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Coulter Department News

Scott Hollister with the airway splint
Lifesaving Device Providing Breath of Hope

Hollister lab at Georgia Tech re-engineers airway splint to treat rare, fatal condition in newborns

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Peking University Honors BME Chair Emeritus with Wu Distinguished Lecture

Eva Dyer
Making Sense of the Brain

Eva Dyer at the forefront of surge in computational neuroscience research at Georgia Tech

Biomedical engineering teams won both of the top project awards at the Fall 2021 Capstone Design Expo Dec. 7. For the first time, two teams won Best Overall Project —Team EsophaGuys for the online version of the expo and Team carSEAL for the in-person. The top BME team award went to NICUties. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)
BME Students' Surgical Devices Sweep Best Overall Project Awards at Fall 2021 Capstone Design Expo

Peng Qiu
Qiu Secures $2.8M from the Helmsley Charitable Trust for Long-Term Crohn’s Disease Study

Screenshot of Washington Post In Sight photo blog: "My day with Henry Evans – a quadriplegic who's gaining movement through robotics"
Washington Post: How Charlie Kemp’s Robots Help Henry Evans ‘Move’ Again

Serban and Desai
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center Names Desai, Serban Inaugural Peterson Professors

Ankur Singh
Prostate Cancer Organoids Open Path to Precision Oncology

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Nature Methods Study Describes New Tool to Help Solve Spheroid Puzzle

Gabe Kwong, left, and Peng Qiu, who are collaborating on a new project to develop synthetic biosensors capable of basic computing logic. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)
Proposed Synthetic Biosensors Use Computing Logic to Detect Metastasizing Cancer

Illustration of two published papers with journal names, Operative Neurosurgery and Military Medicine. (Illustration: Manit Rambhia)
From Capstone Design to Published Research

Two senior design teams publish reports on their brain-related projects in academic journals

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Faces of Research at Georgia Tech: Meet Krishnendu Roy

Velda Wang is now a freshman at Duke University.
Mitchell Lab Intern Publishes Study to Help Improve Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials

Velda Wang is a co-lead author on the paper in Brain Sciences

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Douglas-Green Returns to Coulter BME as a Faculty Member

During a lab tour, master’s student Sahar Ibrahim, right, shows Scott and Arline Alexander an example of a 3D-printed vascular structure that can be designed to mimic a specific patient’s anatomy. Ibrahim works with David Frakes, a Coulter BME associate professor. (Photo: Joshua Stewart)
Alexanders Expand Support for Heart Valve Research

The new Design Garden space includes moveable furniture, plenty of whiteboards, and a skyline view of Midtown Atlanta. Located below the Veterans Resource Center in the Georgia Tech BioQuad, the space triples the amount of design-focused square footage in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. (Photo: Craig Bromley)
Coulter BME Plants Seeds of Growth in New Design Garden

Andrés García is the second director of the Petit Institute elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Andrés García Elected to National Academy of Medicine

Bioengineer is third Georgia Tech faculty member and second Petit Institute director to receive honor, following in footsteps of Bob Nerem and former BME Chair Susan Margulies

 

 

Jared Meyers and Stephen Kalinsky headshots
Recent Grads’ Bladder Sensor Wins Runner-Up Prize in Collegiate Inventors Competition

Lena Ting in her lab with a subject in the background. (Photo: Rob Felt)
Ting Appointed to McCamish Distinguished Chair

This group of clinicians and scientists will collaborate with Chethan Pandarinath, front right, on a $2.4 million, five-year project using artificial intelligence tools to revolutionize the speed and accuracy of brain-machine interfaces. The team includes Robert Gross, front left, a functional neurosurgeon; Jonathan Glass, back left, a neurologist and director of Emory's ALS Center; and Nicholas Au Yong, also a functional neurosurgeon. (Photo: Jack Kearse)
Pandarinath Wins NIH New Innovator Award for AI-Powered Brain-Machine Interfaces

Artificial intelligence could be the key to faster, universal interfaces for paralyzed patients

Manu Platt in his lab (Photo: Allison Carter)
Platt Elevated to BMES Fellow

Cristi Bell-Huff sits at a conference table with her tablet computer.
Bell-Huff Using Rising Star Award to Spread the Story-Driven Approach

Illustration of the Emory - Georgia Tech shuttle bus
Best of Both Worlds

For more than 20 years, students and researchers at Emory and Georgia Tech have been blazing new trails together at the intersection of medicine and engineering

The Augment Health Bladder Management Device. The device is a sensor that fits between the catheter and catheter valve and sends notifications to a smartphone or other device when the user's bladder is full. (Image Courtesy: Augment Health)
App-Connected Bladder Sensor Makes Collegiate Inventors Competition Finals

Chethan Pandarinath headshot
Pandarinath Building Cloud-Based Tools to Give Any Neuroscientist the Power of AI

The AsculBand is designed to expand virtual exam capabilities.
BME Grads Win NIH Design Challenge with a Telemedicine ‘Ear’ for Doctors

#3 biomedical engineering program in the nation - 2022 U.S. News & World Report rankings
Coulter BME Again Ranks Among Top Undergrad Programs in U.S.

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Biolocity Selects 5 Promising Technologies for New Round of Funding and Support

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Haynes Joins NIH Biosecurity Advisory Board

In this screenshot from NBCOlympics.com, Cassie Mitchell throws a personal-best (and American record) 24.18 meters in the club throw at the Tokyo Paralympics.
Mitchell Wins Silver in Tokyo with Record Club Throw

The Health Sciences Research Building at Emory
Coulter BME Welcomes Record Classes of PhD, Master’s Students

Cell signaling at work.
Coskun Gets Pilot Grant from SPORE to Study Cell Signaling in Lung Cancer

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