0026ldquo;Our talented students go on to pursue a wide range of career paths, including academia, industry, entrepreneurial ventures, and government. Their success and accomplishments as alumni help carry the story of our program far beyond Atlanta.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Coulter Department joins every other graduate program in the Georgia Tech College of Engineering \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/graduate-programs-among-best-us\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eamong the top seven in their respective disciplines\u003C\/a\u003E on the 2022 Best Graduate Programs lists. The College overall is No. 8.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The graduate rankings released today are a testament to the high standards of education, innovation and research happening at the College, which have been recognized by our peers,\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/graduate-programs-among-best-us\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Esaid Raheem Beyah\u003C\/a\u003E, engineering dean and Southern Company Chair. \u0026ldquo;We should be especially proud of this given the many challenges over the past year with the pandemic. 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Kelly Qiu and Suraj Rejendran received 2021 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aami.org\/aami-foundation-new\/foundation-scholarships-miller\u0022\u003EMichael J. Miller scholarships\u003C\/a\u003E. All three are undergraduates in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am grateful and thankful for my friends at Georgia Tech, who have spent hours studying with me and supporting me throughout my time here,\u0026rdquo; Yoldas said. \u0026ldquo;I am truly honored to be receiving this opportunity. This will help accelerate my path towards working on the front line of medical research and technology as we continue to bridge the gap between healthcare and robotics.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aami.org\/news\/article\/aami-foundation-names-six-scholarship-recipients\u0022\u003EThe association says the scholarships\u003C\/a\u003E are more than financial support; the group\u0026rsquo;s members and staff rally behind winners to support their education and careers and help them continue to succeed. The group awards only six scholarships each year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This award provides an incredible opportunity to be part of the AAMI network of professionals working in the healthcare technology and medical device fields,\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aami.org\/news\/article\/aami-foundation-names-six-scholarship-recipients\u0022\u003Esaid Qiu, who wants to use computing to enhance medical devices\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;As a biomedical engineering student, I aim to innovate to improve patient outcomes and make a difference in medical technologies, and I am grateful for the support and network AAMI has provided.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERajendran plans to pursue a Ph.D. in computational biology, merging his interests in biomedical engineering and computing technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The AAMI Foundation Scholarship will supplement my academic and professional goals by providing me with valuable connections around the world,\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aami.org\/news\/article\/aami-foundation-names-six-scholarship-recipients\u0022\u003ERajendran told the association\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;By receiving the AAMI Foundation Scholarship, I feel as though I\u0026#39;m one step closer to making a real, progressive impact on the world.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe association supports students interested in health technology management and health systems engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The association supports students interested in health technology management and health systems engineering"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-03-26 17:17:33","changed_gmt":"2021-03-26 17:19:06","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-03-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"645780":{"id":"645780","type":"image","title":"AAMI Scholarship Winners 2021 - Alessandra Yoldas, Kelly Qiu, Suraj Rajendran","body":null,"created":"1616778602","gmt_created":"2021-03-26 17:10:02","changed":"1616778602","gmt_changed":"2021-03-26 17:10:02","alt":"From left, undergraduates Alessandra Yoldas, Kelly Qiu, and Suraj Rejendran, who have received 2021 scholarships from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation.","file":{"fid":"245171","name":"Yoldas-Qiu-Rajendran-composite-600px-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Yoldas-Qiu-Rajendran-composite-600px-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Yoldas-Qiu-Rajendran-composite-600px-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":170518,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Yoldas-Qiu-Rajendran-composite-600px-h.jpg?itok=Y9ArG1Vk"}}},"media_ids":["645780"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.aami.org\/news\/article\/aami-foundation-names-six-scholarship-recipients","title":"Read More: AAMI Foundation Names Six Scholarship Recipients"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167132","name":"Scholarships"},{"id":"187402","name":"Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation"},{"id":"187403","name":"Alessandra Yoldas"},{"id":"187038","name":"Suraj Rajendran"},{"id":"187404","name":"Kelly Qiu"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering gathered to talk about student experiences of racism and exclusion in December, the stories they heard were moving \u0026mdash; and a call to action.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Department\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/cdi\/\u0022\u003ECommunity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee\u003C\/a\u003E had collected experiences from students that served as the starting point for a thoughtful discussion \u0026mdash; and the realization among the group that they needed more tools to intervene and address situations where students feel marginalized or excluded.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA series of workshops starting this spring is one of the ways professors, instructors, and department leaders are learning those skills. Facilitated by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.askdan.co\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDan Morrison\u003C\/a\u003E, an expert in anti-racist education who specializes in diversity and inclusion in academia, the program will gather small groups of faculty members for six weeks of training and conversations. The goal is to equip them with knowledge and skills to help make the Coulter Department a more inclusive space.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The stories were powerful and generated good discussion amongst faculty about the experiences that students have that we are unaware of \u0026mdash; and our roles and responsibilities when these types of things happen,\u0026rdquo; said Todd Fernandez, a member of the Community, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee and a lecturer in the Department. \u0026ldquo;After the sessions, the faculty expressed a need for further education on strategies to help prevent or address the experiences in the students\u0026rsquo; stories we heard.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the December event, faculty members heard a variety of troubling stories from across campus. One student described being accused of breaking lab equipment because of the language they spoke. Another described how a student group used an offensive team name for a class project, leaving them feeling minimized. The aim of the workshop series \u0026mdash; which will stretch into the summer \u0026mdash; is to help faculty members interrupt these kinds of microaggressions and exclusionary behaviors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The benefit of the training is really twofold,\u0026rdquo; Fernandez said. \u0026ldquo;One, it provides space for faculty to reflect on how we make sense of the world and how we build relationships with those who have different backgrounds than we do. And, two, it gives participants specific strategies and increased confidence in having difficult discussions related to race, racism, and anti-racism.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs racial justice protests ignited conversations around the country last year, the Department developed an explicit commitment to diversity and inclusion to clearly state where we stand \u0026mdash; and our expectations for members of our community:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech is a diverse and international community of faculty, students, and staff who promote equity, diversity, and inclusion on our campuses. We believe that the diversity and contributions from all of our members are essential and make us who we are. We strive to create and maintain a welcoming and inclusive educational and work environment that values and respects our individual and communal differences. We believe that our impact must reach beyond the classroom, research labs, our campuses, and the technology we create in order to improve the human condition where injustice lives. We believe that Black Lives Matter and therefore stand committed in the fight against racism, discrimination, racial bias, and racial injustice.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, the faculty workshop series is another step toward reinforcing those ideals by offering the people leading classes, labs, and the Department practice with specific strategies they can use.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are committed to doing the work necessary to build a more equitable and inclusive community,\u0026rdquo; said Susan Margulies, the Wallace H. Coulter Chair of the Department. \u0026ldquo;As a start, we need to build our skills so that we can take concrete actions to live our values. The discussions and practice through these workshops will help us to better understand and grow \u0026mdash; and to make our Department and our campuses places where our students and colleagues thrive.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeries of workshops will equip faculty members with tools to intervene and address situations where students feel marginalized or excluded.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Series of workshops will equip faculty members with tools to intervene and address situations where students feel marginalized or excluded. 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Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"175295","name":"Diversity and Inclusion"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering: this is the first time Capstone teams have presented at a conference as part of the poster sessions or podium talks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese weren\u0026rsquo;t student design competition presentations; the students shared their advances as part of the professional program alongside other researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a wonderful opportunity that allowed our students to showcase their innovative work to a broader audience,\u0026rdquo; said James Rains, who leads the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bmecapstone.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECoulter BME Capstone program\u003C\/a\u003E and is a professor of the practice. \u0026ldquo;This audience was composed of clinicians and researchers, who are passionate about clinical and translational science. Our students appreciated the ability to tell their story to a group of individuals who can provide relevant feedback and insights.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the breakout sessions featured a presentation from a team that created a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWgeyZrXphc\u0022\u003Eprototype plasma viscometer to rapidly test the viscosity of blood plasma in Covid-19 patients\u003C\/a\u003E. Current devices are expensive or require too much time to process samples. Their solution uses light to measure fluid flow, which is proportional to viscosity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It was a really rewarding experience, because I was able to present and get feedback from top scientists and researchers within the BME and clinical science field,\u0026rdquo; said Lichao Tang, one of the three team members who presented the device. All graduated with their bachelor\u0026rsquo;s degrees in the fall. \u0026ldquo;It was also valuable to learn about the research on Covid-19 and infectious disease from the other presenters during my session.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother team presented their device to measure \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/exploring-blast-exposure-and-brain\u0022\u003Eblast exposure of mortarmen\u003C\/a\u003E in the U.S. Army \u0026mdash; work that won them the first-place award among nearly 70 posters in the translational research session.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOther poster presentations included devices to improve \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VcvhHAtP9LQ\u0022\u003Eearly detection of preeclampsia\u003C\/a\u003E in rural Ethiopia; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bx6UAu_6bFg\u0022\u003Ebetter model blood vessels and simulate their behavior\u003C\/a\u003E in specific patients; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UlScKbzDuLY\u0022\u003Eregulate infants\u0026rsquo; body temperature\u003C\/a\u003E and prevent hypothermia in Ethiopia; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qdqyUKXMgoQ\u0022\u003Esimulate brain mapping\u003C\/a\u003E to help train neurosurgeons; and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/capstone-teams-journey\u0022\u003Eimprove treatment for cardiac arrest patients\u003C\/a\u003E by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h9pDsZPC2y8\u0022\u003Eimproving blood flow to the brain\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s a wide range of applications that represents just a slice of the projects that students tackle each semester. Rains said he hopes the invitation to show off the students\u0026rsquo; work at the conference will spark new opportunities for future teams.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This allows us to create new connections who will potentially participate in the near future in our Capstone program. These posters and talks demonstrate the potential of partnering with a team of Georgia Tech engineers to jointly develop a solution to a challenge that professionals have identified or encountered,\u0026rdquo; Rains said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERains said the Capstone teams applied to participate in the conference with the encouragement of Andr\u0026eacute;s Garc\u0026iacute;a, executive director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience and one of the lead planners of the conference. 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The proceeds will help her pay for the tooling to begin injection-mold manufacturing. For team CADe and Sean Cody, who earned his biomedical engineering bachelor\u0026rsquo;s in December, the next step is the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/startuplaunch2021\/\u0022\u003EStartup Launch program\u003C\/a\u003E this summer through Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s CREATE-X program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The opportunity to be on stage in front of a lot of people is free advertising. A lot of people see this, and you\u0026#39;re going to start to generate that original buzz,\u0026rdquo; said Cody, whose team announced the app store release of their CADe smartphone app during the finals. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/intrfacesolutions.com\/\u0022\u003ECADe\u003C\/a\u003E (pronounced like \u0026ldquo;Caddy\u0026rdquo;) is an app that turns a smartphone into another input device for 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software, a tool used by millions of engineers every day. Users can manipulate the models using their phone\u0026rsquo;s touch interface: pinch to zoom, use two fingers to move the model around, one finger to rotate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s the movements that everyone in this day and age is familiar with using on a mobile interface, and because of that, a user can pick it up and start using it right away,\u0026rdquo; Cody said. \u0026ldquo;CADe functions with your traditional mouse, so you\u0026#39;re basically doubling your user input into the computer. You\u0026#39;re improving the user experience of the app, and you\u0026#39;re improving the user\u0026#39;s efficiency.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECody said initial tests showed users can see 20% efficiency gains using the CADe app on a phone in one hand and manipulating the mouse in the other. And with 20 million people using the most common 3D CAD packages, capturing just 5% of that market \u0026mdash; the team\u0026rsquo;s goal \u0026mdash; would mean a million subscribers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026#39;re excited to really launch this publicly and have a wider database of feedback,\u0026rdquo; Cody said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHasen is, likewise, on the cusp of more user feedback. She\u0026rsquo;s nearing the end of an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/bcase-by-medsur\/bcasetm-bringing-convenience-to-taking-birth-control\u0022\u003Ealready successful Kickstarter campaign\u003C\/a\u003E, where she\u0026rsquo;s outpaced her $3,500 goal and is still collecting donations. She has been 3D printing prototypes of her BCase birth control storage solution; the infusion of funding will allow her to scale up production.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBCase attaches directly to the back of a smartphone, where it discreetly carries birth control \u0026mdash; or potentially any similar multi-pill pack.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHasen came up with the idea after many an interrupted dinner or evening out with friends. Their smartphone alarms would go off to remind them it was time to take their pill, and they\u0026rsquo;d realize it was at home.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026#39;d have to turn around, no matter where we were, and go get it,\u0026rdquo; Hasen said. \u0026ldquo;It kept happening, and I was like, \u0026lsquo;Why does this keep happening?\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith BCase, the pill and the alarm are in the same place. Plus, who leaves home without their phone anymore?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You know you\u0026#39;re onto something when you have everyone saying, \u0026lsquo;How has this not been done before?\u0026rsquo; It\u0026#39;s just something that\u0026#39;s so in plain sight that no one sees it,\u0026rdquo; Hasen said. \u0026ldquo;Hopefully, this is the big product that people are like, \u0026lsquo;Wow, this has really made my life easier.\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHasen said she\u0026rsquo;s building more than a product and a business with BCase; she wants to build a platform to make women\u0026rsquo;s lives better.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I want to make sure that it is not just profiting off of women, but also supporting women,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Plan B, tampons, birth control, IUDs \u0026mdash; they were all designed by men. There are huge user flaws to them because the designers never used the product,\u0026rdquo; Hasen said. \u0026ldquo;My goal would be to have a primarily female team. I really want to make sure that the customer is the designer, and the designer is the customer.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gpb.org\/events\/television\/2021\/03\/17\/the-2021-georgia-tech-inventure-prize\u0022\u003Elive, televised finals of the InVenture Prize March 17\u003C\/a\u003E capped a months-long journey for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inventureprize.gatech.edu\/previous-competitions\/2021\u0022\u003Ethe six teams of finalists\u003C\/a\u003E. Judges awarded \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/2021\/03\/18\/delta-jacket-wins-2021-georgia-tech-inventure-prize\u0022\u003Efirst prize to Delta Jacket and second to StartProto\u003C\/a\u003E. Delta Jacket also won the audience-voted People\u0026rsquo;s Choice Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe judges included another biomedical engineer, Dev Mandavia, a 2018 graduate and the only two-time winner of the InVenture Prize.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I think I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have had a chance this year,\u0026rdquo; Mandavia said at the end of the live broadcast. \u0026ldquo;The quality of the teams gets better every year.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe journey continues for BCase and CADe with a Kickstarter and the CREATE-X Startup Launch program, respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The journey continues for BCase and CADe with a Kickstarter and the CREATE-X Startup Launch program, respectively."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-03-18 13:11:26","changed_gmt":"2021-03-18 15:00:38","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"645494":{"id":"645494","type":"image","title":"InVenture Prize 2021 - Sammie Hasen and BCase","body":null,"created":"1616071849","gmt_created":"2021-03-18 12:50:49","changed":"1616071849","gmt_changed":"2021-03-18 12:50:49","alt":"Fourth-year biomedical engineering undergraduate Sammie Hasen with BCase, a storage solution for birth control or other multi-pill packs that attaches to a smartphone. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering faculty members who are part of a new class of biomedical engineering program evaluators for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.abet.org\/\u0022\u003EABET (originally the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I have always appreciated the accreditation process as a means to ensure that we continuously strive to assess, evaluate, reflect, and improve upon programs and student experiences,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Dana-Abouelnasr\u0022\u003EDana Abouelnasr\u003C\/a\u003E, senior lecturer in the Coulter Department. \u0026ldquo;I have had the unique opportunity to work in a new program in a new university, which was at the beginning of its accreditation journey. The resulting improvements, enhancements, and new culture of reflection and continuous improvement were quite amazing.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbouelnasr and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Essy-Behravesh\u0022\u003EEssy Behravesh\u003C\/a\u003E will participate in training this spring to officially become a program evaluator. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.abet.org\/program-evaluators\/\u0022\u003EEvaluators are key in the reviews of engineering education programs that happen every six years.\u003C\/a\u003E They look at program materials and visit campuses to assess programs and help them with their continuous improvement processes. Abouelnasr and Behravesh will join \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Paul-J-Benkeser\u0022\u003ESenior Associate Chair and Professor Paul Benkeser\u003C\/a\u003E in the work; he\u0026rsquo;s served as an evaluator for nearly two decades and recommended both of them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The industry and government experience they bring to the table is very attractive,\u0026rdquo; Benkeser said. \u0026ldquo;We really try to involve as many folks from industry as we can in evaluating programs to round out the perspective of the accrediting committees. Dana and Essy bring that experience, which is a big plus along with their work in academia.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBehravesh spent several years in industry before coming to Georgia Tech. He\u0026rsquo;s now the director of student services in the Department and teaches a systems-level engineering physiology lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As a program evaluator, I get to learn how other biomedical engineers run their programs. I think to be the best, you have to understand the rest,\u0026rdquo; Behravesh said. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m looking forward to seeing how other programs leverage their strengths, and more importantly, how we can be more efficient in our use of data for continuous improvement.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBehravesh has been deeply involved in the Coulter Department\u0026rsquo;s ABET visits. He said working with programs on their reaccreditation also offers the chance to share what he\u0026rsquo;s learned from the leaders and learning scientists in the Coulter Department.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELikewise, Abouelnasr has been immersed in the \u0026ldquo;other side\u0026rdquo; of an accreditation process. She helped develop a new master\u0026rsquo;s program at a university in the United Arab Emirates, all the way from determining the demand for the program to getting full accreditation. And she experienced the evaluator\u0026rsquo;s perspective when she was a scientist at the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Part of my responsibilities were to evaluate the efforts within several different programs and help to maintain standards and provide for continuous improvement throughout my division,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;Much of this was similar to what my responsibilities will be as a program evaluator.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHaving three evaluators from Coulter BME builds on the College of Engineering\u0026rsquo;s long legacy of service to ABET, Benkeser said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This reflects well on the Georgia Tech community, when we have people who contribute like this,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re already a well-respected engineering program, of course, but this is another way to give back. And we have an obligation \u0026mdash; we benefit from the work of all the volunteers at ABET.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBenkeser would know: He\u0026rsquo;s in his second stint representing the Biomedical Engineering Society on the Engineering Accreditation Commission for ABET, which oversees all the organization\u0026rsquo;s engineering accreditation work. 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Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"187297","name":"Dana Abouelnasr"},{"id":"187298","name":"Essy Behravesh"},{"id":"14971","name":"Paul Benkeser"},{"id":"134711","name":"ABET"},{"id":"187299","name":"ABET Program Evaluators"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Mananger\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"645240":{"#nid":"645240","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sigma Xi Honors Voit, Mitchell for Impactful Research with 2021 Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sigmaxi.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-sigma-xi-research-awards\/award-categories\/\u0022\u003ESigma Xi\u003C\/a\u003E has recognized the research of two faculty members and a Ph.D. student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering as some the most noteworthy on campus. All three use computational tools to improve our understanding of biological systems and better care for patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Eberhard-Voit\u0022\u003EEberhard Voit\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com\/sites.gatech.edu\/dist\/0\/283\/files\/2021\/03\/2021-Sigma-Xi-Research-Award-Winners.final_.pdf\u0022\u003Ereceived the Sustained Research Award for 2021\u003C\/a\u003E, the highest tribute from the honor society of scientists and engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, considered a \u0026ldquo;lifetime\u0026rdquo; award for outstanding work across the scope of the winner\u0026rsquo;s career. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Cassie-S.-Mitchell\u0022\u003ECassie Mitchell \u003C\/a\u003Ewon the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com\/sites.gatech.edu\/dist\/0\/283\/files\/2021\/03\/2021-Sigma-Xi-Research-Award-Winners.final_.pdf\u0022\u003EYoung Faculty Award\u003C\/a\u003E, which goes to early career professors making a mark in their fields. Sigma Xi also gave a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com\/sites.gatech.edu\/dist\/0\/283\/files\/2021\/03\/2021-Sigma-Xi-Research-Award-Winners.final_.pdf\u0022\u003EBest Ph.D. Thesis Award\u003C\/a\u003E to Minliang Liu, a mechanical engineering student who was advised by Coulter Department Associate Professor Wei Sun.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVoit said the award was humbling and gratifying, given the level of accomplishments across Georgia Tech. He works to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bst.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Euse mathematics and computational tools to gain insights into biological systems\u003C\/a\u003E from the molecular level up to entire environments \u0026mdash; a concept that was barely recognized when he entered college.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When I graduated with double master\u0026rsquo;s degrees in biology and math, a professor told me, \u0026lsquo;Biology is too complicated to use math.\u0026rsquo; By now, we have come to realize that biology is too complicated not to use math,\u0026rdquo; said Voit, David D. Flanagan Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Systems Biology. \u0026ldquo;The only hope we have to understand the structure, features, and roles of complex systems in biology, medicine, and the environment is through mathematics and computation, because our brains are simply not equipped to deal with even dozens, let alone hundreds of simultaneous processes and their numerical implementations. We are still far from such an understanding, but pioneers of systems biology, on whose shoulders I am standing, have started to blaze a trail in the right direction.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVoit said his early career was a series of wide-ranging apprenticeships, since the field of systems biology didn\u0026rsquo;t exist yet. He explored zoology, microbiology and immunology, forestry, environmental risk assessment, and other areas, he said, \u0026ldquo;acquiring many different viewpoints as well as numerous distinct approaches to solving complicated problems. The amalgamation of these has made me who I am.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow he calls himself a \u0026ldquo;missionary for the field\u0026rdquo; of systems biology, writing two books designed for interested non-experts: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/inner-workings-of-life\/58D550F49C153B9419CBCCB444D90E34\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Inner Workings of Life\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/systems-biology-a-very-short-introduction-9780198828372?cc=us\u0026amp;lang=en\u0026amp;\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESystems Biology: A Very Short Introduction\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMitchell, an assistant professor whose work \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/cassie-mitchell-lab\/\u0022\u003Efocuses on developing computational techniques for predictive medicine\u003C\/a\u003E, said winning the Young Faculty Award the same year as Voit\u0026rsquo;s Sustained Research Award has made the honor particularly special.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;My early career as a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech was inspired by the pioneering biomedical computational modeling of Dr. Voit, and though we are now colleagues, his research success continues to inspire me,\u0026rdquo; Mitchell said. \u0026ldquo;Dr. Voit and I simultaneously winning these prestigious Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Awards shows the newfound growth, translational impact, and overall perceived value of computational biomedical engineering research.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMitchell\u0026rsquo;s research weighs the complex factors that underpin disease dynamics to better predict disease progression and treatment for individual patients. It\u0026rsquo;s work that stems, in part, from her own experiences as a patient.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;What I love about my research in predictive medicine is that it expedites every facet of healthcare \u0026mdash; disease causes, new cures, and optimal patient care,\u0026rdquo; Mitchell said. \u0026ldquo;As a patient myself with quadriplegia and cancer, I understand the value of balanced research that solves both immediate and personalized aspects of quality of life while striving for radical discoveries to eradicate disease entirely.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMitchell said she also loves making those discoveries with her large group of students \u0026mdash; about three dozen undergraduates and high school interns alongside eight to 10 graduate students \u0026mdash; and helping them grow and succeed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I feel very humbled and honored to receive this prestigious Young Faculty Award from Sigma Xi at Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EComputational tools also were at the heart of Minliang Liu\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/smartech.gatech.edu\/handle\/1853\/64152\u0022\u003EBest Ph.D Thesis Award-winning research\u003C\/a\u003E. Liu developed noninvasive methods to assess patients\u0026rsquo; risk of an aortic aneurysm rupture based on medical images. Liu\u0026rsquo;s computational framework used inverse methods and machine learning alongside probabilistic models to calculate patient-specific material properties and aneurysm rupture risk in vivo.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Aortic aneurysm is a significant cause of death globally. With the advancement of clinical cardiac imaging modalities and computational tools, patient-specific biomechanical evaluation of aneurysm dissection and rupture is getting closer to reality,\u0026rdquo; Liu said. \u0026ldquo;My thesis research offers great potential for personalized diagnosis and risk assessment, and it provides insights into the clinical decision-making process, which can ultimately improve clinical outcomes for aneurysm patients.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELiu was co-advised by Sun and H. Jerry Qi, professor in the George W. 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Liu\u0026rsquo;s thesis is one of only 10 across Tech\u0026rsquo;s campus that Sigma Xi recognized for their merit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELiu, Mitchell, and Voit will accept their awards later in the spring at a virtual ceremony for all the Sigma Xi winners.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The research honor society also selected Minliang Liu\u2019s Ph.D. thesis as one of the year\u2019s best"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-03-11 16:12:21","changed_gmt":"2021-03-11 16:12:21","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"645239":{"id":"645239","type":"image","title":"Sigma Xi 2021 BME Winners composite","body":null,"created":"1615478515","gmt_created":"2021-03-11 16:01:55","changed":"1615478515","gmt_changed":"2021-03-11 16:01:55","alt":"Georgia Tech\u0027s science and engineering honor society has recognized three members of the Wallace H. 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Dahlman co-founded Guide to efficiently develop safe gene therapies with a former graduate researcher in his lab, Cory Sago.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe company uses patented DNA barcoding technology to tag lipid nanoparticles and then simultaneously test thousands of the molecules in search of those that can deliver drugs to different kinds of cells in the body.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne FDA-approved a drug uses the lipid nanoparticle delivery approach to target cells in the liver. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/guidetx.com\/\u0022\u003EGuide is searching for nanoparticles\u003C\/a\u003E that will work to deliver therapies to other cells and says it can generate drug delivery data at a rate 15,000-fold higher than traditional experiments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGuide received project management and business mentorship from the Coulter Department\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biolocity.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBiolocity technology commercialization program\u003C\/a\u003E in 2019. 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There are so many people who spend time working for the society,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Jaydev-Desai\u0022\u003EDesai, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;It really is a team effort \u0026mdash; to run a large conference, for example, we all have to chip in to make sure that it is a success. Likewise, to launch new initiatives, the community has to come together to make it happen.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDesai said it always has been important to him to give back to his professional community, which he has been involved in since the very beginning of his career. Now, he said, he also has the opportunity to involve the next generation of leaders in the society\u0026rsquo;s work and mentor them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDesai\u0026rsquo;s leadership in Robotics and Automation Society signature events stretches back to the 2008 IEEE\/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, where he was program chair. Most recently, he served as the program chair of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the world\u0026rsquo;s largest conference in robotics and automation. He\u0026rsquo;s led a number of other events, and he served as co-chair of the society\u0026rsquo;s Technical Committee on Surgical Robotics for eight years.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You get to guide the quality of those events within the conference,\u0026rdquo; Desai said, \u0026ldquo;and I believe in having a top-notch quality. I put in a lot of effort into making sure that it is.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDesai\u0026rsquo;s work continues to this day \u0026mdash; he might be busier now than ever, in fact. He was recently appointed associate vice president, technical program, of the society\u0026rsquo;s Conference Activities Board, which oversees the technical, finance, publications, and operations aspects of all its conferences. He also was recently elected to serve a three-year term on the society\u0026rsquo;s governing Administrative Committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s an honor to be recognized with the award, but that doesn\u0026#39;t mean that you stop there,\u0026rdquo; Desai said. \u0026ldquo;My work is ongoing, and I think my contributions to the society will be ongoing for the foreseeable future.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe society will award two service awards at ICRA in June. The other will go to Ayanna Howard, the departing chair of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Interactive Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJaydev Desai has been a long-time leader of the society\u0026#39;s conferences and technical activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jaydev Desai has been a long-time leader of the society\u0027s conferences and technical activities."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-02-22 16:49:58","changed_gmt":"2021-02-22 16:49:58","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"644549":{"id":"644549","type":"image","title":"Jaydev Desai","body":null,"created":"1614012250","gmt_created":"2021-02-22 16:44:10","changed":"1614012805","gmt_changed":"2021-02-22 16:53:25","alt":"Professor Jaydev Desai headshot.","file":{"fid":"244720","name":"Desai-Jaydev-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Desai-Jaydev-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Desai-Jaydev-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":221454,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Desai-Jaydev-h.jpg?itok=Bmw2dqiv"}}},"media_ids":["644549"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ieee-ras.org\/about-ras\/latest-news\/1775-2021-ieee-ras-award-recipients-announced","title":"IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award Announcement"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Jaydev-Desai","title":"Jaydev Desai"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"169945","name":"Jaydev Desai"},{"id":"187089","name":"IEEE Robotics and Automation Society"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"644078":{"#nid":"644078","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alumna Rao Headed to UK for PhD Studies as a Gates Cambridge Scholar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETanvi Rao knew she wanted to do work that would help bridge gaps in health equity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter a few years in consulting and healthcare innovation, she saw a way to do that in radiology and radiogenomics \u0026mdash; a emerging part of the field that combines medical imaging and genomic data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Medical imaging has the potential to disrupt traditional lines of thinking and limitations around resourcing and access to care,\u0026rdquo; Rao said. \u0026ldquo;Imaging provides a means of delivering clinical-grade diagnostics regardless of distance.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis fall, Rao is headed to the University of Cambridge with a full scholarship to begin work on that dream as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatescambridge.org\/about\/news\/first-batch-of-gates-cambridge-class-of-2021-announced\/\u0022\u003EThe program announced its 2021 class\u003C\/a\u003E of two dozen students from the United States Feb. 8.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The program offers the opportunity to join a global community of scholars who are dedicated to improving the lives of others and driving change through leadership,\u0026rdquo; said Rao, a 2018 graduate of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. \u0026ldquo;I really liked the idea of being part of an academically diverse community and learning from peers in different disciplines who were also interested in using their research to address global issues.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERao is the seventh Gates Cambridge Scholar from Georgia Tech and the first woman. She said she will study with Evis Sala at Cambridge, whose group is already making strides in radiogenomics. They\u0026rsquo;re working to better guide clinical decision-making by extracting quantitative data from medical images and finding correlations with tissue-based molecular data. Rao said their work could help lead to more precise and efficient healthcare.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Leveraging predictive models and artificial intelligence in healthcare in this way is novel and exciting and has a lot of implications for improving care pathways; it\u0026#39;s a very cool space to be in,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;My specific focus is liver cancer, which is very deadly and relatively underfunded, so there is a lot of need.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Gates Cambridge Scholarship rewards students focused on social leadership in addition to academic achievement. Scholars can pursue studies and research in any subject at Cambridge. Rao and the other U.S. scholars will join another 60 or so graduate students from other parts of the world who have yet to be selected.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Like their predecessors, this year\u0026rsquo;s cohort are an extraordinarily impressive and diverse group who have already achieved much in terms of their academic studies and leadership abilities and have already shown their commitment to improving the lives of others in multiple ways,\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatescambridge.org\/about\/news\/first-batch-of-gates-cambridge-class-of-2021-announced\/\u0022\u003Esaid Professor Barry Everitt, provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust.\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026ldquo;We are sure these scholars \u0026mdash; and those we announce in early April from other parts of the world \u0026mdash; will flourish in the rich, international community at Cambridge and that they will make a significant impact in their fields and to the wider global community.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERao begins her studies in Cambridge this fall.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETanvi Rao will study medical imaging and work to bridge gaps in health equity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tanvi Rao will study medical imaging and work to bridge gaps in health equity."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-02-10 18:13:32","changed_gmt":"2021-02-10 18:27:43","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-02-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-02-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"644077":{"id":"644077","type":"image","title":"Tanvi Rao, BME 2018","body":null,"created":"1612980322","gmt_created":"2021-02-10 18:05:22","changed":"1612981099","gmt_changed":"2021-02-10 18:18:19","alt":"Tanvi Rao headshot","file":{"fid":"244539","name":"Rao-Tanvi-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Rao-Tanvi-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Rao-Tanvi-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":239896,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Rao-Tanvi-h.jpg?itok=geIgojCN"}}},"media_ids":["644077"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.gatescambridge.org\/about\/news\/first-batch-of-gates-cambridge-class-of-2021-announced\/","title":"2021 Gates Cambridge Scholars"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186988","name":"Tanvi Rao"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"186989","name":"BME Alumni"},{"id":"114441","name":"radiology"},{"id":"186990","name":"radiogenomics"},{"id":"13355","name":"gates cambridge scholarship"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"643915":{"#nid":"643915","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students\u2019 Social Distancing Bracelet Earns Honorable Mention in Covid-19 Hackathon","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA key public health measure during the Covid-19 pandemic has been social distancing \u0026mdash; keeping at least 6 feet of distance between people to minimize spread of the coronavirus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA team of students from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering wants to make that easier for people to practice as they return to working in-person. The team\u0026rsquo;s idea was one of the best to emerge from the Emory and Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.globalhealth.emory.edu\/students\/hackathon\/index.html\u0022\u003EHACK Covid-19 competition \u003C\/a\u003Ein late January.