{"479451":{"#nid":"479451","#data":{"type":"news","title":"There and Back Again","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EA group of graduate students from the Georgia Institute of Technology took a whirlwind trip to the cradle of the biotechnology industry last month to learn from the experts and make connections within the growing field of cell and tissue engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe 13 students, trainees from the Cell and Tissue Engineering Program (CTEng) supported by NIH\u2019s National Institute of General Medical Science and based in the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, visited the South San Francisco headquarters of Genentech, the company often credited with launching the biotech industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThough the trip was a blur \u2013 Tuesday evening arrival, Wednesday tour of Genentech, Wednesday night flight back to Atlanta \u2013 it was a red-eye opening experience that left a deep impression on the students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cI didn\u2019t realize how much of an academic environment there was,\u201d says Alexandra Atalis, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Wallace H. 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But we also saw familiar things like microscopy facilities that are similar to what we\u2019re used to at Georgia Tech. It illustrated to me how far out on the cutting edge we are at Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ELike Atalis, Edwards was impressed with the academic-like atmosphere at Genentech, which is not typical in an industry setting, according to CTEng Director Andr\u00e9s\u0026nbsp;Garc\u00eda, professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and a Petit Institute faculty member.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThey\u2019re not just interested in developing a pipeline. There\u2019s a big focus on research and a push to publish in academic journals,\u201d Edwards says. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to see that there\u2019s an opportunity to do basic research in an industry setting.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe Georgia Tech group began the day with a Genentech history lesson. In the early 1970s, biochemist Herbert Boyer and geneticist Stanley Cohen pioneered a new scientific field called recombinant DNA technology. After hearing about this development, Swanson called Boyer and what was supposed to be a 10-minute meeting turned into three hours. When they were finished, Genentech was born.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThen the students received \u201ca presentation geared toward research, something we\u2019re used to hearing,\u201d says Edwards, who works in the lab of Petit Institute researcher Susan Thomas. \u201cBut we also were exposed to things we don\u2019t see very often \u2013 robots that transfer small nanoscale samples through a variety of testing. That was a cool thing to see, a fully automated assembly line.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThere was a personal connection to Genentech for Atalis, who is interested in cancer immunotherapy and works in the lab of Petit Institute faculty member Krishnendu Roy, a Coulter Department professor whose focus is on immunoengineering. 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The sensor was developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who have demonstrated several applications for its ability to spatially resolve the chemical\u2019s presence inside cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKnown as HyPer-Tau, the new sensor modifies a commercially-available protein that alters its fluorescence properties in the presence of hydrogen peroxide. The research, which was supported by the National Institutes of Health, was reported November 20 in the journal \u003Cem\u003EScientific Reports\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe chemistry of cells, unlike more traditional chemistry in test tubes, is highly dependent on where a chemical reaction is occurring,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/Payne\/Christine\u0022\u003EChristine Payne\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E and one of the paper\u2019s senior authors. \u201cHyPer-Tau is a tool that will provide us with information on the \u2018where\u2019 and \u2018when\u2019 for hydrogen peroxide inside living cells.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUntil development of the new technique, hydrogen peroxide sensors could only tag certain components of cells, or show that the cells contained the oxidant. To understand the role of hydrogen peroxide in signaling and oxidation, however, the researchers wanted to know the time-resolved location of the chemical.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe needed a tool that could discriminate between locations to provide more than a whole readout of oxidation,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Melissa-Kemp\u0022\u003EMelissa Kemp\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u201cWith very specific spatial information, we could be better informed about how cellular processes or therapies involving oxidation are going to operate.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKemp and Payne realized that if they could anchor the reporter protein to microtubules \u2013 fibrous structures that crisscross cells like railroad tracks \u2013 they might obtain the location information they needed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther researchers had already created variants of the HyPer reporter protein, so the researchers \u2013 with technician Emilie Warren, undergraduate researcher Tatiana Netterfield and postdoctoral researcher Saheli Sarkar \u2013 set out to create a new tool. They added a tubulin-binding protein known as Tau, that connects the HyPer protein to the microtubule structures. Fluorescence microscopy then allowed them to observe the real-time change in fluorescence as oxidation occurred in the cells they were studying.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cConnecting the reporter protein allows us to get a grid-type readout of oxidation going on inside the cells,\u201d said Kemp. \u201cBy having the protein tethered, we can get very specific sub-cellular information. You can readily see areas with more intense oxidation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe used a traffic analogy to compare information provided by the new technique to that provided by the earlier one. Earlier sensors would have reported that traffic in a downtown area was congested, while the new sensor could pinpoint an accident on a specific street causing the delays. The latter information allows specific action to be taken, Kemp said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKemp and Payne have already used the tool to visualize the signaling process that takes place as macrophages discover bacteria and move to engulf and destroy the invaders.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen the macrophages are activated, they begin shooting out tiny leg-like structures that seek the bacterial signal,\u201d explained Kemp. \u201cTo do so, they require hydrogen peroxide to control the migration and other activities. We can see in these leading edges where the oxidation is occurring inside the cells, providing an unprecedented view of the behavior.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy combining multiple images, the researchers produced movies correlating the production of hydrogen peroxide to the activities of the immune system cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn another application, the sensor was used to study how cells respond to the introduction of extracellular hydrogen peroxide, which produces a wave of oxidation as it moves through the cellular structures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis provides a way to quantify both intracellular and intercellular variation that is occurring,\u201d Kemp explained. \u201cOur goal is to be able to monitor in real-time the events that are occurring. Because of the spectral features of the reporter, you can couple this with other types of dyes to monitor organelles and different types of production.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKemp hopes to use the new sensor to better understand oxidation of another type of immune cell, T cells, as they form contact with other cells to recognize the presence of viruses. In studies that could be important to understanding the effects of nanoscale materials on living cells, the researchers are working to understand the suspected oxidative impacts of titanium dioxide nanoparticles. The new technique could also be useful in understanding how stem cells change oxidation properties during differentiation into other cell types.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn current research, Netterfield is working with Kemp and Payne to combine the existing technique with other reporter proteins to gain additional information.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnce thought to be a sign of disease processes, hydrogen peroxide is now understood to be a critical signaling chemical inside cells, Kemp noted. Cells purposely produce the chemical, which can quickly oxidize proteins to alter their functions. Hydrogen peroxide is also generated at sites of inflammation, and as macrophages destroy pathogens.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollaboration between Payne \u2013 a physical chemist \u2013 and Kemp \u2013 a biomedical engineer, demonstrates how innovation can occur at the intersections of disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cChemistry and biomedical engineering offer a pretty natural collaboration,\u201d said Payne. \u201cWe both speak the same science language and have a shared interest in developing new tools to enable new science.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director and NIAID under grants DP2OD006483-01 and R01AI088023. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Emilie A. K. 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The attendance and the number of sponsors were both record highs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EMaking all of the moving parts work together at the fair was a committee of 13 students, \u201cwho really ran the fair and did a phenomenal job,\u201d Gerrish says. \u201cThey\u2019re responsible for everything \u2013 recruiting volunteers, contacting industry partners, organizing pre-fair events.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThese pre-fair events are aimed at preparing students for the job search, for building relationships with potential employers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWe want students to have a successful experience at the fair,\u201d says Liane Tellier, co-chair of the Career Fair Committee.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ETo do that, the committee helps participating students through pre-fair events and info sessions focused on creating resumes, alerting students of the job opportunities at various companies, preparing for interviews, and networking with alumni who have been through all of those drills already.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWe\u2019d like to ensure that the career fair also offers a wide variety of career options for our qualified student population,\u201d notes Charles Ge, who also co-chaired the committee.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ESo this year, the committee assembled a wide range of companies in biotech-related fields, ranging from medical device companies (Medtronic, for example), medical products (like Johnson \u0026amp; Johnson), and institutes of higher education and training (such as Keck Graduate Institute).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIn addition to those, the who\u2019s who list of companies and organizations at the fair included C.R. Bard, Becton Dickinson, Chart Industries, Clarkston Consulting, Epic, Eppendorf North America, Halyard Health, Georgia Bio-Emerging Leaders Network, Huron Consulting Group, Pabst Patent Group LLP, Procter \u0026amp; Gamble, QGenda, Sebacia, Inc., Southern Spine LLC, Stryker Orthopaedics, Universal Hospital Services, Inc., and W.L. Gore \u0026amp; Associates, Inc. Sponsoring the event and also on hand were Boston Scientific, PrepMD, St. Jude Medical, T3 Labs and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThe fair is a wonderful opportunity for companies to visit our university and become aware of the highly talented students that we graduate,\u201d says James Rains, professor of practice and director of the BME Capstone program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EFor students, he says, \u201cits a rare opportunity to meet with companies that are competing in the healthcare industry.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EGerrish remembers when the event drew only 250 students. It\u2019s more than doubled in size, and has grown in scope also, attracting mostly BME students, but also students from almost every other engineering discipline.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWe have a growing number of students from different majors,\u201d Gerrish says. \u201c which is great, because this event is really for any student on campus interested in biotechnology,\u201d Gerrish says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ERains listened closely to company feedback at the event, and was happy to report, \u201cthey are amazed to find so many students that are both intelligent and engaging \u2013 a rare combination for engineers,\u201d he says. \u201cThey also noted that our program is unique because we prepare our students to be immediate contributors within an organization, making them highly attractive as potential hires.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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Coulter Distinguished Lecture in Biomedical Engineering (BME).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHow many people have had anesthesia before?\u201d Brown asked his audience of more than 130 at the Academy of Medicine at the outset of his lecture, entitled, \u201cDeciphering the Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen about half the people in the room raised their hands, he said, \u201cwell, I picked the right topic then.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThen he spent the next 45 minutes or so presenting his research on what happens to the human brain, at different ages, under anesthesia. Sorting it all out, he said, required \u201can amalgam of neuroscience, statistics and modeling.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work represents an important contribution to neuroscience because historically, \u201cwe haven\u2019t taken the study of general anesthesia seriously as a neuroscience discipline, and it very much is,\u201d he said, adding that a more serious approach to studying anesthesiology will not only improve patient care, but lead to a greater understanding of how the brain works and help address other problems in clinical neuroscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlong the way, Brown also helped answer another, broader question for Coulter Department Chairman Ravi Bellamkonda.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPeople ask me all the time, \u2018what do biomedical engineers do,\u2019\u201d said Bellamkonda, who had earlier described the BME department as, \u201ca powerful incubator of ideas.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrown\u2019s presentation, he said, was a great example of how different disciplines help spark the knowledge and discovery that keeps the incubator humming with activity. \u201cThis talk was a perfect illustration of how technology and math and physics can help us understand something that we think of as biology,\u201d Bellamkonda added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s lecture provided an opportunity for BME\u2019s growing expertise in neuroscience to step to the forefront, said Garrett Stanley, the BME professor who served as faculty host, and who first met Brown years ago.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the time, Stanley was just starting his lab at Harvard and a colleague suggested he seek out Brown for some statistical information. Stanley was surprised to discover that Brown was also an anesthesiologist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBut he was also a serious statistician and mathematician, immersed in the field of neuroscience,\u201d Stanley said. \u201cI\u2019m not a scholar in etymology, but I\u2019m pretty sure that the two words \u2018anesthesiologist\u2019 and \u2018statistician\u2019 have probably never been concatenated in the history of the English language. I think we can thank Emery for that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor his part, Brown took note of the collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach being taken in general at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and specifically within the Coulter Department, a joint department of Georgia Tech and Emory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe work here is phenomenal,\u201d he said. \u201cThis beautiful integration of medicine and engineering and science, because you\u2019ve brought together two institutions, Georgia Tech and Emory. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), she gave what she could to the university through the years. Her $25 gifts became $100 gifts, and so on. And recently, Marilyn solidified her lasting relationship with Tech, establishing a scholarship that will support non-traditional BME students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBME is doing work that will benefit you personally or someone you know,\u201d Marks says. \u201cBasically, they\u2019re doing work that will let loved ones remain vital, and stay alive as long as they live.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat has become a theme for her life, that notion of being fully alive. In fact, Marks wants the evidence of that on her tombstone (in some far-off future): \u201cWhile alive, she lived.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOf course, that isn\u2019t original with me, but my goodness, what a thought,\u201d she says. \u201cGeorgia Tech and BME will last well past my lifetime, and it could have a lasting impact on my children and grandchildren. It\u2019s that important to me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarks came to her realization through hard and heartfelt personal experience. She lost her husband, Ron, to lung cancer almost 10 years ago. Her sister also lost a battle with cancer. Both Marilyn and Ron provided care to their parents late in life, and to Marilyn\u2019s sister. So, she\u2019s seen the toll that an illness can take.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether with Ron, she made a commitment, \u201cto support areas that can impact a person\u2019s health, quality of life, and longevity. Whether we\u2019re talking about a child with a brain tumor or an octogenarian, you deserve a wonderful quality of life. And whether that means better ways of prevention, intervention, or even treatment of a terminal illness, I want to support that. It\u2019s ingrained in me.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe\u2019d been collecting articles about research at Georgia Tech and was particularly interested in what was happening in the bio-community. She started giving, a little here, a little there, whatever she could afford. That\u2019s a message she\u2019d like to spread. \u201cIt\u2019s a journey,\u201d she says. \u201cGive what you can while you\u2019re alive, while you can decide what is important to you.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the things that has always been important to Marks is the concept of \u201clifelong learning,\u201d the idea that there isn\u2019t, or shouldn\u2019t be, a strict timeline to learning. This also was culled from personal experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer parents moved to this country from Poland in the 1920s, first to New York, then to Atlanta, where they operated a grocery store. Her parents never stopped learning. Her mother knew six languages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELater on, after Ron retired from a career in advertising, he took college courses for the sheer joy of learning. And Marilyn refers to herself as, \u201ca recycled student. I didn\u2019t get my graduate degree until I\u2019d started working full-time. I understand the concept of having to work to go to school. Some students have to help support their parents, or simply can\u2019t afford college right after high school, and some just aren\u2019t ready for college at 17 or 18.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo, her gift of $150,000 will support BME undergraduate students who aren\u2019t coming directly from high school, or students who are returning to college. In other words, Marks is helping to fill an important gap in the life of a potential world-changing researcher.