{"663985":{"#nid":"663985","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, National Academies Select Cassie Mitchell for Science Diversity Leadership Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThroughout her engineering education and research career, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Cassie-S.-Mitchell\u0022\u003ECassie Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E hasn\u0026rsquo;t seen many role models who look like her.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMitchell developed a neurological condition at 18 that has resulted in quadriplegia, and she rarely has encountered other professionals in STEM fields with similar disabilities. That\u0026rsquo;s made it imperative to her to be the role model she didn\u0026rsquo;t have.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As a disabled professor, I want students from diverse backgrounds and disabilities to feel empowered and included,\u0026rdquo; Mitchell said, \u0026ldquo;and to know they have professors who can relate to them.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University has made a point to involve students from all kinds of backgrounds and with all kinds of abilities in her lab \u0026mdash; from high school interns to Ph.D. students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe\u0026rsquo;ll get to build on those efforts as one of the first awardees under an initiative from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chanzuckerberg.com\/\u0022\u003EChan Zuckerberg Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/\u0022\u003ENational Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine\u003C\/a\u003E to recognize and support excellent early career biomedical researchers who have a record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. The \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/czi-sciencediversityleadership.nas.edu\/\u0022\u003EScience Diversity Leadership award program\u003C\/a\u003E includes $1.15 million in grant funding over five years. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chanzuckerberg.com\/science\/programs-resources\/science-diversity-leadership-awards\/\u0022\u003EThe organizations announced the initial round of recipients Oct. 19.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-national-academies-select-cassie-mitchell-science-diversity\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story on the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGrant recognizes Mitchell\u0026#39;s efforts to diversify biomedical sciences and supports her research using machine learning tools to improve health disparities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Grant recognizes Mitchell\u0027s efforts to diversify biomedical sciences and supports her research using machine learning tools to improve health disparities"}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-10-19 16:11:34","changed_gmt":"2022-12-19 17:59:21","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-10-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"663984":{"id":"663984","type":"image","title":"Cassie Mitchell Lab Group Oct 2022","body":null,"created":"1666199115","gmt_created":"2022-10-19 17:05:15","changed":"1671472736","gmt_changed":"2022-12-19 17:58:56","alt":"Cassie Mitchell at a table with her Ph.D. students. On the screen above the table is a data slide showing their work on an integrative machine learning algorithm to predict risk of neurodegenerative disease progression based on patient proteins, genotype, demographics, cognitive testing, and medical history. Clockwise from top left are Irfan Al-Hussaini , Raghav Tandon, David Kartchner, Albert Lee, and Mitchell. (Photo Courtesy: Cassie Mitchell)","file":{"fid":"251344","name":"Mitchell-Lab-2022-t.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mitchell-Lab-2022-t.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mitchell-Lab-2022-t.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":299403,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Mitchell-Lab-2022-t.jpg?itok=zXgYx4PH"}}},"media_ids":["663984"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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