{"68574":{"#nid":"68574","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Assistant Professor Styczynski Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMark Styczynski, an\nassistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at\nGeorgia Tech, has received a 2011 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\nYoung Faculty Award for his research on metabolites, the small molecule\nbuilding blocks necessary for all cellular functions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDARPA presents the Young\nFaculty Award to outstanding junior faculty whose research will enable\nrevolutionary advances in the areas of the physical sciences, engineering, and\nmathematics. The Young Faculty Award program will fund Styczynski\u2019s research\nthrough 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EStyczynski\u2019s work involves\nidentifying millions of allosteric metabolite and protein interactions both\nefficiently and accurately.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMetabolites are one of the\nmost direct, real-time readouts of cellular state that researchers can assay,\u201d Styczynski\nsaid. \u201cBut they also play a significant regulatory role, which is only beginning to be understood on a large scale.\u201d\u2028\u2028\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPotential applications of Styczynski\u2019s\nresearch fall into the division of DARPA known as the Defense Sciences Office, which\nfocuses on developing technologies that will radically transform battlefield\nmedical care. By cataloging the infinite number of metabolite-protein\ninteractions, his research may lead to the development of a self-regulating\ndrug for soldiers in the field that shuts itself down when no longer needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EStyczynski received his\nPh.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007. He joined the faculty\nat Georgia Tech in 2009 after a postdoctoral appointment at the\u0026nbsp;Broad\nInstitute, a world-renowned genomic medicine research center located in\nCambridge, Mass.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMark Styczynski, an\nassistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at\nGeorgia Tech, has received a 2011 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\nYoung Faculty Award for his research on metabolites, the small molecule\nbuilding blocks necessary for all cellular functions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-06-27 15:45:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:40","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-06-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-06-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68544":{"id":"68544","type":"image","title":"Dr. Mark Styczynski","body":null,"created":"1449177185","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:05","changed":"1475894594","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:14","alt":"Dr. Mark Styczynski","file":{"fid":"192600","name":"styczynski.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/styczynski_2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/styczynski_2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1311463,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/styczynski_2.jpg?itok=pW05uSBJ"}}},"media_ids":["68544"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/styczynski.php","title":"Dr. Mark Styczynski"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"13531","name":"College of Engineering; School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Mark Stycnski; DARPA Young Faculty Award"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["klipp@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}