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are fortunate to count Marilyn Marks amongst our friends,\u201d says Ravi Bellamkonda, who chairs the Coulter Department, a collaborative department of Georgia Tech and Emory. \u201cShe has an infectious enthusiasm, and the gift of being a generous of spirit, lifting up everything she touches. Her gift will have a great impact in making BME more accessible to our students.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBME strives to attract the best, motivated minds, independent of financial status, according to Bellamkonda, who believes that Marks\u2019 generosity helps the department take a step in that direction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese are often the forgotten students,\u201d Marks says. \u201cThey should not be overlooked. Just think of the lost potential! These are students who some day could make a huge difference in the lives of others.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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This is a fast-moving field, and as opportunities in bioinformatics, telehealth, and device development present themselves, our students need to be positioned to compete and contribute,\u201d Schaar says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarlier this year, Schaar travelled to Galway, Ireland to teach a class on \u201cWearables for Healthcare\u201d as part of a study abroad program. Thirty-two Georgia Tech students from the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) embarked on the journey too. When Schaar heard about\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wearablesforgood.com\/\u0022\u003EUNICEF\u2019s Wearables for Good design challenge\u003C\/a\u003E, she encouraged students to submit their ideas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo her surprise, a team from her class was selected as one of the 10 Wearables for Good challenge finalists. The team,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wearablesforgood.com\/finalist-communic-aid\/\u0022\u003ECommunic-Aid\u003C\/a\u003E, designed a wearable device that facilitates record keeping, aids in the tracking of medications that have been distributed in a post-disaster context, and allows the patient to take part in their treatment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn 19 October 2015, Blair Palmer was invited as guest lecturer at Georgia Tech to talk with undergraduate Biomedical Engineering \u0026amp; Design students about why wearables and sensor technology are part of UNICEF Innovation\u2019s agenda. \u0026nbsp;She also discussed what it takes to scale technology for good, including the criteria to do so, how budding designers and engineers can think about the context of social impact in their work, and to create things that are not only nice to have, but that people need to have. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPalmer encouraged students to think beyond the single point of influence in wearable and sensor technology and how to empower users by curating the right data and information insight that sensor technology provide. \u0026nbsp;She challenged them, \u201cHow can you think about what people already use, what they want to use, and how the information these tools can provide can be intuitive, useful, and remove complexity? \u0026nbsp;At the end of the day, technology has to deliver value by enhancing the way we experience the world around us.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBelow, read our interview with Raja Schaar:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat methodology did you use to inspire your students?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERaja Schaar (RS):\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EKeep it fun. We were dealing with challenging content in a short amount of time; we compressed a 15-week semester into 5 weeks. Also, engineering students tend to be very serious and focused. I wanted to disrupt that by introducing a few games and improv activities. I also used traditional design thinking methodologies to spur creativity and relied on mood boards to keep students inspired and grounded. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhere did your students find their inspiration to develop their ideas?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERS:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EIt took over a week before teams settled on a defined a problem. We started with a mind mapping exercise using the categories established by the Wearables for Good design challenge. We also scoped media, TED talks, and the blogosphere for more informative stories on real-world problems and populations. Since wearable devices sync with big data, we also looked for issues that could use better data. Students worked on the development of personas based on health profiles, location, current events, environmental statistics, and looked for reports from NGOs and other groups working in the same field. They developed mood boards to visualize their research and stay on track. They looked at context, related and existing products, user-centered design, and style.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow did they respond to it?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERS:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EFor the most part, students were enthusiastic and they loved learning something new. Only a few students had thought about wearables as a part of the design discipline, which has so much potential. Seven students had experience with circuits and a few knew about coding. The learning curve was enormous. It was definitely challenging, but whenever the students got their code to run, their sensors to measure, or successfully soldered a component to a microcontroller, \u0026nbsp;they were visibly elated. They were using SnapChat, Twitter, and Facebook to document their progress. I love it when students get a sense of accomplishment and pride in learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents were also excited about working on a project in the social innovation space. Georgia Tech\u2019s undergraduate Biomedical Engineering program attracts mostly women. Sixty percent of our entering students are women and that ratio was reflected in my \u0026nbsp;course. \u0026nbsp;As a result, the students were jazzed about focusing on women and children. We were able to have deep discussions on issues that impact women globally, from sexual\/reproductive health to trafficking and abuse, and empowering women through education. Being able to have mature conversations with passionate teams was refreshing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy do you think universities are not focusing on healthcare wearables when it seems that there is a high demand of healthcare wearables in the market?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERS:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EThat\u2019s a tough question, but I think it has to do with flexibility of Higher Education. Engineering program curriculum requirements are full to overflowing with required courses. A class like wearables for healthcare is seen as a depth elective. While students are required to take courses in circuits, courses are more theoretical than project-based. Project-based design courses are time-consuming and expensive for the program and the students. So adding a course like this isn\u2019t taken lightly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the Industrial Design program at Georgia Tech, there\u2019s a course on wearables, a course on interactive products, and a separate course on healthcare design. Each course lives separately and has its own complexity. What\u2019s really cool is when you combine \u0026nbsp;the three disciplines because you end up with an opportunity to take information from the body, read it through an interactive device, and use that data to empower patients and healthcare providers with information on how to prevent, manage, diagnose, and\/or treat illness. When you have students who are knowledgeable on all three disciplines: 1) understand the body 2) have a basic handle on the design process 3) familiarity with sensors and microcontrollers and coding, and then combine that with a strong desire to improve health and well-being, you\u2019re able to leverage their expanded skill-set to effectively apply knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat were the challenges?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERS:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EThe program was based in Ireland which was a blessing and curse. Here we were doing a project focused on the developing world, but we had no direct interaction with people living in resource-constrained environments. We also had challenges of time and access to the university\u2019s building. \u0026nbsp;Also, in the U.S., the expectation is to work around the clock. In Ireland, they close the campus at 10 pm. \u0026nbsp;Students worked as much as they could within a time frame.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHad there not been a Wearables for Good challenge, what would have been the next steps to develop these wearables?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERS:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EWe have a few avenues I\u2019ve been discussing with the students. CreateX is a GA Tech initiative to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation. Idea to Prototype is a course structured as a directed student where student get research credit to work on prototype development for their own project ideas. We also have 2 campus-wide competitions that BME projects have done well with: INVENTURE Prize at GA Tech and Ideas 2 Serve.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDo you partner with tech companies?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERS:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ENo yet, but I\u2019d love to! We have a few health care industry partners for our capstone course, but I\u2019d like to work with some design and tech companies to help with the specific opportunities related to wearables. We just got a large donation from Texas Instruments to build an interdisciplinary makerspace on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs some of you might know, UNICEF, ARM, and frog announced the Wearables for Good challenge winners last week at SLUSH, a tech event in Helsinki. The winners are SoaPen, a wearable soap that helps limit the spread of infectious viruses by encouraging hand washing for children and KhushiBaby, a necklace that stores electronic health data to track child immunization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou can read more about the 10 finalists here:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wearablesforgood.com\/finalists\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/wearablesforgood.com\/finalists\/\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can read about the winners here:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wearablesforgood.com\/winners\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/wearablesforgood.com\/winners\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe original UNICEF article with Raja Schaar is linked \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.unicefstories.org\/2015\/11\/18\/why-budding-designers-should-keep-social-impact-in-mind-when-designing\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHERE\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"When Schaar heard about UNICEF\u2019s Wearables for Good design challenge, she encouraged students to submit their ideas."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2015-11-20 10:22:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:03","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"472051":{"id":"472051","type":"image","title":"Raja Schaar, BME Design Instructor","body":null,"created":"1449257176","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:26:16","changed":"1475895220","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:40","alt":"Raja Schaar, BME Design Instructor","file":{"fid":"203936","name":"raja_schaar.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/raja_schaar_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/raja_schaar_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1225264,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/raja_schaar_0.jpg?itok=hHAKyHRN"}}},"media_ids":["472051"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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New research published in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Neurophysiology\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;reports that professional ballet dancers\u2019 years of physical training have enabled their nervous systems to coordinate their muscles when they move more precisely than individuals who have no dance training.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe nervous system is comprised of the brain, spinal cord and nerves throughout the body. It allows the body\u2019s systems to communicate and coordinate with each other, such as the brain controlling movement of the leg muscles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERather than controlling muscles individually, the nervous system initiates movement by activating muscles in groups. The groups of muscles are called \u0022motor modules,\u0022 and the nervous system combines different motor modules to achieve a wide range of motion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this study, a research team at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology examined whether long-term training to enhance physical coordination, such as dance training, affects how motor modules are recruited when moving.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This study helps us understand how long-term training in an activity such as dance affects how we do everyday tasks,\u0022 says study author Lena Ting, Ph.D. \u0022We found that years of ballet training change how the nervous system coordinates muscles for walking and balancing behaviors overall. This may also have implications for how training through rehabilitation helps people with impaired mobility.\u0022 Ting is professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory and in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers compared the movements of professional ballet dancers with 10 or more years of ballet training to individuals with no dance or gymnastics training. Gait and activity of muscles in the legs and torso were tracked as the subjects walked across the floor, across a wide beam and across a challenging narrow beam.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBallet dancers and untrained individuals had similar gait patterns when they walked across the floor or the beam. However, when walking across the narrow beam, ballet dancers showed better balance by walking across farther. Ballet dancers recruited more motor modules and did so more consistently than untrained individuals, indicating that ballet dancers used their muscles more effectively and efficiently, the researchers stated. The ballet dancers also used more of the same motor modules when walking across a floor as when walking across the beam compared with untrained individuals, supporting that training can affect control of every-day movements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the researchers, the results show that years of ballet training changed how the nervous system coordinated muscles for walking and balancing behaviors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe article \u0022Long-term training modifies the modular structure and organization of walking balance control\u0022 is published ahead-of-print in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/jn.physiology.org\/content\/early\/2015\/10\/09\/jn.00758.2015\u0022\u003EJournal of Neurophysiology.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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Along the way, they also started a movement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThe secret to our success is, it started as a grassroots effort \u2013 we liked each other and wanted to interact. It wasn\u2019t imposed upon us by some academic structure,\u201d Sheldon May told a packed Suddath Room and an overflow crowd in the Petit Institute atrium, Tuesday when the institute hosted a 20\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E anniversary celebration.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThere are so many other things on the Georgia Tech campus now that have to do with interactions among scientists and engineers, but I think we broke a lot of barriers,\u201d May continued. \u201cSometimes there is a moment in time and you don\u2019t realize what the implications of that moment are.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ETuesday\u2019s event drew 300 guests, including Petit Institute founding members, like May; Georgia Tech administrators, like President Bud Peterson and President Emeritus Wayne Clough, Executive Vice President of Research Steve Cross, as well as Deans Gary May (College of Engineering) and Paul Goldbart (College of Sciences); institute faculty members, staff, spouses and children, members of the institute\u2019s Executive Advisory Board, and the man whose generosity has been the catalyst for growth and success, Parker H. \u201cPete\u201d Petit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThey came to celebrate 20 years of interdisciplinary research, to recognize the founders, the leaders and teams, but also to eat and socialize, scientists and engineers like in the old days, but this time catered and with a live band. There were designated speakers: Petit Institute Executive Director Bob Guldberg, Peterson, Petit, founding director Bob Nerem, May and Loren Williams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe gala was a fitting exclamation point for the Petit Institute on Tuesday, which began with the annual meeting of the advisory board in the Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EBy 4:30 p.m., as members of the board were finishing their tours of new labs in the EBB, guests started arriving at the Petit Institute, and soon after, the presentations began with opening statements from Guldberg, who started by pointing out some of the essential current numbers: 172 faculty members, 17 research centers, more than $58 million in research funding last year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWe can go on and on about the numbers, but clearly more important than the numbers are the people that make up this collaborative community,\u201d said Guldberg, who introduced Peterson.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe Georgia Tech president applauded the work of his predecessors, Pat Crecine and Clough, \u201cwho had so much to do with the creation and success of the Petit Institute.\u201d He recognized Don Giddens, who led the initial task force that resulted in creation of the interdisciplinary bioresearch institute, and founding director Nerem.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe word \u201cteam\u201d kept coming up throughout the evening, but if there was a star of the celebration, it was probably Nerem, who got a bighearted introduction from Petit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cUnselfish leadership makes wonderful things happen,\u201d said Petit, alluding to Nerem. \u201cBob Nerem\u2019s unselfish leadership brought us to where we are and I don\u2019t think any of us could have envisioned what has played out here.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ENerem lavished praise on fellow Petit Institute founders and early faculty members, leaders and supporters, like Giddens, May, Guldberg, Jim Powers, Bud Suddath, Bill Todd, Ray Vito, Roger Wartell, Loren Williams and Ajit Yoganathan, most of whom were in the audience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cIt does take a team,\u201d Nerem said later in the evening. \u201cUltimately, people in leadership positions have to serve the goals of the organization, but also the people in the organization. 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The third annual competition, held earlier this month at Emory University\u0027s Goizueta Business School, gave the teams just 36 hours to create a startup business \u2014 including a business model, marketing strategy, and prototype of their idea \u2014 and pitch it to real investors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first place team developed a mobile app called Divy, which allows groups to seamlessly track their expenses and issue reimbursements. Divy removes all the frustrations of financially settling up after a weekend trip or class project. Team members Garrett Wallace, John Riley, and Ryan Brooks were awarded a cash prize of $7,000 along with a potential $100,000 investment from the Seraph Group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWallace, a biomedical engineering (BME) major, said his team signed up for the competition because they thought it would be a fun way to spend the weekend. 