{"27990":{"#nid":"27990","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bioengineering student named Kauffman Fellow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech bioengineering Ph.D. student Yash Kolambkar is one of 13 postdoctoral researchers to be named among the first Kauffman Postdoctoral Fellows.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to providing a salary and benefits to support the fellows\u0027 research over the course of the yearlong fellowship, the Kauffman Foundation has matched each fellow with an academic advisor to mentor him\/her on matters beyond research, and an experienced investor or corporate leader to serve as a business mentor. During the fellowship year, each fellow also will undertake an industry internship suited to his or her research interests and objectives.\n\nKolambkar is a researcher in the biomedical field with a strong focus on translation of research ideas into commercially viable products. \n\nYash has earned a technology commercialization certificate from the nationally recognized TI:GER (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results) program, based at Georgia Tech and Emory Law School. In the program, he developed a commercialization plan for his PhD technology, which would restore cartilage in osteoarthritic patients. He has been a consultant to VentureLab, where he identified and evaluated Georgia Tech technologies with strong commercial potential.\n\nHe is currently preparing to successfully defend his PhD thesis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech bioengineering Ph.D. student Yash Kolambkar is one of 13 postdoctoral researchers to be named among the first Kauffman Postdoctoral Fellows.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ph.D. student Yash Kolambkar named among the first Kaufman Fello"}],"uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2009-09-17 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:00:50","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-09-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-09-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3407","name":"Kauffman Postdoctoral Fellow; Bioengineering; Award"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"Don Fernandez\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}