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETeam GoodVibes developed a bracelet to reinforce proper distancing \u0026mdash; or prompt users with other customizable reminders. Their idea won an honorable mention from the hackathon\u0026rsquo;s judges.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We wanted to design an affordable, accessible, and practical device that helped employees transition safely to an in-person setting,\u0026rdquo; said team member and third-year BME student Rebecca Jeltuhin. \u0026ldquo;We chose to create a bracelet due to its simple and subtle nature, along with the possibility of quickly bringing it to market.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe bracelet would work in conjunction with others \u0026mdash; any time a wearer encounters another user within a 6-foot radius, it would vibrate to remind both individuals to increase the space between them. Jeltuhin said they also want to\u0026nbsp; build in the ability to gently prompt others \u0026mdash; to help avoid the uncomfortable situation of having to ask someone to move farther away.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The bracelet has a manual override button. When pressed, it will activate the vibration feature for everyone in a 6-foot radius in case someone is not following social distancing protocol,\u0026rdquo; said Mai Nguyen, another member of the team and also a third-year biomedical engineering student. \u0026ldquo;This subtly reminds people to maintain proper distancing without calling them out.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team envisions including a dial to adjust the distance for alerts even closer than 6 feet, if a user wished. They\u0026rsquo;ve also discussed adding a long-press function to the button that businesses could customize, using it to send vibration patterns as reminders to put on a mask or sanitize hands, for example.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe GoodVibes team included fourth-year biomedical engineering student Varun Mosur and third-year students Jeltuhin, Nguyen, Matthew Nuese, and Anna Williams, who\u0026rsquo;ve worked together since their sophomore design class. They also recruited Emeline Ruvinskiy, a fourth-year undergraduate in the Goizueta Business School at Emory, to bring her business skills to the table.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe hackathon was a collaboration of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.globalhealth.emory.edu\/\u0022\u003EEmory Global Health Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECREATE-X at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E, and Coulter BME. 130 students on 29 teams competed to develop products to help schools and businesses safely reopen. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/returning-new-normal\u0022\u003ETop prize went to Team Rotations\u003C\/a\u003E, a digital platform to allow schools and businesses to quickly create safe seating charts and schedules to minimize exposure to Covid-19.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our hackathons with Emory allow students from both schools to engage, develop ideas and create solutions that can later be commercialized through a startup incubator like CREATE-X,\u0026rdquo; said Raghupathy \u0026ldquo;Siva\u0026rdquo; Sivakumar, founding director of CREATE-X and interim chief commercialization officer at Georgia Tech. \u0026ldquo;Most importantly, these students want to contribute to helping solve what\u0026rsquo;s arguably the greatest public health crisis of our lifetime. Fostering an entrepreneurial spirit in our students helps them believe that they, too, can contribute to finding solutions to complex problems, even ones as difficult as Covid-19.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe GoodVibes team hopes to refine their idea, looking even beyond the Covid-19 pandemic. Ruvinskiy said they\u0026rsquo;d like to apply to CREATE-X to continue the design process and make their idea a reality.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The current pandemic requires quick action, which is why entrepreneurs are so critical to helping solve the issues produced by Covid,\u0026rdquo; Nuese said. \u0026ldquo;During the hackathon, each one of our teammates had the chance to feel this entrepreneurial spirit within them, and we hope our GoodVibes will reverberate around the world.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETheir idea is to make social distancing easier for people to practice as they return to working in-person with subtle reminders from the wearable.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Their idea is to make social distancing easier for people to practice as they return to working in-person with subtle reminders from the wearable."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-02-05 14:47:49","changed_gmt":"2021-02-05 15:40:10","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"643921":{"id":"643921","type":"image","title":"GoodVibes Bracelet Rendering","body":null,"created":"1612539566","gmt_created":"2021-02-05 15:39:26","changed":"1612539566","gmt_changed":"2021-02-05 15:39:26","alt":"Preliminary rendering of the GoodVibes bracelet, which won an honorable mention at the Emory and Georgia Tech HACK Covid-19 competition in January 2021.","file":{"fid":"244482","name":"GoodVibes-Bracelet-Rendering-Covid-19-Hackathon-h.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GoodVibes-Bracelet-Rendering-Covid-19-Hackathon-h.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GoodVibes-Bracelet-Rendering-Covid-19-Hackathon-h.png","mime":"image\/png","size":105962,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/GoodVibes-Bracelet-Rendering-Covid-19-Hackathon-h.png?itok=1RNqL-YF"}}},"media_ids":["643921"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.globalhealth.emory.edu\/students\/hackathon\/index.html","title":"HACK Covid-19 Competition"},{"url":"https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/","title":"CREATE-X at Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"61371","name":"Hackathon"},{"id":"184289","name":"covid-19"},{"id":"184598","name":"COVID-19 Pandemic"},{"id":"184447","name":"social distancing"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"643816":{"#nid":"643816","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Platt Honored with Mentor Award from AAAS","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEnriching. Transformative. Nurturing. Authentic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThose adjectives, and more like them, are how his former students have described \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Manu-O-Platt\u0022\u003EManu Platt\u003C\/a\u003E and his influence on their education and careers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlatt\u0026rsquo;s work growing \u0026mdash; and pushing \u0026mdash; the next generation of biomedical engineers has won him the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aaas.org\/news\/biomedical-engineer-earns-aaas-mentor-award-commitment-students-success-and-empowerment\u0022\u003E2021 Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)\u003C\/a\u003E, an honor that recognizes \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aaas.org\/awards\/mentor\/about\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;extraordinary leadership to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in science and engineering fields and careers.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Dr. Platt pushed me outside of my comfort zone to a growth zone, which molded me into a better engineer and helped me find my place to be my full, authentic self as a Black woman in academia,\u0026rdquo; said Simone Douglas-Green, who earned her Ph.D. with Platt and now is a postdoctoral scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \u0026ldquo;Dr. Platt has always given me more than I think I can handle, but he has a gift of knowing what is in his student\u0026rsquo;s best interest and encouraging them to aim higher. He always saw the potential in me before I could see it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDouglas-Green joined the effort to nominate Platt for the mentor award when she was contacted by Monet Roberts, another of Platt\u0026rsquo;s former doctoral students who was leading the charge. Roberts said she met Platt when she was a first-year student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. It was that relationship that convinced her academia was the place for her.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He was the first Black biomedical engineer and professor that I had ever seen,\u0026rdquo; Roberts said. \u0026ldquo;He took me under his wing as an informal mentor and adviser. He started to invite me to his lab meetings. I helped out in his lab as a lab assistant and became interested in the research and transitioned to an undergraduate researcher.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERoberts and Douglas-Green both said Platt builds a culture of family in his lab and models what it means to be what Roberts called \u0026ldquo;a socially conscious scientist and engineer.\u0026rdquo; Douglas-Green said Platt showed her how to balance advancing science while \u0026ldquo;being an advocate and doing outreach to improve diversity and inclusion in BME.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor Platt, the award was touching \u0026mdash; and a surprise. He said he\u0026rsquo;s thrilled to be in the company of previous winners like former Georgia Tech Dean of Engineering Gary May, the first Black dean of the college whom Platt called \u0026ldquo;a mentor and absolute hero of mine.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I have had amazing mentors along my way, some who looked like me and many who did not. It has opened up doors for me where I did not even know there was a door,\u0026rdquo; said Platt, associate professor in Coulter BME and a Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Scholar. \u0026ldquo;That has led me to this exciting career in science and engineering. It has been so much more than what I would have ever thought it would be when I was a young nerd.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhich is why, he said, mentoring has been so important to him: \u0026ldquo;Others should have that opportunity.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlatt pointed to professors from Morehouse College who impressed upon him the importance of building a network that looks out for one another while pushing each other to improve. Platt said Petit Institute Founding Director Bob Nerem was a significant influence, reminding him that science is a people business; Coulter BME Associate Chair Hanjoong Jo has always pushed him to grow and think rigorously; and Gilda Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering, helped him understand the big picture.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe also credited his students, like Roberts and Douglas-Green.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is really a testament to the great students who have taken a risk on working with this nutty guy with crazy ideas, and then allowed me to help guide them along their way, giving them some extra experiences, opportunities, and knowledge to make it seem like a worthy, fun, and exciting journey,\u0026rdquo; Platt said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlatt will accept the 2021 AAAS Mentor Award at the society\u0026rsquo;s annual meeting Feb. 8-11.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We need more Platt Labs in academia that embrace inclusion and diversity to push boundaries,\u0026rdquo; Douglas-Green said. \u0026ldquo;Dr. Platt lives his life unapologetically and brings his whole self to the lab; it fosters an open lab environment and genuine connections with his students and trainees.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe and Roberts said their connections to Platt continue, even as they start to build their careers elsewhere.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He is more than deserving of this award,\u0026rdquo; Roberts said. \u0026ldquo;I am excited that he is getting the recognition that matches all of his efforts in the lives that he has touched.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENominators said Platt builds a culture of family in his lab and models what it means to be \u0026ldquo;a socially conscious scientist and engineer.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nominators said Platt builds a culture of family in his lab and models what it means to be \u201ca socially conscious scientist and engineer.\u201d"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-02-03 14:35:07","changed_gmt":"2021-02-03 15:03:46","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-02-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-02-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"643814":{"id":"643814","type":"image","title":"Manu Platt at BMES with former students","body":null,"created":"1612361929","gmt_created":"2021-02-03 14:18:49","changed":"1612361929","gmt_changed":"2021-02-03 14:18:49","alt":"Manu Platt, in the back, reunites with some of his former students at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting: from left to right, Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks, Monet Roberts, Simone Douglas-Green, and Adeola Michael. 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The IEEE Rao Tummala Electronics Packaging Award is one of the highest IEEE honors recognizing the outstanding and exceptional contributions of individuals who advance electronics packaging and interconnection technologies at the device and systems levels and in science and manufacturing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn renaming this particular award, IEEE stated that Tummala is \u0026quot;the universally recognized luminary and technical leader of modern packaging science, technology, and manufacturing over the last five decades. Prof. Tummala is a once-in-a-generation visionary technologist, who provided unparalleled leadership in the industry (IBM), academia (Georgia Tech), professional societies (the IEEE Electronics\u0026nbsp;Packaging\u0026nbsp;Society and the International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Society), and around the globe in packaging research, technology development, manufacturing, and products, as well as in education and in industry-academic collaborations. Prof. Tummala\u0026rsquo;s combined impact on the industry, academia, and professional societies around the globe places him in the forefront of all packaging leaders in the history of the field.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETummala\u0026nbsp;held the Joseph M. Pettit Chair in Electronics\u0026nbsp;Packaging in ECE from 1993-2019 and was the founding\u0026nbsp;director of the Microsystems Packaging Research Center (PRC), now known as the 3D Systems Packaging\u0026nbsp;Research Center. He was also a\u0026nbsp;Georgia\u0026nbsp;Research\u0026nbsp;Alliance Eminent Scholar.\u0026nbsp;The PRC pioneered the Second Law of Electronics (the first being Moore\u0026rsquo;s Law) with his System-on-Package vision. The Center involved faculty and students from ECE, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering and 40 companies from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He has published over 800 technical papers, holds 110\u0026nbsp;U.S. patents and inventions, and wrote the first modern reference book for\u0026nbsp;microsystems packaging in 1988 and the first undergraduate textbook in 2001. He has published a total of seven text and reference books.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have been very fortunate to have had Rao as a leader and ambassador for many years,\u0026rdquo; said Magnus Egerstedt, Steve W. Chaddick School Chair and ECE Professor. \u0026ldquo;All of us in the School would like to thank Rao for all of his hard work and dedication and for all that he has done for ECE, Georgia Tech, and\u0026nbsp;the engineering field.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERao Tummala, a professor emeritus in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been honored with having an IEEE Technical Field Award named in his honor \u0026ndash; the IEEE Rao Tummala Electronics Packaging Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Rao Tummala, a professor emeritus in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been honored with having an IEEE Technical Field Award named in his honor \u2013 the IEEE Rao Tummala Electronics Packaging Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2021-01-20 15:43:39","changed_gmt":"2021-01-25 22:24:33","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-01-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-01-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64604":{"id":"64604","type":"image","title":"photo of Rao Tummala","body":null,"created":"1449176753","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:53","changed":"1475894569","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:49","alt":"photo of Rao Tummala","file":{"fid":"192043","name":"tql98659.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tql98659_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tql98659_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":17083,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tql98659_0.jpg?itok=yShSov2m"}}},"media_ids":["64604"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/rao-r-tummala","title":"Rao Tummala"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.prc.gatech.edu","title":"3D Systems Packaging Research Center"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech "},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gra.org","title":"Georgia Research Alliance"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ieee.org","title":"IEEE"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"12103","name":"Rao Tummala"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"186749","name":"IEEE Rao Tummala Electronics Packaging Award"},{"id":"1187","name":"IEEE"},{"id":"94171","name":"Electronics Packaging"},{"id":"186750","name":"interconnection technologies"},{"id":"184727","name":"IEEE Electronics Packaging Society"},{"id":"186751","name":"International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Society"},{"id":"186752","name":"packaging research"},{"id":"5159","name":"Microsystems Packaging Research Center"},{"id":"1464","name":"Georgia Research Alliance"},{"id":"186753","name":"Second Law of Electronics"},{"id":"167011","name":"moore\u0027s law"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"642647":{"#nid":"642647","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rezvanitabar Tapped for IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAhmad Rezvanitabar has been named as a recipient of the\u0026nbsp;2020-2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award, the highest honor for Ph.D. students from the IEEE SSCS.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERezvanitabar is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). He is\u0026nbsp;co-advised by Professor Levent Degertekin, who leads the Micromachined Sensors and Transducers (MIST) Lab in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and ECE Assistant Professor Shaolan Li, who leads the Georgia Tech Analog Mixed-signal Microsystems and Applications (GAMMA) Lab.\u0026nbsp;Rezvanitabar was formerly co-advised by Maysam Ghovanloo.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis predoctoral achievement award is for Rezvanitabar\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. research on \u0026ldquo;Integrated Electronics for Wireless Imaging Microsystems Utilizing CMUT Arrays.\u0026rdquo; Integration of transducer arrays with interface electronics in the form of single-chip CMUT-on-CMOS is transforming the field of medical ultrasound imaging. Rezvanitabar\u0026rsquo;s research is a step toward implantable wireless microsystems that use ultrasound to image the brain by bypassing the skull.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese microsystems offer autonomous scanning of the brain and wireless data transfer for image reconstruction and can be used as an emerging modality with sufficient spatio-temporal resolution for the assessment and detection of brain tumors and re-hemorrhage for long-term or continuous monitoring.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERezvanitabar received two B.S. degrees (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), located in Tehran, Iran, and two M.S. degrees in electrical engineering with different areas of focus from the Sharif University of Technology, located in Tehran, and from Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Ahmad Rezvanitabar has been named as a recipient of the\u0026nbsp;2020-2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Ahmad Rezvanitabar has been named as a recipient of the\u00a02020-2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2021-01-07 16:17:47","changed_gmt":"2021-01-07 16:18:57","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-01-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"642645":{"id":"642645","type":"image","title":"Ahmad Rezvanitabar","body":null,"created":"1610035552","gmt_created":"2021-01-07 16:05:52","changed":"1610035552","gmt_changed":"2021-01-07 16:05:52","alt":"photograph of Ahmad Rezvanitabar","file":{"fid":"244069","name":"rezvanitabar.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rezvanitabar.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rezvanitabar.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":37448,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/rezvanitabar.jpg?itok=JIJjQtLM"}}},"media_ids":["642645"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gamma.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech Analog Mixed-signal Microsystems and Applications (GAMMA) Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/mist.gatech.edu","title":"Micromachined Sensors and Transducers (MIST) Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu","title":"George W. 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It was the first to definitively show that disturbed patterns of blood flow determine where atherosclerotic plaques will later appear.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn atherosclerosis, arterial walls thicken and harden because of a gradual build-up of lipids, cholesterol and white blood cells, which occurs over the course of years in humans. The Jo lab\u0026rsquo;s model involves restricting blood flow in the carotid artery of mice, which are fed a high-fat diet and also have mutations in a gene (ApoE) involved in processing fat and cholesterol. The physical intervention causes atherosclerosis to appear within a couple weeks. Inflammation in endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, is visible within 48 hours.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow Jo\u0026rsquo;s lab has combined the model with recently developed techniques that permit scientists to see molecular changes in single cells. The results were published Dec. 15 in \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-reports\/pdf\/S2211-1247(20)31480-7.pdf\u0022\u003ECell Reports\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJo\u0026rsquo;s lab is in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jolabwebpage.com\/\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory and Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, when they saw inflammation in blood vessels, researchers could not distinguish between intrinsic changes in endothelial cells (ECs) and immune or other cells infiltrating into the blood vessel lining.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vL7ptq2Dcf0\u0022\u003EA video made by Harvard scientists\u003C\/a\u003E who developed the single cell techniques describes the difference like this. Looking at the molecules in cells with standard techniques is like making a fruit smoothie \u0026ndash; everything is blended together. But single cell techniques allow them to taste and evaluate each piece of fruit individually.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the single cell analysis, researchers in Jo\u0026rsquo;s lab saw that under disturbed flow conditions, endothelial cells begin to display surprising changes in their gene activity. It\u0026rsquo;s not only that endothelial cells are becoming more pro-inflammatory, they look like they are changing into immune cells. There were also signs of some endothelial cells de-differentiating \u0026ndash; becoming more like mesenchymal (stromal) or progenitor cells. In terms of development, endothelial cells are derived from mesoderm and are thus related to hematopoetic (blood forming) cells, but it\u0026rsquo;s still striking how \u0026ldquo;plastic\u0026rdquo; or changeable they are.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Disturbed flow reprograms ECs to take up a new profile that matches to that of immune cells,\u0026rdquo; said coauthor and assistant professor Sandeep Kumar. \u0026ldquo;Whether they completely transform to immune cells is not clear yet.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe added: \u0026ldquo;The novel role of disturbed flow that induces ECs to take up a new profile that matches to that of either mesenchymal cells, immune cells or a mix of the two. This also emphasizes the profound effect of mechanical cues on ECs in addition to the biochemical\/ humoral cues that are contributed by metabolism and genetics.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe single cell techniques are fascinating. Cells are encapsulated in droplets, and droplets carry DNA \u0026ldquo;barcodes\u0026rdquo; that uniquely labels cDNAs from a single cell. In a related technique, a transposase enzyme inserts adapters into accessible regions of chromatin. However, Kumar said that the most difficult aspect of the single-cell analysis was isolation of healthy viable single cell preparations from carotid tissues: \u0026ldquo;Good cells lead to good data.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe first author of the paper is postdoctoral fellow Aitor Andueza Lizarraga. This work was supported by the National Heart Lung Blood Institute (HL119798, HL095070, and HL139757), and the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance (UL1TR002378), the Emory Integrated Genomics Core and the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair Professorship.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDisturbed blood flow in arteries can lead endothelial cells reprogram themselves and take on characteristics of immune cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Disturbed blood flow in arteries can lead endothelial cells reprogram themselves and take on characteristics of immune cells."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2020-12-17 16:53:32","changed_gmt":"2020-12-18 20:26:05","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"642195":{"id":"642195","type":"image","title":"Bowl of Fruit Salad","body":null,"created":"1608223311","gmt_created":"2020-12-17 16:41:51","changed":"1608223311","gmt_changed":"2020-12-17 16:41:51","alt":"Fruit salad in a white bowl.","file":{"fid":"243971","name":"Fruit-Salad-Getty-Images.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Fruit-Salad-Getty-Images.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Fruit-Salad-Getty-Images.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":203339,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Fruit-Salad-Getty-Images.jpg?itok=Rt_0M8uo"}},"642196":{"id":"642196","type":"image","title":"Mouse Aorta Diagram","body":null,"created":"1608223370","gmt_created":"2020-12-17 16:42:50","changed":"1608223370","gmt_changed":"2020-12-17 16:42:50","alt":"The shear-sensitive gene LMO4 is turned on in the region in the center, but not the other two, because of disturbed flow in that area of the aorta.","file":{"fid":"243972","name":"mouse-aorta-diagram.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mouse-aorta-diagram.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mouse-aorta-diagram.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":85728,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mouse-aorta-diagram.jpg?itok=Sz3LgIDO"}}},"media_ids":["642195","642196"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-reports\/pdf\/S2211-1247(20)31480-7.pdf","title":"Endothelial Reprogramming by Disturbed Flow Revealed by Single-Cell RNA and Chromatin Accessibility Study"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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They have provided guidance on how to strengthen the EIC in the areas of innovation ecosystems and management, technology transfer, and investment in ways\u0026nbsp;that are similar to how the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) operate in the United States. Their recommendations are in a report entitled \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/op.europa.eu\/en\/publication-detail\/-\/publication\/fee3496e-23d0-11eb-b57e-01aa75ed71a1\/language-en\u0022\u003EImplementing the pro-active management of the EIC pathfinder for breakthrough technologies and innovations\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis expert group includes Angelos Keromytis, a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined ECE in 2019 as the John H. Weitnauer Technology Transfer Endowed Chair Professor and is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.\u0026nbsp;Prior to joining ECE and while on academic leave, Keromytis served for four years as a program manager in the DARPA Information Innovation Office and for one year as a program director for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program at the National Science Foundation (NSF).\u0026nbsp;Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was also on the faculty of Columbia University for 17 years with the Department of Computer Science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKeromytis was asked to join this group for his experience in creating, launching, and managing cybersecurity research programs at both DARPA and NSF and for his experience both in academia and in founding four startup companies focused on cybersecurity and network security. He led the subgroup that developed the recommendations on how new programs should be created and structured, and what the role of program managers should be. He also contributed to the subgroup that developed recommendations on how impactful transition should be planned for and pursued by the EIC.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis colleagues who serve with him in this expert group are Lars Fr\u0026oslash;lund,\u0026nbsp;research director of the MIT Innovation Initiative and a visiting fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management; Jes Broeng, a serial high-tech entrepreneur, photonics scientist, and professor at the Technical University of Denmark; Julien Chiaroni, director of the Great Challenges in the French Innovation Council; Carsten Dreher, professor of innovation management at the Feien Universit\u0026auml;t Berlin; Franz-Werner Haas, chief corporate officer at CureVac, a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Germany; Cheryl Martin, acting director of the ARPA-E Initiative, housed in the U.S. Department of Energy; Fiona Murray, associate dean of innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management; Marie-Elisabeth Rusling, a business and organizational consultant based in Belgium; and Spela Stres, head of the Innovation and Technology Transfer Center for the Jozef Stefan Institute at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the overall objective of achieving maximum impact of EU funding, Keromytis and his colleagues in the expert group made the following recommendations:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EUse a \u0026lsquo;challenge-driven\u0026rsquo; approach, where program managers bring together projects across the Pathfinder portfolio, actively guiding them to solve specific societal challenges\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDevelop novel tools allowing for more effective monitoring and communication between program managers and projects\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EEmpower program managers to reorient projects and\/or give additional funding to cover the costs of unforeseen barriers\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EProvide hands-on support of program managers to help transition from lab to market and facilitate development of network building and connections\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently in its pilot phase, the EIC will be fully implemented starting in 2021 under Horizon Europe, an initiative that will help support European global competitiveness by helping its best innovators develop and scale their groundbreaking ideas. The EIC currently has four program managers who specialize in biomedicine, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, brain-related technologies, materials for energy and environmental sustainability, innovation management, clean energy technologies, energy systems integration, and biosystems engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the EIC will be mainly bottom up without predefined topics, funding will be provided for strategic technology development, startups, and small to medium-sized enterprises. Additional programmatic areas and program managers will be added in future years by the EC and its member states.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"ECE\u2019s Keromytis Part of Europe-U.S. Group Providing Guidance"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Professor Angelos Keromytis is part of a high-level expert team that is providing\u0026nbsp;advice and assistance to\u0026nbsp;the European Commission on how to strengthen innovation ecosystems and management, technology transfer, and investment.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Professor Angelos Keromytis is part of a high-level expert team that is providing\u00a0advice and assistance to\u00a0the European Commission on how to strengthen innovation ecosystems and management, technology transfer, and investment.\u00a0"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2020-11-30 19:33:12","changed_gmt":"2020-11-30 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Recent imaging diagnostics and cellular based direct-injection therapeutics for degenerative disc and spinal cord injuries have shown great promise for chronic back pain sufferers, however the targeted area for delivery is very small and narrow, requiring extreme precision by the clinical practitioner to avoid the bony vertebrae and other sensitive tissues. The normative anatomy of the spinal area is quite complex. Between each vertebra is a \u0026lsquo;disc\u0026rsquo; of fibrous cartilage surrounding a sac of gel-like fluid that act as the spine\u0026rsquo;s shock absorbers, as well as giving the spine flexibility. Primary nerve branches to the various location of the body travel through this area from the central spinal canal. The complexity is increased if the patient has pre-existing conditions such as bone abnormalities due to scoliosis or osteoarthritis, spinal stenosis (a narrowing of the spinal canal causing compression) or have surgical implants, such as plates, rods and screws. Depending on the type of therapy, number of injections required, and the injection positioning complexity, spinal injection therapy treatment time frames can range from ~ 15 minutes to 2 hours, excluding post-procedure recovery time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo increase injection site positioning preciseness, and thus the effectiveness, of these new treatments the Biorobotics and Human Modeling Lab, under the direction of George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Professor Jun Ueda, have developed a patient mounted injection needle robot for use in magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), a technology that combines MRI imaging and low-frequency vibrations to create a map (elastogram) that images the stiffness of soft tissues.\u0026nbsp; Working in conjunction with the Stevens Institute of Technology and the Mount Sinai Hospital, the team developed non-ferromagnetic lead zirconate titanate (PZT) actuators that allow for usage in the magnetic field area produced by MR imaging. \u0026nbsp;The team used the prototype in a demonstration MRE scan for improved diagnosis of degenerative disc diseases. Multi-source shear wave propagation for examination of the pathological state of the patient tissue is achieved by tunable resonant frequency of the individual actuators. This allows for a minimally invasive procedure with a significant increase in precision needle positioning than that available via a human clinician.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a related project with Emory University and the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Professor Ueda and team developed a patient mounted, minimally invasive, injection needle robot for spinal cellular therapeutics that is fully MRI compatible due to the non-ferromagnetic materials comprising the robotic actuators. High-precision in-vivo performance has been achieved by a PZT-driven parallel-plane needle-orientation mechanism and an iterative super-resolution computer vision algorithm. Preclinical evaluation on a suidae model showed mounting and controller functionality with respiration, while laboratory evaluation demonstrated placement precision of ~14\u0026mu;m of the desired location.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt is hoped that the high accuracy of this needle positioning robot and visual feedback method will result in a significant improvement to the workflow of spinal injection procedures. The dual results of precise positioning and images in near real time combined with a decreased procedure time promise to provide ease of use to clinicians and relief for millions of back-pain sufferers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- Christa Ernst\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessor Jun Ueda would like to thank Ai-Ping Hu, Daniel Martinez and Waiman Meinhold for their contributions to this study.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EW. Meinhold, D. E. Martinez, J. N. Oshinski, A. Hu and J. 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The researchers will mainly expand work on new metal oxide materials that buzz electronically at the nanoscale to emulate the way human neural networks buzz with electric potential on a cellular level.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut to walk expectations back from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Positronic_brain\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethe distant sci-fi future\u003C\/a\u003E into the scientific present: The research team has developed\u0026nbsp;neuristor materials to build, for now, an intelligent light sensor, and not some artificial version of the human brain, which would require hundreds of trillions of circuits.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re not going to reach circuit complexities of that magnitude, not even a tenth,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/william-alan-doolittle\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAlan Doolittle, a professor at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;Also, currently science doesn\u0026rsquo;t really know yet very well how the human brain works, so we can\u0026rsquo;t duplicate it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIntelligent retina\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut an artificial retina that can learn autonomously appears well within reach of the research team from Georgia Tech and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/physics\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBinghamton University\u003C\/a\u003E. Despite the term \u0026ldquo;retina,\u0026rdquo; the development is not\u0026nbsp;a medical implant, but it could be used in advanced image recognition cameras for national defense and police work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the same time, it significantly advances brain-mimicking, or neuromorphic, computing. The research field that takes its cues from what science already does know about how the brain computes to develop exponentially more powerful computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe retina is\u0026nbsp;comprised of an array of\u0026nbsp;neuristors, which combines the words \u0026ldquo;neuron\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;transistor\u0026rdquo; to refer to ultracompact circuits. The neuristors sense light, compute an image out of it and store the image. All three of the functions would occur simultaneously and nearly instantaneously.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The same device senses, computes and stores the image,\u0026rdquo; Doolittle said. \u0026ldquo;The device is the sensor, and it\u0026rsquo;s the processor, and it\u0026rsquo;s the memory all at the same time.\u0026rdquo; A neuristor itself is comprised in part of devices called \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memristor\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ememristors\u003C\/a\u003E inspired by the way human neurons work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/cosmos-cranium\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E[Also READ\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003E:\u003C\/em\u003E The Brain, Cosmos in the Cranium -- brain research in a nutshell]\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBrain vs. PC\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat cuts out loads of processing and memory lag time that are inherent in traditional computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETake the device you\u0026rsquo;re reading this article on: Its microprocessor has to tap a separate memory component to get data, then do some processing, tap memory again for more data, process some more, etc. \u0026ldquo;That back-and-forth from memory to microprocessor has \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/whatis.techtarget.com\/definition\/von-Neumann-bottleneck\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ecreated a bottleneck\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026rdquo; Doolittle said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA neuristor array breaks the bottleneck by emulating the extreme flexibility of biological nervous systems: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/georgia_tech\/the-brain-cosmos-in-the-cranium-part-2-neurons-compute\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWhen a brain \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/georgia_tech\/the-brain-cosmos-in-the-cranium-part-2-neurons-compute\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ecomputes\u003C\/a\u003E, it uses a broad set of neural pathways that flash with enormous data. Then, later, to compute the same thing again, it will use quite different neural paths.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETraditional computer pathways, by contrast, are hardwired. For example, look at a present-day processor and you\u0026rsquo;ll see lines etched into it. Those are pathways that computational signals are limited to.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new memristor materials at the heart of the neuristor are not etched, and signals flow through the surface very freely, more like they do through the brain, exponentially increasing the number of possible pathways computation can take. That helps the new intelligent retina compute powerfully and swiftly.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETerrorists, missing children\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe retina\u0026rsquo;s memory could also store thousands of photos, allowing it to immediately match up what it sees with the saved images. The retina could pinpoint known terror suspects in a crowd, find missing children, or identify enemy aircraft virtually instantaneously, without having to trawl databases to correctly identify what is in the images.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt could even autonomously learn to extrapolate further information, like calculating the third dimension of a face out of data from a two-dimensional image. Even if you take away the optics, the new neuristor arrays still advance \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/technology-34224406\/what-is-artificial-intelligence\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eartificial intelligence\u003C\/a\u003E. Instead of light, a surface of neuristors could absorb massive data streams at once, compute them, store them, and compare them to patterns of other data, immediately.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It will work with anything that has a repetitive pattern like radar signatures, for example,\u0026rdquo; Doolittle said. \u0026ldquo;Right now, that\u0026rsquo;s too challenging to compute, because radar information is flying out at such a high data rate that no computer can even think about keeping up.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESmart materials\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research project\u0026rsquo;s title acronym CEREBRAL may hint at distant dreams of an artificial brain, but what it stands for spells out the present goal in neuromorphic computing: Cross-disciplinary Electronic-ionic Research Enabling Biologically Realistic Autonomous Learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe intelligent retina\u0026rsquo;s neuristors are based on novel metal oxide nanotechnology materials unique to Georgia Tech. They allow computing signals to flow flexibly across pathways \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0167273802001820\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethat are electronic, which is customary in computing, and at the same time make use of ion motion\u003C\/a\u003E, which is more commonly known from the way batteries and biological systems work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new materials have already been created, and they work, but the researchers don\u0026rsquo;t yet fully understand why.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMuch of the project is dedicated to examining \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PBcwv6tqjE0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Equantum states\u003C\/a\u003E in the materials and how those states help create useful electronic-ionic properties. Researchers will view them by bombarding the metal oxides with extremely bright x-ray photons at the recently constructed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bnl.gov\/ps\/nsls2\/about-NSLS-II.