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Devina Puri won in the Ph.D. candidate category. Her talk covered, “Single-cell Dynamics of Bacterial Biofilm Formation.”
Best Seminar Award Winners

Best Coulter Department Ph.D. candidate and postdoctoral seminar presenters announced
WiSAT - Wheelchair In-seat Activity Tracker
Coulter Translational Program Announces Funding Collaboration with Rick Hansen Institute

Funding will support commercialization of wheelchair in-seat activity tracker
Scott Hollister
Hollister and Team Study Long-term Effects of Tracheal Splint

Coulter Department/Petit Institute researcher at Georgia Tech says next step for groundbreaking device would be Phase One…
Anagha Krishnan, a third-year biomedical engineering undergraduate student, from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
Anagha Krishnan Among 24 Under 24 Leaders and Innovators in STEAM and Space Award

Mars Generation selects BME student as a leader who is breaking barriers in STEAM fields
Wilbur Lam, associate professor of pediatrics at Emory School of Medicine and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
NIH selects biomedical engineer/hematologist for Emerging Investigator Award and $5 million grant

The award is one of only seven NHLBI emerging investigator awards nationally this year.
Georgia Tech BME students Julia Woodall and Lee-Kai Sun are 2019 recipients of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. 
Two BME Students Win Goldwater Scholarships

The Barry Goldwater Scholarship was established by congress in 1986
Jaydev Desai
Desai Secures $2.8 Million Grant to Develop Steerable Robotic Guidewire

NIH ranks researcher’s proposal with its best possible score
Team SecURO (left to right): Rachel Mann, Jared Brown, and Bailey Klee
SecURO Takes First Place at Johns Hopkins University Healthcare Design Competition

Two BME teams advanced to the competition finals with one team winning in its category
Tube Team takes center stage to accept their BME Capstone award. Left to right are Emily Dunford, Arielle Margulies, Sarah Nixon, and Director of BME Capstone, James Rains.
Tube Team Takes Top BME Capstone Honors

ME team wins overall project award as 236 teams from 11 different schools and programs compete in spring event
Cristi Bell-Huff, Ph.D., from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Women in Engineering Honors Cristi Bell-Huff

Recipient of Georgia Tech’s WIE 2019 Faculty Award
Manu Platt, associate professor in the Coulter Department, won the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award.
Six BME Faculty Honored at Georgia Tech’s Annual Faculty and Staff Awards Event

Georgia Tech recognizes top faculty members for the 2018-19 academic year
Bilal Haider (center) is flanked by his co-researchers, grad students Joseph Del Rosario (left) and Anderson Speed (right).
How to Influence Perception

Research from Haider lab demonstrates that visual behavior is impacted by the moment-to-moment state of activity in the primary…
William (Bill) W. George, former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, delivered the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering’s distinguished lecture at the Academy of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Pictured with BME chair Susan Margulies.
BME’s 2019 Distinguished Lecture Delivered by Bill George

Former CEO of Medtronic Focuses on Innovation Leadership in Biomedicine
Lizzy Kappler and Yahia Ali of Libi Medical, a student team from Georgia Tech, took top honors in the Rice 360° Institute for Global Health’s design competition March 29 for their fetal heart-monitoring technology. (Photo by Jack Wang)
Georgia Tech BME Team Wins Highest Honor at Rice 360⁰ Design Competition

Team Libi Medical Won First Place and the People’s Choice Award
The activity sensor illustrated in reddish-pink with small, green attachments is shown here in its application to detect organ transplant rejection. T cells secrete the enzyme granzyme, here in gray, which kills cells but also severs the fluorescent green signal molecules from the activity sensing nanoparticle. The green signal molecules make their way into the urine, where they give off a fluorescent cue. Credit: Georgia Tech / EllaMaru Studios work for hire / press handout
Urine Test to Evaluate Immunotherapy Success Gets $1.8 Million NIH Research Grant

Immunotherapy can eradicate cancer or fall down trying, and this sensor monitors that success or failure.
After intramuscular injection, isolated tissues were examined at the cellular level via confocal microscopy and flow cytometry.
New PET/CT Scanning Approach Could Help Accelerate mRNA Vaccine Development

