{"621635":{"#nid":"621635","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Collaborating with Purpose","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the first time in U.S. history, the Census Bureau projects that by 2035 seniors will outnumber children. And as the population grays, a cloud of uncertainty over rising healthcare costs looms over the near horizon.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHealthcare spending is projected to accelerate over the next decade, and 60 percent of American adults are now living with at least one chronic condition. Chronic diseases like asthma, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease cost Georgia about $40 billion a year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESteven Stice, GRA Eminent Scholar of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Georgia and a researcher with the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech, believes one solution to combat the cost of chronic disease is to produce cell-based therapies in much larger quantities and more consistent quality.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd he isn\u0026rsquo;t alone.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/greatcommitments.uga.edu\/story\/collaborating-with-purpose\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERead all about it right here.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Steve Stice: Using Living Cells to Change the Course of Disease"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESteve Stice: Using Living Cells to Change the Course of Disease\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Steve Stice: Using Living Cells to Change the Course of Disease"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2019-05-13 17:55:49","changed_gmt":"2019-05-22 01:47:21","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"621634":{"id":"621634","type":"image","title":"CMaT UGA","body":null,"created":"1557769555","gmt_created":"2019-05-13 17:45:55","changed":"1557769555","gmt_changed":"2019-05-13 17:45:55","alt":"","file":{"fid":"236783","name":"Screen Shot 2019-05-13 at 1.39.33 PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-05-13%20at%201.39.33%20PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-05-13%20at%201.39.33%20PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":2515900,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-05-13%20at%201.39.33%20PM.png?itok=SbDbwF-k"}}},"media_ids":["621634"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"176933","name":"go-cmat"},{"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":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}