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That\u2019s where the ImmunoEngineering Seed Grant program comes in.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThese seed grants allow us to pilot new ideas, gather data and be more competitive for large federal grants,\u201d says Krish Roy, director of the ImmunoEngineering Research Center at Georgia Tech. \u201cIt also builds new bridges \u2013 collaborations across Georgia Tech and Emory, by providing ways to work together and generate new ideas, gather new data.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EFive new \u201cbridges\u201d \u2013 teams of Georgia Tech\/Emory researchers \u2013 have just received important foundational support through the seed grant program for 2015-2016. These research proposals, each receiving a $50,000 award, are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u2022 \u201cDNA-barcoded peptide-MHC tetramers for profiling antigen-specific T cells.\u201d Researchers: Gabe Kwong (Georgia Tech), John Altman (Emory).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u2022 \u201cModulation of early inflammatory response to prevent muscle degeneration in massive rotator cuff tears.\u201d Researchers: Claudius Jarrett (Emory), Johnna Temenoff (Georgia Tech).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u2022 \u201cDevelopment of novel immune enhancing microparticle-conjugated RIG-I agonist.\u201d Researchers: Mehul Suthar (Emory), Krish Roy (Georgia Tech).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u2022 \u201cEngineered mesenchymal stromal cells for enhancing lymphangiogenesis as a therapeutic for osteoarthritis.\u201d Researchers: Nick Willet (Emory\/Georgia Tech), J. Brandon Dixon (Georgia Tech), Rebecca Levit (Emory).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u2022 Human mesenchymal stem cell-driven immunomodulation for enhanced engraftment of human pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes.\u201d Researchers: Young-Sup Yoon (Emory), Satish Kumar (Georgia Tech).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWe congratulate this year\u2019s class of ImmunoEngineering Seed Grant recipients,\u201d says C. Michael Cassidy, president and CEO of the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA), the lead granting agency for the program. \u201cThe collaborative work of Georgia Tech and Emory researchers is developing innovative approaches for groundbreaking research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe Georgia ImmunoEngineering Consortium brings together engineers, chemists, physicists, computational scientists, immunologists and clinicians to collaboratively explore the inner workings of the immune system in a quest for breakthrough solutions to improve the lives of people suffering from cancer, infectious diseases, autoimmune and inflammatory disorders (such as diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, fibrosis, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, etc.), as well as those individuals undergoing regenerative therapies (think of transplantation, spinal cord injury, bone and cartilage repair, etc.).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cIn addition to fundamental immunology studies, the program also supports studies aimed at improving our ability to predict, measure and manipulate the intensity, quality and durability of the immune response,\u201d notes Ignacio Sanz, a GRA Eminent Scholar and director of the Lowance Center for Human Immunology at Emory, where he also serves as chief of the Division of Rheumatology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWhile GRA provides most of the funding for the seed grant program additional funding is provided by Emory and Georgia Tech. Roy likens the program to an early stage venture investment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cIf you find ten really good ideas that are already pre-screened and peer-reviewed, the chances are, when those apply for large federal grants the success rates will be high,\u201d says Roy, professor in the Wallace H. 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The authors demonstrate that rationally designed \u2018deadRNAs\u2019 can prevent active Cas9 from cutting, and instead, activate gene expression.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022Body\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022Body\u0022\u003EThe CRISPR-Cas9 system genome editing platform has been used by labs across the world to specifically make changes to DNA. Wild type, active Cas9 protein is targeted to the correct DNA via a guide RNA sequence and then cuts the DNA target. Until recently, Cas9 catalytic activity has been controlled by mutating the protein so that it cannot cut DNA. These \u2018deadCas9\u2019 proteins bind DNA without cutting it, and have been fused to other proteins in order to fluorescently tag DNA or turn on gene expression.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022Body\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022Body\u0022\u003EA tool to selectively knock out and activate genes in the same cell (termed \u2018orthogonal gene editing\u2019) would provide a powerful method to manipulate biological processes, since most cellular functions are driven by combinations of genes. Inspired by the need for a simple orthogonal gene editing system, the MIT and Georgia Tech team designed a \u2018deadRNA\u2019 that functionally bound DNA without cutting it. deadRNAs were made by reducing the guide RNA target length to 14 or 15 bp, and by adding two MS2 binding loops into the sgRNA backbone. After systematically studying how the structure of deadRNAs influences gene activation and DNA cutting, and characterizing off-target gene activation, the authors knocked out and upregulated different genes in cells using a single active Cas9 protein.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022Body\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022Body\u0022\u003EThe authors hope this technology will be useful for the field. \u2018deadRNAs allow us to integrate two powerful functionalities of Cas9 \u2013 knocking out genes and activating them \u2013 in the same cell. This will be very useful for studying the interaction of different genes\u2019, said Konermann, senior author of this study. Dahlman, the first author, agreed, noting that \u2018deadRNAs may be useful for \u003Cem\u003Ein vivo \u003C\/em\u003Egene editing, since some mouse models already express active Cas9. My lab is excited to use deadRNAs to understand how complex gene interactions affect disease in cells and in animals\u2019. The authors also highlighted that their work reveals an important concept. Previously, it was thought that active Cas9 could only be used to cut DNA. This work, as well as a similar study recently published by George Church\u2019s laboratory at Harvard, demonstrate that guide RNAs can be designed to \u2018functionally bind\u2019 DNA without cutting it. Abudayyeh emphasized this point, noting that \u2018our work and the exciting work from the Church lab, shows that the RNA encodes the functionality and can tell the protein whether to cut or not\u2019. This points to a more fundamental mechanism, whereby the interactions between the protein, sgRNA, and DNA dictate whether the protein cuts the target DNA.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReferences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EDahlman JE, Abudayyeh OA, Joung J, Gootenberg JS, Zhang F, Konermann S. Orthogonal gene knock out and activation with a catalytically active Cas9 nuclease. \u003Cem\u003ENature Biotechnology, \u003C\/em\u003E2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EKiani S, Chavez A, Tuttle M, Hall RN, Chari R, Beal J, Vora S, Buchthal J, Ebrahimkhani MR, Collins JJ, Weiss R, Church G. Cas9 gRNA engineering for genome editing, activation, and repression. \u003Cem\u003ENature Methods, \u003C\/em\u003E2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJames Dahlman\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.dahlmanlab.org\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.dahlmanlab.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, is a chemical and bioengineer whose work lies at the interface of nanotechnology, genomics, and gene editing. He studied \u003Cem\u003Ein vivo \u003C\/em\u003Egene editing at the Broad Institute; he received his Ph.D. from MIT and Harvard Medical School. There he designed nanoparticles that efficiently deliver RNAs to the lung and heart. These nanoparticles have been used by over ten labs across the United States to study disease. The Dahlman Lab is interested in drug delivery, targeted in vivo gene editing, and using genomics to understand and improve biomaterial design.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESilvana Konermann \u003C\/strong\u003Eis a neuroscientist and bioengineer focused on developing better tools for the functional study of genetic disease. Silvana studied biology at ETH Zurich and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at MIT in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science working in the lab of Feng Zhang. Her work has been focused on developing better technologies to study gene function, including tools for optical transcriptional and epigenetic perturbation as well as genome-scale transcriptional control using CRISPR\/Cas9. She is interested in applying these tools to the high-throughput study of neurodegeneration. She has won the Harold M. 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It\u2019s all part of the initiative launched by President Obama in 2014 as a wide-spread effort to equip researchers with fundamental insights for treating a range of brain disorders, like Alzheimer\u2019s, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy and traumatic brain injury.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStanley and Dieter Jaeger, professor in Emory University\u2019s Department of Biology, are principal investigators of a project titled, \u201cMultiscale Analysis of Sensory-Motor Cortical Gating in Behaving Mice.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir overall goal is better understand and capture the flow of information as we sense and perceive the outside world, \u201cso that we can take action,\u201d says Stanley, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), a joint department of Emory and Georgia Tech. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Stanley lab provides expertise on tactile sensing and information processing, while the Jaeger lab provides expertise on motor\/muscle coordination and control.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are developing approaches to using genetically expressed voltage sensors to optically image brain activity during a sensory-motor task,\u201d Stanley says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new technology would let the researchers monitor brain activity at high spatial and temporal resolution over long periods of time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt allows us to address questions related to the circuits involved in coordinating the relationship between sensing and action for the first time,\u201d Stanley says.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project grew out of another collaboration between Jaeger and Stanley. They are co-principal investigators of an NIH-sponsored training grant in computational neuroscience, which targets a new generation of scientists bound together through questions about how the brain computes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThrough this interaction, Dieter and I got to know each other better, started to talk more science, and eventually cooked up this project,\u201d Stanley says.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u201cThe research is relevant to public health because it provides an impactful and innovative study of the circuitry underlying the output from the basal ganglia to the motor cortex and the integration of basal ganglia output with sensory information.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDebilitating and difficult to treat neurological disorders like Parkinson\u2019s disease, Huntington\u2019s disease and dystonia are caused by dysfunction of this circuitry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe proposed research is expected to provide basic insights into motor circuit function and may reveal new possibilities for treatment of these diseases as well as a better understanding of deep brain stimulation treatments already in use,\u201d says Stanley, who was part of the first round of BRAIN Initiative funding last year with fellow Georgia Tech researcher Craig Forest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeter Borden, a Ph.D. student in Stanley\u2019s lab, and Christian Waiblinger, a postdoctoral researcher in Stanley\u2019s lab, will also be contributing to the research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeanwhile, Payne is principal investigator for a project titled, \u201cConducting polymer nanowires for neural modulation.\u201d She\u2019s collaborating with Bret Flanders, a professor at Kansas State whose lab is working on new ways to insulate nanowires. Georgia Tech students Scott Thourson (a Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate) and Rohan Kadambi (undergrad in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) are helping to lead the effort.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUnderstanding how the brain functions requires fundamentally new tools to probe individual neurons without damaging the surrounding tissue,\u201d says Payne, associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis research will develop a prototype device that uses biocompatible conducting polymer nanowires to interface with individual neurons,\u201d says Payne. \u201cThe use of flexible conducting polymers in place of traditional metal, silicon, and carbon electrodes is expected to minimize disruption to the surrounding tissue.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast year NIH awarded $46 million to the effort, designed to ultimately catalyze new treatments and cures for devastating brain disorders and diseases that are estimated by the World Health Organization to affect more than one billion people on the planet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech is proud to play a role in this important global effort,\u201d says Steve Cross, executive vice president for research. \u201cThese grants are further evidence of Tech\u2019s reputation for conducting world-class bioengineering and bioscience research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMedia Contacts:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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Howard, the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), this initiative will blend Emory\u2019s medical and clinical expertise and Tech\u2019s robotics and engineering know-how to train engineering students in robotics, physiology, neuroscience, rehabilitation, and psychology. The program also aims to increase the appeal of STEM fields to a wide range of people, including women, underrepresented minorities, and people with disabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EThe U.S. population is living longer and is becoming older and more racially and ethnically diverse. In addition, the number of younger people living with a lifelong disability is also increasing, including 52,351 post-9\/11 military veterans with combat injuries and 6.4 million children with developmental disorders or delays. Fifty million people are also diagnosed annually with neurological\/neurodegenerative diseases. \u201cProviding innovative solutions to help improve an individual\u2019s quality of life continues to emerge as a growing need,\u201d said Howard, who leads the Human-Automation Systems Lab in ECE. \u201cKeeping this need in mind, we will train engineers not only to develop robotics technologies, but also learn how to work with and listen to the needs of the technology end users \u2013 patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EThree faculty join Howard\u2019s leadership team. Charlie Kemp, an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech and Emory University and director of the Healthcare Robotics Lab in BME, focuses on intelligent mobile robots for physical assistance in the context of healthcare. Lena H. Ting, a BME professor with an appointment in Emory School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Division of Physical Therapy, and co-director of the Neural Engineering Center, will integrate human needs related to accessibility and rehabilitation to inform the design of robotics solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003ERandy D. Trumbower, an assistant professor in both BME and Physical Therapy and the director of research within Rehabilitation Medicine at Emory, will work on interfacing robotics and physical therapy techniques.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EAdditional faculty will serve as student advisors, including Wendy Rogers, professor in Tech\u2019s School of Psychology; Jun Ueda, an associate professor from Tech\u2019s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering; Steven L. Wolf, a professor in Emory\u2019s Division of Physical Therapy; and Minoru Shinohara, an associate professor in Tech\u2019s School of Applied Physiology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EThe team will focus first on developing the doctoral and master\u2019s programs, with the goal of having a mini-cohort of Ph.D. students in spring 2016 and starting the official graduate degree programs next fall. The undergraduate degree will combine the five-year, B.S.\/M.S. degree program and undergraduate thesis option, allowing students to build a foundation for an eventual M.S. thesis. The graduate program will build on the highly successful multidisciplinary robotics Ph.D. program at Georgia Tech. \u201cWe\u2019re excited about this opportunity to further enhance and grow our world-class educational programs in robotics,\u201d said Kemp, who has served on the robotics Ph.D. program\u2019s leadership team since its inception in 2007.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EA sampling of these courses include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Interfacing Engineering and Rehabilitation, taught by Trumbower, engages both engineering and clinical students. They will learn equally from clinical experts about their target demographics and the issues they face and from engineering faculty about how robotics can address these challenges. Members from collaborating medical organizations and non-profit agencies will regularly visit the class to talk with students. Discussion points and group projects will be derived from real case studies using persons with physical challenges as technology consumers and consultants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u201cIn order for clinicians to play a more active role in the development, evaluation, and implementation of robotics technologies in rehabilitation, they must first more comfortably engage engineers who develop and test these technologies,\u201d said Trumbower. \u201cMutually, in order for engineers to play a more active role in the development, evaluation, and implementation of rehabilitation technologies, they must first more comfortably engage clinicians who evaluate and treat patients. This course provides a novel learning approach for this type of collaborative interaction.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; A course on ethics, privacy, and regulations in medicine and biomedical robotics will be offered, where students learn about considerations that must be addressed when designing and deploying robotic systems for health. \u201cWhile engineering students at Tech are required to take ethics courses, certain areas like privacy or statistical analysis have different nuances in the healthcare arena,\u201d said Howard. \u201cFor instance, what does \u2018good\u2019 mean as a healthcare roboticist vs. a traditional roboticist? How do you manage privacy and share information from doctor to doctor, and is there a correlation to a robot in the doctor\u2019s office doing the same thing with a robot in a patient\u2019s home?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u2022\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Interdisciplinary research training will provide students with hands-on, healthcare experience during their first summer in the program. Matched with mentors in both engineering and healthcare, students will do one week of clinical rotations, where they will observe medical practices and learn about current problems in healthcare.