{"342851":{"#nid":"342851","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Coulter Partnership","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you have a promising technological innovation to improve patient care, than you might want to be in the Suddath Seminar Room in the Parker H. Petit Biotech Building this Tuesday, November 11, from 11 to noon. That\u2019s when the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/ctp\u0022\u003EEmory\/Georgia Tech Coulter Translational Partnership (CTP)\u003C\/a\u003E will lift off once again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re re-launching the program and it\u2019s going to be a different model than it was before,\u201d says Rachael Hagan, director of the program, funded by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.whcf.org\/\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, whose essential goal is to move promising technologies from the lab to commercial development and clinical practice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re concentrating on funding research directed toward unmet medical needs and to get products to market,\u201d says Hagan. \u201cSo we fund partnerships between the clinician, who has the need, and the principal investigator who has a technical solution. This usually happens after they \u2018ve already done the basic research and they\u2019re in the proof-of-concept stage. We want to help them fill in the gap in funding that happens at that time, to move the technology from the bench to the bedside.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Emory\/GT CTP, based in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), is one of 15 CTPs at universities around the country, including the University of Washington-Seattle, where Hagan was the program director for eight years before coming to Atlanta to revive a program that had basically been on sabbatical for several years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHagan says the BME (a collaborative effort between Emory and Georgia Tech) was the first recipient of the Coulter Translational Partnership Award back in 2000. Eight more universities were added to the partnership in 2005 (Boston University, Case Western, Drexel, Duke, Stanford, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin), and six more have been added since (Columbia, Johns Hopkins, University of Louisville, University of Missouri, University of Pittsburgh, University of Southern California).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThe program has morphed and evolved and we\u2019ve developed best practices through the years,\u201d Hagan says. \u201cWe know what we\u2019ve got to do to get this program back up on its feet and make it a great success.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe journey begins with today\u2019s open house in Petit Institute Room 1128 (Suddath Seminar Room). Hagan will be on hand to reintroduce the program, discuss the application process and answer any questions about this funding program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\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 and Bioscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Translational funding program re-launches Tuesday"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETranslational funding program re-launches Tuesday\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Translational funding program re-launches Tuesday"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2014-11-07 11:43:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:26","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"342811":{"id":"342811","type":"image","title":"Rachael Hagan","body":null,"created":"1449245639","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:13:59","changed":"1475895062","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:02","alt":"Rachael Hagan","file":{"fid":"200820","name":"hagan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hagan_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hagan_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2260044,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hagan_0.jpg?itok=a5RGoMO3"}}},"media_ids":["342811"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.whcf.org\/partnership-award\/overview","title":"Coulter Translational Partnership"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"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 and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}