The non-invasive approach combines radionuclide and near-infrared imaging
Susan Margulies is a GRA Eminent Scholar and the chair of the top-ranked Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
Susan Margulies Wants to Protect Your Brain

Georgia Research Alliance Interviews Susan Margulies, Ph.D.
New AIMBE Fellows from the Coulter Department are (L-R): Mark Borodovsky, Manu Platt, and W. Robert Taylor.
BME Faculty join Medical and Bioengineering Elite

Mark Borodovsky, Manu Platt, and Bob Taylor inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows
Cheng Zhu is a Regents Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Credit: Allison Carter
Mediating from the Middle

From the lab of Cheng Zhu: Integrin, vital proteins that play a major role in hemostasis and thrombosis, biomechanically…
Image shows the view through the PR2’s cameras showing the environment around the robot. Clicking the yellow disc allows users the control the arm. (Credit: Phillip Grice, Georgia Tech)
Seeing through a Robot’s Eyes Helps Those with Profound Motor Impairments

An interface system that uses augmented reality technology could help individuals with profound motor impairments operate a…
Ethos Medical Wins 2019 Georgia Tech InVenture Prize

Leading-edge medical device takes 1st place in 2019 Georgia Tech InVenture Prize.
TremorTrainer is a therapeutic glove that implements counter-weight technology in order to enable those suffering from hand tremors to regain their ability to perform any everyday task.
2019 InVenture Finalist: TremorTrainer

TremorTrainer is a therapeutic glove that implements counter-weight technology in order to enable those suffering from hand…
Three engineering graduates constructed a handheld medical device to help guide the placement of needles used for spinal tap procedures. The goal is to make the procedure safer by providing a tool to assist medical professionals in placing the injection correctly without having to guess or repeat to find a precise location.
2019 InVenture Finalist: Ethos Medical

The three members of Ethos Medical have been building a device that could someday touch millions of lives, and they’ve been doing…
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech and Emory is ranked #3 in U.S. News & World Report’s latest ranking of the nation’s top graduate biomedical engineering programs for 2019-2020.
Biomedical Engineering Ranked #3 in U.S. News Graduate Rankings for 2020

Biomedical engineering graduate program among top three in latest U.S. News rankings
Eberhard Voit
Eberhard Voit Named an SMB Fellow

Pioneering researcher in computational systems biology earns rare honor
A T cell, here in purple, makes contact with a transplant organ cell, here in reddish brown. The T cell secretes the enzyme granzyme B, here in gray, which attacks the organ cell. But granzyme B also severs fluorescent signal molecules, in green, from the rejection detecting nanoparticle, in light pink. The signal molecules make their way into the urine, where they give off a fluorescent cue. Georgia Tech / EllaMaru Studio (work for hire, all rights GT, free for distribution).
Urine Test Detects Organ Transplant Rejection, Could Replace Needle Biopsies

New nanoparticle makes urine glow as soon as T cells initiate an attack on transplanted organs
The Project ENGAGES community gathered to celebrate its graduating seniors. (Credit: Sean McNeil, Georgia Tech Research Institute)
Georgia Tech Project ENGAGES Striving for Excellence

National thought leaders help high school program celebrate seniors at Petit Institute
Cassie Mitchell, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory.
P is for Predictive Healthcare

Big data helps doctors treat, cure and improve patient outcomes
Lena Ting, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory and Georgia Tech  (Photo by Tony Benner)
Engineering Training Helps Emory-Georgia Tech Researcher Treat Movement Disorders

Lena Ting named a 2018 Health Care Hero Award winner
BME Celebration: Pictured are (left to right) Wilbur Lam, Susan Margulies, Leita Young, and Julie Babensee.
BME Spring Celebration of Community

Coulter Department launches new program recognizing faculty/staff accomplishments
The Next Frontier in Biomedical Engineering

Michael Davis changes the landscape of pediatric cardiology with stem cell therapies and 3D printing
Left to right: Zackory Erickson, a PR2 robot, and Charlie Kemp
Robot Teaches Itself How to Dress People

A robot at the Georgia Institute of Technology is successfully sliding hospital gowns on people's arms