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EStudents will then conduct eight weeks of research using robotics to address healthcare issues discovered during rotations. Clinical partners with which students may work include Emory Medical School, Shepherd Center, Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory ALS Center, Atlanta Area Agency on Aging, and the Veterans Administration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EAdditional components of the healthcare robotics degree programs are required communications training and availability of entrepreneurship activities for interested students. All students will receive communications training, so that they can interact effectively with different audiences. Examples include academic and professional communications; talking to patients or patient groups about their work; giving media interviews, writing press releases, and producing short videos about their work; and communicating with the general public. Trainees interested in entrepreneurship will be able to participate in a Georgia Tech student incubator during their second summer in the program, or they may intern at a medical startup company in the Atlanta area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EWorking with engineering students to think about and design their technologies for the benefit of their target populations will be an exciting challenge, according to Howard. \u201cWorking in healthcare robotics will be a learning process, where there is no equation in the book that can be derived. It will require looking at a problem, working and talking with others, and developing a solution by being creative and thinking outside of the box,\u201d said Howard. \u201cThis will be a different way of thinking for engineers, and when our students graduate, they will be exceptional because of that.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESources for statistics:\u003C\/strong\u003E National Center for Education Statistics, Congressional Research Service\/U.S. Department of Defense, and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"NSF Grant to Support First of Its Kind Degree Programs"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022normal\u0022\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology and Emory University faculty members are uniting to train the next generation of engineering students in healthcare robotics technologies, so they can better 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Of course, that isn\u2019t easy because cancer detection thresholds based on measuring biomarkers shed by small tumors are limited.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EBut groundbreaking work by Georgia Institute of Technology researcher Gabe Kwong may improve the odds significantly.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIn a recently published research paper for PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States), Kwong and his colleagues explain their development of activity-based biomarkers for early cancer detection along with a mathematical framework to predict their use in humans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EUnlike traditional biomarkers, activity-based biomarkers rely on the catalytic activity of enzymes to amplify cancer-derived signals, which allows detection of small, earlier-stage tumors. Using a class of synthetic, activity-based biomarkers, the team has comprehensively explored how detection sensitivities depend on probe design, enzymatic activity and organ physiology, and how they may be fine-tuned to reveal the presence of small tumors in humans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ve designed a system which is composed of nanoparticles, and these nanoparticles do a very interesting job inside the body once we infuse them \u2013 they find the tumor cells and then amplify a signal,\u201d says Kwong, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and a faculty member of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThis amplified signal is not detected locally but actually ends up filtering in the urine,\u201d says Kwong, lead author of the paper. \u201cSo when we inject trillions of nanoparticles, each of them is amplifying this tumor signal. Furthermore, because urine is concentrated and purified from blood, we have two modes of enriching the signal. One is through this amplification at the tumor site and the other is this enrichment in the urine.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EA challenge of using blood tests for early cancer detection is that it\u2019s kind of like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Tumors shed unique biomarkers (proteins, for example). Adult humans have on average five liters of blood. So there are tiny, early stage tumors (typically five millimeters to one centimeter in size) shedding biomarkers into a large pool of blood.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cAnd they don\u2019t circulate in the blood forever. There\u2019s a drainage system,\u201d Kwong says. \u201cImagine trying to fill a bathtub with water without first plugging the drain. It\u2019s a race, where these tumors are making these biomarkers, these biomolecules, in the blood, but the body is getting rid of them faster.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EBut using the system Kwong and his team have devised, in test samples the researchers have been able to detect tumors as small as five millimeters in diameter, a size threshold that is difficult for medical imaging to achieve. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe research is part of a collective body of work that Kwong, who came to Georgia Tech last year, started at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). His co-authors of the paper (entitled \u201cMathematical framework for activity-based cancer biomarkers\u201d), all affiliated with M.I.T., are Jaideep Dudani, Emmanuel Corrodeguas, Eric Mazumdar, Seyedeh Zekavat and Sangeeta Bhatia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cIt hasn\u2019t been tested in humans yet, but this ability to amplify signals using nanoparticles is very promising,\u201d says Kwong, who figures the system could be ready for clinical tests in humans in another three to four years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EUltimately, the goal is to perform a more specific kind of test, \u201cthat will allow us to differentiate flavors of cancer as well as their stage. 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The five-year grant will support research into new approaches for tracking and treating pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that claims 40,000 lives per year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPulmonary fibrosis is an incurable disease in which the uncontrolled growth of scar tissue severely damages the ability of the lungs to bring oxygen into the body. Researchers plan to hijack the cellular mechanisms that normally worsen the disease, causing them to instead produce a chemical compound that would reduce the cross-linking associated with the fibrosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award is one of 13 Transformative Research Awards announced by the NIH on October 6. Each year, the exclusive NIH initiative funds a small number of \u201chigh-risk, high-reward\u201d research proposals designed to advance innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFibrosis is wound healing that just won\u2019t quit,\u201d explained Barker. \u201cCells continually repair the same tissue over and over again until you get this dense, biophysically restricted scar tissue. That scar tissue not only impairs the ability to bring in oxygen, but at the cellular level that increased stiffness also provides a dominant signal that continues to drive this aberrant process.\u201c\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBarker, whose lab studies how cells respond biochemically and biophysically to the microenvironment around them, wants to tap into the signaling that occurs between the cells and their environment to co-opt the cellular response to stiffness of the extracellular matrix. Instead of creating more scar, the cells would instead respond by releasing a protease to dissolve some of the crosslinks that create the stiffness.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn the disease process, as more extracellular matrix is deposited and more cross links are created, the stiffness of the tissue increases,\u201d Barker explained. \u201cIf we can have that stiffness inherently drive the production of proteases, which are enzymes that break down the extracellular matrix, then there\u2019s the potential to create a feedback loop in which these enzymes would come in and cleave the unwanted matrix proteins. That would relieve some of the crosslinks and begin to soften the tissue.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers plan to use conventional gene therapy techniques to insert a mechanism into the cells that would activate only when the fibrotic process was occurring. When not needed, the mechanism would lie dormant, allowing it to be distributed broadly among both normal and abnormal lung cells. \u201cIt would be a self-limiting therapy that\u2019s controlled locally at the cellular level,\u201d Barker said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile treatment is the ultimate goal, Barker also wants to develop a signaling mechanism that could be used to track progress of the disease. A small number of sentinel cells affected by the stiffening extracellular matrix would express a fluorescent protein, allowing clinicians to see where conditions are changing. Currently, there is no way to measure changing stiffness in the lungs of living organisms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBarker doesn\u2019t expect to attain all of the project goals within the grant period, but he does hope to build a foundation for research, which could have applications to other diseases such as cancer that also have biomechanical signaling components.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe idea that we can target the biomechanics of a tissue as a tractable target for gene therapy has not been explored,\u201d Barker said. \u201cIt is ripe for exploration at this time because the last decade or so has seen a flurry of research into how biomechanics drives disease and different cellular processes. Scientists have made some significant strides in understanding the mechanisms of how cells sense mechanics, how those things go awry, and how the environment can drive some significant biology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe proposal was developed in collaboration with MD\/PhD student Dwight Chambers. Barker also plans to work with Associate Professors Melissa Kemp and Phil Santangelo from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and with a research team at the University of Michigan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnder the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program supported by the NIH Common Fund, awards support exceptional investigators pursuing bold research projects that span the broad mission of the NIH, including developing methods for cells to synthesize their own drugs, using cell phones to identify and track disease-carrying mosquitoes in their natural habitats, stopping depression by monitoring and altering brain cell states, and exploring how socially learned behavior can be passed on biologically to future generations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis program has consistently produced research that revolutionized scientific fields by giving investigators the freedom to take risks and explore potentially groundbreaking concepts,\u201d said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. \u201cWe look forward to the remarkable advances in biomedical research the 2015 awardees will make.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe NIH Common Fund encourages collaboration and supports a series of exceptionally high-impact, trans-NIH programs. Common Fund programs are designed to pursue major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that no single NIH Institute could tackle alone, but that the agency as a whole can address to make the biggest impact possible on the progress of medical research. Barker\u2019s award will also be supported through the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Transformative Research Award, established in 2009, promotes cross-cutting, interdisciplinary approaches and is open to individuals and teams of investigators who propose research that could potentially create or challenge existing paradigms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch News\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E177 North Avenue\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30332-0181 USA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedia Relations Contact\u003C\/strong\u003E: John Toon (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-894-6986)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWrite\u003C\/strong\u003Er: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a $3.5 million Transformative Research Award to Thomas Barker, an associate professor in the Wallace H. 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Answering that question could help guide the choice of treatment options, from aggressive and difficult therapies to more conservative ones.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy studying chemical signals from specific cells that are involved in helping cancer invade other tissues in each woman\u2019s body, researchers have developed a predictive model that could provide an invasiveness index for each patient.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want women to have more information to make a personal decision beyond the averages calculated for an entire population,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Manu-O-Platt\u0022\u003EManu Platt\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EDepartment of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cWe are using our systems biology tools and predictive medicine approaches to look at potential markers we could use to help us understand the risk each woman has. This would provide information for a more educated discussion of treatment options.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research, sponsored with funds from the Georgia Research Alliance and the Giglio family donation to the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was reported September 9 in the journal Scientific Reports. Beyond breast cancer, the technique could offer similar decision-making assistance for men with prostate cancer, where treatment also requires making difficult choices about the risk of metastasis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlatt\u2019s research team is examining chemical signals produced by the macrophages that can help aggressive tumors invade new tissues. Macrophages normally clean up foreign particles and harmful microorganisms in the body, but aggressive tumors can enlist macrophages in helping them metastasize. Tumor associated macrophages contribute significantly to tumor invasion, with cysteine cathepsin proteases \u2013 enzymes that break down proteins in the body \u2013 important contributors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo develop their predictive index, Platt\u2019s research team used variability in macrophage expression of four types of cathepsin, the cathepsin inhibitor cystatin C, and kinase activation levels. The model, which has been under development for two years, was produced by studying macrophages from a population of women who didn\u2019t have breast cancer. Platt and colleagues Keon-Young Park and Gande Li co-cultured a standard breast cancer cell line (MCF-7) with macrophages produced from monocytes donated by these cancer-free women.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENext, they measured the level of invasiveness facilitated by macrophages from each individual donor, exposing the cancer cells and macrophages to a collagen gel designed to simulate breast tissue and measuring how many cells invaded it. While the breast is composed of many other tissues, collagen makes up the largest proportion and provided a good measure of how aggressively the cells would invade, Platt said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlatt\u2019s team correlated the level of invasion through the gel to the chemical signals being expressed by the macrophages. The researchers were surprised at the large amount of patient-to-patient variability in macrophage activity \u2013 variability that could account for the outcome differences in the patients receiving similar cancer treatments. The signaling levels and related invasion measurements were used to train a computational model developed by Platt\u2019s team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers next obtained blood samples containing monocytes from nine patients being treated for breast cancer at DeKalb Medical Center, a major Atlanta-area hospital. They measured signals from these macrophages and used their model \u2013 which had been trained on macrophage signaling and resulting invasiveness \u2013 to predict which of the cancer patients would be expected to have more invasive types of cancer. They compared their predications to what the clinician \u2013 Dr. John Kennedy \u2013 provided as their initial diagnosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBased on the cells we got from the clinic, the ones that had been predicted to have the greatest potential for invasion were the ones that had produced the most invasive form of breast cancer in the patients,\u201d Platt said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the study could not account for possible differences in the length of time the cancers had been growing, they did correlate well with observations. In future research, Platt hopes to follow the women for five years to determine if the model\u2019s predictions are related to cancer recurrence. He also plans to expand the model with additional macrophage data, and test it against additional blood samples.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe more information you give the model, the closer you get to the prediction,\u201d he said. \u201cWe think this is a very big start.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe strength of this technique, Platt believes, is that it measures what\u2019s happening at the level where cancer is metastasizing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are measuring at the level of activity of these intracellular enzymes and the ultimate activity of the proteases they produce that are not only the biomarkers of the tumor, but also help the tumor grow,\u201d he said. \u201cEverything about us is different. Our genetics are different and our lifestyles are different, so clinicians have to make decisions in all that variability. All of those differences can be measured and captured in this output.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlatt believes the technique could one day lead to a simple blood test that would provide information useful in making therapy recommendations. The test might also help determine which women should be monitored more closely to detect the beginnings of a cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTogether, this establishes proof-of-principle that personalized information acquired from minimally invasive blood draws may provide useful information to inform oncologists and patients of invasive\/metastatic risk, helping to make decisions regard radical mastectomy or milder, conservative treatments to save patients from hardship and surgical recovery,\u201d he wrote in the paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION\u003C\/strong\u003E: Keon-Young Park, Gande Li and Manu O. Platt, \u0022Monocyte-derived macrophage assisted breasat cancer cell invasion as a personalized, predictive metric to score metastatic risk,\u0022 (Scientific Reports 2015). \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/srep13855\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/srep13855\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch News\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E177 North Avenue\u003Cbr \/\u003EAtlanta, Georgia 30332-0181 USA\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMedia Relations Contact: John Toon (\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E) (404-894-6986).\u003Cbr \/\u003EWriter: John Toon\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBiomedical engineers have demonstrated a proof-of-principle technique that could give women and their oncologists more personalized information to help them choose options for treating breast cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new technique could give women and their oncologists more personalized information for choosing breast cancer treatment options."