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENational Synchrotron Light Source II\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGrant sub-awardee Binghamton University is located close by, and Binghamton physicists will run experiments and hone them via theoretical modeling.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026lsquo;Sea of lithium\u0026rsquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe neuristors are created mainly by the way the metal oxide materials are grown in the lab, which has some advantages over building \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ns.umich.edu\/new\/releases\/24856-next-gen-computing-memristor-chips-that-see-patterns-over-pixels\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eneuristors in a more wired way\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis materials-growing approach to creating part of the computational structure is conducive to mass production. Also, though neuristors in general free signals to take multiple pathways, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s neuristors do it much more flexibly thanks to chemical properties.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We also have a sea of lithium, and it\u0026rsquo;s like an infinite reservoir of computational ionic fluid,\u0026rdquo; Doolittle said. The lithium niobite imitates the way ionic fluid bathes\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/science\/biology\/human-biology\/neuron-nervous-system\/v\/sodium-potassium-pump\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ebiological neurons\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and allows them to flash with electric potential while signaling. In a neuristor array, the lithium niobite helps computational signaling move in myriad directions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s not like the typical semiconductor material, where you etch a line, and only that line has the computational material,\u0026rdquo; Doolittle said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommander Data\u0026rsquo;s brain?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Unlike any other previous neuristors, our neuristors will adapt themselves in their computational-electronic pulsing on the fly, which makes them more like a neurological system,\u0026rdquo; Doolittle said. \u0026ldquo;They mimic biology in that we have ion drift across the material to create the memristors (the memory part of neuristors).\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBrains are far superior to computers at most things, but not all. Brains recognize objects and do motor tasks much better. But computers are much better at arithmetic and data processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENeuristor arrays can meld both types of computing, making them biological and algorithmic at once, a bit like \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Positronic_brain\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECommander Data\u0026rsquo;s brain\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/georgia_tech\/the-brain-cosmos-in-the-cranium-part-2-neurons-compute\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELISTEN: How neurons\u0026nbsp;make the brain compute --\u0026nbsp;audio report\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/georgia_tech\/the-brain-cosmos-in-the-cranium-part-1-molecules\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELISTEN: Wondrous facts about the brain -- audio report\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe research is being funded through the U.S. Department of Defense\u0026rsquo;s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) Program under grant number FOA: N00014-16-R-FO05. 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This annual event was held on April 19 at the Student Center Ballroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA member of the Georgia Tech faculty since 1999, Butera is a professor in both the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. A 1991 B.E.E. graduate of Georgia Tech, Butera attended graduate school at Rice University in Houston, Texas, receiving the M.S.E.E. in 1994 and Ph.D. in 1996. Prior to joining the CoE Dean\u0026rsquo;s Office, Butera directed the Neural Engineering Center (2014-2016). He previously served as founding faculty director of the Grand Challenges Living Learning Community (2012-2015) and director of the Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Graduate Program (2005-2008).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 1942, and annually since 1947, the ANAK Society has given this award to a faculty member at Georgia Tech who has demonstrated outstanding service to the Institute and to the student body through teaching, research, advisement, and general involvement in campus life. Founded in 1908, ANAK\u0026rsquo;s purpose is to recognize outstanding members of the Georgia Tech community for their strong character, leadership ability, and true love for Georgia Tech. ANAK strives to advance the Institute in its mission of progress and service.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EANAK is the oldest known secret society and honor society at Georgia Tech. Membership in the Society is made public upon a student\u0026#39;s graduation. ANAK offers several scholarships and recognitions to members of the Georgia Tech community, such as the\u0026nbsp;Semmes Scholarship. 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Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 1994, he was an engineer at IBM working on packaging for supercomputers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Swami is internationally recognized for his research in the area of electronics packaging, with a particular emphasis on signaling, power delivery, RF, chip\/package co-design, and system integration,\u0026rdquo; said Oliver Brand, executive director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology. \u0026ldquo;With his long track record of engaging both faculty and industry partners, I am pleased that he will serve as the new PRC director and I look forward to working with him to further expand Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s strength in electronics packaging and system integration.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESwaminathan is the author of 450+ refereed technical publications, holds 30 patents, and is the primary author and co-editor of 3 books \u0026ndash; \u003Cem\u003EPower Integrity Modeling and Design for Semiconductors and Systems\u003C\/em\u003E, Prentice Hall, 2007; \u003Cem\u003EIntroduction to System on Package\u003C\/em\u003E, McGraw Hill, 2008; and \u003Cem\u003EDesign and Modeling for 3D ICs and Interposers\u003C\/em\u003E, WSP, 2013. 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In 2013, she earned an M.S. degree in Clinical Research from Emory University and serves as the Georgia Tech co-director for the KL2 and TL1 training programs sponsored by the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance (CTSA) and supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). Dedicated to deepening the integration of engineering with medicine, she is currently the editor-in-chief for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommitted to translating technology to the clinical setting, in 2016, Bhatti co-founded Camerad Technologies, a company dedicated to improving throughput and quality in radiology imaging. She is also an entrepreneurship educator and coach with the I-Corps@NCATS program, as well as for the Georgia Tech CREATE-X and InVenture Prize programs. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn ECE, Bhatti established a graduate student peer mentoring program and has served as a co-chair for the recent ECE Strategic Planning\/Strategic Doing Committee. She also serves as the ECE representative on the College of Engineering Strategic Planning Committee, and she is a Grand Challenges Faculty Fellow. At the Institute level, Bhatti has been recognized for her research, education, and leadership abilities. She participated in the Provost\u0026rsquo;s Emerging Leaders Program in 2018 and received the Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award in 2017. She has also been a Hesburgh Teaching Fellow in the Center for Teaching and Learning and currently serves on the Academic Faculty Senate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPamela Bhatti has been appointed as the new Associate Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective February 1.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Pamela Bhatti has been appointed as the new Associate Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), effective February 1."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2019-02-05 13:55:27","changed_gmt":"2019-02-05 13:55:27","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"617316":{"id":"617316","type":"image","title":"Pamela Bhatti","body":null,"created":"1549373723","gmt_created":"2019-02-05 13:35:23","changed":"1549373723","gmt_changed":"2019-02-05 13:35:23","alt":"photograph of Pamela Bhatti","file":{"fid":"234951","name":"131104AR145.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/131104AR145.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/131104AR145.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":537798,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/131104AR145.jpg?itok=RzDykc3w"}}},"media_ids":["617316"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/pamela-t-bhatti","title":"Pamela Bhatti"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/georgiactsa.org","title":"Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cameradtech.com","title":"Camerad Technologies"},{"url":"http:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu","title":"CREATE-X"},{"url":"https:\/\/inventureprize.gatech.edu","title":"InVenture Prize"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12070","name":"Pamela Bhatti"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"276","name":"Awards"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"569","name":"bioengineering"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"114441","name":"radiology"},{"id":"180393","name":"embedded systems software development"},{"id":"180394","name":"network applications"},{"id":"180395","name":"controlled-release drug delivery systems"},{"id":"180396","name":"biomedical sensors and subsystems"},{"id":"180397","name":"cochlear and vestibular neural prostheses"},{"id":"180398","name":"coronary artery imaging"},{"id":"175738","name":"Emory University School of Medicine"},{"id":"180399","name":"Georgia Regents University"},{"id":"179699","name":"Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance"},{"id":"2270","name":"National Institutes of Health"},{"id":"179700","name":"National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences"},{"id":"179701","name":"Camerad Technologies"},{"id":"7764","name":"InVenture Prize"},{"id":"137161","name":"CREATE-X"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"617174":{"#nid":"617174","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Looking Inside Blood Vessel Malformation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs an organism develops, its endothelial cells organize into complex networks, eventually forming the interior lining of the entire circulatory system, from the heart to the smallest capillary. When endothelial cells don\u0026rsquo;t function properly \u0026ndash; when their collective behavior is compromised \u0026ndash; the unfortunate result is a range of vascular diseases, many of which are life-threatening.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of these, cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM), the abnormal development of blood vessels in the brain, has long captured the attention of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Denis-Tsygankov\u0022\u003EDenis Tsygankov\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the Wallace H. 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These include seizures, headaches, paralysis, lost vision, cerebral hemorrhage. And sometimes, because of severe bleeding or pressure, CCMs can be deadly.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe few treatment options vary. Anti-epileptic drugs can control seizures, but surgery (with all the potential side effects of an invasive procedure) may be necessary to remove a CCM.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;People go under the knife again and again,\u0026rdquo; Tsygankov said. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s not a super common disease, but it is important to find a pharmacological alternative to its treatment.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EToward that end, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pwp.gatech.edu\/denislab\/\u0022\u003ETsygankov\u0026rsquo;s lab\u003C\/a\u003E recently produced a research paper in \u003Cem\u003EiScience \u003C\/em\u003E(an interdisciplinary open-access publication in the \u003Cem\u003ECell \u003C\/em\u003Epress family of journals), entitled, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cell.com\/iscience\/pdf\/S2589-0042(18)30191-3.pdf\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;Biomechanics of Endothelial Tubule Formation Differentially Modulated by Cerebral Cavernous Malformation Proteins.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E Their findings in the article are significant in developing a fuller understanding of CCM.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We know about the mutations that cause it. On a molecular level we can do genetic studies, biochemical studies, and say, \u0026lsquo;here is the signaling network involved.\u0026rsquo; But when you look at the disease you look at collective cell behavior,\u0026rdquo; Tsygankov said. \u0026ldquo;You see how the blood vessels form and then you see there is a huge gap between what you know on the molecular level and what you know on the tissue level. This is a challenging problem in general for any disease.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe and his team took an integrative approach, using computer modeling and experiments in studying coordinated endothelial cell behavior at the earlier stages of vasculogenesis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Through iterative cycling of modeling and experiments, we investigated the biomechanics of multicellular patterning in the context of healthy and diseased cell populations,\u0026rdquo; said Tsygankov, whose team developed a comprehensive simulation model with a sufficient level of detail to account for single-cell dynamics \u0026ndash; protrusive activity, cytoskeletal stiffness, shape change, and then used it to simulate thousands of interacting cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This approach allowed us to relate molecular regulation of the cytoskeleton to the multicellular patterns that developed during endothelial tubule formation,\u0026rdquo; said Tsygankov. The team used a well-controlled disease model and endothelial cells with a knockdown of each of the three CCM proteins known to be responsible for similarly disruptive (but mechanistically different) effects on the formation of tubular structures.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Specifically, our methodology allowed us to dissect causal effects of CCM-1, CCM-2, and CCM-3 knockdowns on the resulting multicellular structures and explain the incomplete rescue of the disease phenotypes by the inhibition of one of the key regulators of the cytoskeleton, Rho kinase, which become overactivated \u0026nbsp;in CCM,\u0026rdquo; said Tsygankov, whose study also addressed a somewhat controversial observation \u0026ndash; despite \u0026nbsp;well-documented commonalities in the effects of the three proteins on the downstream signaling, CCM-3 cells have surprisingly low cytoskeletal stiffness as compared to CCM-1 and CCM-2.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;ve taken very, very nascent steps,\u0026rdquo; Tsygankov said. \u0026ldquo;But ultimately the goal is to learn enough about this system and how it works so that we can interfere and fix it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor Tsygankov, this project also served as a proof of the power of integrative systems biology, an important factor to a researcher who started his scientific journey as \u0026nbsp;a theoretical physicist \u0026nbsp;interested in complex dynamical systems and soon discovered that biological tissue is the ultimate complex dynamical system.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Signaling and regulatory networks don\u0026rsquo;t just happen in a well-mixed soup or a vacuum,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;They happen within the complex cytoskeletal organization of cells, and cells are active. They are moving and interacting. So, my ultimate goal is to bridge two fields \u0026ndash; biomechanics and traditional molecular systems biology. And I\u0026rsquo;m very proud that we could merge our careful computational modeling with experimentation. That\u0026rsquo;s sort of our lab\u0026rsquo;s philosophy.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E***\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIn addition to Tsygankov, the iScience paper\u0026rsquo;s authors were Olga Chernaya (postdoctoral researcher in Tsygankov\u0026rsquo;s lab); Todd Sulchek (assistant professor in Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering with appointment in Coulter Department, and a Petit Institute researcher); \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAnastasia Zhurikhina, Siarhei Hladyshau, and William Pilcher (graduate researchers in Tsygankov\u0026rsquo;s lab), Katherine M. 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The symposium will cover four topics \u0026ndash; smart cities, new materials, neuroengineering, and 5G wireless communications technology. Each participant will be asked to present a poster describing his\/her research or technical work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInan has been on the ECE faculty since 2013.\u0026nbsp;He is a member of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and he is a program faculty member for the Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Graduate Program.\u0026nbsp;Inan\u0026rsquo;s most recent honors include the\u0026nbsp;IEEE Sensors Council Young Professional Award (w2018),\u0026nbsp;ONR Young Investigator Award (2018), NSF CAREER Award (2018), ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award (2018), the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award (2017), and the Lockheed Dean\u0026rsquo;s Excellence in Teaching Award (2016). He is also a senior member of IEEE.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 1995, NAE has held an annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium that brings together 100 highly accomplished early-career engineers\u0026nbsp;from U.S. universities, companies, and government to discuss leading-edge research and technical work across a range of engineering fields. Convening engineers from disparate fields and challenging them to think about developments and problems at the frontiers of areas different from their own can lead to a variety of desirable results. These include collaborative work, the transfer of new techniques and approaches across fields, and establishment of contacts among the next generation of leaders in engineering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe Frontiers program has expanded to include bilateral meetings with Germany, Japan, India, China,\u0026nbsp;and the EU. 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Cell-phones, automotive and aviation sensors, personal and super-computers, healthcare technologies, and even our home appliances\u0026mdash;many of which now have machine learning and artificial intelligent capabilities\u0026mdash;are becoming ever more connected and \u0026lsquo;smarter\u0026rdquo;. However, with this push to deploy our devices on a global scale, our progress is increasingly being hindered by our apparent inability to further miniaturize the building block of electronics\u0026mdash;the transistors. The transistors are already too small\u0026mdash;of the order of 10 nanometers or so, ten thousand times smaller than a single strand of hair. In essence, we have become prisoners of fundamental physical limits of the transistor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA potential strategy to overcome this barrier is to introduce new materials into the transistor structure to enhance their performance and functionalities. And that is the playground of Professor Asif Khan\u0026rsquo;s group of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0026ldquo;One of the interesting classes of functional materials that we are working on is called antiferroelectric oxides, which could lead to efficient, nanoscale logic and memory devices and devices which can even mimic the functions of biological neurons and synapses,\u0026rdquo; says Khan. In their recent work published as an Editor\u0026rsquo;s Pick in the May issue of Applied Physics Letters, they show how these mystery materials\u0026mdash;antiferroelectrics\u0026mdash;can be fine-tuned by doping, and how their processing techniques can be simplified to ease their entry into conventional micro- and nano-electronic fabrication technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAntiferroelectric materials are electrical insulating in a way very similar to the dielectric materials used in regular capacitors. However, the significant difference is that when a certain voltage is applied across it, it undergoes a phase transition into another \u0026nbsp;insulating state which is structurally different than the parent one. With appropriate nano-scale engineering, this phenomenon can be the basis for high performance logic transistors and disruptive memory technologies. Interestingly, antiferroelectricity was discovered more than 60 years ago in perovskite materials\u0026mdash;yet it did not have a significant impact on the electronics industry despite the attractiveness because perovskites are not compatible with currently used CMOS fabrication processes. What makes the Khan group\u0026rsquo;s work particularly relevant for transistor applications is that they are studying this phenomenon in Zirconia--a very well-studied non-perovskite binary oxide which has already been in use for more than a decade in the semiconductor industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe major contribution of the recent work by Khan\u0026rsquo;s group is that they significantly simplified the complex process flow of stabilizing the antiferroelectric phase of zirconia. Typically, a metallic capping layer and a high temperature annealing step is required to convert dielectric zirconia into an antiferroelectric state. The group were able to eliminate these process steps through a thoughtful design process of the material stack. Khan is hopeful that this will reduce the barrier to entry of antiferroelectrics into the state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing processes for novel device applications. Furthermore, by introducing small amounts of lanthanum into zirconia, the researchers were able to tune the properties of antiferroelectric zirconia, namely critical field\/voltage for phase transition, dielectric constant and polarization. \u0026ldquo;Such tunability can not only enable a large design space for nanoelectronic antiferroelectric devices, but also be useful for their traditional applications of antiferroelectrics in electro-calories, pyroelectrics and micro-actuators,\u0026rdquo; says Khan. He also mentions that antiferroelectricity is a close cousin of a well-known phenomenon\u0026mdash;ferroelectricity, which being researched and adopted by major semiconductor manufacturers for potential memory applications. His previous work also focused on ferroelectric oxides for ultra-low power negative capacitance transistors. However, as he points out, antiferroelectric oxides can do all that ferroelectric oxides can but with much better endurance and reliability and reduced process complexity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKhan\u0026rsquo;s group actively collaborated with their industry partner, Eugenus, Inc. located in San Jose, CA. \u0026ldquo;Our industry-academia partnership is vital for bringing new ideas into the fore-fronts of technology,\u0026rdquo; says Dr. Mukherjee of Eugenus, Inc., also a co-author of the paper. \u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;We look forward to further collaboration to assess the applicability and the potential of new material and device concepts.\u0026rdquo; The Khan group also collaborated with the Charles University at Prague, Czech Republic, on structural characterization of the antiferroelectric zirconia films.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- Christa M. Ernst\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Antiferroelectricity in lanthanum doped zirconia without metallic capping layers and post-deposition\/-metallization anneals\u0026rdquo; is an Editor\u0026rsquo;s Pick in May\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cem\u003EApplied Physics Letters\u003C\/em\u003E. 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The primary purpose of the IEN Seed Grant is to give first or second year graduate students in various disciplines working on original and un-funded research in micro- and nano-scale projects the opportunity to access the most advanced academic cleanroom space in the Southeast. In addition to accessing the high-level fabrication, lithography, and characterization tools in the labs, the students will have the opportunity to gain proficiency in cleanroom and tool methodology and to use the consultation services provided by research staff members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team.\u0026nbsp; In addition, the Seed Grant program gives faculty with novel research topics the ability to develop preliminary data in order to pursue follow-up funding sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the course of five years, this grant program has seeded forty-five projects with forty-nine students working in ten different schools in COE and COS, as well as the Georgia Tech Research Institute and 2 external projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 4 winning projects, from a diverse group of engineering disciplines, were awarded a six-month block of IEN cleanroom and lab access time. In keeping with the interdisciplinary mission of IEN, the projects that will be enabled by the grants include research in materials, biomedicine, energy production, and microelectronics packaging applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Spring 2018 IEN Seed Grant Award winners are:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EJiang Chen (PI Ben Wang - MSE): \u003Cem\u003EValidation and Characterization of Living Cell Grafting on Polycaprolactone Fibers for Textile Tissue Engineering \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFatima Chrit (PI Alexander Alexeev - ME): \u003Cem\u003EMicrofluidic Adhesion-based Sorting of Biological Cells \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EZifei Sun (PI Gleb Yushin - MSE): \u003Cem\u003EFeOx Coated FeF3-C Nanofibers as Free-standing Cathodes for Sodium- Ion Batteries \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ETing Wang (PI Xing Xie - Civil and Environmental Engineering): \u003Cem\u003EDevelopment of Lab-on-a-Chip Devices for the Mechanisms Study of Cell Transportation and Bacteria Inactivation in a Non-Uniform Electric Field \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAwardees will present the results of their research efforts at the annual IEN User Day in 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In keeping with the interdisciplinary mission of IEN, the projects that will be enabled by the grants include research in materials, biomedicine, energy production, and microelectronics packaging applications."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2018-06-04 14:05:23","changed_gmt":"2018-06-04 14:09:55","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"606724":{"id":"606724","type":"image","title":"Arith Rajapaks Poster ","body":null,"created":"1528121293","gmt_created":"2018-06-04 14:08:13","changed":"1528121293","gmt_changed":"2018-06-04 14:08:13","alt":"Fall 2017 Seed Grant Winner at the IEN User Poster Session on May 21, 2018 - 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The winners were Leita Young (administrative assistant) from Emory and Emily Foster (academic programs coordinator) from Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYoung was praised for, \u0026ldquo;her willingness to assist in BME\u0026rsquo;s Emory-based events, helping all members of the department, \u0026ldquo;always with a ready smile,\u0026rdquo; Margulies said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFoster was recognized for creating new links between BME\u0026rsquo;s undergraduate and graduate programs, developing an integrated plan for teaching assistants. \u0026ldquo;In just over a year, because of her positive attitude and fantastic work ethic, we have come to rely on her for many of the functions of the department,\u0026rdquo; Margulies said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe BME Mission Award is intended to recognize faculty members who significantly impact health care and embodies the mission of education and leadership, inspire productivity and innovative thinking in students and colleagues, and extend their effort and leadership across multiple departments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe winners were Wilbur Lam (Emory) and Julie Babensee (Georgia Tech), who also are researchers in the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELam, who also is a pediatric oncologist, impacts patient health both in the near- and long-term, \u0026ldquo;serving as a terrific liaison between BME and pediatrics,\u0026rdquo; Margulies said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;He contributes to the BME educational mission through traditional teaching as well as his BME HealthReach initiative, and undergraduate research mentoring. 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At each stop in the tour students demonstrated their work and answered questions about their programs, from flexible batteries for IOT to robotic human augmentation exoskeletons, FHE-enabled wearables and human-machine interfaces, and more. \u0026nbsp;Of greatest interest to the participants were those technologies that had already been demonstrated in the GT labs and which are ready for prototyping and pilot scale manufacturing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETechnical sessions included; Power and Energy Systems Needs, Energy Harvesting Strategies, Energy Storage Strategies, Power Management Strategies, and Ultra-Low Power Electronics\/Sensors. Speakers were drawn from both government and private sectors, as well as academia. 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Several interdisciplinary research institutes at Georgia Tech are also involved in the projects, including the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute, and the Institute for Materials.\u0026nbsp; The Office of Industry Collaboration and the College of Engineering are also actively engaged.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout NextFlex:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFormed in 2015 through a cooperative agreement between the US Department of Defense (DoD) and FlexTech Alliance, NextFlex is a consortium of companies, academic institutions, non-profits and state, local and federal governments with a shared goal of advancing U.S. Manufacturing of FHE. 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It\u0026rsquo;s one of the signature events for the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, coming as it does during a busy season of recruitment for companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor Gerrish, who is retiring in December, the last fair (Sept. 21 in the Molecular Sciences and Engineering Building) will certainly be the most memorable.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Talk about going out with a bang,\u0026rdquo; says Gerrish, who\u0026rsquo;d initially planned the event for Sept. 14. It had to be pushed back a week because of the unwelcome intrusion of Hurricane Irma, which meant a quick reorganization as industry representatives had to change schedules at the last minute. What could have been disastrous wound up being an unqualified success, as most of the companies that committed still participated, and 438 students and alumni attended.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This was definitely one for the books,\u0026rdquo; says Gerrish, manager of student, alumni and industrial relations for the Coulter Department. \u0026ldquo;Everyone \u0026ndash; students, faculty, staff, the participating companies \u0026ndash; rose to the occasion. I couldn\u0026rsquo;t be prouder.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Biotech Career Fair, like most of the other departmental career fairs on campus, had to be nimble as the hurricane aimed its fierce rain and winds at Atlanta. These events were all planned around Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s All Majors Career Fair, which happens every fall semester, typically drawing more than 400 companies and 5,000 students. That one, planned for Sept. 11-12, was moved to the 18\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E and 19\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOf the 20 companies that committed to the Biotech Career Fair, 16 showed up for the event on Sept. 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E. Two actually came on the 14\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E and set up tables in the lobby of the Whitaker Building (home of the Coulter Department). Considering all of the travel arrangements company representatives had to make or change, Gerrish says, \u0026ldquo;I consider that a great success. Real life happens, and everyone responded. Space was still available and everything went off without a hitch.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe turnout was just slightly less than last year\u0026rsquo;s record-high, and faculty responded to the rescheduling challenge by working tests and assignments around the fair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;They did a fantastic job of working with students, because they know how important this is for them to get out there and speak to prospective employers,\u0026rdquo; Gerrish says. \u0026ldquo;This is a great experience for students \u0026ndash; not the end all, do all, but it is the beginning of the recruitment season, and I was so pleased with the faculty support.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIndustry feedback, Gerrish says, followed along similar lines to previous years. The skills that students gain through the Coulter Department and its lauded curriculum, which focuses on problem-based learning, always come across at these events.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Companies want people with good communication and problem-solving skills, which our BME curriculum does so well,\u0026rdquo; Gerrish says. \u0026ldquo;Our students know how to work in a team environment, which is important to a large segment of industry.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has become a top recruiting stop for a wide range of companies, and particularly companies in the biomedical space, because of the Coulter Department\u0026rsquo;s emphasis on a team approach to problem solving.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our students are able to present a problem in an articulate way, and communicate resolutions,\u0026rdquo; Gerrish says. \u0026ldquo;In our classes, we don\u0026rsquo;t give away the answers. 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Review criteria include novelty of the research, clarity of the proposed work, work that is technically achievable within the time constraints, and likelihood of positive outcomes (funding).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, please contact Dr. David Gottfried, dsgottfried@gatech.edu, (404) 894-0479.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Information and Request for Applications"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Successful proposals to this program will identify a new, currently-unfunded research idea that requires core facility access to generate preliminary data necessary to pursue other funding avenues."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2017-09-05 16:23:00","changed_gmt":"2017-09-05 16:23:00","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-09-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-09-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"197261","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12701","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"1259","name":"electrical engineering"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"1692","name":"materials"},{"id":"1785","name":"nanomaterials"},{"id":"107","name":"Nanotechnology"},{"id":"167679","name":"Seed Grant"},{"id":"169987","name":"student research funding"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Dr. David Gottfried, dsgottfried@gatech.edu, (404) 894-0479.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["dsgottfried@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"593798":{"#nid":"593798","#data":{"type":"news","title":"BioID Planting Leadership Seeds","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosh Liebowitz has an ambitious destination for his career path, which happens to run right through the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is my goal to be the CEO of a medical device company,\u0026rdquo; says Liebowitz, who earned an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering and technology innovation (Boston University). \u0026ldquo;But I wanted to acquire a fundamental knowledge of the medical device industry from concept to commercialization.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd that led him to Atlanta and the Master of Biomedical Innovation and Development program, or BioID, offered through the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program is designed to address a gap in current professional biomedical education \u0026ndash; the bench-to-bedside progression that transforms research into practical, usable techniques and products for improving patient care.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBioID is an intensive one-year ride, exposing students to clinical practice, engineering design and development, best-practices manufacturing, financial planning, and commercialization \u0026ndash; bringing together the strengths of a top-ranked engineering university (Tech) and leading medical school (Emory) with the expertise of guest lecturers from throughout the diverse healthcare industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I knew that if I wanted to lead a medical device project or company, the BioID cross-functional exposure would be very helpful,\u0026rdquo; says Liebowitz, a 2017 BioID graduate. \u0026ldquo;I was drawn by [the Coulter Department\u0026rsquo;s] reputation as the best biomedical engineering program in the country and its intimate partnership with Emory. 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The students spent 10 days traveling through Poland, visiting political and cultural sites in some of its greatest cities, as well as meeting with the president of Poland, Andrzej Duda.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoyle was the only Georgia Tech student from the College of Engineering to win an internship. She graduated from the Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.) with a degree in biomedical engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut after the past year in Atlanta, Coyle says she has more confidence, and hopes to parlay the wide-ranging skills gained through the BioID graduate program into a career in the medical device industry (she\u0026rsquo;s currently interviewing for positions with some of the corporate giants, including St. Jude\/Abbot, Medtronic, and Boston Scientific).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;From learning about R\u0026amp;D prototyping methods to learning about quality, regulatory, marketing, and business strategy, everything we learned is extremely applicable to the medical device industry,\u0026rdquo; says Coyle, who is from Cleveland, Tennessee. \u0026ldquo;I always tell people that I learned more in this one year of my graduate studies than I did in all four years of undergrad.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bioid.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBioID Program\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nParker H. 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You get two free jumps a month with them.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe rose to the position of senior vice president in the Sport Parachute Club at Georgia Tech and began participating with the team at intercollegiate competitions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It became my weekend hobby,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;As long as there is good weather out, I\u0026rsquo;d rather be jumping out of planes than doing anything else.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere\u0026rsquo;s also a biomedical engineering component to the sport that keeps her coming back. She likes the technical, physical challenges of sky diving. She said it\u0026rsquo;s not just falling out of an airplane.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You\u0026rsquo;ve got to think about the body mechanics and the way the air is flowing past your body. You have control,\u0026rdquo; Blackstone said. \u0026ldquo;Your body is your mechanism of flight. 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The primary purpose of the IEN Seed Grant is to give first or second year graduate students in various disciplines working on original and un-funded research in micro- and nano-scale projects the opportunity to access the most advanced academic cleanroom space in the Southeast. In addition to accessing the high-level fabrication, lithography, and characterization tools in the labs, the students will have the opportunity to gain proficiency in cleanroom and tool methodology and to use the consultation services provided by research staff members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team.\u0026nbsp; In addition, the Seed Grant program gives faculty with novel research topics the ability to develop preliminary data in order to pursue follow-up funding sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBeginning in 2016, after several successful years of the program, the IEN seed grant application was extended include non-Georgia Tech students and PI\u0026rsquo;s for award consideration. This award session is the first in which an off-campus research project was chosen for inclusion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 5 winning projects, from a diverse group of engineering disciplines, were awarded a six-month block of IEN cleanroom and lab access time. In keeping with the interdisciplinary mission of IEN, the projects that will be enabled by the grants include research in materials, biomedicine, energy production, and microelectronics packaging applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFrancisco Quintero Cortes (PI Matthew McDowell, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering \u0026amp; Materials Science and Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EControlling Interfaces in Ceramic Ion Conductors for Next-Generation Lithium Batteries\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EBlaine Costello (PI Jeff Davis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EDielectric Interfacial Capacitive Energy Storage (DICES) Experiments\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EConnor Howe (PI W. Hong Yeo, Virginia Commonwealth Univ. \u0026ndash; School of Engineering and Medicine), \u003Cem\u003EMicrostructured Flow Sensing System Integrated with a Thin Film Nitonol Stent\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAravindh Rajan \u0026amp; Patrick Creamer (PI Shannon Yee, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering), \u003Cem\u003ECreating Thermionic Devices and Thermal Rectifiers\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAlexandra Tsoras (PI Julie Champion, Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EEngineering S-layer Autotransporter Protein Nanoparticles for Rickettsia Applications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAwardees will present the results of their research efforts at the annual IEN User Day in 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about IEN cleanroom facilities, research capabilities, and collaboration opportunities please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ien.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- Christa M. 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The Center, co-led by researchers from Georgia Tech and North Carolina State University, is funded for five years through the National Science Foundation\u2019s Industry\/University Cooperative Research Centers (I\/UCRC) program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Integrated circuits, or chips, power everything from smart watches to supercomputers. The semiconductor industry \u2013 perennially one of America\u2019s top exporters - has begun searching for new ways to increase performance while reducing chip size and development cost.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E The Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning (CAEML) seeks to accelerate advances by leveraging machine-learning techniques to develop new models for electronic design automation (EDA) tools, which semiconductor companies use to create and verify chip designs for mass-production.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cWhen products fail qualification testing, it is usually attributed to shortcomings in the models employed by the EDA tools,\u201d said Elyse Rosenbaum, principal investigator and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Illinois. \u201cMany products have to go through at least one re-spin before entering the marketplace, resulting in the loss of money and time.