{"319741":{"#nid":"319741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Temenoff Heading GTBioMAT","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Johnna Temenoff was recently named principal investigator (PI), for the Georgia Tech Training Program for Rationally Designed, Integrative Biomaterials (GTBioMAT), and her predecessor, Ravi Bellamkonda, offers a very good reason why. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cJohnna literally wrote the book on the subject,\u201d says Bellamkonda, referring to \u003Cem\u003EBiomaterials: The Intersection of Biology and Materials Science\u003C\/em\u003E, the award-winning undergraduate textbook Temenoff that co-authored (with her mentor at Rice University, A.G. Mikos). Published in 2008, the book has been adopted by more than 40 universities in the U.S. and has been published in three international editions. In 2010, it won the Meriam-Wiley Award for Best New Engineering Textbook by the American Society for Engineering Education. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Temenoff, an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and faculty member of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, not only has written the story \u2013 she is immersed in it, playing a leading role in the growing body of biomaterials research and study, while ardently supporting the work of Georgia Tech\u2019s biotech graduate students. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cJohnna has been an integral part of the Graduate Leadership Program, and has a strong commitment to graduate education. She is also emerging in the field nationally. \u0022I look forward to our training program attaining greater heights under her leadership,\u201d says Bellamkonda, who chairs the Coulter Department (a collaborative between Tech and Emory). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGTBioMAT, sponsored through a grant from the NIH\u2019s National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, offers advanced training for pre-doctoral students in the rational design, synthesis, and application of the next generation of integrative biomaterials. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStudents receive comprehensive and integrated training, which includes fundamental and interdisciplinary courses (such as the training program\u2019s capstone Rational Design of Biomaterials course and lab), two laboratory rotations (one is a \u2018materials synthesis\u2019 and the other is an \u2018application\/clinical\u2019 experience), and informal interactions with clinicians to gain more insight into the clinical setting. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd GTBioMAT, which also helps trainees develop in other areas (such as leadership, values, and personal development through participation in the aforementioned Graduate Leadership Program), is growing \u2013 the NIH added an additional two student slots per year, which Temenoff says, \u201cmakes this an exciting time to become the PI. As a co-director for the past three years, I now more fully understand how this grant contributes to building the biomaterials community at Georgia Tech and Emory. Through this new position, I look forward to creating even more opportunities for faculty and students to interact within our already vibrant research environment.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Former co-director becomes PI of integrative training program"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Former co-director becomes PI of integrative training program\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Former co-director becomes PI of integrative training program"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2014-08-28 12:48:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:59","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"319751":{"id":"319751","type":"image","title":"Johnna Temenoff, PhD - Director of GTBioMAT program, associate professor in the Wallace H. 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Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering \u0026amp; Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}