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2015-10-05 14:11:50","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:43","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"455541":{"id":"455541","type":"image","title":"Gels quantify cathepsin activity","body":null,"created":"1449256334","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:12:14","changed":"1475895199","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:19","alt":"Gels quantify cathepsin activity","file":{"fid":"203469","name":"breast-cancer1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/breast-cancer1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/breast-cancer1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1113462,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/breast-cancer1.jpg?itok=rl6BJ8Zb"}},"455551":{"id":"455551","type":"image","title":"Gels quantify cathepsin activity2","body":null,"created":"1449256334","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:12:14","changed":"1475895199","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:19","alt":"Gels quantify cathepsin activity2","file":{"fid":"203470","name":"breast-cancer2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/breast-cancer2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/breast-cancer2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1287075,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/breast-cancer2_0.jpg?itok=wRpSopau"}}},"media_ids":["455541","455551"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"14455","name":"Breast Cancer"},{"id":"385","name":"cancer"},{"id":"143681","name":"invasiveness. monocyte"},{"id":"45251","name":"macrophage"},{"id":"10832","name":"Manu Platt"},{"id":"143701","name":"predictive"},{"id":"143691","name":"variability"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Toon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch News\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jtoon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejtoon@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(404) 894-6986\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jtoon@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"452791":{"#nid":"452791","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Start-Up Puts Farm Next to Table","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EAlex Weiss is an ardent advocate of the farm to table movement. He wants you to eat the freshest produce possible and to know where it came from. And he\u2019s willing to do his part to see that it happens.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWeiss, a recent graduate of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering is one half of an entrepreneurial team that created \u201creplantable\u201d (with a lower-case \u2018r\u2019) \u2013 a company that emerged from under the broad CREATE-X umbrella at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ETogether with Ruwan Subasinghe, a recent mechanical engineering graduate, Weiss took part in Startup Summer, a 12-week accelerator program (part of the CREATE-X suite of entrepreneurial training programs) for Georgia Tech students and recent graduates who want to launch startup companies. These companies are based on the students\u2019 own inventions and prototypes, and the program teaches participants to understand potential customers and the market so they can address real needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe \u201cnanoFarm\u201d (the lower case \u2018n\u2019 also is by choice) actually is replantable\u2019s latest incarnation after the team pursued a winding road of ideas, all based around a similar theme.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cEverything we\u2019ve done has been about trying to get the freshest food to the consumer,\u201d says Weiss, who met Subasinghe during their freshman year. This past February, Subasinghe contacted Weiss and asked if he wanted to do a start-up together.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cHe\u2019d gotten into hydroponics and was growing strawberries, and I had a backyard garden in Philadelphia, where I\u2019m from. So we both come from a background of growing stuff,\u201d says Weiss, who was a member of Petit Institute faculty member Wilbur Lam\u0027s lab. \u201cThe first thing we talked about was live shipping, which would fundamentally change the food production industry.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIt involved the shipping of plants in hydroponic containers, preventing spoilage without the costly energy expense of refrigeration, reducing food waste as well as methane and carbon dioxide emissions. The concept, \u2018Living Local,\u2019 earned the team $2,500 with a runner-up finish in the Ideas to Serve competition, March 27 at the Scheller College of Business.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThere was one significant challenge, though.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWe met with farmers and it would have been cost prohibitive for them,\u201d Weiss says. \u201cIt didn\u2019t make sense for them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ENext they tried to remove the need for transportation altogether by growing produce on the roofs of grocery stores. They got a quick buy-in from Sevananda Market for their roof planting pallets. Weiss and Subasinghe got to be friends with the produce manager who told them, \u201cI\u2019ll take 40,\u201d according to Weiss.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EBut then they started talking to professors in civil engineering and discovered that putting stuff on the roof was a big liability hurdle, and not within their realm of capability. What followed was a week or two of soul searching.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWe wondered what we were going to do,\u201d Weiss says. \u201cIt was hell. But every startup I talked to has had this kind of week. It\u2019s like, you know you\u2019re going to get through it, but you don\u2019t see any light until the light just hits you.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EUltimately, it was a light-emitting diode, or LED, that hit them. They\u2019d been focused on getting fresh food to consumers, and they finally asked themselves, Weiss says,\u0026nbsp; \u201cwhy not let the consumer grow it? We were working our way down the chain.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ETheir first nanoFarm container concept was six feet tall, a couple of feet wide, utilizing hydroponics and LED lighting. The current model of the nanoFarm cube is 18 inches tall, about 12 inches wide and deep, and really easy to use. In other words, you don\u2019t need a green thumb.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWe talked to more than 100 people who love fresh food, and their favorite part of growing was choosing what they wanted to grow, planting it, then harvesting it. In other words, not watering and weeding,\u201d says Weiss, whose product requires the user to two basic things after sliding a sheet of seeds into the cube: fill it with water and close the door. Oh, then you\u2019ve got to pick it before you eat it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWeiss shows pictures of the produce he and Subasinghe have grown, indoors, out of the sunlight. Vivid greens and reds leap out of his smartphone, making the viewer hungry. The average apartment kitchen can easily accommodate several cubes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EHaving graduated, Weiss and Subasinghe are now operating as the braintrust of replantable. They are engaged now in a beta test of their product and will soon launch a Kickstarter campaign. They want to be a success story on the path toward a sustainable and delicious lifestyle.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.replantable.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EFor more information, visit the replantable website here.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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Gloria Bowen teaches human physiology and conservation principles. Ana Gomez specializes in systems physiology and conservation principles. Daniel McNavish primary areas are biostatistics, biomechanics and cell physiology. Jimmy Zhou focuses on biostatistics, biosystems modeling and cell physiology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EBut they aren\u2019t constrained by those courses, and sometimes the student tutors are facilitating as much as tutoring.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cI can easily take a step back and just guide the group,\u201d says Zhou. \u201cSometimes, the students end up just figuring out the problems by working together without any of my input.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIt\u2019s the collaborative, drop-in approach to the FOCUS tutoring program that sets it apart from something like, say, the 1-to-1 Tutoring program offered through Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Academic Success. That program requires a student to make an appointment with a tutor. The FOCUS tutors have worked in that program, too, and recognize the distinct strengths of both. But they\u2019re intentionally trying to do something different with FOCUS.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cI like the group dynamic of FOCUS,\u201d says Bowen. \u201cStudents are actually encouraged to work together to figure things out, versus us just telling them what to do. One on one can be a little intimidating sometimes \u2013 it\u2019s just you alone with a tutor. FOCUS is a great way to collaborate with other people.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe FOCUS tutors see the experience as a win-win, a kind of enlightened self-interest. 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The students equipped a \u0022Cuddle Care\u0022 prototype \u2014 a stuffed monkey with arms long enough to bolster or wrap around a child \u2014 that breathes, thumps with a heartbeat, and emits radiant heat.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClose has carried the Cuddle Care idea with her since nursing school, when she cared for a 3-year-old boy with AIDS on an oncology unit. Tumors covered his small body, and his only relief came when Close and others held him. The child\u2019s mother, who was HIV-positive and had several young children, rarely came to visit. Close agonized over the young boy\u2019s future when her clinical rotation on the unit ended.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I thought there must be a way to comfort a child who was suffering this way,\u0022 she says. \u0022I reflected back on what was providing him comfort. As I held him in a rocking chair, I was taking pressure off of his tumors. We were also exchanging heat. I could feel his heat up against my chest, and he was feeling the comfort of my heartbeat and being held and squeezed. He was made to feel safe in the arms of what should have been a parent but was not possible for this little boy.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe thought of developing a device mimicking those sensations that would wrap around a child to provide warmth and comfort. She applied for a provisional patent but put the device on hold for several years until she came to Emory, where the idea resurfaced. Close consulted the university\u2019s Office of Technology Transfer, which connected her with Georgia Tech. Students there embraced her idea and made it their capstone project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We wanted to provide comfort to those who need it most,\u0022 says BME student Matt Kee, who sees great potential for the \u0022Cuddle Care\u0022 device in the pediatric health care market. 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A product design from one of the BME classes was recently selected as a world-wide finalist in UNICEF\u2019s Wearables for Good Challenge. The team, Communic-AID, developed a wearable device that facilitates record keeping, aids in the tracking of medications that have been distributed in a post-disaster context and allows the patient to take part in their treatment. The BME student project team members are Katie Fiedler, William Higgins, Heather Issen, Madison Lewis, and Isabelle Vernon. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir device is a wearable wristband with NFC communication technology that stores emergency medical information for individual patients. Medical professionals can access this information, load updated records onto the device, and set alerts to facilitate the patient\u0027s care such as alerting them when to take medication. The band is worn by the patient on the wrist (or ankle), and the app is used by the medical professional.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe United Nations Children\u0027s Fund (UNICEF) is a United Nations program headquartered in New York City that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. UNICEF\u2019s Wearables for Good contest challenges innovators\u0026nbsp; to design wearable and sensor technology that serves people in resource constrained environments. The Wearables for Good challenge is open to anybody with ideas, including students, entrepreneurs, members of the maker community, engineers, designers, and technologists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe catalyst for the team\u2019s project arose from an experience broadening summer program which is a collaboration between the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, and the National University of Ireland, Galway. The program is designed for third and fourth year BME students who are interested in an international experience which enables them to combine classroom learning with field trips to medical device companies to learn first-hand about their research, development, and manufacturing practices. Students complete roughly four courses from May 25 to July 31.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the unique courses offered is Wearables for Healthcare (BMED 4823) taught by Raja Schaar. Schaar, a design instructor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, said, \u201cWearables are the next hot thing in healthcare. Fitness trackers and smart watches have taken off in the market. With the advances in hardware, miniaturization, and the emergence of the Internet of Things, technology is catching up to our aspirations.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETechnology is at a point where real-time health information is empowering consumers to be stewards of their own health as well as providing health care providers and researchers much needed insight into the lives of their patients. Useful wearables are now possible because companies are able to combine miniaturized sensors and cheap reliable power with advanced connectivity and big data analytics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn computing and design programs there has been a big push to marry digital and physical devices, but Schaar did not find a course focused on healthcare wearables out there. Schaar added, \u201cHealthcare presents unique challenges related to regulatory compliance, privacy, and security. This is a fast-moving field, and as opportunities in bioinformatics, telehealth, and device development present themselves, our students need to be positioned to compete and contribute.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the first week of her course, students think about electronics on the body and create quick on-body electronic devices in the spirit of Chindogu. Chindogu is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like a solution to a particular problem. However, chindogu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of these inventions would find that it causes so many new problems, or such significant social embarrassment, that effectively it has no utility whatsoever. Thus, chindogu devices are sometimes described as \u0022unuseless\u0022 \u2013 that is, they cannot be regarded as \u0022useless\u0022 in an absolute sense, since they do actually solve a problem; however, in practical terms, they cannot positively be called \u0022useful.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWeek two involves studying microcontrollers, processing, and biosensors. Students participate in the Unicef Wearables for Good Challenge during the final three weeks. The goal is to develop innovative, affordable solutions to make wearables and sensor technology a game-changer for women and children across the world. This summer, students ended up with promising ideas such as devices that address air pollution, child trafficking, breastfeeding, maternal prenatal anemia, biometric screening, water transportation and filtration, and medication compliance and tracking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the sixty students, seven BME faculty members taught classes and led field trips. The west side of Ireland has become the European capital for the healthcare and medical device industries. The majority of the companies (e.g. Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Cook Medical, Abbott, etc.) are international.\u0026nbsp; Some of the company field trip visits included Medtronic, Visktakon, and Cook Medical. Located in Limerick, Cook Medical is a maker of catheters, stents, and drug coated stents. On this tour, students saw the handling of raw materials, incoming quality control, a controlled manufacturing area, finish quality control [including destructive testing with samples of each lot], post-sterilization, and batch release.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the spring of 2016,\u0026nbsp; sign up for the next summer BME study abroad to the National University of Ireland, Galway will begin.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBME student Joy Janku said, \u201dwearables was one of my favorite classes taken at Georgia Tech. We gained a lot of interactive product experience by being exposed to tools like Littlebits and Arduino, and were provided with high quality 3D printers that everyone was able to get hands on experience with to bring our products to life. Secondly, and more importantly to me, we were asked to design for those in need by participating in the UNICEF Challenge which made the project feel that much more tangible.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Communic-AID team submitted their idea to this global technology challenge and are now one of ten global UNICEF team finalists. More than 250 submissions from 46 countries across 6 continents entered the contest. Winners of this global wearable technology contest will be announced November, 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUNICEF interviews Raja Schaar:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.unicefstories.org\/2015\/11\/18\/why-budding-designers-should-keep-social-impact-in-mind-when-designing\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWhy budding designers should keep social impact in mind when designing\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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She saw an abundance of healthcare and biomedical engineering-related issues being debated, and got a glimpse of future legislative and funding implications related to science, healthcare, and research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWith her biomedical engineering and medical interests, she sought to apply to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and other federal health-related departments. She ended up accepting an internship with Price, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for more than 10 years. More importantly to See, Price worked in private practice as an orthopedic surgeon. Before his election to Congress, Price was an assistant professor at Emory University\u2019s School of Medicine and medical director of the orthopedic clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, teaching resident doctors in training.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWhile the majority of what I did was quite different than anything in my BME major or even the engineering curricula at Georgia Tech, I came across many things in Washington that relate to biomedical research and remind me of my classes and professors,\u201d said See, who is from Memphis, Tennessee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EOne of those things is the 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E Century Cures Act (HR 6), federal legislation that received overwhelming bipartisan approval in the House of Representatives. Among other things, the act makes research collaborations easier; incorporates the patient perspective in drug development and the regulatory review process; promotes personalized medicine; streamlines clinical trials, making it less expensive to bring drugs to market; provides incentives for developing drugs that treat rare diseases; and basically helps \u201cthe entire biomedical ecosystem coordinate more efficiently to find faster cures while investing in 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E century science and next generation investigators,\u201d according to See.