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The Nakatani agreement being signed by Yves Berthelot, vice provost for international initiatives at Georgia Tech.
New Student Exchange Program Established Between Japan and Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech BME undergraduate students can participate in a new fellowship exchange program
Two teams of BME students were awarded their prizes from the DEBUT Challenge at last week's BMES Meetings in Philadelphia. Pictured are (left to right), James Rains (professor of the practice, and director of the BME Capstone program), and BME students Pranav Dorbala, Madhu Baskaran, Bailey Eaton, Rachel Mann, and NIBIB Program Director Zeynep Erim.
BME Teams Make Big Impact in DEBUT

Undergrads’ innovations earn prize money in annual biomedical engineering design competition
Petit Institute researchers were given the comic book treatment by NASA. The top panel features (from left) Bradley Burcar, Facundo Fernandez, and Martha Grover. Below that are panels featuring renderings of Loren Williams, Nick Hud, and Grover in outer space.
NASA Research Isn’t All Rocket Science

Petit Institute’s multidisciplinary investigators at Georgia Tech working to discover life and protect astronauts
Adam Marcus, Emory University: SaGA for Cancer Drug Discovery
Technologies Selected for Biolocity Commercialization Funding

Five promising biomedical research innovations across three campuses have been chosen for Biolocity’s newest cohort
Figure: Physical and chemical properties of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) structure.
A Path Forward for Overcoming the Blood–Brain and Blood–Tumor Barriers

Getting cancer drugs to their target can be difficult under the best of circumstances, but in the case of brain cancer the…
Krish Roy and Johnna Temenoff, director and deputy director of CMaT, respectively, prepare the room for the next session.
Setting the Standards for New Therapeutics

Georgia Tech and CMaT host ASTM International workshop focused on cell and tissue manufacturing
Shawna Khouri, managing director of Biolocity, speaking at the Georgia Bio Innovation Summit.
Introducing Biolocity: Guiding Medical Innovation to Market

The Coulter Translational Fund is excited to announce its next-generation effort called Biolocity
Manu Platt and Jennifer Singh
Linking Biomedical Engineering and Sociology

New approach to an old course brings together the components of cell biology with social reality
Coulter Translational Program team: (left to right) Christina Wessels, Shawna Khouri, and Cierra Crowder.
Accelerating Health Security Innovations

Coulter Translational (Biolocity) Program Selected For DRIVe Accelerator Network
Phil Santangelo (pictured right), professor, and James Dahlman (pictured left) assistant professor, in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
Dahlman and Santangelo Awarded $3.5M NIH Grant to Develop a New mRNA-based Drug that Corrects DNA in Genes

Researchers are targeting a therapy for inherited blood disorders using gene editing
Phil Santangelo, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University
Santangelo Awarded NIH Grant to Develop New Reversible Immunocontraception Method

New contraception method will offer an easy to use, reversible, non-hormonal solution
Lakshmi Prasad Dasi will be joining the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University on January 1, 2020, as a professor.
Lakshmi Prasad Dasi Joining Coulter Department as Professor

Meet Lakshmi Prasad Dasi who studies cardiovascular engineering
David Myers is joining the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University on October 1, 2019, as an assistant professor.
David Myers Joins the Coulter Department as Assistant Professor

Meet David Myers who is improving healthcare measurements and studies ways to extract information from biological systems
Aniruddh Sarkar is joining the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University on November 1, 2019, as an assistant professor.
Aniruddh Sarkar Joining the Coulter Department as Assistant Professor

Meet Aniruddh Sarkar who is building new technology for precision biology and medicine by exploiting nanoscale physical phenomena
Felipe Garcia Quiroz is joining the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University on January 1, 2020, as an assistant professor.
Felipe Garcia Quiroz Joining the Coulter Department as Assistant Professor

Meet Felipe Garcia Quiroz who is working to decode and utilize the repetitive language found in nature
James Dahlman Wins BMES Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award
James Dahlman Wins BMES Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award

