{"647086":{"#nid":"647086","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Borodovsky Explains Vaccine Advances to Atlanta Jewish Times","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe mRNA technology that allowed rapid development of vaccines for Covid-19 could one day lead to the development of vaccines for cancer, according to researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Jewish Times\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com\/after-covid-cancer-vaccine-on-horizon\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eexplored the possibilities\u003C\/a\u003E and turned to Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Mark-Borodovsky\u0022\u003ERegents Professor Mark Borodovsky\u003C\/a\u003E to explain how the technology works:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBorodovsky, who first came to Atlanta in the first wave of Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union in 1990, has been at the forefront of this rapidly developing frontier of modern medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the founder and director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics at Georgia Tech, he has been instrumental in developing new ways of sequencing the genome, the key to the foundational building blocks of all human life.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis work has been supported by The Marcus Foundation, funded by the cofounder of Home Depot Bernie Marcus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2006, Marcus gave the university $15 million to build a research center to explore what are called nano particles, the small building blocks of all matter. He also established the Marcus Center for Therapeutic Cell Characterization and Manufacturing to develop new medical initiatives in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Dr. Borodovsky, recent medical advances and the COVID vaccines are simply technology urged on by the world\u0026rsquo;s medical needs, catching up with basic science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It can take 30 years to come up with a concept and get this concept up to realization in a technological sense. So now we talk about several months.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com\/after-covid-cancer-vaccine-on-horizon\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story in the \u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Jewish Times\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERegents Professor shares insight on mRNA technology and genome sequencing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Regents Professor shares insight on mRNA technology and genome sequencing"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2021-04-30 16:25:44","changed_gmt":"2021-04-30 16:32:45","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"647085":{"id":"647085","type":"image","title":"Atlanta Jewish Times Cancer Vaccine Screenshot","body":null,"created":"1619799553","gmt_created":"2021-04-30 16:19:13","changed":"1619799553","gmt_changed":"2021-04-30 16:19:13","alt":"A screenshot of the Atlanta Jewish Times story, \u0022After COVID, Cancer Vaccine on Horizon,\u0022 which includes Coulter Department Regents Professor Mark Borodovsky.","file":{"fid":"245666","name":"Atlanta-Jewish-Times-Cancer-Vaccine-Borodovsky-h.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Atlanta-Jewish-Times-Cancer-Vaccine-Borodovsky-h.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Atlanta-Jewish-Times-Cancer-Vaccine-Borodovsky-h.png","mime":"image\/png","size":290645,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Atlanta-Jewish-Times-Cancer-Vaccine-Borodovsky-h.png?itok=0YB6j2qe"}}},"media_ids":["647085"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com\/after-covid-cancer-vaccine-on-horizon\/","title":"Full Story: \u0022After COVID, Cancer Vaccine on Horizon\u0022 (Atlanta Jewish Times)"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Mark-Borodovsky","title":"Mark Borodovsky"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"11519","name":"Mark Borodovsky"},{"id":"985","name":"mRNA"},{"id":"12434","name":"Vaccines"},{"id":"187711","name":"Atlanta Jewish Times"}],"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. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}