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E Century Cures Act, which has moved to the Senate for consideration there, would also create a $10 billion innovation fund over five years for the NIH and a\u0026nbsp;$550 million innovation fund for the FDA. In addition, there are special provisions to\u0026nbsp;make room for young or new researchers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cI had the opportunity to attend healthcare and medical briefings almost everyday, put on by third-party organizations or offices trying to gain support for their legislation,\u201d said See.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ETo her surprise, one briefing featured Ravi Bellamkonda, chair of the Coulter Department at Georgia Tech and Emory (and president of The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering). After the briefing, See sat in on a meeting with Bellamkonda and Robert Knotts, director of federal relations for Georgia Tech, during sessions with congressional office staffers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIn the Georgia Tech D.C. Internship program, students work full time with a member of Congress, a congressional committee, or an executive branch office in or around Washington, D.C., for about 10 weeks during the summer, and 16 weeks during spring or fall. Students secure their own internship based on academic performance and personal interests.\u0026nbsp;The opportunity includes a $5,000 stipend in the summer or a $7,500 stipend in the spring or fall to offset expenses (housing, transportation, and living expenses). This program is open to both undergraduate and graduate students of all majors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIn See\u2019s case, the experience took her outside of the usual BME comfort zones.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWorking on legislation is not something the average biomedical engineer has the opportunity to do,\u201d she said. \u201cWhile this may not further me in a medical career, learning about the legislative process is extremely important. I learned that so much of what biomedical engineers accomplish is funded by government agencies and that all of the regulations in the health and science industry flow through the government.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ESee gained new insights and came away with some ideas on how the process might be improved, and how she might become part of the process.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cIf researchers and doctors helped make the regulations on the front end, I think we would not only save time and money, but better policies could be developed at the onset,\u201d she said. \u201cI had a lot of opportunities to learn about the government\u0027s involvement and investment in healthcare and medical research. I may have some interest in going into medical policy, so I think this was great exposure.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gov.gatech.edu\/internships\/dc%20%20\u0022\u003ERead more about the internship program here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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Emelianov\u2019s research interests are in the areas of intelligent diagnostic imaging and patient-specific image-guided therapeutics including cancer imaging and diagnosis, the detection and treatment of atherosclerosis, the development of imaging and therapeutic nanoagents, guided drug delivery and controlled release, simultaneous anatomical, functional, cellular and molecular imaging, multi-modal imaging, and image-guided therapy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E----------\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERavi Kane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGarry Betty Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Cancer Nanotechnology, School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPostdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArea of focus: Nanotechnology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERavi Kane went to graduate school at MIT where he received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. 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His research efforts are centered on the development of adaptive robotic manipulation systems: robotic devices having morphological structures, actuation topologies, and sensing and control schemes that make them well-suited to operating alongside or in the place of humans in unstructured, dynamically varying environments. 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As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park, Tsygankov applied his knowledge of theoretical physics to study biological systems. His research during this time focused on energy transduction and force degeneration by molecular motors, such as kinesin and dynein. His current research is focused on developing and applying computational methods, including mathematical modeling, simulations, and computer vision approaches to understand complex multi-scale physiological processes including vasculogenesis, morphogenesis, and wound healing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContact:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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The next biomedical breakthroughs to provide accessible health care for billions of people worldwide will come from the collaboration between different laboratories and disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat core belief led to the creation of the Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB), the newest building at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The site opened in May and a formal dedication ceremony was held today.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEBB houses labs for research in chemical biology, cell and developmental biology, and systems biology. The building allows Georgia Tech to consolidate its biomedical research efforts in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, infections, and other life-threatening conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPresident G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson said the building symbolizes what Georgia Tech is all about \u2014 collaboration and innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe EBB will drive innovation and have an undeniable impact on biomedical science and human health,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cEBB brings together some of the world\u2019s finest researchers in a collaborative environment, and these collaborations will result in incredible breakthroughs.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe building provides nearly 219,000 square feet of multidisciplinary research space and enhances the Institute\u2019s partnerships with Emory University Hospital and with Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTogether, we are changing the lives of children,\u201d said Donna Hyland, president and CEO of Children\u2019s Healthcare. \u201cThe space within this building helps bring our new Pediatric Technology Center to life and gives researchers another place to combine expertise in clinical care, research, and technology to solve problems that will help make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe building is located on 10th Street, at the north end of the existing biotechnology complex. Other buildings in the complex include: the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, the U.A. Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Building, the Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building, and the Molecular Science and Engineering Building.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than 140 faculty and nearly 1,000 graduate students from 10 different academic units work in the labs and facilities there.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEBB puts Georgia Tech at the forefront of biosciences and bioengineering research,\u201d said M.G. Finn, professor and chair of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe building\u2019s unique design allows Georgia Tech researchers to expand their work, he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEBB contains \u201cresearch neighborhoods\u201d designed around a specific focus or topic. These neighborhoods bring together scientists, engineers, and researchers from different disciplines around common themes or areas of interest. They share laboratories, offices, and common spaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStairs alternate on various floors, encouraging people to move within the neighborhoods and throughout the building and interact with one another. Small and informal meeting areas are located near the stairwells, to further encourage researchers to talk with one another.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe will help, influence, and support one another and bring new insights in a way that can\u2019t happen if a building is restricted to a particular department or discipline,\u201d Finn said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUltimately we are all working to fight disease and save lives,\u201d he said. \u201cEBB is designed to foster the research to do just that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEBB is the largest building investment in Georgia Tech history. The $113 million building was made possible because of a partnership between the Institute, the Georgia Tech Foundation, and the State of Georgia, Peterson said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EState appropriations provided $64 million for the project. Georgia Tech provided $15 million in Institute funds, and private funding raised another $34 million in commitments pledged over five years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEBB will help drive Georgia\u2019s economy, Peterson said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt will foster economic development through the formation of startup enterprises, the creation of high-skilled, high-paying jobs, and the commercialization of new devices, drugs, and technologies,\u201d Peterson said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers in the\u0026nbsp;Engineered Biosystems Building consolidate efforts to prevent and treat cancer, diabetes, heart disease, infections, and other life-threatening conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New Engineered Biosystems Building advances biosciences, bioengineering research"}],"uid":"27918","created_gmt":"2015-09-10 14:14:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:33","author":"Laura Diamond","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"446431":{"id":"446431","type":"image","title":"Engineered Biosystems Building view","body":null,"created":"1449256217","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:10:17","changed":"1475895187","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:07","alt":"Engineered Biosystems Building view","file":{"fid":"203213","name":"ebbmove-034.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ebbmove-034_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ebbmove-034_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5192174,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ebbmove-034_0.jpg?itok=6I0oRtub"}},"446421":{"id":"446421","type":"image","title":"Engineered Biosystems Building entrance","body":null,"created":"1449256217","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:10:17","changed":"1475895187","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:07","alt":"Engineered Biosystems Building entrance","file":{"fid":"203212","name":"ebbwithpeople.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ebbwithpeople_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ebbwithpeople_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":7636976,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ebbwithpeople_0.jpg?itok=czJuuxTP"}},"446921":{"id":"446921","type":"image","title":"EBB ribbon cutting","body":null,"created":"1449256246","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:10:46","changed":"1475895187","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:07","alt":"EBB ribbon cutting","file":{"fid":"203226","name":"ebbribboncutting.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ebbribboncutting_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ebbribboncutting_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3044641,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ebbribboncutting_0.jpg?itok=bCmY_WlC"}}},"media_ids":["446431","446421","446921"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"146341","name":"go_genomics"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"},{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"446831":{"#nid":"446831","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Small Wonders","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech scientists and engineers, in collaboration with Emory University, Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Marcus Autism Center, are tackling one of the biggest challenges in pediatric medicine \u2014 the lack of medical devices and technologies designed specifically for children. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EMany medical devices used on children were designed for adults. And because the market for children\u2019s medical devices is small, many companies shy away from building medical technologies for children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech is helping to fill that gap in the market. From an app that allows parents to send pictures of their child\u2019s potential ear infection to a doctor, to surgical tools tailored to a child\u2019s physiology, the Institute is leading the push toward improving and saving children\u2019s lives through technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/small-wonders\u0022\u003ERead more about the \u201cSmall Wonders\u201d evolving in Georgia Tech labs in this article from \u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech and partner organizations improving the lives of children"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech and partner organizations improving the lives of children\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech and partner organizations improving the lives of children"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2015-09-11 12:00:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:33","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"449511":{"id":"449511","type":"image","title":"Small Wonders","body":null,"created":"1449256264","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:11:04","changed":"1475895192","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:12","alt":"Small Wonders","file":{"fid":"203293","name":"kidmed-thumb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kidmed-thumb_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kidmed-thumb_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":27987,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/kidmed-thumb_0.jpg?itok=VifjTvOb"}},"446811":{"id":"446811","type":"image","title":"Wilbur Lam and patient","body":null,"created":"1449256246","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:10:46","changed":"1512765459","gmt_changed":"2017-12-08 20:37:39","alt":"","file":{"fid":"202116","name":"photo_lam_002.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo_lam_002_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/photo_lam_002_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":435600,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/photo_lam_002_0.jpg?itok=r7I_VDSV"}}},"media_ids":["449511","446811"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/small-wonders","title":"Small Wonders"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"126201","name":"go-neural"},{"id":"141801","name":"pediatric medicine"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"446291":{"#nid":"446291","#data":{"type":"news","title":"BME Rises in U.S. News Undergrad Rankings","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory moved up one spot (to third) in \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u2019s\u003C\/em\u003E latest ranking of the nation\u2019s top undergraduate \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-colleges\/rankings\/engineering-doctorate-biological-biomedical\u0022\u003Ebiomedical engineering\u003C\/a\u003E programs. The department is a partnership between Emory University\u2019s School of Medicine and Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Engineering continues to be recognized as one of the best in the nation, ranking fifth, in the annual undergraduate engineering program rankings released in September, 2015. Each of the College of Engineering\u0027s 10 undergraduate degrees programs was ranked seventh or higher in their respective fields with six programs ranked fourth or higher in this year\u0027s rankings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are proud to once again be recognized by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E as one of the elite engineering institutions in the United States,\u0022 said Gary S. May, dean and Southern Company Chair in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech. \u0022The strength of our college is the depth and breadth of our programs, and it is gratifying to see so many of our individual schools ranked among the best in their fields. With 10 highly ranked programs housed within one college we are in a unique position to offer an unparalleled interdisciplinary educational experience to the next generation of the world\u0027s engineers.\u201c\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor almost two decades Georgia Tech has ranked in the top 10 among public research universities. While we are well known for excellence in engineering and other STEM fields, word is also getting out about our other outstanding programs, such as our undergraduate business program, along with our focus on innovation,\u201d said Georgia Tech President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech ranked seventh among public universities and 36th among all national universities in the 2016 Best Colleges undergraduate rankings by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMedia Contacts:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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They were competing in the Biomedical Engineering Society\u2019s (BMES) Coulter College event held August 13-16, 2015 in Coral Gables, Florida. More than 60 teams apply for the competition, but only a third of them are invited to participate. BME\u2019s winning team consisted of Emma Mihevc, Cory Turbyfield, Joshua Bugica, Alex Hubbard, Emma Poe-Yamagata, and Will McAllister. They were competing against Johns Hopkins, Boston University, Florida State, and other notable programs. They participated in the both the design and best pitch competitions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Georgia Tech BME team did an amazing job of representing our department and our university,\u201d said James Rains, BME\u2019s director of capstone design in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory.\u0026nbsp; \u201cI received many compliments regarding their performance throughout the event, but was blown away with their great team work, ingenuity, and polished presentation skills.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECoulter College is a training program focused on translation of biomedical innovations. Student design teams are guided by faculty and clinical experts through a highly dynamic process designed to help them better understand how innovations can meet clinical needs while providing tools and approaches used to evolve identified problems into novel solutions. The program is supported by the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the competition, student teams are given a list of unmet clinical needs, they research and rank their top choices. Shortly afterwards, they are notified of the unmet clinical need they will address and given an assignment to prepare. In this case, they were asked to work on an epidural system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe design process is one of my favorite things about being an engineering student,\u201d said BME student Alex Hubbard. \u201cThe Coulter College made designing even more fun by providing each team with a box of materials like modeling clay, Tinker Toys, pipe cleaners, and trig cards with interesting prompts to encourage creativity while brainstorming. We followed a \u2018no-negativity\u2019 rule such that whenever someone had an idea that seemed far-fetched, we weren\u0027t allowed to say anything negative about it, so we went off on several crazy tangents.\u0026nbsp; One of these tangents was inspired by reading cards that encouraged us to relocate the epidural process or alter the process such that a physician wouldn\u0027t need to come near the patient, both of which seem ridiculous at first glance.\u0026nbsp; However, a few crazy tangents later, we came upon the idea of encasing the medications delivered during a normal epidural injection in a hydrogel or other polymer, injecting that solution into the patient\u0027s epidural space weeks before the due date, and activating it via ultrasound upon when the patient arrives at the hospital to give birth.