{"677140":{"#nid":"677140","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dahlman, Kwong Named to AIMBE College of Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo faculty members in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering \u2014 associate professors James Dahlman and Gabe Kwong \u2014 have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s considered one of the highest professional accolades for medical and biological engineers. Dahlman and Kwong are among 163 colleagues in this year\u2019s induction class, joining only two percent of engineers in their fields who are accorded this distinction. Inductees are nominated and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany of the scientists I look up to are part of this organization, so I\u2019m deeply honored to be named an AIMBE Fellow,\u201d said Dahlman, McCamish Foundation Early Career Professor in Coulter BME, a joint department of Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAIMBE recognized him \u201cfor his sophisticated in vivo screens to develop clinically relevant lipid nanoparticles for delivering targeted RNA-based therapies outside the liver.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDahlman\u2019s lab has developed nanoparticle barcodes that allow them rapidly to screen hundreds of potential drug delivery molecules at once, accelerating the discovery and delivery of new RNA therapeutics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m grateful for the recognition, but this honor really goes to the excellent trainees we have at Georgia Tech and Emory. Without their creativity and hard work, this recognition simply does not happen,\u201d said Dahlman, who also called out his personal advisors, undergraduate mentor Daniel Miracle, and pioneering biotechnologists Robert Langer and Feng Zhang: \u201cThey believed in me and gave me the confidence to pursue high-risk, high-reward science at Georgia Tech and Emory.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKwong was elected, according to the AIMBE citation, \u201cfor pioneering advances in immunoengineering and the clinical translation of such advancements for early cancer detection and immunotherapy.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe\u2019s leading a $50 million project as part of President Biden\u2019s Cancer Moonshot initiative to map the metabolic signatures of cancer. Project CODA (for Cancer and Organ Degradome Atlas) will use this information to build bioengineered sensors for the early detection of multiple cancers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s the kind of multi-institutional project with a potential for great impact that every researcher dreams about,\u201d noted Kwong, who said he did not develop a passion for research until college.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat\u2019s when I discovered that I liked solving problems \u2014 the harder the better,\u201d said Kwong, whose Laboratory for Synthetic Immunity engineers medicines to intercept and treat disease. \u201cAfter avoiding classes like chemistry in high school, I realized that I enjoy peeking under the hood, so to speak, and learning about the body, about cells and molecules.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe added, \u201cIt just goes to show that there are multiple paths we can take to make contributions to human health. And this honor from AIMBE is personally significant, because it comes from a group of professionals that I sincerely admire, and that inspire me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAIMBE Fellows are some of the nation\u2019s most distinguished medical and biological engineers, including three Nobel Prize laureates and 22 winners of the Presidential Medal of Science or Medal of Technology and Innovation. Also, 214 Fellows have been inducted to the National Academy of Engineering, 117 to the National Academy of Medicine, and 48 to the National Academy of Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoulter BME faculty members James Dahlman and Gabe Kwong have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Coulter BME faculty members James Dahlman and Gabe Kwong have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows."}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2024-09-26 16:36:12","changed_gmt":"2024-09-26 16:44:41","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675130":{"id":"675130","type":"image","title":"Dahlman Kwong AIMBE Fellows","body":"\u003Cp\u003ECoulter BME faculty members James Dahlman and Gabe Kwong have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1727367838","gmt_created":"2024-09-26 16:23:58","changed":"1727368487","gmt_changed":"2024-09-26 16:34:47","alt":"Dahlman Kwong AIMBE Fellows","file":{"fid":"258724","name":"Dahlman Kwong.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/09\/26\/Dahlman%20Kwong.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/09\/26\/Dahlman%20Kwong.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1043398,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/09\/26\/Dahlman%20Kwong.jpg?itok=xS0wr1TX"}}},"media_ids":["675130"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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