Award given to a young investigator whose published work demonstrates originality and ingenuity
Two Georgia Tech Teams Reach Finals of The Collegiate Inventors Competition
Two Georgia Tech Teams Reach Finals of The Collegiate Inventors Competition

Both inventor finalist teams include biomedical engineering alumni
BME Professor Cheng Zhu and research scientist Kaitao Li (foreground) are among the co-authors of a new Perspective article in Nature Immunology.
Forcing a Stronger Immune Response

Georgia Tech researcher Cheng Zhu and collaborators share their perspective in Nature Immunology
The atrium of the Marcus Nanotechnology Building was buzzing with activity.
BME Talent Grabs Recruiters' Interest

Career Fair brings 21 companies and 600-plus students together in annual networking event
A group of scientists have proposed to define change in force over time as "yank." We don’t feel motion if it’s smooth. What we do feel is acceleration or deceleration: changes in speed over time. However, muscles appear to respond to changes in force over time.
A New Term in Biophysics: force/time = “yank”

Research enhance the vocabulary in the study of study of jumping, sprinting, capturing prey and maintaining balance
Cassie Mitchell
There's no Quit in Cassie Mitchell

BME assistant professor is pioneering research in predictive medicine while chasing Paralympic gold
Biomedical Engineering Ranked No.4 in U.S. News Undergraduate Rankings
Biomedical Engineering Ranked No.4 in U.S. News Undergraduate Rankings

Georgia Tech’s Undergraduate Engineering Program Ranked 4th Overall
Simone Douglas -- 5th Year Ph.D. Candidate
Meet Simone Douglas -- 5th Year Ph.D. Candidate

Her research covers sickle cell disease, engineered microvessels, and fibrin
Ankur Singh will be joining the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University as an associate professor. Singh will also join the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech as a faculty member.
Ankur Singh Joining the Coulter Department as Associate Professor

Meet Ankur Singh who is developing “living” immune tissues, and pursuing the discovery and translation of immunotherapies
Wallace H. Coulter Department Wins Diversity Champion Award
Wallace H. Coulter Department Wins Diversity Champion Award

Winners actively demonstrate and positively promote the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Tech
Left to Right = Joshua Lewis, Prerna Jain, George Gruenhagen
Congratulations 2019 Outstanding Bioinformatics Students

Congratulations to Joshua Lewis (Ph.D.), George Gruenhagen (M.S.), and Prerna Jain (M.S.) who were recognized as the 2019…
Lena Ting
An Improved Understanding of Spasticity Using the Pendulum Test

New model lends additional insight into physiological mechanisms of spasticity in cerebral palsy
Zhengming Cao, a visiting graduate student at Georgia Tech, is working on improving durability for platinum-based fuel cell catalysts. (Credit: Christopher Moore)
Selenium Anchors Could Improve Durability of Platinum Fuel Cell Catalysts

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new platinum-based catalytic system that is far more durable…
Ahmet Coskun, assistant professor, in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
Ahmet Coskun Joins Coulter Department as Assistant Professor

Meet Ahmet Coskun who studies spatial biology in health and disease
This close-up image shows details of the ultra-thin, low-profile sensor used for monitoring blood flow in the brain. (Georgia Tech Photo)
Stretchable Wireless Sensor Could Monitor Healing of Cerebral Aneurysms

A wireless sensor small enough to be implanted in the blood vessels of the human brain could help clinicians evaluate the healing…
First-Year Students Create Their Very Own Periodic Tables

Projects based on fantasy or reality were inspired by the 2019 International Year of the Periodic Table.
Just as a prism separates white light into colors of different wavelengths, researcher Lu Zhang and his collaborators on the Singer team have developed a new method to separate brain waves into different states based on their frequency and phase. These brain states are thought to play an important role in how brain areas communicate.
Understanding the Flavors in our Heads

Annabelle Singer and team develop new approach to investigate oscillatory brain dynamics