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECory Turbyfield added, \u201dfor me, the coolest part of the competition was all of the people there: BME students, professors, clinicians, CEOs, designers, professionals, and more. Everyone brought with them their own set of experiences, and we had the opportunity to learn from each and everyone one of them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u2019s idea and subsequent presentation earned the team the best design award at the competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cThey worked their butts off staying up to 3:00 a.m. each night and being there bright and early at 7:00 a.m. to start it all over again\u2014 for four consecutive days.\u0026nbsp; I am not sure how they were able to even start classes on Monday,\u201d said Rains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContact:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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They were competing in the Biomedical Engineering Society\u2019s (BMES) Coulter College event held August 13-16, 2015 in Coral Gables, Florida.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Six Georgia Tech biomedical engineering students won the best design category in the BMES Coulter College competition"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2015-09-14 16:23:23","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:33","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"447731":{"id":"447731","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Team at Coulter College Competition, Aug. 2015","body":null,"created":"1449256246","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:10:46","changed":"1475895189","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:09","alt":"Georgia Tech Team at Coulter College Competition, Aug. 2015","file":{"fid":"203253","name":"20150816_113203_001.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20150816_113203_001_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/20150816_113203_001_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4346761,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/20150816_113203_001_0.jpg?itok=BOJq5IT1"}}},"media_ids":["447731"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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Many current RNA-based approaches turn this apparent bug into a strength, because they seek to treat liver diseases.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut what if you need to deliver RNA somewhere besides the liver?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBiomedical engineer Hanjoong Jo\u2019s lab at Emory\/Georgia Tech, working with Katherine Ferrara\u2019s group at UC Davis, has developed technology to broaden the liver-dominant properties of RNA-based drugs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe results were recently published in \u003Cem\u003EACS Nano\u003C\/em\u003E. The researchers show they can selectively target an anti-microRNA agent to inflamed blood vessels in mice while avoiding other tissues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have solved a major obstacle of using anti-miRNA as a therapeutic by being able to do a targeted delivery to only inflamed endothelial cells while all other tissues examined, including liver, lung, kidney, blood cells, spleen, etc. showed no detectable side-effects,\u201d Jo says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch by Jo\u2019s lab, published in 2013 in \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E, had established that microRNA 712 was a master controller of inflammation in atherosclerosis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E paper, an antisense molecule that counteracts miRNA 712 can stop the effects of high fat diet and disturbed blood flow in the atherosclerosis model. It reaches the desired cells: endothelial cells, which line blood vessels. But the anti-miRNA has significant effects on the liver and blood cells at the same time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo restrict delivery of an antisense molecule countering miRNA 712 to endothelial cells, the authors built nanoparticles with several layers. Inside was the payload: the anti-miRNA, packaged with a positively charged lipid. Around that is a neutral coating, decorated with a peptide that targets the inflammatory molecule vascular cell adhesion molecule 1. The same peptide has previously been tested as a potential cardiovascular imaging tool.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe resulting multi-layer package was delivered selectively to only the inflamed endothelial cells, the authors show in the \u003Cem\u003EACS Nano\u003C\/em\u003E paper. In the atherosclerosis mouse model, it was possible to use five times less than the \u201cnaked\u201d untargeted version and still see beneficial effects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe multi-layer packaging method could easily be adapted to other miRNAs, such as the human equivalent miR-205, in the context of treating atherosclerosis. However, using other targeting peptides, with the goal of reaching other tissues, would be a bigger stretch.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHanjoong Jo is the associate chair and John and Jan Portman Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Wallace H. 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GRA Eminent Scholars employ some 1,200 faculty, graduate students, and technicians in their labs, and last year filed 47 invention disclosures and were granted 23 patent applications.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKane and Emelianov come to Georgia Tech from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, while Divan returns to Tech after taking a four-year leave to establish an electrical energy startup company in the Bay Area.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are proud to welcome Deepak Divan, Stanislav Emelianov, and Ravi Kane to our Academy and to Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; said C. Michael Cassidy, President and CEO, Georgia Research Alliance. \u0026ldquo;They bring to Georgia vast knowledge and expertise that will help to further development in the fields of cancer nanotechnology, energy management, and medical imaging.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERavi Kane Joins ChBE as Betty Chair\/Eminent Scholar \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERavi Kane has joined the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering as a professor and holder of the Garry Betty\/V Foundation Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar in Cancer Nanotechnology. Kane will hold also program faculty status in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, Kane served on the faculty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he was head of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and held the P.K. Lashmet Professorship.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Ravi is a wonderfully creative and effective researcher, and we are thrilled to have him join us at Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; said Professor and ChBE School Chair David Sholl.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHolding master\u0026rsquo;s and doctoral degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Kane focuses his research on the interface of biotechnology and nanotechnology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis research group is designing nanoscale polyvalent therapeutics and working on the molecular engineering of biosurfaces and nanostructures. The Kane group is also interested in using protein engineering, nanotechnology, and other tools to combat cancer, Alzheimer\u0026rsquo;s, Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s disease, influenza, and antibiotic-resistant pathogens.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHaving contributed to more than 125 scientific publications, Kane has received numerous honors throughout his career. In 2004, \u003Cem\u003EMIT Technology Review\u003C\/em\u003E named him one of the top 100 young innovators in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince then, he has received an American Institute of Chemical Engineer\u0026rsquo;s Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Young Investigator Award, Global Indus Technovator Award, American Chemical Society\u0026rsquo;s Biochemical Technology Division Young Investigator Award, Society for Biological Engineers\u0026rsquo; Biotechnology Progress Award for Excellence in Biological Engineering Publication, as well as other recognitions for research and teaching excellence.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EElected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows in 2013, Kane is a member of the editorial board for the \u003Cem\u003EAnnual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003EBiotechnology and Bioengineering\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKane\u0026rsquo;s Chair was endowed by the family of Charles Garrett \u0026ldquo;Garry\u0026rdquo; Betty (BS ChBE 1979). Betty was president and CEO of the Internet service provider EarthLink from 1996 until his death from a rare type of cancer in 2007. He was inducted into the Georgia Technology Hall of Fame in 2005.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBetty\u0026rsquo;s wife, Kathy, received the 2013 College of Engineering\u0026rsquo;s Dean\u0026rsquo;s Appreciation Award for her continual support of Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDivan Named as Eminent Scholar\/Pippin Professor\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDeepak Divan has been appointed as the John E. Pippin Chair Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and as a GRA Eminent Scholar. In this new role, Divan will also serve as director of the Georgia Tech Center for Distributed Energy, which will focus on enabling the transition of the global electrical energy infrastructure from a fossil-fuel powered, top-down controlled system to a massively-distributed, resilient, smart, and sustainable system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We are excited to welcome Deepak back to Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; said Steven W. McLaughlin, the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of ECE. \u0026ldquo;He is internationally recognized and respected in the electrical energy arena, and he will be an effective leader in developing the energy delivery systems of the future.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn ECE faculty member since 2004, Divan works in the areas of dynamic grid control, advanced and integrated power electronics, and sustainable energy systems. He is known for his seminal work in technologies that protect equipment against power disturbances that impact industries such as utilities, semiconductors, automotive, and food processing. He served as director for the Intelligent Power Infrastructure Consortium, a university-industry-utility consortium to foster and accelerate the development and adoption of early-stage, pre-competitive high-risk and high-impact technologies in power applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the last several years, Divan has been on leave in order to establish and lead his third startup company, Varentec, which is funded by leading VCs Khosla Ventures and investor Bill Gates. Varentec, based in Santa Clara, California, builds distributed power management and monitoring solutions for the electric grid. Divan currently serves as the scientific founder and Chief Scientist for the company. He is also the scientific founder of two additional companies\u0026ndash;Innovolt, based in Atlanta, which makes next-generation power protection and asset management devices and where he serves on the Board, and Soft Switching Technologies Corporation, where he served as CEO and developed a range of devices to help manufacturing facilities ride through power disturbances. At Soft Switching, Divan also conceptualized and helped to develop the I-Grid, the first publicly accessible Internet-based power monitoring network in the U.S., which allows industries and utilities to diagnose widespread power quality events and unsolved downtime events. Soft Switching was acquired by Rockwell Automation in 2012. Finally, his work at Georgia Tech has provided the foundation for another start-up company \u0026ndash; Smart Wires, which is located in Oakland, California, and provides power flow control devices for the transmission grid.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDivan holds more than 60 issued or pending patents, with over half in use by industry, and he has published over 300 refereed journal and conference papers, including 12 outstanding prize paper awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2015, Divan was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He served as president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) in 2009-2010, and he was named as the first recipient of the IEEE Newell Field Medal, the highest honor given by IEEE in the area of power electronics \u0026ldquo;for leadership in the development of soft-switching power converters.\u0026rdquo; Divan also served as an IEEE Industry Applications Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2004 and 2005, and he was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 1998.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEmelianov Named as Eminent Scholar\/Pettit Chair in Microelectronics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStanislav (Stas) Emelianov has been appointed as the Joseph M. Pettit Chair in Microelectronics and as a GRA Eminent Scholar. He is based in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) with a joint appointment in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Stas is a thoughtful and innovative researcher who has made a significant impact in his field, and we are delighted to have him join the ECE and BME faculties at Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; said McLaughlin and Ravi Bellamkonda, the Wallace H. Coulter Chair Professor in BME. \u0026ldquo;Stas will be a fantastic bridge between ECE and BME, and will also work closely with Winship Cancer Institute to pursue his cancer related research.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to joining Tech, Emelianov was on the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Most recently, he served as the Cockrell Professor of Biomedical Engineering and as an adjunct professor of imaging physics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. His research interests are in the development of advanced imaging methods capable of detecting and diagnosing cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other pathologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmelianov also focuses on assisting treatment planning, enhancing image-guided therapy, and monitoring of treatment outcomes. He has led a team that discovered a minimally invasive way to detect plaques that are most likely to cause heart attacks. He has also conducted groundbreaking work on deep vein thrombosis, predicting rupture of plaques for cardiovascular applications, and imaging sentinel lymph nodes and micrometastases for cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmelianov and his collaborators have published over 470 refereed journal and conference papers and 13 edited books and book chapters, and he has 15 patents that have either been issued or are pending. In serving his professional community, Emelianov is the editor of \u003Cem\u003EPhotoacoustics\u003C\/em\u003E and is an editorial board member for the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmelianov has held leadership roles in ultrasonics conferences and symposia sponsored by both IEEE and SPIE. In addition, he is a member of the Acoustical Society of America and the American Society for Engineering Education. He was also elected to the College of Fellows for the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile at UT-Austin, Emelianov served as the BME associate chair for research and chair of the undergraduate curriculum committee, and he received several teaching awards at both the department and university levels. He has graduated 20 Ph.D. students and four M.S. students, many of whom have received fellowships, national research service awards, and honors and awards from both IEEE and SPIE. He has also advised 45 undergraduate researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStory Contributors:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022braddixon@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrad Dixon\u003C\/a\u003E, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 404-385-2299; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 404-894-2906; \u003Ca href=\u0022wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E, Biomedical Engineering, 404-385-2416.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology is pleased to announce the appointment of three new Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholars\u0026ndash;Deepak Divan, Stanislav Emelianov, and Ravi Kane\u0026ndash;bringing the Institute\u0026rsquo;s total of GRA Eminent Scholars to 22.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology is pleased to announce the appointment of three new Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholars\u2013Deepak Divan, Stanislav Emelianov, and Ravi Kane\u2013bringing the Institute\u2019s total of GRA Eminent Scholars to 22."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2015-09-01 14:09:33","changed_gmt":"2017-07-12 12:58:23","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"377991":{"id":"377991","type":"image","title":"Deepak Divan","body":null,"created":"1449246205","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:23:25","changed":"1475894388","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:48","alt":"Deepak Divan","file":{"fid":"75203","name":"deepak.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/deepak.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/deepak.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":308657,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/deepak.jpg?itok=7vC-UHua"}},"438491":{"id":"438491","type":"image","title":"Stanislav Emelianov","body":null,"created":"1449256175","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:09:35","changed":"1475895176","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:56","alt":"Stanislav Emelianov","file":{"fid":"203023","name":"img_6782_stas_v2_cropped_hi-res.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_6782_stas_v2_cropped_hi-res_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_6782_stas_v2_cropped_hi-res_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1122730,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_6782_stas_v2_cropped_hi-res_0.jpg?itok=H-16KSF3"}}},"media_ids":["377991","438491"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gra.org\/","title":"Georgia Research Alliance"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. 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Emory cardiovascular researcher Kathy Griendling, Ph.D., was one of the first scientists to show how reactive oxygen species, once thought to be poisonous byproducts of metabolism, are essential cellular signals needed for life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe and a team of Emory and Georgia Tech researchers were awarded a five-year, $8.9 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to better understand how reactive oxygen species and inflammation can be both necessary for blood vessels to function, but detrimental in excess. The team\u2019s work will explore strategies for targeted intervention, possibly leading to new preventive approaches for conditions such as atherosclerosis and aortic aneurysms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cThis award highlights the core strength we have built at Emory in understanding how vital signals such as ROS function in vascular biology,\u201d says Griendling. \u201cOur long-standing interest in this area is beginning to bear fruit in terms of translational approaches.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGriendling is professor and vice-chair of research and faculty development in the Department of Medicine within Emory University School of Medicine. The team includes Hanjoong Jo, Ph.D., John and Jan Portman professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University; W. Robert Taylor, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and director of cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory; and Alejandra San Martin, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine (cardiology) at Emory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cThis award represents a long-standing collaboration between investigators in cardiology at Emory and biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory,\u201d Jo says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing a well-developed model of rapid atherosclerosis induced by disturbed blood flow in mice, Jo\u2019s laboratory will investigate a potential drug target: bone morphogenic protein receptor 2 or BMPR2. The BMPR2 gene has been connected in human studies with pulmonary hypertension.