{"592510":{"#nid":"592510","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Manu Platt Receives Diversity Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EManu Platt, associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, was selected to receive the 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Diversity Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the annual honoree, Platt was selected\u0026nbsp;for his outstanding contributions to improving gender and racial diversity in his field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the award, he will have the opportunity to give a lecture offering his vision of the challenges and opportunities of greater diversity in biomedical engineering at the BMES Annual Meeting in Phoenix. His lecture will also be published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Annals of Biomedical Engineering.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlatt is the Diversity Director for the NSF Center on Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems, and he is a co-founder and co-director of Project ENGAGES, a biotechnology and engineering research program for African-American high school students in Georgia Tech laboratories. He was also featured in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EDiverse: Issues in Higher Education\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;magazine in 2015 as an Emerging Scholar.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlatt\u0026rsquo;s research focuses on understanding how cells sense, respond, and remodel their immediate environments for repair and regeneration in health and disease, and translating this knowledge into addressing global health disparities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBMES is an international society that aims to build the biomedical engineering community and support the professionals who develop and use engineering and technology to advance human health and well-being.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy Polly Ouellette\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=23\u0026amp;v=KaSFAFotx8s\u0022\u003EView highlights\u0026nbsp;of Manu Platt\u0026#39;s presentation at BMES in Phoenix, Oct 2017.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P1wUnuJSb9Q\u0022\u003EFull video of Manu Platt\u0026#39;s presentation.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Receives the 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Diversity Award"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2017-06-07 19:09:51","changed_gmt":"2017-11-30 15:59:29","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-06-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-06-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"590829":{"id":"590829","type":"image","title":"Manu Platt is an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering","body":null,"created":"1493059532","gmt_created":"2017-04-24 18:45:32","changed":"1496862674","gmt_changed":"2017-06-07 19:11:14","alt":"Manu Platt is an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering","file":{"fid":"225107","name":"MP.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MP.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MP.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":52222,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/MP.jpg?itok=z_r3KyYr"}}},"media_ids":["590829"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1612","name":"BME"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["wrich@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}