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Currently, chip manufacturers struggle to optimize power, performance, reliability, and cost in their designs, because the analysis is too computationally intensive to execute in a timely manner. CAEML researchers aim to overcome current limitations by employing behavioral models, which look at the behavior, or output, of a chip instead of the internal processes described by physical models most commonly used in today\u2019s designs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E The CAEML team will create a systematic method for generating behavioral models, which the industry has had only limited success with in the past. The work will draw on deep networks, associative memories, and other research areas within the field of machine learning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E Researchers will take a comprehensive approach, developing a methodology that is applicable to large systems, with the understanding that most microelectronic systems are comprised of more than just a single chip. Even a \u201csystem on a chip\u201d consists of a package as well as the semiconductor chip, and the system performance is highly affected by the interactions between the two, according to Madhavan Swaminathan, a professor and CAEML site director at Georgia Tech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cWith the interface between the chip and the package disappearing through integration, e.g. System in Package technologies, systems need to designed, modeled, and optimized holistically,\u201d said Swaminathan. \u201cOur goal in CAEML is to address systems in such a way that intellectual property can be protected and re-spins minimized.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs an I\/UCRC, CAEML will collaborate closely with companies, who will help evaluate and select projects. The corporate connections will help researchers better understand the real-world problems faced by manufacturers and provide a pipeline of ideas between academia and industry. They also will help fund the center\u2019s work; currently, 11 companies have committed a total of $550,000 for the first year. NSF will contribute an additional $450,000 per year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E The collective goal is to create a system to make the design evaluation process much easier, says Paul Franzon, a professor of electrical engineering and CAEML site lead at NC State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u201cI like to say that a silicon chip is the most complex artifact made by man,\u201d Franzon said. \u201cThere are billions of components in a chip-- it is mind-boggling. We\u2019re creating models that help deal with these complexities, so that when we design chips, we design them to work the first time.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/publish.illinois.edu\/advancedelectronics\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVisit the CAEML Program Website Here\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EFor more information, contact Dr. Madhavan Swaminathan (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:madhavan.swaminathan@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emadhavan.swaminathan@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning (CAEML) seeks to accelerate advances by leveraging machine-learning techniques to develop new models for electronic design automation (EDA) tools create and verify chip designs for market."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2016-08-02 14:22:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:12","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"558021":{"id":"558021","type":"image","title":"Madhavan Swaminathan","body":null,"created":"1470161828","gmt_created":"2016-08-02 18:17:08","changed":"1475895361","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:01","alt":"Madhavan Swaminathan","file":{"fid":"206714","name":"madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png","mime":"image\/png","size":267955,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/madhavanswaminathan_official_inst_photo.png?itok=W_P4aNYf"}}},"media_ids":["558021"],"groups":[{"id":"197261","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"39591","name":"computational modeling"},{"id":"94171","name":"Electronics Packaging"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"},{"id":"24251","name":"Madhavan Swaminathan"},{"id":"167954","name":"semiconductor fabrication"},{"id":"166968","name":"the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"168380","name":"the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["madhavan.swaminathan@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"542451":{"#nid":"542451","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology\u2019s USER Day 2016","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe IEN hosted its third User Science and Engineering Review (USER) Day on Tuesday, May 17th, 2016 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building. With over 120 IEN cleanroom and lab users in attendance, a wide array of academic disciplines was represented including MEMS, Electronics, Materials, Optics and Photonics, Chemistry, Physics, Life Sciences and Biomedical. The event was a success in providing an opportunity to learn about the latest research activities of IEN students and other research organizations that use the IEN facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBased on feedback from previous USER Day attendees, the 2016 USER Day implemented a new format designed to be more interactive. 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The primary purpose of the IEN Seed Grant is to give first or second year graduate students in various disciplines working on original and un-funded research in micro- and nano-scale projects the opportunity to access the most advanced academic cleanroom space in the Southeast. In addition to accessing the high-level fabrication, lithography, and characterization tools in the labs, the students will have the opportunity to gain proficiency in cleanroom and tool methodology and to use the consultation services provided by research staff members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team.\u0026nbsp; In addition, the Seed Grant program gives faculty with novel research topics the ability to develop preliminary data in order to pursue follow-up funding sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 4 winning projects, from a diverse group of engineering disciplines, were awarded a six month block of IEN cleanroom and lab access time. 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Leveraging Microfabricated Systems to Investigate Direct Neutrophil-to-Neutrophil Communication\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAugustus Lang (PI John Reynolds, Chemistry and Biochemistry \u0026amp; Materials Science and Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EElectrofunctional Paper: Flexible Paper-Based Displays\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAmar Mohabir and Sterling Smith (undergraduate)(PI Mike Filler, Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EPlasmonic-Phononic Hybrid Nanoparticles: New Materials for Extreme Infrared Light Focusing\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAwardees will present the results of their research efforts at the annual IEN User Day in 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about IEN cleanroom facilities, research capabilities, and collaboration opportunities please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ien.gatech.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech has announced the winners for the 2016 Spring Seed Grant Awards."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2016-05-12 15:52:23","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:39","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"507811":{"id":"507811","type":"image","title":"IEN Seed Grant logo","body":null,"created":"1457114400","gmt_created":"2016-03-04 18:00:00","changed":"1475895270","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:30","alt":"IEN Seed Grant logo","file":{"fid":"205936","name":"seed_grant_ien_pic_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/seed_grant_ien_pic_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/seed_grant_ien_pic_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":45984,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/seed_grant_ien_pic_0.jpg?itok=_IM83mcO"}}},"media_ids":["507811"],"groups":[{"id":"1271","name":"NanoTECH"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"560","name":"chemical engineering"},{"id":"609","name":"electronics"},{"id":"12373","name":"flexible electronics"},{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"},{"id":"4993","name":"john reynolds"},{"id":"16741","name":"Michael Filler"},{"id":"2832","name":"microelectronics"},{"id":"5190","name":"nanoelectronics"},{"id":"137861","name":"Nanoplasmonics"},{"id":"172027","name":"seed grant award"},{"id":"166968","name":"the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"58001","name":"the institute for materials"},{"id":"14681","name":"Wilbur Lam"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["david.gottfried@ien.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"512421":{"#nid":"512421","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2016 IEN User Science and Engineering Review (USER) Day - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) is home to one of the premier multi-user nanotechnology facilities in the United States. Over 700 users each year utilize more than 200 tools in its cleanrooms and laboratories. As a partner in the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC), a member of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI), the mission of the IEN is to provide expertise, facilities, infrastructure, and a teaming environment that facilitates interdisciplinary research in nanoscience, nanoengineering, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microelectronics, nanobio systems, and nano\/microfluidics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn order to foster interdisciplinary communication among its users, IEN will be hosting its third IEN User Day on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 (8:30 AM to 4:45 PM). This special event will provide an opportunity to learn about the latest research activities from academic and industry organizations that use IEN facilities. This venue will also offer a great opportunity to share a glimpse of your work with the diverse audience in attendance. While registration for the event is required, there is no cost to attend and continental breakfast and a box lunch will be provided.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a user of our facility, we invite and highly encourage you to submit an abstract to be considered for one of the two poster sessions scheduled for this event. Outstanding posters will be recognized at the end of the day. The topics for contributed work include, but are not limited to: electronics, optics\/photonics, material, biomedical devices, fabrication technologies, sensors, and next generation devices. Users interested in presenting their research are requested to submit a 1-page abstract (no more than 500 words and 1-2 figures) describing their research activities using IEN facilities. The abstract must include a title, authors (indicating clearly the presenting author), and their affiliations. Abstracts will be reviewed by a panel of faculty and research staff, and those selected will be notified by email. The deadline for submission of the abstracts is Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Please email your abstract to \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eamy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EImportant Dates:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EApril 19: Abstract submission deadline (email to \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eamy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay 3: Notification of abstract acceptance\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay 5: Agenda finalized and registration opens\u003Cbr \/\u003EMay 13: Registration deadline\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In order to foster interdisciplinary communication among its users, IEN will be hosting its third IEN User Day on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 (8:30 AM to 4:45 PM)."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2016-03-11 15:18:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:05","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"321231":{"id":"321231","type":"image","title":"IEN Logo SM","body":null,"created":"1449245011","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:03:31","changed":"1475895032","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:32","alt":"IEN Logo SM","file":{"fid":"201787","name":"ien_seed_grant_rfp_2014-15.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ien_seed_grant_rfp_2014-15.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ien_seed_grant_rfp_2014-15.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":9483,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ien_seed_grant_rfp_2014-15.jpg?itok=5jaM7SYk"}}},"media_ids":["321231"],"groups":[{"id":"1271","name":"NanoTECH"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2779","name":"AFM"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"95881","name":"Characterization"},{"id":"73101","name":"cleanroom"},{"id":"91891","name":"cleanroom training"},{"id":"170467","name":"electronic devices"},{"id":"94171","name":"Electronics Packaging"},{"id":"2557","name":"mems"},{"id":"12427","name":"microfluidics"},{"id":"7392","name":"microscopy"},{"id":"1163","name":"microsystems"},{"id":"1785","name":"nanomaterials"},{"id":"107","name":"Nanotechnology"},{"id":"146441","name":"NNIC"},{"id":"1815","name":"optoelectronics"},{"id":"2290","name":"photonics"},{"id":"953","name":"photovoltaics"},{"id":"171821","name":"SEM\/TEM"},{"id":"167686","name":"Semiconductors"},{"id":"166975","name":"SENIC"},{"id":"167182","name":"solar"},{"id":"166868","name":"the Georgia Electronic Design Center"},{"id":"166968","name":"the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"58001","name":"the institute for materials"},{"id":"170342","name":"The Materials Characterization Facility"},{"id":"168380","name":"the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmy Duke: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eamy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["amy.duke@ien.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"507831":{"#nid":"507831","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2016 Georgia Tech Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) Seed Grant Program: Information and Request for Applications","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProgram Description\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Georgia Tech IEN is an Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI) comprised of faculty and students interested in using the most advanced fabrication and characterization tools, and cleanroom infrastructure, to facilitate research in micro- and nano-scale materials, devices, and systems. Applications of this research span all disciplines in science and engineering with particular emphasis on biomedicine, electronics, optoelectronics and photonics, and energy applications. As there can be a learning curve associated with initial proof-of-concept development and testing using cleanroom tools, this seed grant program was developed to expedite the initiation of new graduate students and new research projects into productive activity. Successful proposals to this program will identify a new, currently-unfunded research idea that requires cleanroom access to generate preliminary data necessary to pursue other funding avenues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProgram Eligibility\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech Applicants\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis program is open to any current Georgia Tech or GTRI faculty member as project PI. The graduate student performing the research should be in the first 2 years of his\/her graduate studies, and preference will be given to students who are new users of the IEN facilities. The student\u2019s research advisor (project PI) does not need to be a current user of the IEN cleanroom\/lab facilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EExternal (non-Georgia Tech) Applicants\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERecent funding from the NSF to create the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/senic.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E) as part of the NNCI has allowed IEN to open this program to external (not affiliated with Georgia Tech) users currently at an academic institution in the southeastern US. The graduate student performing the proposed research cannot be a current user of the IEN facilities. The student\u2019s research advisor (project PI) may have a current project in place for use of the IEN cleanroom\/lab facilities, but this is not a requirement. If awarded, a specialized service agreement will need to be arranged with the user\u2019s home institution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPast awardees of a seed grant may submit additional proposals for different students\/projects, but not in consecutive funding cycles. It is the responsibility of the project PI and student to determine their ability to make use of the awarded time during the grant period. Extensions requested once the project has begun will not be granted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAward Information\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEach seed grant award will consist of free cleanroom access to the student identified in the proposal for 2 (consecutive) billing quarters. Based on current access rates and the academic cap on hourly charges (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/cleanroom.ien.gatech.edu\/rates\/\u003C\/a\u003E), this comprises a maximum award of $6000 for the 6 month period. This maximum award amount is still in effect even if IEN non-cleanroom (lab) equipment or electron beam lithography (EBL) is required. The designated student user is expected to only utilize the cleanroom\/tool access while working with the PI on the proposed project. Members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team (ATT) will be available to consult during the project period. The number of awards for each proposal submission date will depend on the number and quality of the proposals. A short report describing the research activities is required midway and at the completion of the award period.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESubmission Schedule\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis Seed Grant program is offered in\u003Cstrong\u003E two competitions each year with due dates on April 1 and October 1\u003C\/strong\u003E. While it is expected that research activity will begin on June 1 and December 1, respectively, there is flexibility in scheduling the 2 quarters of research work, as long as they conform to the IEN billing quarters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal Requirements (2 pages max)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe proposal (submitted as a PDF file of no more than 2 pages) should do the following:\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. Provide a project title.\u003Cbr \/\u003E2. Identify the research problem and specify the proposed methods.\u003Cbr \/\u003E3. Indicate the IEN research tools necessary to conduct the research. If assistance is needed with this component, members of the IEN Advanced Technology Team are available for consultation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E4. Describe the relationship of this research to the PI\u2019s other research activity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E5. Identify the PI and the graduate student involved (including year of graduate work), and if there will be a mentoring relationship with the PI\u2019s other students. Note if there are collaborative relationships with Georgia Tech faculty that bear on this research project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E6. Specify the potential for follow-on funding based on the results of this initial work.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESubmit the PDF file by the specified due date to Ms. Amy Duke (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eamy.duke@ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReview Criteria\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProposals will initially be reviewed by IEN staff for technical feasibility within the 6-month time frame. Rating of proposals will be done by a review committee of Georgia Tech faculty, with final selection of awardees by IEN staff.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, please contact Dr. David Gottfried, \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dsgottfried@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edsgottfried@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E, (404) 894-0479.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech IEN is an Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI) comprised of faculty and students interested in using the most advanced fabrication and characterization tools, and cleanroom infrastructure, to facilitate research in micro- and nano-scale materials, devices, and systems. Applications of this research span all disciplines in science and engineering with particular emphasis on biomedicine, electronics, optoelectronics and photonics, and energy applications. As there can be a learning curve associated with initial proof-of-concept development and testing using cleanroom tools, this seed grant program was developed to expedite the initiation of new graduate students and new research projects into productive activity. 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This year, in addition to the standard keynote, plenary, presentation and poster sessions, prominent researchers in the area of interconnects will take the stage for a panel debate, presidential style.\u0026nbsp; The topic of the debate, \u201c\u003Cem\u003EIs there a potential for a revolution in on-chip interconnect?\u201d\u003C\/em\u003Ewill explore interconnect scaling solutions for future electronics. Thepanel will consist of six \u201ccandidate\u201d debaters who will open with timed statements of their technical solutions, and will be required to answer questions, also within a time limited format. At the conclusion of the evening event, attendees will have the opportunity to vote on who \u201cwon\u201d the debate for the future of interconnects. Professor Azad Naeemi, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, will be representing Georgia Tech in the debate with his solution, \u201c\u003Cem\u003ENano\/novel materials or devices to the rescue\u201d.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting\u003C\/strong\u003E (IEDM) is the world\u2019s preeminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of semiconductor and electronic device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling. 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This is a fast-moving field, and as opportunities in bioinformatics, telehealth, and device development present themselves, our students need to be positioned to compete and contribute,\u201d Schaar says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarlier this year, Schaar travelled to Galway, Ireland to teach a class on \u201cWearables for Healthcare\u201d as part of a study abroad program. Thirty-two Georgia Tech students from the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) embarked on the journey too. When Schaar heard about\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wearablesforgood.com\/\u0022\u003EUNICEF\u2019s Wearables for Good design challenge\u003C\/a\u003E, she encouraged students to submit their ideas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo her surprise, a team from her class was selected as one of the 10 Wearables for Good challenge finalists. The team,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wearablesforgood.com\/finalist-communic-aid\/\u0022\u003ECommunic-Aid\u003C\/a\u003E, designed a wearable device that facilitates record keeping, aids in the tracking of medications that have been distributed in a post-disaster context, and allows the patient to take part in their treatment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn 19 October 2015, Blair Palmer was invited as guest lecturer at Georgia Tech to talk with undergraduate Biomedical Engineering \u0026amp; Design students about why wearables and sensor technology are part of UNICEF Innovation\u2019s agenda. \u0026nbsp;She also discussed what it takes to scale technology for good, including the criteria to do so, how budding designers and engineers can think about the context of social impact in their work, and to create things that are not only nice to have, but that people need to have. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPalmer encouraged students to think beyond the single point of influence in wearable and sensor technology and how to empower users by curating the right data and information insight that sensor technology provide. \u0026nbsp;She challenged them, \u201cHow can you think about what people already use, what they want to use, and how the information these tools can provide can be intuitive, useful, and remove complexity? \u0026nbsp;At the end of the day, technology has to deliver value by enhancing the way we experience the world around us.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBelow, read our interview with Raja Schaar:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat methodology did you use to inspire your students?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERaja Schaar (RS):\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EKeep it fun. We were dealing with challenging content in a short amount of time; we compressed a 15-week semester into 5 weeks. Also, engineering students tend to be very serious and focused. I wanted to disrupt that by introducing a few games and improv activities. I also used traditional design thinking methodologies to spur creativity and relied on mood boards to keep students inspired and grounded. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhere did your students find their inspiration to develop their ideas?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERS:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EIt took over a week before teams settled on a defined a problem. We started with a mind mapping exercise using the categories established by the Wearables for Good design challenge. We also scoped media, TED talks, and the blogosphere for more informative stories on real-world problems and populations. Since wearable devices sync with big data, we also looked for issues that could use better data. Students worked on the development of personas based on health profiles, location, current events, environmental statistics, and looked for reports from NGOs and other groups working in the same field. They developed mood boards to visualize their research and stay on track. They looked at context, related and existing products, user-centered design, and style.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did they respond to it?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERS:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EFor the most part, students were enthusiastic and they loved learning something new. Only a few students had thought about wearables as a part of the design discipline, which has so much potential. Seven students had experience with circuits and a few knew about coding. The learning curve was enormous. It was definitely challenging, but whenever the students got their code to run, their sensors to measure, or successfully soldered a component to a microcontroller, \u0026nbsp;they were visibly elated. They were using SnapChat, Twitter, and Facebook to document their progress. I love it when students get a sense of accomplishment and pride in learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents were also excited about working on a project in the social innovation space. Georgia Tech\u2019s undergraduate Biomedical Engineering program attracts mostly women. Sixty percent of our entering students are women and that ratio was reflected in my \u0026nbsp;course. \u0026nbsp;As a result, the students were jazzed about focusing on women and children. We were able to have deep discussions on issues that impact women globally, from sexual\/reproductive health to trafficking and abuse, and empowering women through education. Being able to have mature conversations with passionate teams was refreshing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy do you think universities are not focusing on healthcare wearables when it seems that there is a high demand of healthcare wearables in the market?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERS:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EThat\u2019s a tough question, but I think it has to do with flexibility of Higher Education. Engineering program curriculum requirements are full to overflowing with required courses. A class like wearables for healthcare is seen as a depth elective. While students are required to take courses in circuits, courses are more theoretical than project-based. Project-based design courses are time-consuming and expensive for the program and the students. So adding a course like this isn\u2019t taken lightly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the Industrial Design program at Georgia Tech, there\u2019s a course on wearables, a course on interactive products, and a separate course on healthcare design. Each course lives separately and has its own complexity. What\u2019s really cool is when you combine \u0026nbsp;the three disciplines because you end up with an opportunity to take information from the body, read it through an interactive device, and use that data to empower patients and healthcare providers with information on how to prevent, manage, diagnose, and\/or treat illness. When you have students who are knowledgeable on all three disciplines: 1) understand the body 2) have a basic handle on the design process 3) familiarity with sensors and microcontrollers and coding, and then combine that with a strong desire to improve health and well-being, you\u2019re able to leverage their expanded skill-set to effectively apply knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat were the challenges?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERS:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EThe program was based in Ireland which was a blessing and curse. Here we were doing a project focused on the developing world, but we had no direct interaction with people living in resource-constrained environments. We also had challenges of time and access to the university\u2019s building. \u0026nbsp;Also, in the U.S., the expectation is to work around the clock. In Ireland, they close the campus at 10 pm. \u0026nbsp;Students worked as much as they could within a time frame.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHad there not been a Wearables for Good challenge, what would have been the next steps to develop these wearables?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERS:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EWe have a few avenues I\u2019ve been discussing with the students. CreateX is a GA Tech initiative to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation. Idea to Prototype is a course structured as a directed student where student get research credit to work on prototype development for their own project ideas. We also have 2 campus-wide competitions that BME projects have done well with: INVENTURE Prize at GA Tech and Ideas 2 Serve.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDo you partner with tech companies?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERS:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ENo yet, but I\u2019d love to! We have a few health care industry partners for our capstone course, but I\u2019d like to work with some design and tech companies to help with the specific opportunities related to wearables. We just got a large donation from Texas Instruments to build an interdisciplinary makerspace on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs some of you might know, UNICEF, ARM, and frog announced the Wearables for Good challenge winners last week at SLUSH, a tech event in Helsinki. The winners are SoaPen, a wearable soap that helps limit the spread of infectious viruses by encouraging hand washing for children and KhushiBaby, a necklace that stores electronic health data to track child immunization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou can read more about the 10 finalists here:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wearablesforgood.com\/finalists\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/wearablesforgood.com\/finalists\/\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can read about the winners here:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wearablesforgood.com\/winners\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/wearablesforgood.com\/winners\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe original UNICEF article with Raja Schaar is linked \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.unicefstories.org\/2015\/11\/18\/why-budding-designers-should-keep-social-impact-in-mind-when-designing\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHERE\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"When Schaar heard about UNICEF\u2019s Wearables for Good design challenge, she encouraged students to submit their ideas."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2015-11-20 10:22:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:03","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"472051":{"id":"472051","type":"image","title":"Raja Schaar, BME Design Instructor","body":null,"created":"1449257176","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:26:16","changed":"1475895220","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:40","alt":"Raja Schaar, BME Design Instructor","file":{"fid":"203936","name":"raja_schaar.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/raja_schaar_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/raja_schaar_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1225264,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/raja_schaar_0.jpg?itok=EaQJrbRi"}}},"media_ids":["472051"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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The diverse group gathered to develop a plan to establish the Southeastern region of the United States as a global hub for the large-scale manufacturing of functional nanomaterials and the advanced products made from them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday, the Southeast is benefiting from the same recipe that created California\u2019s Silicon Valley. The cost of doing business is low; the talent pool is top-notch, large, and diverse; key infrastructure is in place; the quality of life is high; and, special to this region, there is a rich cross-cultural history and tradition of hospitality. This potent mixture, combined with Georgia Tech\u2019s track record of producing the nation\u2019s top engineers and its research leadership in functional nanomaterials, ideally positions the Southeast to be a world leader in nanomanufacturing. Dr. Oliver Brand, the Executive Director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology that hosted the roundtable said, \u201cThe timing is right and the Southeast region, for several reasons, is poised to take advantage of this new frontier of global innovation and economic growth.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the words of U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.), Former Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology, \u201cWe stand at the threshold of an age in which materials and devices can be fashioned atom-by-atom to satisfy specified design requirements. Nanotechnology-based applications are arising that were not even imagined a decade ago. The range of potential applications is broad, and will have enormous consequences for electronics, energy transformation and storage, materials, and medicine and health, to name a few examples. Indeed, the scope of this technology is so broad as to leave virtually no product untouched.\u201d The roundtable participants identified key assets and infrastructure, much of it already in place in the Southeast, necessary to build a fertile ecosystem and most fully develop the promise of nanotechnology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNano will allow us to\u0026nbsp;create value and wealth for the U.S. to continue our growth. Nanotechnology represents two things: first, a very distinct possibility of creating cures and treatments for all the terrible ailments that people are facing because they are living longer, and secondly, it\u0027s creating an environment where the U.S. can maintain its lead in the world in innovation, creating new jobs so citizens can feed their families, and having higher standards of living and a stable economy,\u201d said Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, community champion, and philanthropist for nanotechnology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe vision of the roundtable was inspired by the words of Bernie Marcus when referring to the public-private partnership he supported to construct the building that bears his name, \u201cThey want to develop products they can sell. That is what America is all about. This collaboration will be great for the state of Georgia, great for the region by creating jobs, and will serve as a magnet for new companies. It will have a very strong effect on the free enterprise system within the United States.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This was a watershed meeting focused on breakthrough nanomanufacturing technologies that offer a broad range of high value market opportunities,\u201d said Jim Phillips, CEO of Arkansas based NanoMech, a globally leading nanomanufacturing company. \u201cThe operating vision is to spur nanomanufacturing innovation with swift product development and an emphasis on platform technologies that are scalable for efficient mass production of \u0022must have\u0022 novel products ushering in tens of thousands of knowledge jobs into this dynamic region.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team is now planning strategic initiatives and a larger workshop in 2016 to begin taking action on this vision for the Southeast region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExecutive roundtable \u201cManufacturing of Functional Nanomaterials\u201d participants included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDr. Oliver Brand, Executive Director Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDr. Baratunde Cola, Founder and CEO Carbice Nanotechnologies (Georgia) and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Georgia Tech\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDr. Panos Datskos, Group Leader of Nanosystems and Structures at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Professor at University of Tennessee\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDr. Michael A. 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The IEN Seed Grant\u2019s primary purpose is to give first or second year graduate students in various disciplines working on original and un-funded research in micro- and nano-scale projects the opportunity to access the most advanced academic cleanroom space in the Southeast. In addition to accessing the high-level fabrication, lithography, and characterization tools in the labs, the students will have a chance to learn cleanroom and tool methodology and to consult with the research staff of the IEN Advanced Technology Team. The Seed Grant program\u2019s secondary purpose is to give faculty with novel research topics the ability to develop preliminary data in order to pursue follow-up funding sources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Fall 2015-2016 IEN Seed Grant Award winners are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EChangsheng Wu (PI: ZL Wang, Materials Science and Engineering), \u003Cem\u003ERationally-designed Triboelectric Nanogenerators with Bio-inspired Nano-hair Patterns for Self-powered Mobile Electronics and Active Motion Sensors\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENeha Kondekar (PI: Matthew McDowell, Mechanical Engineering \u0026amp; Materials Science and Engineering), \u003Cem\u003EControlling Mass Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces for Improved Redox\u2010based Nonvolatile Memory Devices\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDavid Hahn (PI: Shreyes Melkote, co-PI Buddhika Jayasena, Mechanical Engineering), \u003Cem\u003ELarge-area van der Waals Materials for Plasmonic Applications by Polymer Stamp-based Mechanical Exfoliation\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVictor Pan (PI: Yonggang Ke, Biomedical Engineering), \u003Cem\u003ESelf-assembled Complex DNA Nanostructures for Nanolithgraphy\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnna Miettinen (PI: Zhigang Jiang, co-PI Phillip First, Physics), \u003Cem\u003EImaging the Influence of Defects on Current Flow with Subnanometer Precision\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe five student winners for this award cycle come from various schools across campus, and will be provided no-cost access to the IEN cleanrooms and labs for a six-month period. Awardees will present the results of their research efforts at a future IEN User Day.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) at Georgia Tech is pleased to announce the winners for the 2015-16 Fall Seed Grant Awards."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2015-11-16 11:28:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:58","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"321371":{"id":"321371","type":"image","title":"IEN Seed Grant","body":null,"created":"1449245011","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:03:31","changed":"1475895032","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:32","alt":"IEN Seed Grant","file":{"fid":"201788","name":"seed_grant_ien_pic.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/seed_grant_ien_pic.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/seed_grant_ien_pic.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":30850,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/seed_grant_ien_pic.jpg?itok=eHsAR5Mg"}}},"media_ids":["321371"],"groups":[{"id":"1271","name":"NanoTECH"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"14545","name":"George W. 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New research published in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Neurophysiology\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;reports that professional ballet dancers\u2019 years of physical training have enabled their nervous systems to coordinate their muscles when they move more precisely than individuals who have no dance training.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe nervous system is comprised of the brain, spinal cord and nerves throughout the body. It allows the body\u2019s systems to communicate and coordinate with each other, such as the brain controlling movement of the leg muscles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERather than controlling muscles individually, the nervous system initiates movement by activating muscles in groups. The groups of muscles are called \u0022motor modules,\u0022 and the nervous system combines different motor modules to achieve a wide range of motion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this study, a research team at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology examined whether long-term training to enhance physical coordination, such as dance training, affects how motor modules are recruited when moving.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This study helps us understand how long-term training in an activity such as dance affects how we do everyday tasks,\u0022 says study author Lena Ting, Ph.D. \u0022We found that years of ballet training change how the nervous system coordinates muscles for walking and balancing behaviors overall. This may also have implications for how training through rehabilitation helps people with impaired mobility.\u0022 Ting is professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory and in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers compared the movements of professional ballet dancers with 10 or more years of ballet training to individuals with no dance or gymnastics training. Gait and activity of muscles in the legs and torso were tracked as the subjects walked across the floor, across a wide beam and across a challenging narrow beam.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBallet dancers and untrained individuals had similar gait patterns when they walked across the floor or the beam. However, when walking across the narrow beam, ballet dancers showed better balance by walking across farther. Ballet dancers recruited more motor modules and did so more consistently than untrained individuals, indicating that ballet dancers used their muscles more effectively and efficiently, the researchers stated. The ballet dancers also used more of the same motor modules when walking across a floor as when walking across the beam compared with untrained individuals, supporting that training can affect control of every-day movements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the researchers, the results show that years of ballet training changed how the nervous system coordinated muscles for walking and balancing behaviors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe article \u0022Long-term training modifies the modular structure and organization of walking balance control\u0022 is published ahead-of-print in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/jn.physiology.org\/content\/early\/2015\/10\/09\/jn.00758.2015\u0022\u003EJournal of Neurophysiology.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), she gave what she could to the university through the years. Her $25 gifts became $100 gifts, and so on. And recently, Marilyn solidified her lasting relationship with Tech, establishing a scholarship that will support non-traditional BME students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBME is doing work that will benefit you personally or someone you know,\u201d Marks says. \u201cBasically, they\u2019re doing work that will let loved ones remain vital, and stay alive as long as they live.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat has become a theme for her life, that notion of being fully alive. In fact, Marks wants the evidence of that on her tombstone (in some far-off future): \u201cWhile alive, she lived.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOf course, that isn\u2019t original with me, but my goodness, what a thought,\u201d she says. \u201cGeorgia Tech and BME will last well past my lifetime, and it could have a lasting impact on my children and grandchildren. It\u2019s that important to me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarks came to her realization through hard and heartfelt personal experience. She lost her husband, Ron, to lung cancer almost 10 years ago. Her sister also lost a battle with cancer. Both Marilyn and Ron provided care to their parents late in life, and to Marilyn\u2019s sister. So, she\u2019s seen the toll that an illness can take.