{"607441":{"#nid":"607441","#data":{"type":"news","title":"MIT Technology Review Applauds Georgia Tech\u2019s Dahlman in \u201835 Innovators Under 35\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen a recognition makes your name fit comfortably into the same sentence with Facebook\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;Mark Zuckerberg\u0026rdquo; or Google co-founder \u0026ldquo;Larry Page,\u0026rdquo; you know it\u0026rsquo;s something special. A shout-out in the \u003Cem\u003EMIT Technology Review\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026rsquo;s annual roster of \u0026ldquo;35 Innovators Under 35\u0026rdquo; did just that for Georgia Tech biomedical researcher James Dahlman.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe iconic research magazine applauded Dahlman because, as it stated in its headline, \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/lists\/innovators-under-35\/2018\/inventor\/james-dahlman\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHis method makes it possible to test 300 drugs at once\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026rdquo; The \u0026ldquo;35\u0026rdquo; roster is noted for having anticipated the successes of Zuckerberg and Page, as well as that of Helen Greiner, co-founder of iRobot, Jonathan Ive, chief designer at Apple, and other consummate go-getters in industry, technology, and research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDahlman felt honored to join the list, which was published on June 27, but also humbled.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t put myself in the same category as those people, but research colleagues who have made this list have gone on to make very significant contributions to science,\u0026rdquo; said Dahlman, an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s hard to get on that list, so I was thrilled, and a little surprised,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;It also comes with certain expectations to live up to.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDNA-barcoding\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat Dahlman scrutinizes with his methods are, more precisely, nanoparticles designed to deliver a drug or gene therapy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe calls \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/news\/603270\/comparison-shows-value-dna-barcoding-selecting-nanoparticles\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehis invention \u0026ldquo;DNA-barcoding,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;because it tracks hundreds of different nanoparticles at once to see how well they hit targeted tumor cells by loading up each one of the particles with its own custom-coded piece\u0026nbsp;of DNA. Researchers can inject the particles all at once into a live mouse then later excise the tumor and sequence the DNA strands to see which nanoparticles best delivered their payloads to tumor cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe top nanoparticles could be loaded up with an effective therapy for targeted delivery.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;DNA makes for a fantastic tracker,\u0026rdquo; Dahlman said. \u0026ldquo;There are thousands to millions to billions of code combinations. It\u0026rsquo;s nature\u0026rsquo;s way of storing information, so we can exploit that.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDNA barcoding has upended other methods of tracking nanoparticles. It has flatly nullified the results of tracking via lab samples, \u003Cem\u003Ein vitro\u003C\/em\u003E. And barcoding has left traditional tracking\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;in vivo,\u003C\/em\u003E in live mice, which can only follow one or a few particles at a time, in the dust.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EParkinson\u0026rsquo;s and heart disease\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Cem\u003EReview\u003C\/em\u003E cited specifically DNA barcoding\u0026rsquo;s potential for honing nanoparticles\u0026rsquo; aim at cancer cells, but there are many possible uses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It can be for any cell type. We\u0026rsquo;re also using it for heart disease and for Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s,\u0026rdquo; Dahlman said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDahlman gives the real credit for the \u0026ldquo;35\u0026rdquo; kudos to the graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in his Lab for Precision Therapies in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;They have done a lot of the actual work,\u0026rdquo; Dahlman said. \u0026ldquo;If you don\u0026rsquo;t get good students, you won\u0026rsquo;t be able to do anything, and the school here should get a lot of credit for recruiting them.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe graduate students were jazzed to see their principal investigator on a pedestal.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We were all super excited and all huddled around the computer looking at James\u0026rsquo;s profile and at the other people on that list to see what they accomplished to get on that list,\u0026rdquo; said Ph.D. student Cory Sago, who chose Georgia Tech largely because of Dahlman.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPast Georgia Tech honorees\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPast Georgia Tech researchers named in the \u0026ldquo;35\u0026rdquo; list include \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/microneedle-patches-flu-vaccination-prove-successful-first-human-clinical-trial\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Emicroneedle patch co-inventor\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www2.technologyreview.com\/tr35\/profile.aspx?trid=512\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMark Prausnitz\u003C\/a\u003E, and microfluidics engineer and genotype-phenotype researcher \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/404706\/tr-35\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHang Lu\u003C\/a\u003E. More Georgia Tech graduates, mainly from master\u0026rsquo;s programs, have appeared on the \u003Cem\u003EMIT Technology Review\u003C\/em\u003E roster for making notable entrepreneurial waves.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDahlman\u0026rsquo;s inclusion in the 2018 edition of \u0026ldquo;35 Innovators Under 35\u0026rdquo; follows a string of prior acknowledgments and fellowships awarded Dahlman by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Institutes of Health and private foundations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\u003Cem\u003E MIT Technology Review\u003C\/em\u003E was founded at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMassachusetts Institute of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in 1899, and later became independent but maintains its affiliation with MIT. 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