{"607046":{"#nid":"607046","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2018 Petit Institute Seed Grants Awarded","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo multidisciplinary research teams have been awarded 2018 Petit Institute Seed Grants.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program routinely pairs two researchers in the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at the Georgia Institute of Technology, one based in the College of Engineering, one based in the College of Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe funding period for each of these grants starts July 1, 2018, and the duration will be up to two years, $50,000 for each year, contingent on submission of an NIH R21\/R01 grant proposal, or an equivalent collaborative grant proposal, within 12 to 24 months of the year-one start date.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe teams and their projects are:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026bull; \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn McDonald\u003C\/strong\u003E (professor, School of Biological Sciences) and \u003Cstrong\u003EFatih Sarioglu\u003C\/strong\u003E (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering). Their project is entitled, \u0026ldquo;Microchip-Based Isolation and Molecular Profiling of Highly Metastatic Tumor Cell Clusters in Ovarian Cancer.\u0026rdquo; Ovarian is the deadliest gynecological cancer because it progresses quietly, asymptomatically, leading to later stage detection. The researchers aim to provide insight into ovarian cancer metastasis while also offering a way to monitor ovarian cancer response with minimally-invasive liquid biopsies for personalized prediction of optimal drug therapies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026bull; \u003Cstrong\u003EShuyi Nie\u003C\/strong\u003E (assistant professor, School of Biological Sciences) and \u003Cstrong\u003EDenis T\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Esygankov\u003C\/strong\u003E (assistant professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering). Their project is entitled, \u0026ldquo;Unveiling the Mechanisms of Collective Cell Migration through an Integrative Multiscale Study.\u0026rdquo; Collective cell migration plays a key role in embryonic development, wound healing, and cancer invasion, but it remains a poorly understood phenomenon. Basically, the researchers intend to develop a better tool \u0026ndash; they want to provide researchers with a broadly applicable simulation platform that enables a mechanistic understanding of coordinated cell processes like collective cell migration.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Two multidisciplinary teams get a boost on their research projects at Georgia Tech"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo multidisciplinary teams get a boost on their research projects at Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two multidisciplinary teams get a boost on their research projects at Georgia Tech"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2018-06-13 19:26:38","changed_gmt":"2018-06-13 19:26:38","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"607045":{"id":"607045","type":"image","title":"Petit Seed Grant 2018","body":null,"created":"1528917874","gmt_created":"2018-06-13 19:24:34","changed":"1528917874","gmt_changed":"2018-06-13 19:24:34","alt":"","file":{"fid":"231543","name":"Seed Grant Winners.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Seed%20Grant%20Winners.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Seed%20Grant%20Winners.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2274244,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Seed%20Grant%20Winners.jpg?itok=WUFMvcFs"}}},"media_ids":["607045"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"}],"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\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. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}