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether with Ron, she made a commitment, \u201cto support areas that can impact a person\u2019s health, quality of life, and longevity. Whether we\u2019re talking about a child with a brain tumor or an octogenarian, you deserve a wonderful quality of life. And whether that means better ways of prevention, intervention, or even treatment of a terminal illness, I want to support that. It\u2019s ingrained in me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe\u2019d been collecting articles about research at Georgia Tech and was particularly interested in what was happening in the bio-community. She started giving, a little here, a little there, whatever she could afford. That\u2019s a message she\u2019d like to spread. \u201cIt\u2019s a journey,\u201d she says. \u201cGive what you can while you\u2019re alive, while you can decide what is important to you.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the things that has always been important to Marks is the concept of \u201clifelong learning,\u201d the idea that there isn\u2019t, or shouldn\u2019t be, a strict timeline to learning. This also was culled from personal experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer parents moved to this country from Poland in the 1920s, first to New York, then to Atlanta, where they operated a grocery store. Her parents never stopped learning. Her mother knew six languages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELater on, after Ron retired from a career in advertising, he took college courses for the sheer joy of learning. And Marilyn refers to herself as, \u201ca recycled student. I didn\u2019t get my graduate degree until I\u2019d started working full-time. I understand the concept of having to work to go to school. Some students have to help support their parents, or simply can\u2019t afford college right after high school, and some just aren\u2019t ready for college at 17 or 18.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo, her gift of $150,000 will support BME undergraduate students who aren\u2019t coming directly from high school, or students who are returning to college. In other words, Marks is helping to fill an important gap in the life of a potential world-changing researcher.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are fortunate to count Marilyn Marks amongst our friends,\u201d says Ravi Bellamkonda, who chairs the Coulter Department, a collaborative department of Georgia Tech and Emory. \u201cShe has an infectious enthusiasm, and the gift of being a generous of spirit, lifting up everything she touches. Her gift will have a great impact in making BME more accessible to our students.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBME strives to attract the best, motivated minds, independent of financial status, according to Bellamkonda, who believes that Marks\u2019 generosity helps the department take a step in that direction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese are often the forgotten students,\u201d Marks says. \u201cThey should not be overlooked. Just think of the lost potential! These are students who some day could make a huge difference in the lives of others.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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Joyce Allen presented two workshops entitled: \u003Cem\u003ENanoscale Science and Engineering (NSE) Resources for Grades 3-12. \u003C\/em\u003EThe workshops focused on activities that can be used to conduct a Family Science Night on nanoscale science and engineering. In addition, IEN had an exhibit booth for the distribution of nanotechnology-focused education resources. If you want to learn how to conduct such a Family Science night at our school, please contact: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:joyce.allen@ien.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejoyce.allen@ien.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"At the recently held Georgia STEM Forum, IEN\u0027s Joyce Allen presented two workshops entitled: Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSE) Resources for Grades 3-12."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2015-11-02 11:11:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:54","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1271","name":"NanoTECH"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"23411","name":"community outreach"},{"id":"146451","name":"Georgia STEM Forum"},{"id":"12701","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"146441","name":"NNIC"},{"id":"363","name":"NSF"},{"id":"167258","name":"STEM"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["joyce.allen@ien.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"463441":{"#nid":"463441","#data":{"type":"news","title":"BME Faculty Recognized by Emory University School of Medicine","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe week of October 12 - 16, 2015, was designated as Emory Medicine Recognitions Week. Faculty throughout Emory University\u2019s School of Medicine, which includes biomedical engineering (BME) faculty from Georgia Tech and Emory, were recognized and highlighted throughout the week.\u0026nbsp; Emory\u2019s School of Medicine Celebration of Faculty Excellence award ceremony was held on October 14.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory had several faculty recognized during the week and at the award event in these categories:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Emory 1% Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp; Hanjoong Jo\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; Professor of biomedical engineering, associate chair for Emory\/Georgia Tech BME\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp; The Emory 1% Award recognizes faculty principal investigators from any School who received study section scores (NIH grant application scoring system) in the top 1 percentile on a grant proposal.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe MilliPub Club Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp; May Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; Associate professor, biomedical engineering for Emory\/Georgia Tech BME,\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Cancer Scholar\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp; Qian Ximei\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; Assistant professor, biomedical engineering, Emory School of Medicine\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp; Shuming Nie\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; The Wallace H. 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Such a paper is commonly considered a \u201ccitation classic\u201d and represents high impact scholarship.\u0026nbsp; The MilliPub Club is sponsored by the School of Medicine, but membership is open to any qualifying Emory faculty member.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHidden Gems Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp; Michael Davis\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; Associate professor, biomedical engineering for Emory\/Georgia Tech BME\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp; Gari Clifford\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; Associate professor, biomedical engineering for Emory\/Georgia Tech BME\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp; Hidden Gem award recipients were nominated by their departments in recognition of their outstanding, but often unnoticed or unrecognized, contributions to Emory and beyond.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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It\u2019s all part of the initiative launched by President Obama in 2014 as a wide-spread effort to equip researchers with fundamental insights for treating a range of brain disorders, like Alzheimer\u2019s, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy and traumatic brain injury.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStanley and Dieter Jaeger, professor in Emory University\u2019s Department of Biology, are principal investigators of a project titled, \u201cMultiscale Analysis of Sensory-Motor Cortical Gating in Behaving Mice.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir overall goal is better understand and capture the flow of information as we sense and perceive the outside world, \u201cso that we can take action,\u201d says Stanley, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), a joint department of Emory and Georgia Tech. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Stanley lab provides expertise on tactile sensing and information processing, while the Jaeger lab provides expertise on motor\/muscle coordination and control.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are developing approaches to using genetically expressed voltage sensors to optically image brain activity during a sensory-motor task,\u201d Stanley says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new technology would let the researchers monitor brain activity at high spatial and temporal resolution over long periods of time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt allows us to address questions related to the circuits involved in coordinating the relationship between sensing and action for the first time,\u201d Stanley says.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project grew out of another collaboration between Jaeger and Stanley. They are co-principal investigators of an NIH-sponsored training grant in computational neuroscience, which targets a new generation of scientists bound together through questions about how the brain computes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThrough this interaction, Dieter and I got to know each other better, started to talk more science, and eventually cooked up this project,\u201d Stanley says.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u201cThe research is relevant to public health because it provides an impactful and innovative study of the circuitry underlying the output from the basal ganglia to the motor cortex and the integration of basal ganglia output with sensory information.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDebilitating and difficult to treat neurological disorders like Parkinson\u2019s disease, Huntington\u2019s disease and dystonia are caused by dysfunction of this circuitry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe proposed research is expected to provide basic insights into motor circuit function and may reveal new possibilities for treatment of these diseases as well as a better understanding of deep brain stimulation treatments already in use,\u201d says Stanley, who was part of the first round of BRAIN Initiative funding last year with fellow Georgia Tech researcher Craig Forest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeter Borden, a Ph.D. student in Stanley\u2019s lab, and Christian Waiblinger, a postdoctoral researcher in Stanley\u2019s lab, will also be contributing to the research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeanwhile, Payne is principal investigator for a project titled, \u201cConducting polymer nanowires for neural modulation.\u201d She\u2019s collaborating with Bret Flanders, a professor at Kansas State whose lab is working on new ways to insulate nanowires. Georgia Tech students Scott Thourson (a Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate) and Rohan Kadambi (undergrad in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) are helping to lead the effort.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUnderstanding how the brain functions requires fundamentally new tools to probe individual neurons without damaging the surrounding tissue,\u201d says Payne, associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis research will develop a prototype device that uses biocompatible conducting polymer nanowires to interface with individual neurons,\u201d says Payne. \u201cThe use of flexible conducting polymers in place of traditional metal, silicon, and carbon electrodes is expected to minimize disruption to the surrounding tissue.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast year NIH awarded $46 million to the effort, designed to ultimately catalyze new treatments and cures for devastating brain disorders and diseases that are estimated by the World Health Organization to affect more than one billion people on the planet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech is proud to play a role in this important global effort,\u201d says Steve Cross, executive vice president for research. \u201cThese grants are further evidence of Tech\u2019s reputation for conducting world-class bioengineering and bioscience research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMedia Contacts:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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The authors demonstrate that rationally designed \u2018deadRNAs\u2019 can prevent active Cas9 from cutting, and instead, activate gene expression.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022Body\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022Body\u0022\u003EThe CRISPR-Cas9 system genome editing platform has been used by labs across the world to specifically make changes to DNA. Wild type, active Cas9 protein is targeted to the correct DNA via a guide RNA sequence and then cuts the DNA target. Until recently, Cas9 catalytic activity has been controlled by mutating the protein so that it cannot cut DNA. These \u2018deadCas9\u2019 proteins bind DNA without cutting it, and have been fused to other proteins in order to fluorescently tag DNA or turn on gene expression.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022Body\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022Body\u0022\u003EA tool to selectively knock out and activate genes in the same cell (termed \u2018orthogonal gene editing\u2019) would provide a powerful method to manipulate biological processes, since most cellular functions are driven by combinations of genes. Inspired by the need for a simple orthogonal gene editing system, the MIT and Georgia Tech team designed a \u2018deadRNA\u2019 that functionally bound DNA without cutting it. deadRNAs were made by reducing the guide RNA target length to 14 or 15 bp, and by adding two MS2 binding loops into the sgRNA backbone. After systematically studying how the structure of deadRNAs influences gene activation and DNA cutting, and characterizing off-target gene activation, the authors knocked out and upregulated different genes in cells using a single active Cas9 protein.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022Body\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022Body\u0022\u003EThe authors hope this technology will be useful for the field. \u2018deadRNAs allow us to integrate two powerful functionalities of Cas9 \u2013 knocking out genes and activating them \u2013 in the same cell. This will be very useful for studying the interaction of different genes\u2019, said Konermann, senior author of this study. Dahlman, the first author, agreed, noting that \u2018deadRNAs may be useful for \u003Cem\u003Ein vivo \u003C\/em\u003Egene editing, since some mouse models already express active Cas9. My lab is excited to use deadRNAs to understand how complex gene interactions affect disease in cells and in animals\u2019. The authors also highlighted that their work reveals an important concept. Previously, it was thought that active Cas9 could only be used to cut DNA. This work, as well as a similar study recently published by George Church\u2019s laboratory at Harvard, demonstrate that guide RNAs can be designed to \u2018functionally bind\u2019 DNA without cutting it. Abudayyeh emphasized this point, noting that \u2018our work and the exciting work from the Church lab, shows that the RNA encodes the functionality and can tell the protein whether to cut or not\u2019. This points to a more fundamental mechanism, whereby the interactions between the protein, sgRNA, and DNA dictate whether the protein cuts the target DNA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReferences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EDahlman JE, Abudayyeh OA, Joung J, Gootenberg JS, Zhang F, Konermann S. Orthogonal gene knock out and activation with a catalytically active Cas9 nuclease. \u003Cem\u003ENature Biotechnology, \u003C\/em\u003E2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EKiani S, Chavez A, Tuttle M, Hall RN, Chari R, Beal J, Vora S, Buchthal J, Ebrahimkhani MR, Collins JJ, Weiss R, Church G. Cas9 gRNA engineering for genome editing, activation, and repression. \u003Cem\u003ENature Methods, \u003C\/em\u003E2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJames Dahlman\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dahlmanlab.org\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.dahlmanlab.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, is a chemical and bioengineer whose work lies at the interface of nanotechnology, genomics, and gene editing. He studied \u003Cem\u003Ein vivo \u003C\/em\u003Egene editing at the Broad Institute; he received his Ph.D. from MIT and Harvard Medical School. There he designed nanoparticles that efficiently deliver RNAs to the lung and heart. These nanoparticles have been used by over ten labs across the United States to study disease. The Dahlman Lab is interested in drug delivery, targeted in vivo gene editing, and using genomics to understand and improve biomaterial design.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESilvana Konermann \u003C\/strong\u003Eis a neuroscientist and bioengineer focused on developing better tools for the functional study of genetic disease. Silvana studied biology at ETH Zurich and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at MIT in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science working in the lab of Feng Zhang. Her work has been focused on developing better technologies to study gene function, including tools for optical transcriptional and epigenetic perturbation as well as genome-scale transcriptional control using CRISPR\/Cas9. She is interested in applying these tools to the high-throughput study of neurodegeneration. She has won the Harold M. 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The BME student project team members are Katie Fiedler, William Higgins, Heather Issen, Madison Lewis, and Isabelle Vernon. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir device is a wearable wristband with NFC communication technology that stores emergency medical information for individual patients. Medical professionals can access this information, load updated records onto the device, and set alerts to facilitate the patient\u0027s care such as alerting them when to take medication. The band is worn by the patient on the wrist (or ankle), and the app is used by the medical professional.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe United Nations Children\u0027s Fund (UNICEF) is a United Nations program headquartered in New York City that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. UNICEF\u2019s Wearables for Good contest challenges innovators\u0026nbsp; to design wearable and sensor technology that serves people in resource constrained environments. The Wearables for Good challenge is open to anybody with ideas, including students, entrepreneurs, members of the maker community, engineers, designers, and technologists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe catalyst for the team\u2019s project arose from an experience broadening summer program which is a collaboration between the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, and the National University of Ireland, Galway. The program is designed for third and fourth year BME students who are interested in an international experience which enables them to combine classroom learning with field trips to medical device companies to learn first-hand about their research, development, and manufacturing practices. Students complete roughly four courses from May 25 to July 31.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the unique courses offered is Wearables for Healthcare (BMED 4823) taught by Raja Schaar. Schaar, a design instructor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, said, \u201cWearables are the next hot thing in healthcare. Fitness trackers and smart watches have taken off in the market. With the advances in hardware, miniaturization, and the emergence of the Internet of Things, technology is catching up to our aspirations.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETechnology is at a point where real-time health information is empowering consumers to be stewards of their own health as well as providing health care providers and researchers much needed insight into the lives of their patients. Useful wearables are now possible because companies are able to combine miniaturized sensors and cheap reliable power with advanced connectivity and big data analytics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn computing and design programs there has been a big push to marry digital and physical devices, but Schaar did not find a course focused on healthcare wearables out there. Schaar added, \u201cHealthcare presents unique challenges related to regulatory compliance, privacy, and security. This is a fast-moving field, and as opportunities in bioinformatics, telehealth, and device development present themselves, our students need to be positioned to compete and contribute.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the first week of her course, students think about electronics on the body and create quick on-body electronic devices in the spirit of Chindogu. Chindogu is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like a solution to a particular problem. However, chindogu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of these inventions would find that it causes so many new problems, or such significant social embarrassment, that effectively it has no utility whatsoever. Thus, chindogu devices are sometimes described as \u0022unuseless\u0022 \u2013 that is, they cannot be regarded as \u0022useless\u0022 in an absolute sense, since they do actually solve a problem; however, in practical terms, they cannot positively be called \u0022useful.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWeek two involves studying microcontrollers, processing, and biosensors. Students participate in the Unicef Wearables for Good Challenge during the final three weeks. The goal is to develop innovative, affordable solutions to make wearables and sensor technology a game-changer for women and children across the world. This summer, students ended up with promising ideas such as devices that address air pollution, child trafficking, breastfeeding, maternal prenatal anemia, biometric screening, water transportation and filtration, and medication compliance and tracking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the sixty students, seven BME faculty members taught classes and led field trips. The west side of Ireland has become the European capital for the healthcare and medical device industries. The majority of the companies (e.g. Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Cook Medical, Abbott, etc.) are international.\u0026nbsp; Some of the company field trip visits included Medtronic, Visktakon, and Cook Medical. Located in Limerick, Cook Medical is a maker of catheters, stents, and drug coated stents. On this tour, students saw the handling of raw materials, incoming quality control, a controlled manufacturing area, finish quality control [including destructive testing with samples of each lot], post-sterilization, and batch release.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the spring of 2016,\u0026nbsp; sign up for the next summer BME study abroad to the National University of Ireland, Galway will begin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBME student Joy Janku said, \u201dwearables was one of my favorite classes taken at Georgia Tech. We gained a lot of interactive product experience by being exposed to tools like Littlebits and Arduino, and were provided with high quality 3D printers that everyone was able to get hands on experience with to bring our products to life. Secondly, and more importantly to me, we were asked to design for those in need by participating in the UNICEF Challenge which made the project feel that much more tangible.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Communic-AID team submitted their idea to this global technology challenge and are now one of ten global UNICEF team finalists. More than 250 submissions from 46 countries across 6 continents entered the contest. Winners of this global wearable technology contest will be announced November, 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUNICEF interviews Raja Schaar:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.unicefstories.org\/2015\/11\/18\/why-budding-designers-should-keep-social-impact-in-mind-when-designing\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWhy budding designers should keep social impact in mind when designing\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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The students equipped a \u0022Cuddle Care\u0022 prototype \u2014 a stuffed monkey with arms long enough to bolster or wrap around a child \u2014 that breathes, thumps with a heartbeat, and emits radiant heat.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClose has carried the Cuddle Care idea with her since nursing school, when she cared for a 3-year-old boy with AIDS on an oncology unit. Tumors covered his small body, and his only relief came when Close and others held him. The child\u2019s mother, who was HIV-positive and had several young children, rarely came to visit. Close agonized over the young boy\u2019s future when her clinical rotation on the unit ended.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I thought there must be a way to comfort a child who was suffering this way,\u0022 she says. \u0022I reflected back on what was providing him comfort. As I held him in a rocking chair, I was taking pressure off of his tumors. We were also exchanging heat. I could feel his heat up against my chest, and he was feeling the comfort of my heartbeat and being held and squeezed. He was made to feel safe in the arms of what should have been a parent but was not possible for this little boy.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe thought of developing a device mimicking those sensations that would wrap around a child to provide warmth and comfort. She applied for a provisional patent but put the device on hold for several years until she came to Emory, where the idea resurfaced. Close consulted the university\u2019s Office of Technology Transfer, which connected her with Georgia Tech. Students there embraced her idea and made it their capstone project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We wanted to provide comfort to those who need it most,\u0022 says BME student Matt Kee, who sees great potential for the \u0022Cuddle Care\u0022 device in the pediatric health care market. 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That program requires a student to make an appointment with a tutor. The FOCUS tutors have worked in that program, too, and recognize the distinct strengths of both. But they\u2019re intentionally trying to do something different with FOCUS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cI like the group dynamic of FOCUS,\u201d says Bowen. \u201cStudents are actually encouraged to work together to figure things out, versus us just telling them what to do. One on one can be a little intimidating sometimes \u2013 it\u2019s just you alone with a tutor. FOCUS is a great way to collaborate with other people.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe FOCUS tutors see the experience as a win-win, a kind of enlightened self-interest. 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Pardue received her Ph.D. in vision science and biology at the University of Waterloo. Her research has been continuously supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs, NIH, and private companies. Pardue\u2019s laboratory uses a combination of electrophysiological, histological, imaging, and molecular techniques to investigate the pathophysiology of retinal disease and develop treatments and therapies to preserve or restore vision. 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Annabelle Singer\u2019s research elucidates how such neural activity is decoded at multiple levels: from downstream cells receiving this activity via synaptic inputs to the behavior driven by such activity. 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He studied in vivo gene editing at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; he received his Ph.D. from MIT and Harvard Medical School. Dahlman is interested in drug delivery, targeted in vivo gene editing, and using genomics to improve biomaterial design. He has designed and synthesized nanoparticles that efficiently deliver RNAs to the lung and heart. These nanoparticles can deliver multiple RNAs at once, and can simultaneously knockdown five genes concurrently in vivo. They have been used by over ten labs across the United States to study cancer, atherosclerosis, inflammation, emphysema, and pulmonary hypertension, and are being evaluated for clinical trials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E----------\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrank L. Hammond III\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAssistant Professor, joint appointment with the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPh.D., Carnegie Mellon University\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPostdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArea of focus: Healthcare Robotics\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrank Hammond has dedicated much of his academic career to conducting research as a mechanical engineer and roboticist. A vast majority of that time has been spent at the intersection of robotics and healthcare. His research efforts are centered on the development of adaptive robotic manipulation systems: robotic devices having morphological structures, actuation topologies, and sensing and control schemes that make them well-suited to operating alongside or in the place of humans in unstructured, dynamically varying environments. Adaptive robotic devices have several promising, clinically-relevant applications and have demonstrated the potential to improve standards of care and patient accessibility to treatments in areas such as teleoperative microsurgery and at-home physical therapy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E----------\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDenis Tsygankov\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAssistant Professor \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPostdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArea of focus: Mechanics and Systems Biology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDenis Tsygankov obtained his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology where his research interests were on synchronization phenomena in coupled dynamical systems. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park, Tsygankov applied his knowledge of theoretical physics to study biological systems. His research during this time focused on energy transduction and force degeneration by molecular motors, such as kinesin and dynein. His current research is focused on developing and applying computational methods, including mathematical modeling, simulations, and computer vision approaches to understand complex multi-scale physiological processes including vasculogenesis, morphogenesis, and wound healing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContact:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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They were competing against Johns Hopkins, Boston University, Florida State, and other notable programs. They participated in the both the design and best pitch competitions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Georgia Tech BME team did an amazing job of representing our department and our university,\u201d said James Rains, BME\u2019s director of capstone design in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory.\u0026nbsp; \u201cI received many compliments regarding their performance throughout the event, but was blown away with their great team work, ingenuity, and polished presentation skills.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECoulter College is a training program focused on translation of biomedical innovations. Student design teams are guided by faculty and clinical experts through a highly dynamic process designed to help them better understand how innovations can meet clinical needs while providing tools and approaches used to evolve identified problems into novel solutions. The program is supported by the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the competition, student teams are given a list of unmet clinical needs, they research and rank their top choices. Shortly afterwards, they are notified of the unmet clinical need they will address and given an assignment to prepare. In this case, they were asked to work on an epidural system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe design process is one of my favorite things about being an engineering student,\u201d said BME student Alex Hubbard. \u201cThe Coulter College made designing even more fun by providing each team with a box of materials like modeling clay, Tinker Toys, pipe cleaners, and trig cards with interesting prompts to encourage creativity while brainstorming. We followed a \u2018no-negativity\u2019 rule such that whenever someone had an idea that seemed far-fetched, we weren\u0027t allowed to say anything negative about it, so we went off on several crazy tangents.\u0026nbsp; One of these tangents was inspired by reading cards that encouraged us to relocate the epidural process or alter the process such that a physician wouldn\u0027t need to come near the patient, both of which seem ridiculous at first glance.\u0026nbsp; However, a few crazy tangents later, we came upon the idea of encasing the medications delivered during a normal epidural injection in a hydrogel or other polymer, injecting that solution into the patient\u0027s epidural space weeks before the due date, and activating it via ultrasound upon when the patient arrives at the hospital to give birth.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECory Turbyfield added, \u201dfor me, the coolest part of the competition was all of the people there: BME students, professors, clinicians, CEOs, designers, professionals, and more. Everyone brought with them their own set of experiences, and we had the opportunity to learn from each and everyone one of them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u2019s idea and subsequent presentation earned the team the best design award at the competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cThey worked their butts off staying up to 3:00 a.m. each night and being there bright and early at 7:00 a.m. to start it all over again\u2014 for four consecutive days.\u0026nbsp; I am not sure how they were able to even start classes on Monday,\u201d said Rains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContact:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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The team\u2019s work will explore strategies for targeted intervention, possibly leading to new preventive approaches for conditions such as atherosclerosis and aortic aneurysms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cThis award highlights the core strength we have built at Emory in understanding how vital signals such as ROS function in vascular biology,\u201d says Griendling. \u201cOur long-standing interest in this area is beginning to bear fruit in terms of translational approaches.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGriendling is professor and vice-chair of research and faculty development in the Department of Medicine within Emory University School of Medicine. The team includes Hanjoong Jo, Ph.D., John and Jan Portman professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University; W. Robert Taylor, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and director of cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine and Wallace H. 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Many current RNA-based approaches turn this apparent bug into a strength, because they seek to treat liver diseases.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut what if you need to deliver RNA somewhere besides the liver?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBiomedical engineer Hanjoong Jo\u2019s lab at Emory\/Georgia Tech, working with Katherine Ferrara\u2019s group at UC Davis, has developed technology to broaden the liver-dominant properties of RNA-based drugs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe results were recently published in \u003Cem\u003EACS Nano\u003C\/em\u003E. The researchers show they can selectively target an anti-microRNA agent to inflamed blood vessels in mice while avoiding other tissues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have solved a major obstacle of using anti-miRNA as a therapeutic by being able to do a targeted delivery to only inflamed endothelial cells while all other tissues examined, including liver, lung, kidney, blood cells, spleen, etc. showed no detectable side-effects,\u201d Jo says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch by Jo\u2019s lab, published in 2013 in \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E, had established that microRNA 712 was a master controller of inflammation in atherosclerosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E paper, an antisense molecule that counteracts miRNA 712 can stop the effects of high fat diet and disturbed blood flow in the atherosclerosis model. It reaches the desired cells: endothelial cells, which line blood vessels. But the anti-miRNA has significant effects on the liver and blood cells at the same time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo restrict delivery of an antisense molecule countering miRNA 712 to endothelial cells, the authors built nanoparticles with several layers. Inside was the payload: the anti-miRNA, packaged with a positively charged lipid. Around that is a neutral coating, decorated with a peptide that targets the inflammatory molecule vascular cell adhesion molecule 1. The same peptide has previously been tested as a potential cardiovascular imaging tool.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe resulting multi-layer package was delivered selectively to only the inflamed endothelial cells, the authors show in the \u003Cem\u003EACS Nano\u003C\/em\u003E paper. In the atherosclerosis mouse model, it was possible to use five times less than the \u201cnaked\u201d untargeted version and still see beneficial effects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe multi-layer packaging method could easily be adapted to other miRNAs, such as the human equivalent miR-205, in the context of treating atherosclerosis. However, using other targeting peptides, with the goal of reaching other tissues, would be a bigger stretch.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHanjoong Jo is the associate chair and John and Jan Portman Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Wallace H. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory moved up one spot (to third) in \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u2019s\u003C\/em\u003E latest ranking of the nation\u2019s top undergraduate \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\/rankings\/engineering-doctorate-biological-biomedical\u0022\u003Ebiomedical engineering\u003C\/a\u003E programs. The department is a partnership between Emory University\u2019s School of Medicine and Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Engineering continues to be recognized as one of the best in the nation, ranking fifth, in the annual undergraduate engineering program rankings released in September, 2015. Each of the College of Engineering\u0027s 10 undergraduate degrees programs was ranked seventh or higher in their respective fields with six programs ranked fourth or higher in this year\u0027s rankings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are proud to once again be recognized by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E as one of the elite engineering institutions in the United States,\u0022 said Gary S. May, dean and Southern Company Chair in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech. \u0022The strength of our college is the depth and breadth of our programs, and it is gratifying to see so many of our individual schools ranked among the best in their fields. 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Biomedical engineering faculty from KAIST, Georgia Tech and Emory shared their latest research to help identify new research partnerships among faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the last 20 years, Korea has become a global leader and powerhouse of technology research and manufacturing. Korean companies and universities are at the cutting edge of science research and product innovation in many areas\u2014this includes medical research. 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Team members were: Blair Naples, Matthew Brooks, Jarad Heimer, Alexander Pergakis, and Jackson Thomas. An interdisciplinary team combines two or more academic disciplines or fields of study.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChildren with physical disabilities, but who possess the ability to swing a golf club, will have an opportunity to play the game of golf using this car. The project was sponsored by CSF, E-Z-GO, and Jones Global Sports. Bob Jones IV, Psy.D., the grandson of legendary golfer Bobby Jones, said, \u201cThis car allows people with physical challenges to get out and enjoy this fantastic game. It is a wonderful and exciting thing. I am very proud to see this contribution being made by my grandfather\u2019s alma mater Georgia Tech.\u201d His grandfather suffered from syringomylelia (a spinal disorder) later in life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EE-Z-GO donated the car to the Georgia Tech team. Steven Meyer, product manager from E-Z-GO, said, \u201cThis is the perfect project for our company because it allows us to partner with a great school like Georgia Tech to develop their engineering students, help a great charity, and grow the game of golf.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the Bobby Jones Classic Golf Car project was to develop a newly imagined, lighter and more cost-effective device that would enable children and adults who live with differing levels of paralysis to play golf and remain physically active and healthy. The car features a custom designed swivel seat with 45-degree forward actuation, 85-degree outward rotation, and an upper body and lower body belted harness system. The golf car provides users with unparalleled ease of play. Novel hand controls allow users to control the acceleration and braking of the car with a special turtle mode for optimal green movement. 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Students presented their work before a panel of medical doctors, engineers, and a spectrum of biomedical educators.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winning team, VenTrickle, presented a novel wireless pressure communicating cerebral shunt product called CranioCheck, which is designed to instantly alert patients if cerebrospinal fluid pressure increases to unsafe levels. CranioCheck consists of sensors, a tiny battery, and wireless Bluetooth technology to communicate with a customized phone app. The judges felt this product could make a significant impact in the medical device industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winning team, consisting of Bailey Ernstes, Jacob Kazlow, and Carrie Simpson, received a $5,000 first-place award from Ian\u2019s Friends Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second place team, Coalesce, won $1,000 for its redesigned spinal implant that uses dentin as a spinal fusion material. Team members are Beth Carpenter, Naser Ibrahim, Kavya Muddukumar, and Karthik Nathan. The third place team, VerteVision, won $500 for an automated allograft bone shaping machine envisioned for use in the operating room. Team members are Katie Byrum, Cambre Kelly, Greg O\u2019Neal, and Becky Wyche.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI thought the competition was incredible,\u201d said Phil Yagoda, founder of Ian\u2019s Friends Foundation. \u201cFor students that have no prior knowledge of pediatric brain tumors and associated medical issues, and to be able to get up to speed and then actually create innovative products in such a short time, is a testament to the program and professors in the BME department. It was difficult to select a winner from among the great projects. Georgia Tech and Emory have been great partners over the years that care so much about getting positive results.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYagoda and his wife Cheryl established Ian\u2019s Friends Foundation when their then two-year old son, Ian, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The foundation\u2019s mission is to undertake and support initiatives at research institutions around the country, focusing on the development of new therapeutic methodologies and treatments for pediatric brain tumors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are so impressed by the minds at Georgia Tech and Emory. 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They require a lot of attention and maintenance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EOn the other hand, I have one in a pot in my office that I call a Florida philodendron, and that thing is wild. It\u2019s in a small clay pot, and it grows all over my shelves. It just keeps growing and growing. It doesn\u2019t need much attention.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat advice do you have for people who would like to have plants in their office?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EI like to fertilize them three or four times a year. I give them some type of plant food. Some people use eggshells either on the soil or mixed in. I also like to water them with rainwater. If you can collect rainwater and use that, I think it makes a big difference. To me, though, the most important thing is talking to them. You have to talk to your plants. They like it. They like attention. I talk to them when I\u2019m watering them, just like you\u2019d talk to an animal. I name my plants too.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EI also use sunlight lightbulbs in my office. It\u2019s a much more natural light, and if you have an office without much natural light, they\u2019re good for the plants and for you.