{"134881":{"#nid":"134881","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Establishes a New Research Center Focused on Cancer","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech, which has had a long-standing history in cancer research, announces a new Integrated Cancer Research Center which will bring together 48 biologists, bioengineers, chemists and physicists from seven different schools and departments, to take new innovative approaches to basic cancer research.\u0026nbsp;John McDonald, PhD, professor of biology in the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB), will head the new center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe mission of the Integrated Cancer Research Center is to facilitate integration of the diversity of technological, computational, scientific and medical expertise at Georgia Tech and partner institutions in a coordinated effort to develop improved cancer diagnostics and therapeutics,\u201d McDonald explained.\u2028\u2028\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor years, the study of cancer has been concentrated at major medical research institutions and cancer research has been traditionally viewed as falling exclusively within the bailiwick of the biological sciences. This is now changing for the better, according to McDonald.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2028\u201cWe are at a truly exciting crossroads in the history of cancer research where molecular biology, the computational sciences, engineering and nanotechnology are joining together in a unified effort to develop more effective cancer diagnostics and therapeutics,\u201d added McDonald.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENew high-throughput methods to molecularly characterize cancer cells have, in recent years, lead to tremendous strides in the development of novel diagnostics and the identification of new molecular targets for therapeutic intervention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2028\u2028On the computational side, recently developed algorithms customized for the analysis of genomic, proteomic and other high volume datasets are providing a level of insight into cellular complexities never before imagined. The number of new technologies and devices arising from the fields of biomedical engineering and nanotechnology that have potential application to the area of cancer biology has tremendous promise.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMcDonald\u2019s enthusiasm for the new cancer center is shared by Robert Guldberg, PhD, executive director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech, particularly researchers throughout the IBB community, have been leaders in the development of collaborative approaches to both cancer diagnostics and therapeutics,\u201d Guldberg explained. \u201cThis new center will bring together researchers from a wide-variety of backgrounds to tackle complex research problems in new and exciting ways.\u201d \u2028\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/icrc.gatech.edu\/research\u0022\u003EVisit the new Integrated Cancer Research Center website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Seven different schools and departments join together to form the new Integrated Cancer Research Center."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeven different schools and departments join together to form the new Integrated Cancer Research Center.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seven different schools and departments join together to form the new Integrated Cancer Research Center."}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2012-06-12 10:58:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:22","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-06-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"134871":{"id":"134871","type":"image","title":"The human cell, like all robust systems, is highly integrated","body":null,"created":"1449178671","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:37:51","changed":"1475894763","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:03","alt":"The human cell, like all robust systems, is highly integrated","file":{"fid":"194773","name":"molecular1.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/molecular1_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/molecular1_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":16323,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/molecular1_0.png?itok=6xpdCB_1"}}},"media_ids":["134871"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/icrc.gatech.edu\/research","title":"ICRC website"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mcdonaldlab.biology.gatech.edu\/","title":"John McDonald"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"35741","name":"Georgia Tech Establishes a New Research Center Focused on Cancer"},{"id":"2371","name":"John McDonald"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMegan McDevitt, CMP\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications and Marketing Director\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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