{"682798":{"#nid":"682798","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researcher Receives $2.9M Grant to Develop Ingestible Probes for Breath-Based Cancer Detection","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs the second-leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., colorectal cancer is rising in the number of cases in younger adults. To combat this and offer a less-invasive alternative to a colonoscopy, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Leslie Chan and her lab has been awarded a grant to develop an innovative diagnostic to detect colorectal cancer through a simple breath test. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/news\/georgia-tech-researcher-receives-29m-grant-develop-ingestible-probes-breath-based-cancer?utm_source=newsletter\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_content=Researcher%20to%20Develop%20Breath-Based%20Cancer%20Detection\u0026amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Digest%20-%20May%2015%2C%202025\u0022\u003ERead more\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe grant will fund the development of cutting-edge technology that could detect colorectal cancer through a simple breath test.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The grant will fund the development of cutting-edge technology that could detect colorectal cancer through a simple breath test."}],"uid":"35963","created_gmt":"2025-06-16 15:06:05","changed_gmt":"2025-06-16 15:13:39","author":"kpetty30","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677233":{"id":"677233","type":"image","title":"Leslie Chan and Vishal Manickam, graduate student who works on the design and testing of the ingestible probes. ","body":null,"created":"1750085457","gmt_created":"2025-06-16 14:50:57","changed":"1750085838","gmt_changed":"2025-06-16 14:57:18","alt":"Photo of Leslie Chan and graduate student Vishal Manickam","file":{"fid":"261113","name":"thumbnail_IMG_0819.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/06\/16\/thumbnail_IMG_0819.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/06\/16\/thumbnail_IMG_0819.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":322709,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/06\/16\/thumbnail_IMG_0819.jpg?itok=Au6RCoQi"}}},"media_ids":["677233"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"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":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kelly.petty@bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKelly Petty\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. Coulter Depratment of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}