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EYou also want to re-pot your plants occasionally, especially if they\u2019re getting too big for the pot. Some people do it very regularly, but I do it every few years. I like them to have a good, established root ball before I move them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EWhen it comes to indoor plants, it\u2019s best to have a system for watering. I water mine every Friday. They get a nice big drink. Having a schedule is easier for you and for the plants.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhere does your interest in plants came from?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EMy mother and my grandmother fostered my love of plants \u2014 even my great grandmother. It\u2019s just always been in our family. My great grandmother had a plant from the philodendron family called a split leaf. You can take pieces and grow more plants off of them, so everybody in our family got a piece of that plant, and it was kind of a family tradition. I still have plants that came from that one plant.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch5 class=\u0022p6\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat should people be doing this time of year to get ready for outdoor gardening?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EBy the beginning of April, you want to have most of your seeds in the ground. It\u2019s been a wet spring, so the soil is nice and soft. I\u2019ve planted all the way into August, though, so if you haven\u2019t started, it\u2019s not too late.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EVegetables can be planted now, depending on what they are. People should be cleaning out their gardens, turning over the soil, putting nutrients or fertilizers in, and that type of thing. I\u2019m planting tomatoes, cucumbers, and onions. Be careful not to over water your plants and vegetables. If they get too much water, the roots will rot.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p5\u0022\u003EWhatever you do, make sure you enjoy it. It\u2019s a great time of year to be enjoying the weather outside and getting your hands dirty. 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Today, more than half of all incoming freshman pursue a degree in biomedical engineering, biochemistry, or biology. These students want to both understand living systems and make things that improve people\u2019s lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, more than ever, those opportunities are plentiful in biosciences at Georgia Tech, where researchers are creating medical devices for children, understanding how diseases occur, improving vaccines, and building better biomaterials for drug delivery. Georgia Tech\u2019s unique blend of engineering, biology, chemistry, and computing \u2014 along with partnerships with world-class medical facilities in Atlanta, such as Emory University and Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta \u2014 has transformed the Institute\u2019s campus into a magnet for bio-minded scientists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat we bring to the table is a new perspective in the biological sciences that is data driven, that is quantitative, that focuses on devices and techniques and on being unafraid to ask fundamental questions,\u201d said Ravi Bellamkonda, the chair and professor of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u201cIt\u2019s a different approach to biology as an engineer.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe rise of biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech has created a ripple effect across the biosciences on campus. Biologists studying genetics, ecology, and personalized medicine are collaborating with engineers to solve challenging medical problems. The bio quad, home to the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB); the U.A. Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Building; the Ford Environmental Science and Technology (ES\u0026amp;T) Building; and the Molecular Science and Engineering (M) Building, already forms a hub of interdisciplinary research. Soon, other collaboration-oriented buildings will be added, solidifying the Institute\u2019s commitment to developing its bioscience portfolio, which touches everything from mechanical engineering, to electrical engineering, to materials science and engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBioscience the Georgia Tech way has attracted high-profile faculty, such as M.G. Finn, pioneer of click chemistry and rumored Nobel Prize candidate. Also flocking to campus are fresh young minds, such as Susan N. Thomas, an assistant professor in the new field of immunoengineering. These researchers and others, who might not have come to Georgia Tech even 10 years ago, say that the Institute is already making a dent in some of the world\u2019s biggest medical challenges, and is poised to do more. Nascent fields of research, such as immunoengineering, systems biology, pediatric bioengineering, chemical biology, and biomanufacturing, are emerging strengths on campus, positioning Georgia Tech to help define what these fields become. Georgia Tech is already recognized as a leader in regenerative medicine, cardiovascular engineering, neuroengineering, and mechanobiology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cConsidering what had been done in the past 10 years, I thought the next 10 years at Georgia Tech would be pretty exciting,\u201d said Finn, the interim chair and professor of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. \u201cVery few places in the world \u2014 if anywhere \u2014 will embed fundamental science in with applications science and technology better than we do here.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead more\u0026nbsp;of this article from Georgia Tech\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/buzz-bioscience\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The biosciences are big at Georgia Tech. 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Sorting it all out, he said, required \u201can amalgam of neuroscience, statistics and modeling.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work represents an important contribution to neuroscience because historically, \u201cwe haven\u2019t taken the study of general anesthesia seriously as a neuroscience discipline, and it very much is,\u201d he said, adding that a more serious approach to studying anesthesiology will not only improve patient care, but lead to a greater understanding of how the brain works and help address other problems in clinical neuroscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong the way, Brown also helped answer another, broader question for Coulter Department Chairman Ravi Bellamkonda.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPeople ask me all the time, \u2018what do biomedical engineers do,\u2019\u201d said Bellamkonda, who had earlier described the BME department as, \u201ca powerful incubator of ideas.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrown\u2019s presentation, he said, was a great example of how different disciplines help spark the knowledge and discovery that keeps the incubator humming with activity. \u201cThis talk was a perfect illustration of how technology and math and physics can help us understand something that we think of as biology,\u201d Bellamkonda added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s lecture provided an opportunity for BME\u2019s growing expertise in neuroscience to step to the forefront, said Garrett Stanley, the BME professor who served as faculty host, and who first met Brown years ago.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the time, Stanley was just starting his lab at Harvard and a colleague suggested he seek out Brown for some statistical information. 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I think we can thank Emery for that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor his part, Brown took note of the collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach being taken in general at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and specifically within the Coulter Department, a joint department of Georgia Tech and Emory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe work here is phenomenal,\u201d he said. \u201cThis beautiful integration of medicine and engineering and science, because you\u2019ve brought together two institutions, Georgia Tech and Emory. It\u2019s unique, and the possibilities are boundless.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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In this case, it stands for family. Chris Jordan attended his orientation in 1982 and met his wife here. Thirty-two years later, he is back on campus with his daughter, Katie. The Air Force veteran and ISyE graduate still had the pin he wore at his freshman orientation in \u201982, and he proudly affixed it to the name badge he wore as a parent of an incoming Georgia Tech freshman. Jordan says looking back on his FASET experience he was surprised at the duration and depth of the program. He recalls many of his high school friends having a half day or single day orientation experience. Jordan remembers getting to know his FASET leader well during the two and a half days exploring every corner of the Georgia Tech campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJordan is a proud Yellow Jacket through and through. He hopes it was the love for his alma mater that sealed his daughter\u2019s decision to travel from Virginia to Midtown Atlanta to begin her college experience. But when it came down to it, Georgia Tech offered one of the top programs in the country for the field that Katie is planning to major in. Soon the Jordan family will have two generations of Helluva Engineers. Katie is planning to go into Biomedical Engineering, a degree field growing increasingly popular with incoming female students. In fact, last fall women made up the majority of the freshman class in BME, marking the first time in history that has happened. Dad meantime is already looking forward to cheering the brave and bold from Bobby Dodd stadium with his daughter.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat was it like experiencing FASET with your daughter?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChris: I actually think I learned more this time as a parent than I did as a student! 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I don\u2019t know the actual numbers but it seems to me that the percentage of women at Tech may have doubled in the past 30 or so years. In fact, these are the very reasons why my daughter chose Georgia Tech over other schools. I\u2019d like to think it was my connection and admiration for Tech that influenced her decision but, honestly, Tech has everything she wants and she couldn\u2019t have chosen a better BME program at any other university today than Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat was your FASET experience like as an incoming Freshman?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKatie: FASET got me really excited for starting at Tech in the fall. All the FASET leaders were really enthusiastic and you could tell they loved Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are your career goals?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKatie: I plan to study Biomedical Engineering. 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Well-established procedures for its processing, perfected over more than five decades of industrial use, enable a diverse array of electronic devices that pervade everyday life. The highly evolved supply chain that accompanies Si\u2019s dominance also enables very low manufacturing costs. In fact, it is far cheaper to fabricate a Si-based transistor than print a single letter in a newspaper.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe specific form of Si that fuels the ongoing semiconductor revolution is known as \u201cdiamond cubic.\u201d This particular structure \u2013 the arrangement of atoms \u2013 readily forms during traditional processing. It is this structure that imparts Si with the properties that have been exploited in devices ranging from integrated circuits to solar cells. Importantly, because the properties of bulk diamond cubic Si are fixed, most think its long-term usefulness is limited. Yet this narrow view of a material\u2019s capabilities, Si or otherwise, and thus its utility in specific applications, assumes that rearranging the atoms into new structures is exceedingly difficult or impossible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat if techniques were available to program alternative structures? What new properties would arise? What applications might these reimagined materials enable? Dr. Michael A. Filler, an assistant professor in the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering, and his research group are asking these questions about nanomaterials in general, and Si nanowires in particular.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe promise of designing materials with entirely programmable atomic arrangements, specifically the extensive property tunability that would accompany it, is what motivates his research team. \u201cSuch a capability would allow us to rethink the structure of new and old materials alike, so that they can conduct electricity, transport heat, or absorb light in distinct ways,\u201d Filler says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFiller\u2019s research is inspired by the work of organic chemists, who apply a suite of synthetic methods, born from a basic knowledge of chemical bond breaking and forming, to create remarkably intricate functional molecules. \u201cBut unlike organic chemistry, the synthesis of most nanoscale materials is poorly understood, cannot be adequately controlled, and, as a result, yield low quality materials,\u201d comments Filler.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers frequently probe a material only after it has been made and, consequently, are unable to retrieve detailed information about the synthesis itself. \u201cWe watch the synthesis while it\u2019s taking place,\u201d Filler says.\u201d Once we have a better understanding of what\u2019s going on, we can precisely engineer the structure we want.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFiller and his graduate student Naechul Shin recently showed for the first time that the stacking of atoms in a Si nanowire could be rationally manipulated. To do this, they controlled when and where special \u201cstructure directing\u201d species attached to and covered the nanowire surface. This molecular coating forced the next layer of Si atoms to position themselves differently from the prior layer. \u201cThe rapid addition and removal of these species, whose chemical signatures we can observe in real time, allowed us to control the arrangement of Si atoms in the nanowire from one layer to the next,\u201d says Filler. His group continues to refine their approach and will begin testing the properties of this new form of Si in the near future. Filler foresees that this work will find use in fields ranging from electronics and photonics to energy conversion and catalysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, directing individual layers of Si atoms is just the first step, and as science and research continue to advance, Filler says there will be much more control over atomic placement in many materials. \u201cThe chemical engineers and materials scientists of the future will be able to choose the placement of every atom in a material,\u201d says Filler.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Silicon (Si) is ubiquitous in modern semiconductor manufacturing. Well-established procedures for its processing, perfected over more than five decades of industrial use, enable a diverse array of electronic devices that pervade everyday life."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2014-06-12 08:47:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:33","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"302861":{"id":"302861","type":"image","title":"Nanowire Silicon","body":null,"created":"1449244592","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:56:32","changed":"1475895007","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:07","alt":"Nanowire Silicon","file":{"fid":"199595","name":"nanowire_silicon.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nanowire_silicon_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nanowire_silicon_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40156,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/nanowire_silicon_0.jpg?itok=3JPkkDlc"}}},"media_ids":["302861"],"groups":[{"id":"1271","name":"NanoTECH"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12701","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"95311","name":"M.A. Filler"},{"id":"1785","name":"nanomaterials"},{"id":"169648","name":"semiconductor manufacturing"},{"id":"168107","name":"semiconductor materials and processing"},{"id":"169649","name":"Si Nanowires"},{"id":"167355","name":"silicon"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"303031":{"#nid":"303031","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Vladimir Tsukruk Selected as Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations to Professor Vladimir Tsukruk!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Tsukruk has been selected as Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS).Tsukruk conducts research in the field of fabrication and structural characterization of molecular films, his specialized field of research since 1987. He has extensive experience in organic and polymeric materials and molecular films from polymers. Tsukruk is an expert in the microstructural analysis of polymeric materials. He has conducted investigations of LB films and self-assembled monolayers from amphiphilic polyimides, rod-like polymers, liquid crystalline polymers, alkylsilanes, dendrimers, biopolymers, and lipids. More recently, Tsukruk has been interested in, nanomaterials; nanotribology; the nanomechanical properties of polymeric surfaces; and nanoengineered devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Tsukruk will be formally honored at the 2014 ACS National meeting in San Francisco on August 11, 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Vladimir Tsukruk has been selected as Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS)."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2014-06-13 09:28:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:33","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"303011":{"id":"303011","type":"image","title":"Vladimir Tsukruk","body":null,"created":"1449244592","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:56:32","changed":"1475895007","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:07","alt":"Vladimir Tsukruk","file":{"fid":"199602","name":"tsukruk_nanomaterials_research.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tsukruk_nanomaterials_research_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tsukruk_nanomaterials_research_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":642430,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tsukruk_nanomaterials_research_0.jpg?itok=m42aEaWF"}}},"media_ids":["303011"],"groups":[{"id":"1271","name":"NanoTECH"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"95371","name":"ACS Fellow"},{"id":"12701","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"95381","name":"molecular films"},{"id":"1785","name":"nanomaterials"},{"id":"95401","name":"nanotribology"},{"id":"95391","name":"polymeric materials"},{"id":"167735","name":"School of Materials Science \u0026 Engineering"},{"id":"8239","name":"Vladimir Tsukruk"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"296221":{"#nid":"296221","#data":{"type":"news","title":"First Annual BioEngineering Day Geared towards Building Community","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThere\u2019s plenty to like about the interdisciplinary BioEngineering Graduate Program (or BioE) at the Georgia Tech Institute of Technology. What\u2019s not to like? This is a program that brings together a diverse range of curious students and faculty who are discovering and developing tools to improve the human condition.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is the best model for interdisciplinary research, a program that spans multiple schools and departments, with faculty participating from multiple colleges at Georgia Tech and Emory,\u201d explains Andr\u00e9s Garc\u00eda, Regents\u2019 Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and program director for BioE. \u201cThe goal is to integrate engineering with life science and everything rotates around that. So, as you can imagine, we have some outstanding students, remarkable young people with great ideas. But when they came to me earlier this year and said, \u2018we\u2019d like to have a BioE Day,\u2019 I was like, \u2018what\u2019s that?\u2019\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s an opportunity to build community, to bring together the 100 or so grad students from disparate backgrounds and pathways, and honor their work, in one place on one day, which is this Monday, May 12, when the first BioE Day takes place in the Parker H. Petit Institute for BioEngineering and Bioscience (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs you might expect from an interdisciplinary program, the idea took shape out of a collective thought process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSomeone suggested we have something called BioE Day, and the reaction was, \u2018sounds great \u2026 what do you mean?\u2019 So we took some time to define what we wanted that to be,\u201d says Tom Bongiorno, a third-year Ph.D. student and president of the BioEngineering Graduate Student Advisory Committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSo we talked a lot about BioE identity. We come from up to eight home schools, so we don\u2019t all take classes together. This seemed like a good idea, a way to build or improve our identity.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey\u2019ll now use BioE Day as the venue to announce BioE\u2019s annual awards, but the graduate students have even given that a new twist. This year, they\u2019ve replaced the \u201cbest\u201d appellation with \u201coutstanding.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201c\u2019Best\u2019 seemed kind of arrogant and a little intimidating,\u201d says Bongiorno, who will be honored as the BioE Outstanding Paper winner and offer a presentation about his paper at the event.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESeveral other awards will be given out, including Outstanding Thesis (Jonathan Newman, who earned his Ph.D. in 2013) and Outstanding Advisor (Julie Champion, assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering). This will also mark the first year of the Chris Ruffin Graduate Student Leadership Award, which honors the memory of the former longtime BioE academic advisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cChris was a tireless champion for the BioE Program. He truly cared about the students and faculty, was a fantastic listener, and problem solver,\u201d says Garc\u00eda, who will make the announcement Monday afternoon.\u003Cstrong\u003E \u201c\u003C\/strong\u003EHe contributed significantly to the success of BioE.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere will be, among other things, speeches by the award winners, rapid-fire research presentations from students, a poster presentation, a senior graduate student panel discussion, a cookout at the end of the day, and plenty of games (including a faculty water balloon toss competition).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis all about community building,\u201d Bongiorno says. \u201cIt\u2019s a way to make everyone a little more visible to everyone else.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bioengineering.gatech.edu\/bgsac\/event\/bioe-day\u0022\u003EView the agenda and register here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAward Winners\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJulie Champion, Outstanding Advisor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChampion is an assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a member of the Parker H. 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She has received a BRIGE award from the National Science Foundation and the Georgia Tech Women in Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETom Bongiorno, Outstanding Paper\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBongiorno is a third year Ph.D. candidate in BioEngineering. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2011 from the University of Notre Dame, where he worked on a stem cell-based tissue-engineering project. As an undergraduate, Bongiorno conducted a summer research project on microparticle phagocytosis in the lab of Todd Sulchek, where he has returned for his graduate work. Bongiorno is seeking to use the mechanical properties of individual cells as bases for identifying and sorting differentiating stem cells. The goal of his research is to use microfluidic technology that sorts cells based on their mechanical properties to obtain a purified population of a desired cell phenotype. Bongiorno is a Georgia Tech President\u0027s Fellow and was a trainee on the stem cell biomanufacturing IGERT at Georgia Tech from 2011-2013. His winning paper is titled, \u201cMechanical stiffness as an improved single-cell indicator of osteoblastic human mesenchymal stem cell differentiation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJonathan Newman, Outstanding Thesis\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewman completed his undergraduate studies at the State University of New York (SUNY) \u2013 Binghamton in 2007, majoring in BioEngineering. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology for his graduate studies under the mentorship of Steve Potter, earning his PhD in 2013 (his thesis work was supported by a National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship). He is now a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Matt Wilson at MIT, leveraging the skills he gained during his thesis work at Georgia Tech in order to understand the neural basis of memory consolidation in freely moving rodents.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOptogenetics is a set of technologies that enable optically triggered gain or loss of function in genetically specified populations of cells. Optogenetic methods have revolutionized experimental neuroscience by allowing precise excitation or inhibition of firing in specific neuronal populations embedded within complex, heterogeneous tissue. During his thesis work at Georgia Tech, Newman developed a feedback control technology that automatically adjusts optical stimulation in real-time to precisely control neuronal network activity levels. This technique (called the \u2018optoclamp\u2019 in Steve Potter\u0027s lab) allows extremely robust and precise control of network firing levels, far surpassing the abilities of existing technologies. Ming-fai Fong and Pete Wenner from Emory University have subsequently used the optoclamp to show conclusively that reductions in excitatory neurotransmission directly trigger homeostatic increases in synaptic strength, independent of changes in firing activity. 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Kieffer, a senior majoring in physics and applied mathematics, focuses on computational astrophysics. \u201cI make use of high performance computing to capture interplay of universal processes such as gravity, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and radiation,\u201d he said. \u201cA better understanding of these process in an astrophysical context can, in turn, yield results that strengthen the understanding of these processes in other branches of physics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKieffer, whose other interests include fitness and playing guitar, said he has been curious about the \u201ccosmological scale of the universe\u201d since he was a child in Navarre, Fla. His first priority upon arriving at Georgia Tech was to find a research position in astrophysics, and by the end of his first semester, he was working with Tamara Bogdanovic, a theoretical astrophysicist and assistant professor in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKieffer said he is excited about the award, which covers tuition, fees, books, and room and board for $7,500 a year. \u201cIt will improve my application quality for graduate schools and the financial support is very helpful, of course,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis goal is to pursue a Ph.D. in theoretical physics and become a professor. 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Much of his research focuses on the application of technologies to engineer stem cell fate, on stem cell bioprocessing and on engineering regenerative therapies from stem cells. McDevitt has garnered more than $9 million in funding, including a Transformative R01 award from the NIH and an NSF IGERT on Stem Cell Biomanufacturing. He received the 2010 Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award, a New Investigator Award from the American Heart Association and was recognized as one of the \u201c40 Under 40\u201d by \u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Trend\u003C\/em\u003E magazine. McDevitt graduated cum laude from Duke University, with a B.S.E. and a double major in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in 2001 in Bioengineering from the University of Washington, where he worked for Patrick S. Stayton, and where he conducted post-doctoral research in the pathology laboratory of Charles E. 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Their project is up for funding on Georgia Tech Starter, a new peer-reviewed crowd-funding website.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is iGEM?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EiGEM stands for International Genetically Engineered Machine. It\u2019s an international competition that began at MIT in 2003 and convenes research universities from around the world to compete with projects related to synthetic biology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is Georgia Tech\u2019s iGEM team working on?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWe are trying to create what we like to call a \u0022BioBot,\u0022 which is essentially a biological robot that has the ability to sense and interact with its environment. In order to create our BioBot, we are trying to express a human cell sensor called an integrin on the surface of a bacterial cell for the first time. 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He also serves as Georgia Tech\u2019s associate vice president for research and is a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHeadquartered in in Washington, D.C., \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aimbe.org\/\u0022\u003EAIMBE\u003C\/a\u003E provides leadership and advocacy in medical and biological engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Tech Researcher Begins Duties as President in 2014"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has named Ravi Bellamkonda as the organization\u2019s president-elect. 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The video showcases BioEngineering program faculty and students from different schools and departments at Georgia Tech and Emory University and highlights the diversity of research projects available within the program. The theme of the video, \u0022BioE is the degree for me!\u0022 emphasizes the creativity and flexibility of the program. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022The program has never had marketing support before,\u0022 stated Megan McDevitt, director of communications and marketing for the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. \u0022This program is one of Georgia Tech\u0027s best kept secrets, and I look forward to telling the program\u0027s story through various communication channels.\u0022 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Georgia Tech Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Graduate Program was established in 1992. Although created twenty years ago, the program reflects Georgia Tech\u0027s strategic vision as it blends traditional academic colleges and units and allows students from very different backgrounds to chart their own path by integrating engineering with life sciences. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGraduate students choose a \u0022home school\/department\u0022 in any one of the four Georgia Tech colleges, however, through the support of the BioEngineering Graduate program, they can then choose to take classes in almost any relevant subject and conduct research with any one of the over \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bioengineering.gatech.edu\/program-faculty\u0022\u003E90 participating faculty\u003C\/a\u003E. This allows tremendous diversity and flexibility for classes, research topics and faculty advisors which literally translates into the student creating their perfect path. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Gone are the days of traditional, prescribed graduate studies. Students need the flexibility to create their own program,\u0022 said Andres Garcia, PhD, director of the program. \u0022If a student comes from a strong engineering background, they can tailor their coursework towards the basic sciences, if they have a strong science background, they can dive into the engineering. The BioEngineering Program also provides the flexibility to do cross-disciplinary training across engineering sub-fields. It is completely up to them.\u0022 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOver 185 students have graduated from the program working with faculty from the Colleges of Engineering, Computing, Sciences, and Architecture as well as Emory University School of Medicine. 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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"569","name":"bioengineering"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"41681","name":"College of Engineering; Parker H. 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Inventors and spectators alike are invited to submit to or attend the Pediatric Device Workshop and Innovation Competition, being hosted on campus on Friday, Aug. 10.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHosted by the Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium (APDC), the event will give out several awards ranging from $5,000 to $50,000 depending on the device and its stage of development. Devices should be targeted to the pediatric population and will be divided into four age groups, ranging from birth to age 21.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApplicants should submit two-page proposals for their devices by Wednesday, Aug. 1, at 3 p.m. to \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jenny.taylor@bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJenny Taylor\u003C\/a\u003E in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. More information, including submission guidelines, is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pediatricdevicesatlanta.org\/competition\u0022\u003Ewww.pediatricdevicesatlanta.org\/competition\u003C\/a\u003E. Submissions are welcome from all faculty, entrepreneurs, clinicians, fellows, residents and students from any institution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose interested in attending but not submitting entries may RSVP to the event \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pediatricdevicesatlanta.org\/seed-grant-competition-registration\u0022\u003Eonline\u003C\/a\u003E. The competition is free to attend, includes a complimentary breakfast and will take place at the Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Biosciences (IBB) Building.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAPDC was launched last year with a two-year, $1.8 million grant from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to encourage the development of medical devices tailored to the needs of children, with the plan of taking the devices from conception to commercialization.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESubmit to or attend the Pediatric Device Workshop and Innovation Competition, being hosted on campus on Friday, Aug. 10.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Submit to or attend the Pediatric Device Workshop and Innovation Competition, being hosted on campus on Friday, Aug. 10."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2012-07-17 16:12:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:33","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71152":{"id":"71152","type":"image","title":"Renal dialysis device","body":null,"created":"1449177348","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:48","changed":"1475894630","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:50"},"140851":{"id":"140851","type":"image","title":"Atlanta Pediatric Device Competition 2012","body":null,"created":"1449178710","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:38:30","changed":"1475894771","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:11","alt":"Atlanta Pediatric Device Competition 2012","file":{"fid":"194927","name":"apdc2012.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/apdc2012_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/apdc2012_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":592728,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/apdc2012_0.jpg?itok=G420wRJY"}}},"media_ids":["71152","140851"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University"},{"url":"http:\/\/pediatricdevicesatlanta.org\/seed-grant-competition-registration","title":"RSVP to Attend Competition"},{"url":"http:\/\/pediatricdevicesatlanta.org\/","title":"Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"14684","name":"atlanta pediatric device consortium"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jenny.taylor@bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJenny Taylor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EDepartment of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"157001":{"#nid":"157001","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A Student Perspective","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree recent GT Study Abroad students answer the question: \u003Cem\u003EWhy do you think it is important for Georgia Tech students to study abroad?\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHaving a broad view of the world and being able to understand and relate to the cultures of others is paramount to success in our global society. Even if you plan on spending the majority of your life in the U.S., the perspective gained allows you to better relate to others and look at problems in a more objective way.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E- Bryce Ferguson\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E3\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E Year, Industrial Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStudied Abroad:\u0026nbsp; Spring 2012, GT\u2019s Exchange Partner, INSA Lyon, in France\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech markets itself as a fantastic college for international perspective and experiences. With so many options to learn about diversity and other cultures both on and off campus, not studying abroad would be losing one of the richest facets of a Georgia Tech education. In addition, a career in technology demands international knowledge because it is becoming an extremely globalized field; to be competitive in industry, international understanding and competence is essential.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E-Elizabeth L. Carpenter\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E2\u003Csup\u003End\u003C\/sup\u003E Year, Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStudied Abroad: Summer 2012, GT\u2019s Spanish LBAT (Language for Business and Technology) Program\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStudy abroad is important because it really builds perspective. You realize that not everything is like the U.S.! Being exposed to a whole new culture helps you grow and mature as a person\u2026I think everyone needs to experience this kind of growth.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E-Sooji Lee\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E3\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E Year, Electrical Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStudied Abroad: Spring 2012, GT\u2019s Exchange Partner, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree recent GT Study Abroad students answer the question: \u0022Why do you think it is important for Georgia Tech students to study abroad?\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27393","created_gmt":"2012-09-25 18:33:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:29","author":"TaraBerry","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1297","name":"Office of International Education"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"1259","name":"electrical engineering"},{"id":"1191","name":"industrial engineering"},{"id":"166843","name":"Study Abroad"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:study.abroad@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Estudy.abroad@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["study.abroad@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"71919":{"#nid":"71919","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Embryonic Stem Cells Thrive When Shaken","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEmbryos spend much of their time in the womb bobbing along with a mother\u0027s movement, and, surprisingly enough, new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University suggests that embryonic stem cells may develop much better under similarly shaky conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech and Emory researchers discovered that moderate and controlled physical movement of embryonic stem cells in fluid environments, similar to shaking that occurs in the womb, improves their development and suggests that different types of movement could some day be used to control what type of cell they become. The research was published in the September issue of the journal Stem Cells.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Embryonic stem cells develop under unique conditions in the womb, and no one has ever been able to study the effect that movement has on that development process,\u0022 said Todd McDevitt, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University and head of the project. \u0022While labs typically add all sorts of things to their cultures to influence cell direction, we were able to control the levels of differentiation and size of cell clusters by simply providing some fluid motion.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt all started with a fortunate accident. Rich Carpenedo, a graduate student and first author of the paper, discovered by chance that a dish of embryonic stem cells left on a common lab shaker (typically used to slowly mix samples) had developed in greater numbers and more uniformly than cells grown in a static environment (i.e. unshaken). \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrent popular methods of developing embryonic stem cells in the lab involve single droplets of cells separated by a great deal of space in the dish. This time - and space-consuming technique allows the cells to develop without excessive clumping (a frequent problem for stem cells developed in the lab) and for a greater number to survive in a small space.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers experimented with the shaking plate and determined that they could consistently produce samples with healthier, more uniform cells just by gently sloshing the dishes of stem cells on a shaker plate. 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Chemical engineering\nranked just outside the top ten at No. 11.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u201cThe sustained excellence of our College of\nEngineering rankings serve as a testament to our outstanding faculty, staff and\nstudents,\u201d said Georgia Tech President\nG.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson. \u201cAs we move forward to define our future, our excellence\nin architecture, engineering, business, science\u0026nbsp; and technology \u2013 and how\nthey interface with public policy and the liberal arts \u2013 will continue to\nprovide a unique resource for interdisciplinary innovation.\u201d\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia\nTech College of Management full-time MBA program was ranked No. 28, while the\nInstitute\u0027s part-time MBA program moved up seven spots to No. 17.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia\nInstitute of Technology\u2019s College of Engineering ranked No.4 for the seventh\nconsecutive year in U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u0027s annual list of the best\nAmerican graduate school programs.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Engineering remains among top four graduate schools in the nation."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2011-03-15 09:44:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:22","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64559":{"id":"64559","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449176753","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:53","changed":"1475894567","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:47","alt":"Tech Tower","file":{"fid":"192020","name":"tai91269.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tai91269_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tai91269_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5836,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tai91269_0.jpg?itok=bXGEgfJZ"}}},"media_ids":["64559"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gradadmiss.gatech.edu\/","title":"Graduate Admissions"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/mgt.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech College of Management"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"560","name":"chemical engineering"},{"id":"1897","name":"Civil Engineering"},{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"2008","name":"College of Management"},{"id":"1922","name":"environmental engineering"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"2448","name":"Graduate Rankings"},{"id":"1191","name":"industrial engineering"},{"id":"12377","name":"Materials Engineering"},{"id":"1209","name":"MBA"},{"id":"541","name":"Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"12376","name":"Nuclear Engineering"},{"id":"1875","name":"U.S. News \u0026 World Report"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mattnagel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"64716":{"#nid":"64716","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Predict Age of T Cells to Improve Cancer Treatment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EManipulation of cells by a new microfluidic device may help clinicians improve a promising cancer therapy that harnesses the body\u0027s own immune cells to fight such diseases as metastatic melanoma, non-Hodgkin\u0027s lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and neuroblastoma.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe therapy, known as adoptive T cell transfer, has shown encouraging results in clinical trials. This treatment involves removing disease-fighting immune cells called T cells from a cancer patient, multiplying them in the laboratory and then infusing them back into the patient\u0027s body to attack the cancer. The effectiveness of this therapy, however, is limited by the finite lifespan of T cells -- after many divisions, these cells become unresponsive and inactive.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have addressed this limitation by developing a microfluidic device for sample handling that allows a statistical model to be generated to evaluate cell responsiveness and accurately predict cell \u0022age\u0022 and quality. Being able to assess the age and responsiveness of T cells -- and therefore transfer only young functional cells back into a cancer patient\u0027s body -- offers the potential to improve the therapeutic outcome of several cancers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The statistical model, enabled by the data generated with the microfluidic device, revealed an optimal combination of extracellular and intracellular proteins that accurately predict T cell age,\u0022 said Melissa Kemp, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0022Knowing this information will help facilitate the clinical development of appropriate T cell expansion and selection protocols.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDetails on the microfluidic device and statistical model were published in the March issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EMolecular \u0026amp; Cellular Proteomics\u003C\/em\u003E. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Georgia Cancer Coalition, and Georgia Tech Integrative Biosystems Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, clinicians measure T cell age by using multiple assays that rely on measurements from large cell populations. The measurements determine if cells are exhibiting functions known to appear at different stages in the life cycle of a T cell.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Since no one measurement is a perfect predictor, it is advantageous to concurrently sample multiple proteins at different time points, which we can do with our microfluidic device,\u0022 explained Kemp, who is also a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Professor. \u0022The wealth of information we get from our device for a small number of cells far exceeds a single measurement from a population the same size by another assay type.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor their study, Kemp, electrical engineering graduate student Catherine Rivet and biomedical engineering undergraduate student Abby Hill analyzed CD8+ T cells from healthy blood donors. They acquired information from 25 static biomarkers and 48 dynamic signaling measurements and found a combination of phenotypic markers and protein signaling dynamics -- including Lck, ERK, CD28 and CD27 -- to be the most useful in predicting cellular age.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo obtain biomarker and dynamic signaling event measurements, the researchers ran the donor T cells through a microfluidic device designed in collaboration with Hang Lu, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering. After stimulating the cells, the device divided them into different channels corresponding to eight different time points, ranging from 30 seconds to seven minutes. Then they were divided again into populations that were chemically treated to halt the biochemical reactions at snapshots in time to build up a picture of the signaling events that occurred as the T cells responded to antigen.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022While donor-to-donor variability is a confounding factor in these types of experiments, the technological platform minimized the experimental data variance and allowed stimulation time to be precisely controlled,\u0022 said Lu.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the donor T cell data, the researchers developed a model to assess which biomarkers or dynamical signaling events best predicted the quality of T cell function. The model found the most informative data in predicting cellular age to be the initial changes in signaling dynamics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Although a combination of biomarker and dynamic signaling data provided the optimal model, our results suggest that signaling information alone can predict cellular age almost as well as the entire dataset,\u0022 noted Kemp. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the future, Kemp plans to use this approach of combining multiple cell-based experiments on a microfluidic chip to integrate single-cell information with population-averaged techniques, such as multiplexed immunoassays or mass spectrometry.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis project is supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)(Grant No. R21CA134299). The content is solely the responsibility of the principal investigator and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.\u003C\/em\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 314\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia  30308  USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contacts:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Robinson (abby@innovate.gatech.edu; 404-385-3364) or John Toon (jtoon@gatech.edu; 404-894-6986)\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abby Robinson\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers are accurately predicting T cell age and quality in order to improve the effectiveness of the cancer therapy known as adoptive T cell transfer, which is currently limited by the cells\u0027 finite lifespan.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Predicting age of T cells could improve cancer therapy"}],"uid":"27206","created_gmt":"2011-03-02 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:18","author":"Abby Vogel Robinson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-03-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-03-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64717":{"id":"64717","type":"image","title":"Catherine Rivet, Abby Hill and Melissa Kemp","body":null,"created":"1449176765","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:06:05","changed":"1475894569","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:49","alt":"Catherine Rivet, Abby Hill and Melissa Kemp","file":{"fid":"192077","name":"tti74257.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tti74257_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tti74257_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1333865,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tti74257_0.jpg?itok=3n28yRUc"}},"64718":{"id":"64718","type":"image","title":"Melissa Kemp","body":null,"created":"1449176765","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:06:05","changed":"1475894569","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:49","alt":"Melissa Kemp","file":{"fid":"192078","name":"tbp74257.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tbp74257_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tbp74257_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1153544,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tbp74257_0.jpg?itok=iK0CuVDW"}},"64719":{"id":"64719","type":"image","title":"Microfluidic device","body":null,"created":"1449176765","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:06:05","changed":"1475894569","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:49","alt":"Microfluidic device","file":{"fid":"192079","name":"tfd74257.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tfd74257_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tfd74257_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1055020,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tfd74257_0.jpg?itok=JYMLVnWt"}}},"media_ids":["64717","64718","64719"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/facultystaff\/faculty_record.php?id=97","title":"Melissa Kemp"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/lu.php","title":"Hang Lu"},{"url":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1074\/mcp.M110.003921","title":"Molecular \u0026 Cellular Proteomics paper"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. 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The goal is to expand the use of surgery techniques that are less invasive and do not require stopping the heart.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our company has leveraged the expertise in cardiovascular technology at Georgia Tech and the clinical experience of surgeons at Emory University to develop a technology that has the potential to revolutionize the delivery of different types of medical devices to the heart, including aortic and mitral valves,\u0022 said the company\u0027s CEO James Greene.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith research and development support from the Coulter Foundation Translational Research Program and the Georgia Research Alliance VentureLab program, the company has already completed a series of pre-clinical studies to test the functionality of the device and its biocompatibility.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe improved heart surgery system consists of a conduit with proprietary technology inside that allows the conduit to be securely attached to the beating heart. Surgeons can then deliver therapeutic devices, such as heart valves or left ventricular assist devices, into the beating heart without loss of blood or exposure to air. Once a therapeutic device has been delivered and surgery is complete, the company\u0027s system closes and seals the access site with a biocompatible implant. The closure site can be reopened if necessary.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022By minimizing the incision size to gain access to the beating heart and eliminating the need for conventional sutures, our system improves safety, decreases procedure time and reduces the technical challenges associated with these new minimally invasive procedures,\u0022 explained Vinod Thourani, an associate professor of surgery and associate director of the Structural Heart Center in Emory University\u0027s Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the new investment from Ireland-based Seroba Kernel Life Sciences and Israel-based TriVentures, the company will continue to conduct research and pre-clinical trials in Atlanta, ultimately leading up to regulatory approval. These efforts will be led by Jorge H. 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Demonstrating their CardioScout\ndevice, four biomedical engineering (BME) seniors showed that the Institute\u2019s\nundergraduates can provide solutions to real medical challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETahir Haque, Chris Jorgensen, Nick\nPatel, and Kevin Rego, team members in BME\u2019s capstone\u0026nbsp; design course, presented a medical tool they\ndeveloped to deliver therapies to a beating heart.\u0026nbsp; The device, for which a patent application\nhas been filed, was developed under the mentorship of Dr. Jim Fonger and the\nSt. Joseph\u2019s Translational Research Institute and advisor Professor Franklin\nBost.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group provided committee members\nwith background on the problems their tool seeks to solve and took the members\nthrough the entire development process from initial planning to prototyping and\ntesting.\u0026nbsp; They also conducted a live demonstration\nof the device as legislators gathered around.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his introductory remarks for the\ngroup, Fonger explained that the students were presented with a\nmedically-relevant engineering challenge, and the product they invented looked\nto be a \u201cvery significant achievement.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWednesday\u2019s presentation provided not\nonly an opportunity to share the innovative and problem-based approach to\nlearning that is being embraced at Georgia Tech, but also the importance of\nexternal partnerships to these efforts.\u0026nbsp;\nPresident Peterson, who also attended the presentation took note of this\nin his comments to the committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis project really is a partnership between a number of\ndifferent institutions... and through this partnering, we can address many of\nthese very, very challenging problems.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"BME seniors demonstrate novel medical device, showcase public-private partnerships at Tech"}],"uid":"27331","created_gmt":"2011-02-14 14:53:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:10","author":"George Ray","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-02-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64235":{"id":"64235","type":"image","title":"GT Students Present to House S\u0026T Committee #1","body":null,"created":"1449176735","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:35","changed":"1475894564","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:44","alt":"GT Students Present to House S\u0026T Committee #1","file":{"fid":"191971","name":"DSC_0303.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_0303_0.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_0303_0.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":8296439,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DSC_0303_0.JPG?itok=6_NTgqGt"}},"64237":{"id":"64237","type":"image","title":"GT Students Present to House S\u0026T Committee #2","body":null,"created":"1449176735","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:35","changed":"1475894564","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:44","alt":"GT Students Present to House S\u0026T Committee #2","file":{"fid":"191972","name":"DSC_0321.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_0321_0.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_0321_0.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":7468997,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DSC_0321_0.JPG?itok=eWQqekiy"}}},"media_ids":["64235","64237"],"groups":[{"id":"47398","name":"GCR (Office of Government and Community Relations)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"7784","name":"Georgia General Assembly"},{"id":"8300","name":"Georgia Tech Office of Government and Community Relations"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorge Ray\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGCR Specialist\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:george.ray@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egeorge.ray@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["george.ray@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"64241":{"#nid":"64241","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Work Toward Automating Sedation in Intensive Care Units","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Northeast Georgia Medical Center are one step closer to their goal of automating the management of sedation in hospital intensive care units (ICUs). They have developed control algorithms that use clinical data to accurately determine a patient\u0027s level of sedation and can notify medical staff if there is a change in the level.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022ICU nurses have one of the most task-laden jobs in medicine and typically take care of multiple patients at the same time, so if we can use control system technology to automate the task of sedation, patient safety will be enhanced and drug delivery will improve in the ICU,\u0022 said James Bailey, the chief medical informatics officer at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, Ga. Bailey is also a certified anesthesiologist and intensive care specialist. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring a presentation at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, the researchers reported on their analysis of more than 15,000 clinical measurements from 366 ICU patients they classified as \u0022agitated\u0022 or \u0022not agitated.\u0022 Agitation is a measure of the level of patient sedation. The algorithm returned the same results as the assessment by hospital staff 92 percent of the time.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Manual sedation control can be tedious, imprecise, time-consuming and sometimes of poor quality, depending on the skills and judgment of the ICU nurse,\u0022 said Wassim Haddad, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering. \u0022Ultimately, we envision an automated system in which the ICU nurse evaluates the ICU patient, enters the patient\u0027s sedation level into a controller, which then adjusts the sedative dosing regimen to maintain sedation at the desired level by continuously collecting and analyzing quantitative clinical data on the patient.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis project is supported in part by the U.S. Army. On the battlefield, military physicians sometimes face demanding critical care situations and the use of advanced control technologies is essential for extending the capabilities of the health care system to handle large numbers of injured soldiers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with Haddad and Bailey on this project are Allen Tannenbaum and Behnood Gholami.  Tannenbaum holds a joint appointment as the Julian Hightower Chair in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, while Gholami is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis research builds on Haddad and Bailey\u0027s previous work automating anesthesia in hospital operating rooms. The adaptive control algorithms developed by Haddad and Bailey control the infusion of an anesthetic drug agent in order to maintain a desired constant level of depth of anesthesia during surgery in the operating room. Clinical trial results that will be published in the March issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology \u003C\/em\u003Edemonstrate excellent regulation of unconsciousness allowing for a safe and effective administration of an anesthetic agent. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECritically ill patients in the ICU frequently require invasive monitoring and other support that can lead to anxiety, agitation and pain. Sedation is essential for the comfort and safety of these patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The challenge in developing closed-loop control systems for sedating critically ill patients is finding the appropriate performance variable or variables that measure the level of sedation of a patient, in turn allowing an automated controller to provide adequate sedation without oversedation,\u0022 said Gholami.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the ICU, the researchers used information detailing each patient\u0027s facial expression, gross motor movement, response to a potentially noxious stimulus, heart rate and blood pressure stability, noncardiac sympathetic stability, and nonverbal pain scale to determine a level of sedation. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers classified the clinical data for each variable into categories. For example, a patient\u0027s facial expression was categorized as \u0022relaxed,\u0022 \u0022grimacing and moaning,\u0022 or \u0022grimacing and crying.\u0022 A patient\u0027s noncardiac sympathetic stability was classified as \u0022warm and dry skin,\u0022 \u0022flushed and sweaty,\u0022 or \u0022pale and sweaty.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThey also recorded each patient\u0027s score on the motor activity and assessment scale (MAAS), which is used by clinicians to evaluate level of sedation on a scale of zero to six. In the MAAS system, a score of zero represents an \u0022unresponsive patient,\u0022 three represents a \u0022calm and cooperative patient,\u0022 and six represents a \u0022dangerously agitated patient.\u0022 The MAAS score is subjective and can result in inconsistencies and variability in sedation administration.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing a Bayesian network, the researchers used the clinical data to compute the probability that a patient was agitated. Twelve-thousand measurements collected from patients admitted to the ICU at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center between during a one-year period were used to train the Bayesian network and the remaining 3,000 were used to test it. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 18 percent of the test cases, the computer classified a patient as \u0022agitated\u0022 but the MAAS score described the same patient as \u0022not agitated.\u0022 In five percent of the test cases, the computer classified a patient as \u0022not agitated,\u0022 whereas the MAAS score indicated \u0022agitated.\u0022 These probabilities signify an 18 percent false-positive rate and a five percent false-negative rate.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This level of performance would allow a significant reduction in the workload of the intensive care unit nurse, but it would in no way replace the nurse as the ultimate judge of the adequacy of sedation,\u0022 said Bailey. \u0022However, by relieving the nurse of some of the work associated with titration of sedation, it would allow the nurse to better focus on other aspects of his or her demanding job.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers\u0027 next step toward closed-loop control of sedation in the ICU will be to continuously collect clinical data from ICU patients in real time. Future work will involve the development of objective techniques for assessing ICU sedation using movement, facial expression and responsiveness to stimuli.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDigital imaging will be used to assess a patient\u0027s facial expression and also gross motor movement. In a study published in the June 2010 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E, the researchers showed that machine learning methods could be used to assess the level of pain in patients using facial expressions.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We will explore the relationship between the data we can extract from these multiple sensors and the subjective clinical MAAS score,\u0022 said Haddad. \u0022We will then use the knowledge we have gained in developing feedback control algorithms for anesthesia dosage levels in the operating room to develop an expert system to automate drug dosage in the ICU.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis project is supported in part by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command (Grant No. 08108002). 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Plenty, if 2010 is any indication. This will not be the year that mobile, artificially intelligent robot nurses assume the responsibility of caring for the world\u0027s growing elderly population, but it does promise to be a pivotal time for the development of the underlying technology that will enable safe and reliable automated eldercare, not to mention other services that robots are expected to perform in the coming decade. . . . \u0022There are a lot of innovations in the PR2, but the most significant thing from my perspective is that it is a standardized, well-designed, well-tested platform that has a whole bunch of software that works right out of the box,\u0022 says Charles Kemp, an assistant biomedical engineering professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0022You never had that situation before.\u0022 Kemp and his team at Georgia Tech\u0027s Healthcare Robotics Lab, which he formed in 2007, are focused on creating robots that can safely and effectively help care for senior citizens.\u0026nbsp; . . .Kemp\u0027s lab is one of 16 institutions that experimented with the PR2 during the latter half of 2010.\u0026nbsp; . . .Kemp sees the combination of his PR2, named Gatsby, and a free and open-source robot operating system as a way to accelerate his lab\u0027s work with the help of a standardized platform and a budding community of roboticists working with the same tools who can now offer more practical advice to one another. \u0022We\u0027re actually releasing things that other people can use, and we\u0027re using other people\u0027s things,\u0022 Kemp says.\u003Cbr \/\u003ELink to Full Article:\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=personal-robot-research\u0026amp;\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=personal-robot-research\u0026amp;\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=personal-robot-research\u0026amp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"2011: The Year of the Personal Robot?"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27324","created_gmt":"2011-01-04 13:52:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:57","author":"Lalita Kaligotla","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1241","name":"Health Systems Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"550","name":"health systems"},{"id":"2155","name":"healthcare robotics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELalita Kaligotla\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lalita@hsi.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"62605":{"#nid":"62605","#data":{"type":"news","title":"McDevitt Appears on \u0022Major Decision\u0022 Television Show","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETodd McDevitt, PhD, associate professor and director of the Stem Cell Engineering Center at Georgia Tech, was recently featured in an on-line educational video entitled \u0022Major Decision.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach Major Decision episode covers a typical day in the life of a particular career, in this case, as a Biomedical Engineer. This up-beat hosted educational media piece, targets junior high, high school and college students and the videos are intended to help facilitate informed career and field of study decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach show covers a different career with supporting hierarchies and rankings and there are 55 careers spanning 12 industries in all. The unique informal in-person interview style, comprehensive career coverage and proprietary career ranking system help to show the breadth of career choices available to students as well as help students decide if a particular career is of interest to them. In order to make the featured careers come to life, \u0022real people\u0022 are interviewd in \u0022real jobs\u0022 at \u0022real company settings.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is an ongoing video project that is being conducted by Caerus Point LLC. Caerus Point is an enterprising career guidance company focused on significantly improving the career prospects of school children and college students across the USA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe overall objective of the videos is to prepare our children for the future by equipping them with knowledge and the necessary tools that will enable them to make informed career decisions that are based on realistic expectations. In addition, the program is designed to help boost post-secondary education and reduce dropout rates by educating America\u2019s youth about the array of careers that are available today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe show, Major Decision, is hosted by two young professionals to whom their target audience can relate and the videos are edited in such a way that it provides the student with an \u0022as realistic as possible\u0022 view of a typical day in the life of that career while keeping their attention via the energetic ensemble.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EView Here: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/16315032\u0022\u003EMcDevitt on Major Decisions\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Each Major Decision episode covers a typical day in the life of a particular career, in this case, as a Biomedical Engineer."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe overall objective of the videos is to prepare our children for the future by equipping them with knowledge and the necessary tools that will enable them to make informed career decisions that are based on realistic expectations. 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Giddens served as the inaugural chair of the\nfledgling department and was subsequently named dean of the College in 2002.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn announcing Giddens\u2019 decision, Provost Gary Schuster praised\nhis leadership in directing a college that enrolls nearly 60 percent of the\nstudent body.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDon and I have worked together for almost two decades,\nduring which time I have respected his leadership within Biomedical Engineering,\nthe College of Engineering and his alma mater,\u201d Schuster said. \u201cDon has played\na key part in shaping Georgia Tech\u2019s reputation and has helped build the\ngroundwork for its continuing and expanding preeminence.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGiddens has also been active in helping the general public\ngain a better understanding of both the engineering profession and the\nengineer\u2019s role in society. In 2008, he chaired a National Academy of\nEngineering committee that explored the ways in which messaging and practical\ncommunication could help change perceptions, engage students and portray a more\npositive image of engineering. Earlier this year, he was selected as president-elect\nof the American Society for Engineering Education. Following his retirement,\nGiddens will return to the faculty on a part-time basis to continue his\nresearch in cardiovascular fluid mechanics as well as his professional\nactivities.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe impact that Don has had on this institution is immense,\nand we thank him for his tireless service on behalf of Georgia Tech,\u201d President\nG. P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson said. \u201cHis enthusiasm for engineering cannot be overstated,\nand we will continue to look to him as a resource in assessing the future of\nengineering education in the United States.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech has changed dramatically since I arrived as a\nfreshman student in 1958, and I could never have dreamed then that I would one\nday be dean of the largest, and I would argue the best, engineering college in\nthe country,\u201d Giddens said. \u201cThis institutional ascendancy in such a relatively\nshort time is truly remarkable. But upon reflection, I\u2019m not surprised. We have\nthe best people \u2014 faculty, students, staff and alumni \u2014 one can imagine, and it\nis the people who make Georgia Tech great. I\u2019m happy to have been fortunate\nenough to spend almost an entire career here.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute will form a search committee and initiate a \u0026nbsp;search for a successor in the coming\nweeks.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDon Giddens, dean of the College of Engineering, has announced his intention to retire from Georgia Tech, stepping down from his leadership position effective July 1, 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Don Giddens will step down from his leadership position on July 1, 2011"}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2010-08-26 15:50:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:19","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57700":{"id":"57700","type":"image","title":"Don Giddens, Dean of the College of Engineering at","body":null,"created":"1449176051","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:54:11","changed":"1475894506","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:46","alt":"Don Giddens, Dean of the College of Engineering at","file":{"fid":"190633","name":"tef70770.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tef70770_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tef70770_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":52196,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tef70770_1.jpg?itok=N9izssJ7"}}},"media_ids":["57700"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/","title":"College of Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"},{"id":"1099","name":"giddens"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-8835\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57701":{"#nid":"57701","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Engineering Dean Giddens Named ASEE President-Elect","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) elected Don P. Giddens, Dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech, to serve as President-Elect for 2010-2011. Giddens will assume this position at the 2010 Annual Conference to be held in Kentucky in June 2010. In 2011, Giddens will assume the position of President of this esteemed organization. ASEE has more than 12,000 members in the U.S.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.coe.gatech.edu\/headlines\/asee-president.php\u0027\u003EFull article\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/groups\/giddens\/giddens_homepage.html\u0027\u003EGiddens Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The membership of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) has elected Don P. 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From those studies, the researchers hope to create a \u0022biologically inspired\u0022 computer program to manage and control complex power grids. Their project \u201cNeuroscience and Neural Networks for Engineering the Future Intelligent Electric Power Grid\u201d is being led by Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Missouri University of Science and Technology, in collaboration with co-PIs Potter, Ron Harley, Georgia Tech Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Donald Wunsch, Missouri S\u0026amp;T.  The study is funded by the NSF Office of the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation. View a video of Steve Potter discussing LNNs at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/brain2grid.com\/movies\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/brain2grid.com\/movies\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/brain2grid.com\/movies\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"May 16-19, the Coulter Department hosted a meeting of research collaborators intent on studying living neural networks (LNNs) of rat brain cells in BME Associate Professor Steve Potter\u2019s lab to see how those cells process dynamic situations, adapt and learn.  From those studies, the researchers hope to create a \u0022biologically inspired\u0022 computer program to manage and control complex power grids. Their project \u201cNeuroscience and Neural Networks for Engineering the Future Intelligent Electric Power Grid\u201d is being led by Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, Missouri University of Science and Technology, in collaboration with co-PIs Potter, Ron Harley, Georgia Tech Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Donald Wunsch, Missouri S\u0026amp;T.  The study is funded by the NSF Office of the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"BME Hosts Collaborative Meeting if Brain2Grid Group"}],"uid":"27182","created_gmt":"2010-05-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:18","author":"Adrianne Proeller","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. 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Mr. Caputo is an electrical engineering major, and Mr. Molini is a biomedical engineering major.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWaste to Watts has designed a low-cost, modular back-up power supply that will run devices ranging from EKGs and patient monitors to computers and household lights for several hours when the power goes out. The most expensive components of the device are made of repurposed electronic waste, one of the world\u0027s fastest growing pollution problems. Messrs. Caputo and Molini plan to complete the third iteration of their design and ship several units with student-volunteers from Duke University to hospitals in Africa to acquire a proof of concept this summer. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about \u0022Waste to Watts,\u0022 visit \u003CA href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E.  \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Award Winning Entry Converts Waste to Watts"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Two Georgia Tech students, Patrick Caputo and James Molini, won the Tomberg Prize at the Dell Social Innovation Competition, an online contest that awards seed funding to student-led ventures that help solve social problems and help people in need.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech students win the Tomberg Prize at Dell Competition"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2010-05-10 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:15","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"56975":{"id":"56975","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower image","body":null,"created":"1449175653","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:47:33","changed":"1475894501","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:41","alt":"Tech Tower image","file":{"fid":"190498","name":"twx23330.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/twx23330_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/twx23330_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":60499,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/twx23330_0.jpg?itok=zwt0dU9x"}}},"media_ids":["56975"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com\/","title":"Dell Social Innovation Competition"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"9594","name":"Dell Social Innovation Competition"},{"id":"1259","name":"electrical engineering"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"9593","name":"James Molini"},{"id":"9592","name":"Patrick Caputo"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Jackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"56444":{"#nid":"56444","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Video Archive - Engineering Stem Cell Technologies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETodd McDevitt, PhD - Assistant Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbstract: Stem cells are poised to stimulate significant advances in regenerative medicine therapies and in vitro cell-based diagnostics based upon their inherent ability to differentiate into an array of cell phenotypes.  Beyond cell replacement technologies, stem cells may also serve as a unique source of potent morphogenic factors capable of improving the wound healing of injured tissues and treatment of chronic diseases.  Thus, our laboratory is focused on the engineering of innovative approaches to translate the potential of stem cells into effective cellular and molecular technologies for regenerative medicine.  In order to improve the efficiency and homogeneity of directed differentiation strategies, we are developing biomaterials-based approaches to spatiotemporally control the presentation of molecular cues within the stem cell microenvironment that influence morphogenesis.  The ability of hydrodynamic forces to manipulate environmental conditions and modulate stem cell fate is also being examined as a novel, scalable means to direct differentiated cell phenotypes.  In addition to directing stem cell differentiation, we also seek to develop novel regenerative molecular therapies from morphogens uniquely produced by stem cells.  For this reason, we are assessing the production of morphogenic factors by pluripotent embryonic stem cells undergoing differentiation and producing stem cell-derived matrices for acellular tissue therapies.  It is expected that engineering of stem cell differentiation and derivation of stem cell biotherapeutics will yield fresh insights into stem cell and developmental biology, as well as new regenerative medicine therapies and in vitro diagnostic technologies.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/mcdevitt.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0027\u003EVisit the McDevitt ESCT Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo view video:  \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/smartech.gatech.edu\/handle\/1853\/27813\u0027\u003EMcDevitt - Breakfast Club Seminar\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Todd McDevitt, PhD - IBB Breakfast Club Seminar"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Engineering Stem Cell Technologies - A video library of Todd McDevitt giving an overview of his laboratory at the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Engineering Stem Cell Technologies - IBB Breakfast Club Seminar"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2009-04-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:11","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/smartech.gatech.edu\/handle\/1853\/27813","title":"View Video Here"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"569","name":"bioengineering"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"762","name":"Bioscience"},{"id":"759","name":"Breakfast Club"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"167413","name":"Stem Cell"},{"id":"760","name":"Todd McDevitt"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EColly Mitchell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=cmitchell6\u0022\u003EContact Colly Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-5982\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["colly.mitchell@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"56449":{"#nid":"56449","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Eberhard Voit Profiled on NSF ScienceLives","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy Some Scientists Never Give Up \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nby Abby Vogel, Georgia Institute of Technology\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMany researchers begin modeling biological systems with simple organisms, such as bacteria, that are easy to culture, manipulate genetically, maintain under controlled conditions and examine in the laboratory. Such microorganisms hint at functionality in larger organisms yet are less complex. Georgia Tech biomedical engineer Eberhard Voit, in collaboration with Helena Santos, a professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal, showed that high-precision, dynamic experimental data can be combined with nonlinear mathematical modeling to characterize mechanisms in the bacterium Lactococcus lactis. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo view full article, visit:  \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/animals\/090605-sl-voit.html\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.livescience.com\/animals\/090605-sl-voit.html\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on Voit lab, visit: \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.bst.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0027\u003EEberhard Voit\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Eberhard Voit, PhD, profiled on NSF\u0027s LiveScience website.  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In a study published late last year, Murthy and his colleagues revealed a new family of fluorescent chemical dyes called hydrocyanines that can be used as probes to detect and measure the presence of highly reactive metabolites of oxygen that are associated with a variety of inflammatory diseases, including cancer and atherosclerosis.  The dyes could be used at an early stage of disease, improving hopes for treatment.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo view full article, visit:  \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/technology\/090618-sl-murtha.html\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.livescience.com\/technology\/090618-sl-murtha.html\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on Murthy research, visit:  \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/groups\/murthylab\/\u0027\u003ENiren Murthy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Niren Murthy, PhD, featured on NSF\u0027s LiveScience website.  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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=cmitchell6\u0022\u003EContact Colly Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-5982\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["colly.mitchell@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"56461":{"#nid":"56461","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Zoo Atlanta gorilla takes own blood pressure","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EConsider this a new twist on the phrase \u201ca trained monkey could do that.\u201d In this case, actually, it\u2019s a trained gorilla. Ozzie, the oldest of Zoo Atlanta\u2019s 22 gorillas, has learned to take his blood pressure. It seems that heart disease is the main killer of gorillas in captivity. So Zoo Atlanta entered into a partnership with the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University to come up with a way to get blood pressure readings from the animals while they are awake.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBiomedical engineering students at Georgia Tech developed the \u201cGorilla Tough Cuff,\u201d and Zoo Atlanta became the first place in the world to do the awake readings. More time is needed before veterinarians establish the normal blood pressure range for adult male gorillas.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/lifestyle\/zoo-atlanta-gorilla-takes-216083.html\u0027\u003ERead Full Article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Consider this a new twist on the phrase \u201ca trained monkey could do that.\u201d In this case, actually, it\u2019s a trained gorilla. Ozzie, the oldest of Zoo Atlanta\u2019s 22 gorillas, has learned to take his blood pressure. It seems that heart disease is the main killer of gorillas in captivity. So Zoo Atlanta entered into a partnership with the Wallace H. 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McDevitt, PhD, has been awarded the 2010 Young Investigator Award from the Society of Biomaterials. The Young Investigator Award recognizes an individual each year who has demonstrated outstanding achievements and leadership in the field of biomaterials research. Dr. McDevitt will receive the award at the 2010 Annual Meeting to be held in Seattle, WA, next April where he will also be provided the opportunity to address the whole society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E This marks the fourth time in the last seven years that a Georgia Tech faculty member has received the SFB Young Investigator award. Niren Murthy (BME) received the award in 2008, Julia Babensee (BME) in 2005 and Andr\u00e9s Garc\u00eda (ME) in 2004.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe McDevitt Laboratory for the Engineering of Stem Cell Technologies is focused on the development and application of engineering principles to translate the potential of stem cells into viable regenerative therapies and in vitro diagnostics. Biomaterials-based approaches are used to engineer the microenvironment of stem cells in order to improve the efficiency and homogeneity of directed stem cell differentiation strategies. In addition, the McDevitt laboratory\u2019s research focuses on development of novel regenerative molecular therapies from natural biomaterials produced by stem cells. The combination of directed stem cell differentiation and development of stem cell-derived biomaterials is expected to yield fresh insights into stem cell biology, facilitate new regenerative therapies, and create novel cell diagnostic platforms. 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The center will include Georgia Tech faculty from the College of Engineering, College of Sciences, and Ivan Allen College, in addition to collaborative partnerships with stem cell researchers at the University of Georgia, Emory University and other partnering institutions throughout the state of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince August of 2004, McDevitt has been an Assistant Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology \/ Emory University. McDevitt graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) from Duke University in 1997 with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Bioengineering in 2001 working in the laboratory of Patrick Stayton, Ph.D., on protein engineering, micropatterning and tissue engineering. From 2002-04, McDevitt conducted post-doctoral research in Chuck Murry\u0027s lab in the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington where he focused on mechanisms of stem cell growth and differentiation for myocardial repair.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETodd C. McDevitt, PhD, has been awarded the 2010 Young Investigator Award from the Society of Biomaterials. 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The initial award is for three years, with the possibility of an additional two-year extension.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech was chosen to lead this Center of Excellence because of its investment in infrastructure development, including new facilities and instrumentation; its recruitment of high-caliber faculty members and students; and its emphasis in bio-nanotechnology and cognitive sciences,\u0022 said Morley Stone, chief scientist of the Human Performance Wing of AFRL\u0027s Human Effectiveness Directorate.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere are three major research thrusts, called interdisciplinary research groups, within the BIONIC center. 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LaPlaca and her team plan to develop tools and assessment methods to optimize critical cognitive processes of the modern warfighter.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022U.S. Air Force analysts must remain attentive to computers and controls for hours at a time, so we aim to find a molecular signature of cognition that is sensitive to changes in stress levels and correlate these molecules with functional brain maps using magnetic resonance imaging techniques,\u0022 said LaPlaca. \u0022We want to learn about a warfighter\u0027s physiological response to different situations and use this information to optimize training and work effectiveness.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to its research objectives, another goal for the Center of Excellence is to conduct stimulating collaborative research that will motivate students to consider working at AFRL.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022At Georgia Tech, we\u0027ve had a history of sending outstanding alumni to work at AFRL, including three of our recent Ph.D. graduates. 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Vogel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch News and Publications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=avogel6\u0022\u003EContact Abby Vogel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-3364\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["avogel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"72495":{"#nid":"72495","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nanomaterials Could Disperse in Natural Environment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaboratory experiments with a type of nanomaterial that has great promise for industrial use show significant potential for dispersal in aquatic environments -- especially when natural organic materials are present. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen mixed with natural organic matter in water from the Suwannee River -- a relatively unpolluted waterway that originates in southern Georgia -- multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) remain suspended for more than a month, making them more likely to be transported in the environment, according to research led by the Georgia Institute of Technology. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECarbon nanotubes, which can be single- or multiwalled, are cylindrical carbon structures with novel properties that make them potentially useful in a wide variety of applications including electronics, composites, optics and pharmaceuticals.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We found that natural organic matter, or NOM as we call it, was efficient at suspending the nanotubes in water,\u0022 said Jaehong Kim, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research will be published in the January issue of the American Chemical Society journal \u003Cem\u003EEnvironmental Science \u0026amp; Technology\u003C\/em\u003E. Kim is the senior author and conducted the research with Professor Joseph Hughes, graduate student Hoon Hyung, both at Georgia Tech, and postdoctoral researcher John Fortner from Georgia Tech and Rice University. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency funded the research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We don\u0027t know for certain why NOM is so efficient at suspending these nanotubes in the laboratory,\u0022 Kim said. \u0022We think NOM has some chemical characteristics that promote adhesion to the nanotubes more than to some surfactants. We are now studying this further.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the lab, Kim and his colleagues compared the interactions of various concentrations of MWNTs with different aqueous environments - organic-free water, water containing a 1 percent solution of the surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), water containing a commercially available sample of Suwannee River NOM and an actual sample of Suwannee River water from the same location as the commercially available preparation. They agitated each sample for one hour and then let it sit for up to one month.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers then used transmission electron microscopy (TEM), measurements of opacity and turbidity, and other analyses to determine the behavior of MWNTs in these environments. The results were:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* MWNTs added to organic-free water settled quickly, and the water became completely transparent in less than an hour. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* When added to the SDS solution, the nanotubes immediately made the water dark and cloudy. After one day of settling, some nanotubes remained suspended, and the water was a light gray color.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* Water containing the commercially available sample of Suwannee River NOM originally appeared dark and cloudy, then gradually lightened after four days of settling. Some MWNTs remained suspended for more than a month.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E* The results with an actual Suwannee River sample were similar to those with the commercially available preparation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, Kim and his colleagues used TEM to find that most MWNTs in both samples of NOM were suspended as individually dispersed nanotubes, rather than being clustered together as some other nanomaterials do in water. \u0022This individual dispersion might make them more likely to be transported in a natural environment,\u0022 Kim explained.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn light of these findings, Kim and his colleagues have expanded their research to other nanomaterials, including single-walled carbon nanotubes and C60, the so-called \u0027buckyball\u0027 molecules in the same family as carbon nanotubes. They are also experimenting with other NOM sources and studying different mixing conditions. \u0022We are getting some interesting results, though our findings are still preliminary,\u0022 Kim noted.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile researchers explore applications of nanomaterials and industry nears commercial manufacture of these novel products, it\u0027s essential for scientists and engineers to study the materials\u0027 potential environmental impact, Kim added.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Natural organic matter is heterogeneous,\u0022 he explained. \u0022It\u0027s a complex mixture made from plants and microorganisms, and it\u0027s largely undefined and variable depending on the source. So we have to continue to study nanomaterial transport in the lab using various NOM sources to try to better understand their potential interaction in the natural environment.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn related research, Kim\u0027s research team is studying various other aspects of the fate of nanomaterials in water -- including photochemical and chemical reactions of C60 colloidal aggregates -- with the ultimate goal of understanding the environmental implications of nanotechnology. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia 30308 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contact:\u003C\/strong\u003E John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Contacts:\u003C\/strong\u003E Jaehong Kim (404-894-2216); 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Tiny pores in the cell wall allow diatoms to exchange nutrients with the environment and remain at the surface of the water to absorb sunlight for photosynthesis. Diatom photosynthesis is responsible for 20 percent of the world\u0027s organic carbon. The pores allow diatoms to be lightweight, but their cell wall gives them a strong mechanical structure. The strength of the cell wall comes from amorphous silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2) -- virtually the same material as glass. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDiatom cell walls show an enormous diversity in form, most of them amazingly beautiful and ornate, depending on specific biomolecules produced by the diatom, Kr\u00c3\u00b6ger explained. Previous research has shown that uniquely modified proteins called silaffins and extremely long polyamine chains play a role in the structural design of the cell wall. Kr\u00c3\u00b6ger hypothesizes that the structure of the diatom silica critically depends on the type of silaffin present within the diatoms\u0027 silica-producing organic matrix. Therefore, he expects that changing the \u0027silaffin equipment\u0027 of a diatom cell should result in novel silica nanostructures.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKr\u00c3\u00b6ger and collaborator Nicole Poulsen, a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, have developed a technique to genetically engineer diatoms. The process allows insertion of mutated or foreign genes into the genome of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. Kr\u00c3\u00b6ger believes this technique will enable the creation of diatoms with novel silica structures. He will describe the technique in an invited presentation on Dec. 12 at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGenetic manipulation of diatoms will increase the understanding of their cellular biochemistry and potentially enable the use of these organisms for the production of commercially valuable compounds and materials, Kr\u00c3\u00b6ger said. But inserting a gene through the strong silica cell wall is difficult. The wall must be penetrated, but not broken, and the foreign gene must be accepted into the diatom\u0027s genome, he explained. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo insert the genes, such as those that encode different silaffins, through the diatom cell wall, Kr\u00c3\u00b6ger and Poulsen use a technique called microparticle bombardment. DNA-coated tungsten particles are \u0027shot\u0027 on the diatoms under high heliumpressure, thus enabling them to penetrate the strong diatom cell wall. The diatom incorporates the introduced DNA into its genome, and selection of the transfected cells is achieved using the antibiotic nourseothricin. When new genes are introduced with the technique developed by Kr\u00c3\u00b6ger and Poulsen, they can be expressed constantly or be turned on and off when necessary. Specific details of the technique were published in the October 2006 issue of the Journal of Phycology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKr\u00c3\u00b6ger and Poulsen established this technique for the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana because it is currently the only diatom species with a completely sequenced genome. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Knowing the genome sequence and having established a method for genetic modification of this organism means we can, in principle, analyze the function of every gene and the protein that it encodes,\u0022 Kr\u00c3\u00b6ger said. \u0022This will eventually enable us to identify the key cellular biomolecules involved in creating the strong, intricately patterned diatom cell walls.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research has been supported by a grant from the Office of Naval Research and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n75 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 100\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAtlanta, Georgia 30308 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contact:\u003C\/strong\u003E John Toon (404-894-6986); E-mail: (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Contact:\u003C\/strong\u003E Nils Kr\u00c3\u00b6ger (404-894-4228); E-mail:  (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nils.kroger@chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enils.kroger@chemistry.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWriter:\u003C\/strong\u003E  Abby Vogel\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Scientists hope to copy diatom assembly process to improve nanomaterials"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers have developed a technique to study how unicellular micro-algae, known as diatoms, create their complex cell walls. 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Beyond nanomaterials and nanostructures, the technique could also improve reliability and precision in nanoelectronics measurements -- and in studies of certain larger-scale systems.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAccurate understanding of these properties is critical to the development of future high-volume industrial applications for nanomaterials and nanostructures because manufacturers will require consistency in their products.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our statistical model will be useful when the nanomaterials industry scales up from laboratory production because industrial users cannot afford to make a detailed study of every production run,\u0022 said C. F. Jeff Wu, a professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  \u0022The significant experimental errors can be filtered out automatically, which means this could be used in a manufacturing environment.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESponsored by the National Science Foundation, the research was reported June 25, 2009 in the early edition of the journal \u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u003C\/em\u003E.  The paper is believed to be the first to describe the use of statistical techniques for quantitative analysis of data from nanomechanical measurements.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENanotechnology researchers have long been troubled by the difficulty of measuring nanoscale properties and separating signals from noise and data artifacts.  Data artifacts can be caused by such issues as the slippage of structures being studied, surface irregularities and inaccurate placement of the atomic force microscope tip onto samples.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn measuring the effects of extremely small forces acting on extremely small structures, signals of interest may be only two or three times stronger than experimental noise.  That can make it difficult to draw conclusions, and potentially masks other interesting effects.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In the past, we have really not known the statistical reliability of the data at this size scale,\u0022 said Zhong Lin Wang, a Regents\u0027 professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Materials Science and Engineering.  \u0022At the nanoscale, small errors are amplified.  This new technique applies statistical theory to identify and analyze the data received from nanomechanics so we can be more confident of how reliable it is.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn developing the new technique, the researchers studied a data set measuring the deformation of zinc oxide nanobelts, research undertaken to determine the material\u0027s elastic modulus.  Theoretically, applying force to a nanobelt with the tip of an atomic force microscope should produce consistent linear deformation, but the experimental data didn\u0027t always show that.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn some cases, less force appeared to create more deformation, and the deformation curve was not symmetrical.  Wang\u0027s research team attempted to apply simple data-correction techniques, but was not satisfied with the results.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The measurements they had done simply didn\u0027t match what was expected with the theoretical model,\u0022 explained Wu, who holds a Coca-Cola chair in engineering statistics.  \u0022The curves should have been symmetric.  To address this issue, we developed a new modeling technique that uses the data itself to filter out the mismatch step-by-step using the regression technique.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIdeally, researchers would search out and correct the experimental causes of these data errors, but because they occur at such small size scales, that would be difficult, noted V. Roshan Joseph, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Physics-based models are based on several assumptions that can go wrong in reality,\u0022 he said.  \u0022We could try to identify all the sources of error and correct them, but that is very time-consuming.  Statistical techniques can more easily correct the errors, so this process is more geared toward industrial use.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond correcting the errors, the improved precision of the statistical technique could reduce the effort required to produce reliable experimental data on the properties of nanostructures.  \u0022With half of the experimental efforts, you can get about the same standard deviation as following the earlier method without the corrections,\u0022 Wu said.  \u0022This translates into fewer time-consuming experiments to confirm the properties.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the future, the research team -- which includes Xinwei Deng and Wenjie Mai in addition to those already mentioned -- plans to analyze the properties of nanowires, which are critical to the operation of a family of nanoscale electric generators being developed by Wang\u0027s research team.  Correcting for data errors in these structures will require development of a separate model using the same SPAR techniques, Wu said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, SPAR may lead researchers to new fundamental explanations of the nanoscale world.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022One of the key issues today in nanotechnology is whether the existing physical theories can still be applied to explain the phenomena we are seeing,\u0022 said Wang, who is also director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Nanostructure Characterization and Fabrication.  \u0022We have tried to answer the question of whether we are truly observing new phenomena, or whether our errors are so large that we cannot see that the theory still works.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWang plans to use the SPAR technique on future work, and to analyze past research for potential new findings. \u0022What may have seemed like noise could actually be an important signal,\u0022 he said.  \u0022This technique provides a truly new tool for data mining and analysis in nanotechnology.\u0022   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News \u0026amp; 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Publications Office\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jt7\u0022\u003EContact John Toon\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-6986\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"41549":{"#nid":"41549","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Research Reveals How Materials Direct Cell Response","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe body treats implanted medical devices \u2013 including everything from titanium hip replacements and blood vessel grafts \u2013 as invaders.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECells surround and attack foreign material, resulting in an inflammatory response. This unfriendly reaction prevents implants from integrating into the body and functioning as well as they could.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile implanted biomaterials can be designed with different surface chemistries and roughness to influence inflammatory responses, the process is not well understood. Now, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered how cells \u201csense\u201d differences in biomaterial surface chemistry. These differences in communication between the cell and the biomaterial result in changes in cell behavior, according to findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to explaining how biomaterials influence cells, the findings could be used to develop new classes of materials to improve device integration and function. For example, these findings could be used to direct responses in stem cells, controlling their differentiation into mature, functional cell types.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research was lead by Andr\u00e9s Garc\u00eda, an associate professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech. Benjamin Keselowsky, a post doctoral fellow in Mechanical Engineering, and David Collard, an associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech, also collaborated on the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFrom a molecular perspective, we now have a better idea of how cells interact with materials and how materials can direct cell responses,\u201d Garc\u00eda said. \u201cAnd now that we understand that, it may be possible to engineer novel, rationally-designed biomaterials that can control those interactions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECells interact with biomaterials using specialized adhesion proteins. These adhesion proteins on the cell bind to target proteins adsorbed on the biomaterial surface. In addition to anchoring cells, these adhesion proteins trigger signals that control many cell functions, including growth and protein production. An important feature of these adhesion proteins is that they only recognize a small number of target proteins.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat\u2019s how the cell makes sense of a very complicated environment like the body,\u201d Garc\u00eda said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGarc\u00eda and his group showed that the biomaterial surface chemistry altered the types of adhesion proteins that cells used to adhere to the biomaterial. As the surface chemistry of the material changed, so did the types of adhesion receptors that the cells used for binding. These differences in the binding of adhesion proteins changed the signals in the cell and resulted in very different cellular responses. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe idea is that different adhesion proteins do different things by triggering different signals,\u201d Garc\u00eda said. \u201cBy controlling which adhesion proteins the cell is using to bind to a material, we can control what the cell does and the quality of its interaction with the material.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese investigators are now focusing on directing stem cells into specific cell types and determining whether these engineered biomaterials integrate better into the body.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"New Georgia Tech research indicates how cells","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Findings could lead to materials that control cells"}],"uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2005-04-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:27","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"41550":{"id":"41550","type":"image","title":"Dr. Andr","body":null,"created":"1449174325","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:25:25","changed":"1475894373","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:33","alt":"Dr. Andr","file":{"fid":"190066","name":"tey37627.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tey37627_3.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tey37627_3.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1113476,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tey37627_3.jpg?itok=JLf7sHHp"}}},"media_ids":["41550"],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3024","name":"biomaterials"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"3199","name":"cell response"},{"id":"3198","name":"cells"},{"id":"3200","name":"implants"},{"id":"3201","name":"inflammation"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"72556":{"#nid":"72556","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dopamine Used to Prompt Nerve Tissue to Regrow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Yadong Wang, a chemist by training, first ventured into nerve regeneration two years ago, he didn\u0027t know that his peers would have considered him crazy.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHis idea was simple: Because neural circuits use electrical signals often conducted by neurotransmitters (chemical messengers) to communicate between the brain and the rest of the body, he could build neurotransmitters into the material used to repair a broken circuit. The neurotransmitters could coax the neurons in the damaged nerves to regrow and reconnect with their target organ.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStrange though his idea might have seemed to others in his field, Wang, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, discovered that he could integrate dopamine, a type of neurotransmitter, into a polymer to stimulate nerve tissues to send out new connections. The discovery is the first step toward the eventual goal of implanting the new polymer into patients suffering from neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer\u0027s, Parkinson\u0027s or epilepsy, to help repair damaged nerves. The findings were published online the week of Oct. 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We showed that you could use a neurotransmitter as a building block of a polymer,\u0022 said Wang. \u0022Once integrated into the polymer, the transmitter can still elicit a specific response from nerve tissues.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u0027designer\u0027 polymer was recognized by the neurons when used on a small piece of nerve tissue and stimulated extensive neural growth. The implanted polymer didn\u0027t cause any tissue scarring or nerve degeneration, allowing the nerve to grow in a hostile environment post injury. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen ready for clinical use, the polymer would be implanted at the damaged site to promote nerve regeneration. As the nerve tissue reforms, the polymer degrades.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWang\u0027s team found that dopamine\u0027s structure, which contains two hydroxyl groups, is vital for the material\u0027s neuroactivity. Removing even one group caused a complete loss of the biological activity. They also determined that dopamine was more effective at differentiating nerve cells than the two most popular materials for culturing nerves  - polylysine and laminin. This ability means that the material with dopamine may have a better chance to successfully repair damaged\u003Cbr \/\u003Enerves.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe success of dopamine has encouraged the team to set its sights on other neurotransmitters.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Dopamine was a good starting point, but we are looking into other neurotransmitters as well,\u0022 Wang said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u0027s next step is to verify findings that the material stimulates the reformation of synapses in addition to regrowth. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022A successful nerve regeneration will require the nerve to synapse with the target organ,\u0022 Wang said. \u0022Since we\u0027ve written this paper, we\u0027ve also been able to get the nerves to form extensive synapses, which is a step in the right direction.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Team led by Georgia Tech\/Emory researchers induces nerve growth using dopamine-based polymer"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\/Emory researchers have integrated dopamine, a type of neurotransmitter, into a polymer to stimulate nerve tissues to send out new connections. The discovery, published in PNAS, is the first step toward the eventual goal of implanting the polymer into patients suffering from neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer\u0027s, Parkinson\u0027s or epilepsy, to help repair damaged nerves.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New polymer could help damaged nerve reconnect"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2006-11-02 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:18","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-11-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-11-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72557":{"id":"72557","type":"image","title":"Nerve repair","body":null,"created":"1449177934","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:25:34","changed":"1475894661","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:21"}},"media_ids":["72557"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/groups\/ywang\/","title":"Yadong Wang"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"2606","name":"dopamine"},{"id":"2605","name":"nerve repair"},{"id":"2608","name":"neurotransmitter"},{"id":"2607","name":"Yadong Wang"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"72313":{"#nid":"72313","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bellamkonda Named Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ravi Bellamkonda, a professor in The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, is one of 13 scientists named as a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar for 2007. One of only two professor level awardees, he will receive $150,000 in funding annually for five years to support his research efforts. The coalition selects scientists engaged in the most promising areas of cancer research; Bellamkonda\u0027s area of interest is nanotechnology for cancer imaging and therapy. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBellamkonda was recruited from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he had developed a successful research laboratory. As a part of the Brain Tumor Program at the Winship Cancer Center at Emory, he is developing collaborations for researching a patient-specific, targeted anti-tumor therapy. Bellamkonda studied engineering at Osmania University in India; earned his Ph.D. at Brown University in Rhode Island; and completed his fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022He is forging a truly interdisciplinary approach to cancer nanotherapeutics and diagnostics,\u0022 said Don Giddens, dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech. \u0022His work to develop nanotechnology-based strategies for early detection of cancer, targeted therapeutics and patient specific medicines is very promising.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe coalition cooperates with Georgia\u0027s research universities, medical schools, hospitals and nursing programs in recruiting research scientists, with the goal of strengthening the state\u0027s research talent, capacity and infrastructure. Since its inception in 2001, the Georgia Cancer Coalition has named 91 Distinguished Scholars; eight have been from Georgia Institute of Technology. The scholar funding is an investment not only in Georgia\u0027s future as a national leader in cancer control, but also is valuable in attracting increased funding to Georgia for cancer research. For starters, the coalition contracts with the sponsoring institution to provide at least a dollar-for-dollar match. The review committee examines the scholars\u0027 history of grants, publications and patents, and considers the researcher\u0027s potential for attracting future funding. In fiscal year 2006, Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholars were responsible for securing $48 million in privately and federally funded research grants to the state of Georgia.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EScholar selection is based on how the applicant\u0027s research relates to the goals of the coalition, the research priorities of the National Cancer Institute and the strategic plan of the sponsoring institution. Each application is reviewed by both an external scientific review committee and an advisory review committee, appointed by the coalition in cooperation with Georgia\u0027s research universities. Kate Canterbury, director of research programs, staffs the coalition committees. Members rank scholars according to predetermined scientific and technical criteria. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The National Cancer Institute has identified areas of discovery that hold promise for making significant progress against all cancers. The Distinguished Cancer Clinicians and Scientists program is the cornerstone of the Georgia Cancer Coalition\u0027s efforts to advance scientific discovery into the prevention, treatment, causes, and cures of cancer. These scientists play an important role in positioning Georgia as a national leader in cancer research,\u0022 says Bill Todd, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Georgia Cancer Coalition. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Cancer Coalition is an independent, not-for-profit organization that unites government agencies, academic institutions, civic groups, corporations and health care organizations in a concerted effort to strengthen cancer prevention, research and treatment in Georgia, with the ultimate goal of making Georgia one of the nation\u0027s premier states for cancer care. The mission is to reduce the number of cancer-related deaths in Georgia. The coalition is the first of its kind in the nation and is fast becoming a national model.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Ravi Bellamkonda, a professor in The Wallace H. 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Giddens will be honored as the recipient from the public sector, and Dr. Eric Tomlinson, president and CEO of Altea Therapeutics, is the recipient from the private sector.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGiddens, one of the nation\u0027s pioneers in biomedical engineering, is being honored for developing Georgia Tech\u0027s bioengineering program, enhancing its research and technology commercialization efforts, and expanding the school\u0027s partnerships with Emory University. These partnerships have been critical in expanding the life sciences research base in Georgia and in creating an engine of growth for the life sciences industry.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m honored to be recognized as a contributor to the impressive growth of Georgia\u0027s biomedical industry,\u0022 Giddens said. \u0022Georgia Tech\u0027s partnership with Emory has truly enhanced our opportunities for research innovation.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGiddens is the founding chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, a unique collaboration between a public engineering university and private medical school. The department is the No. 3 graduate program of biomedical engineering in the country, according to rankings from U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGiddens received all three of his degrees (B.S.E. 1963, M.S 1965, and Ph.D. 1966) from Georgia Tech. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1968. In 1992 he left his position as the chair of aerospace engineering to serve as the dean of the Whiting School of Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University until 1997. Giddens then rejoined Georgia Tech to serve as chair of The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. Giddens became the dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2002.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGiddens is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Big 10+ Deans Council, and a founding fellow and past president of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He received the H.R. Lissner Award from ASME in 1993 and was the ASME Thurston Lecturer in 1996. Giddens currently serves on a number of advisory boards and councils for academic institutions, corporations, and professional societies. He is also the author of more than 100 refereed publications and book chapters, 190 paper presentations and proceedings, and maintains an active research program in cardiovascular hemodynamics.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Biomedical Partnership (GBP), founded in 1989, represents more than 270 pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies, universities, research institutes, government groups and other business organizations involved in the development of products that improve the health and quality of life people worldwide.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Dr. Don Giddens, dean of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering, will be awarded the Biomedical Industry Growth Award by the Georgia Biomedical Partnership.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Giddens honored for contribution to Georgia biotech"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2006-12-13 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:37","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-12-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-12-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72503":{"id":"72503","type":"image","title":"Don Giddens","body":null,"created":"1449177934","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:25:34","changed":"1475894658","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:18"}},"media_ids":["72503"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.gabio.org\/index.asp","title":"Georgia Biomedical Partnership"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. 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With a better understanding of each child\u0027s unique heart defect, surgeons could greatly improve the likelihood that children with complex defects requiring multiple surgeries over a period of several years could have smoother recoveries and an improved quality of life after their operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe technology, known as image-based surgical planning and developed with the help of pediatric cardiologists and pediatric surgeons at The Children\u0027s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Emory University and Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta, creates a three-dimensional model of the child\u0027s heart with data from the child\u0027s MRI scans at different times in the cardiac cycle, also called a 4-D MRI. The models allow surgeons to visualize the direction of blood flow and determine any energy loss in the heart. So if a surgeon were planning a certain correction to an area of a child\u0027s heart, a model created by the system would show the surgeon how well blood would flow through the newly configured heart.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the Georgia Tech\/Emory project is to create a complete system that allows surgeons to get a detailed look at the child\u0027s heart functions with the new MRI system, design surgical procedures for optimum post-operative performance and evaluate the heart\u0027s performance with a sophisticated blood flow computer simulation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe work was presented this month at the American Heart Association\u0027s Scientific Sessions meeting in Chicago and has been published in \u003Cem\u003ECirculation\u003C\/em\u003E and the \u003Cem\u003EAnnals of Thoracic Surgery\u003C\/em\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We use the MRI images and time data to create models of these children\u0027s vascular systems and hearts to simulate how they currently work and how they could work after surgery,\u0022 said Ajit Yoganathan, Ph.D., a co-principal investigator on the project and associate chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u0022The goal is to improve the quality of life for these children by understanding their current physiology and finding the best way to optimize the surgery for that particular child.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the program isn\u0027t yet ready for use by surgeons outside the project, it could be available in about three to five years, Yoganathan said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the normal heart has two ventricles or lower chambers of the heart used for pumping blood through the body, two out of every 1,000 babies in the United States are born with just one lower chamber. Considered one of the most complex congenital heart defects, a single-ventricle heart often leads to congestive heart failure if not repaired.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPatients with this defect often undergo multiple surgeries to reconfigure the pulmonary and systemic systems in operations called Fontan repairs, a reconfiguration that diverts the blood flow coming to the right side of the heart directly to the lungs so that the heart no longer has to pump blood to the lungs. Staged over several years, these surgeries are a common, but not always successful, option used for treating a single-ventricle defect.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter a less-than-optimal operation, children sometimes experience a reduced capacity to perform physical activities and may experience blood clotting and ventricle arrhythmias. The Georgia Tech\/Emory surgery planning system could eliminate the need for additional surgeries by optimizing early surgeries.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The research is meant to get at the root of the \u0027failing\u0027 Fontan, investigating why these pumping chambers fail in the hopes of devising new strategies to give these children a second chance in life. Using advanced imaging and bioengineering tools, the project hopes to describe how blood flows in this type of circulation and how this blood flow might be altered to extend the life of the patients,\u0022 said Mark Fogel, M.D., director of cardiac MR in the Cardiac Center at Children\u0027s Hospital and a key collaborator on the project.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech\/Emory team began work on a system to help surgeons address the unique challenges of Fontan repair. In essence, the system determines how any geometric change in the current heart configuration will change blood flow and strength.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo perfect their system, researchers combined computational and experimental studies to create a method of assessing an optimum vessel configuration. The group worked heavily with fluid dynamic studies in the lab to get the most accurate simulation of blood flow.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother tool, developed by a team led by Jaroslaw Rossignac Ph.D. in Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing, is a program that allows for manipulation of a 3-D model of a patient\u0027s cardiovascular system to try out different configurations with a mouse. Once the surgeon has the desired configuration, the new vascular configuration can then be tested with the Image-based surgical planning system to see how well the new surgical procedure would perform.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech and Emory completed the engineering aspects of the study with assistance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The MRI and patient studies were gathered at CHOP and Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta\u0027s Sibley Heart Center.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the patient MRI database is currently only accessible to project participants, researchers are working with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funded the project, to open the database to other pediatric cardiologists and cardiac surgeons.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\/Emory technology could help surgeons plan optimum surgery for each child\u0027s congenital heart defect"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech and Emory University researchers have developed an innovative new technology that will help pediatric cardiac surgeons design and test a customized surgical procedure before they ever pick up a scalpel. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University traveled to Beijing last fall to finalize the program details with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Peking University (PKU). \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022To my knowledge, this joint Ph. D. program is the first of this type showcasing international cooperation in education between China and the U.S. Forming a partnership with Georgia Tech and Emory will enhance our research and education in general and will provide a great opportunity for our BME students,\u0022 said Jianhua Lin, Peking University Provost.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERepresentatives from Georgia Tech, Emory and PKU have been laying the groundwork for this program during the past five years.  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