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGriendling and San Martin are investigating Nox enzymes, which produce reactive oxygen species, and the Nox partner protein Poldip2\u2019s roles in aortic stiffening and smooth muscle metabolism and proliferation. Taylor is probing another potential drug target, the antioxidant enzyme catalase, which has been shown to modulate blood vessel stiffness and aneurysm formation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWalter Rich\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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On the contrary, cells are interconnected members of a tightly knit community. Working together, cells differentiate to establish the form and structure of organs and body parts, a process called morphogenesis.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIt\u2019s important to examine the fundamental cell biology principles that govern this process, to reach a better understanding of developmental biology and engineering novel multicellular systems, but there are a number of challenges.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EFunctional micro-tissues derived from pluripotent embryonic stem cell (ESC) aggregates provide novel platforms for experimentation, but clarifying the factors that direct emergent spatial phenotypic patterns remains a hurdle. Computational modeling offers a complementary approach and provides a wealth of spatiotemporal data, but quantitative analysis of simulations and comparison to the experimental data is difficult.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EQuantitative descriptions of spatial phenomena across multiple systems and scales would enable unprecedented comparisons of computational simulations with experimental systems and leverage the ability of computational methods to interrogate the mechanisms of multicellular biology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ETo address these challenges, a group of researchers from multiple disciplines at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed an innovative, portable pattern recognition pipeline, the first of its kind.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThere is a lot of biological data available. To some extent, it\u2019s all image data, whether we\u2019re talking about confocal microscopy or two-dimensional images of cells. The field has made significant advances the last 10 or 15 years in terms of quantifying images, but there are still gaping holes in terms of quantifying spatial patterns and how those emerge in cells over time,\u201d says Doug White, lead author of a research paper entitled, \u201cQuantitative multivariate analysis of dynamic multicellular morphogenic trajectories,\u201d published this summer in the journal \u003Cem\u003EIntegrative Biology\u003C\/em\u003E (a publication of the Royal Society of Chemistry).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWhite, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, now manages a team using mathematical modeling approaches to understand the guiding principles behind cancer drug design, for Takeda Pharmaceuticals in Boston. The research paper is the result of work he began about three years ago. His Ph.D. was focused on understanding stem cell biology using computational modeling.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWe set out to come up with a method that was portable across multiple system that anybody can use, but still powerful enough to extract meaningful data,\u201d he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe pipeline permits entirely new forms of quantitative analysis based upon the fundamental interconnectivity of multicellular networks, which the research team believes could revolutionize the characterization of biologically complex spatiotemporal phenomena. And it\u2019s the first network-based approach currently capable of using single cell information on spatial positioning and cellular states to classify tissue level pattern dynamics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThe Petit Institute has instruments that measure different images with different resolutions,\u201d says Melissa Kemp, associate professor in the Coulter Department, faculty member of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, who co-authored the paper and was White\u2019s co-advisor. \u201cThis pipeline allows us to take any of those images of multicellular structures and redefines the structure in terms of individual cells. Once you can define those individual entities within the image, you can create these network structures.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ETheir innovation is their ability to take a plain image from a microscope and turn it into a network structure, much like LinkedIn or Facebook uses to study social connections. \u201cWe can then use newly defined features of those structures as they evolve over time to understand the underlying biology,\u201d Kemp says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe interdisciplinary team contributing to the research paper includes Petit Institute faculty members Hang Lu (professor and James R. Fair Faculty Fellow in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) and Todd Streelman (professor and associate chair for graduate studies in the School of Biology), as well as White\u2019s co-advisor Todd McDevitt, who left Georgia Tech last year to join the Gladstone Institute. Other co-authors were Jonathan Sylvester (postdoctoral fellow in the Streelman lab) and Thomas Levario (graduate student in the Lu lab). All, with the exception of McDevitt, are now based in the new Engineered Biosystems Building in the cell and developmental bioengineering neighborhood.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re excited about how this could be used in other prediction-based studies,\u201d Kemp says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe nice thing about the technology is its portability across many imaging modalities, according to White, who adds, \u201cThe sky is the limit in terms of what this technology is capable of.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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Without it, heating or air conditioning would run without reacting to changes in outside conditions, allowing inside temperatures to vary dramatically.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOptogenetics technology places genes that express light-sensitive proteins into mammalian cells that normally lack such proteins. When the proteins are illuminated with specific wavelengths of light, they change the behavior of the cells, introducing certain types of ions or pushing ions out of the cells to alter electrical activity. But without a feedback loop, scientists could only assume that the optical signals were having the effects desired \u2013 or try to confirm at the end of the experiment that this had happened.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address that shortcoming, researchers have created an open-source technology called the optoclamp which closes the loop in optogenetic systems. The technique uses a computer to acquire and process the neuronal response to the optical stimulus in real-time and then vary the light input to maintain a desired firing rate. By providing this feedback control, the optoclamp could facilitate research into new therapies for epilepsy, Parkinson\u2019s disease, chronic pain \u2013 and even depression.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur work establishes a versatile test bed for creating the responsive neurotherapeutic tools of the future,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/bme\/faculty\/Steve-M.-Potter\u0022\u003ESteve Potter\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cNeural modulation therapies of the future, whether they be targeted drug delivery, electrical stimulation or even light-plus-optogenetics through fiber optics, will all be closed loop. That means they will be responsive to the moment-to-moment needs of the nervous system.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research, supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, was recently published in the open-access journal \u003Cem\u003EeLife\u003C\/em\u003E. Feedback control already exists for neural stimulation systems based on electrical inputs, but the optoclamp is the first system to provide similar closed-loop control for optical stimulation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOptoclamp provides continuous, real-time adjustments of optical stimulation to lock neural spiking activity to specified targets over time scales ranging from seconds to days. By providing precise optical control of firing in neuronal populations, the technology will help scientists disentangle causally related variables of circuit activation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers in Potter\u2019s lab studied the effects of open-loop optical stimulation on neural systems, and found considerable variation in the responses of neuronal networks grown on multi-electrode arrays and in the neurons of animal models.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe same stimulus pattern can produce highly variable levels of activity,\u201d said Jon Newman, who built the optoclamp while a Ph.D. student in Georgia Tech\u2019s Laboratory for Neuroengineering. Newman is now a postdoctoral researcher at MIT. \u201cThe amount of optical stimulation needed to achieve the same level of activity varied by orders of magnitude, depending on the population that was being controlled, or even in the same type of cells and preparation, but within different subjects.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a cultured cortical network, the optoclamp records activity from as many as 200 cells, using them to measure activity in the larger culture population, which can include as many as a million cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBecause we have all those electrodes, we can process the data in real-time and then compare the amount of activity being expressed by the culture to a target rate, then use the difference between those two signals to inform our optical stimulator to vary the intensities of different wavelengths of light,\u201d Newman explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe optoclamp can be used to control cell cultures grown atop electrode arrays, as well as in living animal models in which electrodes have been implanted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn research conducted with colleagues at Emory University, the optoclamp\u2019s ability to maintain a steady neural firing state allowed researchers to study a key control issue in homeostatic plasticity, a phenomenon that results from a lack of neural stimulation. Scientists had believed that the effect was controlled by the firing rate of cells, but the optoclamp allowed a team of researchers from Georgia Tech and Emory University to clamp firing at normal levels during the addition of a drug that inhibits neurotransmission. This showed that neurotransmission levels, not firing activity, governed a key form of homeostatic plasticity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEffectively, we were able to decouple two things that are normally very closely related,\u201d said Newman. \u201cThis is potentially a very big deal in terms of developing therapies for aberrant forms of synaptic plasticity.\u201d Potential applications include chronic pain, epilepsy, tinnitus, phantom limb syndrome and other nervous systems disorders where the brain has over-reacted to the loss of normal inputs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat work, recently published in the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature Communications\u003C\/em\u003E, was a collaboration with Emory University Professor Pete Wenner and former graduate student Ming-fai Fong, demonstrating the value of bringing biological scientists together with engineers. Newman, an engineer by training, says concepts common in engineering can be useful in the life sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cClosed-loop control is a concept that is woven through all engineered systems, but it\u2019s often hard to find in the biological sciences,\u201d he said. \u201cAny time you can introduce feedback control into an experiment, it almost always produces better control of the variables of interest. Feedback control is an extremely important concept for the life sciences.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EScientists are already using the optoclamp in its current form, but the researchers hope to improve spatial differentiation of the optical signals, allowing experiments to focus stimulation on specific areas of the brain or brain cell cultures. The light signals now affect an entire culture or brain region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to precisely control where photons are being sent to activate different cells,\u201d Newman said. \u201cOptogenetics allows genetic specification of which cells express these proteins, and that gives you some level of spatial control. But I don\u2019t believe that\u2019s as precise as what will be required to speak the language of the brain.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to those already mentioned, the research team included Professor Garrett Stanley from the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and graduate students Daniel C. Millard and Clarissa J. Whitmire, also from the Coulter Department.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience grant IOS-1131948 and Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation grant 1238097, and by the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke grant 2R01NS048285 and National Institute of Neurological Disorders grant 1R01NS079757-01. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Science Foundation or National Institutes of Health.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATIONS\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003ENewman, J. P., Fong, M-f, Millard, D. C., Whitmire, C. J., Stanley, G. B., \u0026amp; Potter, S. 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He has led a team that discovered a minimally invasive way to detect plaques that are most likely to cause heart attacks. He has also conducted groundbreaking work on deep vein thrombosis, predicting rupture of plaques for cardiovascular applications, and imaging sentinel lymph nodes and micrometastases for cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEmelianov and his collaborators have published over 470 refereed journal and conference papers and 13 edited books and book chapters, and he has 15 patents that have either been issued or are pending. In serving his professional community, Emelianov is the editor of \u003Cem\u003EPhotoacoustics\u003C\/em\u003E and is an editorial board member for the \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEmelianov has held leadership roles in ultrasonics conferences and symposia sponsored by both IEEE and SPIE. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) held a two day biomedical engineering workshop June 8 and 9 in Daejeon, South Korea. These prominent schools recently completed a memorandum of understanding to engage and actively explore deeper research and scholarly collaborations. Biomedical engineering faculty from KAIST, Georgia Tech and Emory shared their latest research to help identify new research partnerships among faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the last 20 years, Korea has become a global leader and powerhouse of technology research and manufacturing. Korean companies and universities are at the cutting edge of science research and product innovation in many areas\u2014this includes medical research. According to the \u003Cem\u003ENew England Journal of Medicine\u003C\/em\u003E, South Korea has increased spending on medical research by 24 percent.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cKAIST is clearly recognized as one of the best technology, science and engineering universities in the world,\u201d said Hanjoong Jo, associate chair of the BME department. \u201cJoint biomedical research projects between KAIST, Emory and Georgia Tech would take full advantage of many synergies offered by each school\u2019s unique faculty expertise and core research laboratories.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe five professors from Georgia Tech and Emory\u2019s BME department that traveled to visit KAIST at their main campus in Daejeon were Ravi Bellamkonda, Hanjoong Jo, Garrett Stanley, Xiaoping Hu, and May Wang.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe professors in attendance from KAIST were Jong Chul Ye, Do-heon Lee, Philnam Kim, Ji-ho Park, Jung-Kyun Choi, Se-Bum Paik, Christopher Fiorillo, Sung-Hong Park, Ki-Hun Jeong, Dongsup Kim, Gwan-Su Yi, Sue-Hyun Lee, Yong Jeong, Yoonkey Nam, and Young-Ho Cho.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe workshop sought to identify impactful, long-term projects with realistic funding opportunities to forge new frontiers in medical science and engineering knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was very impressed by the dedication of faculty members within the department of biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory that makes this workshop very successful.\u0026nbsp; Our faculty members at KAIST believe this is a good starting point for KAIST and Georgia Tech\/Emory bioengineering department to work together with the same vision to become the world leader in bioengineering areas,\u201d said interim-chair professor Jong-Chul Ye.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently elected department chair, professor Kwang-Hyun Cho, envisioned that he wants to further extend this joint workshop for fruitful collaboration between Georgia Tech, Emory, and KAIST in both research and education, and to use this opportunity as a common bridge for enhancing our international visibility in biomedical engineering. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to pure research, exchange opportunities and educational programs are being developed for top biomedical engineering scholars to further their studies and research at either Georgia Tech, Emory or KAIST.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor further info, contact:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWalter Rich\u003Cbr \/\u003E Communications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E Wallace H. 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Lam\u2019s group developed a process in which they grow endothelial cells (the interior surface of blood vessels and lymphatic vessels) in really small channels to allow cellular biophysics experimentation in an \u003Cem\u003Ein vitro\u003C\/em\u003E setting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThe process is not trivial,\u201d says Mannino, who as an undergrad started thinking about a simpler process to meet the same complicated needs, \u201cto make these systems more accessible to biologists and cardiovascular researchers who are really interested in questions of how different blood systems interact with each other and with the endothelium.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThis kind of research traditionally takes expensive equipment and engineering expertise in microfabrication. But now, researchers who want to understand biophysical cellular reactions and their relation to health and\/or disease have a more user-friendly path to enlightenment. \u201cRob came up with a brilliant technique which really only requires some silicone and some wire,\u201d says Lam.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe research team has recently published the recipe in the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature: Scientific Reports\u003C\/em\u003E, a paper entitled, \u201cDo-it-yourself \u003Cem\u003Ein vitro\u003C\/em\u003E vasculature that recapitulates \u003Cem\u003Ein vivo\u003C\/em\u003E geometries for investigating endothelial-blood cell interactions.\u201d In addition to Mannino (the lead author), Wang and Lam, the team of multidisciplinary authors\/researchers includes David R. Myers (postdoc in the Lam lab, and Mannino\u2019s former Petit Scholar mentor), Byungwook Ahn (former postdoc in the Lam lab), Margo Rollins (pediatric hematologist\/oncology fellow at Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta), Hope Gole (former postdoc in the Lam lab), Angela Lin (research engineer in the Bob Guldberg lab), Bob Guldberg (executive director of the Petit Institute, professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering), Don Giddens (Dean Emeritus of the Coulter Department), and Lucas Timmins (former postdoc in the Timmins lab).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThis process is accessible to biologists, not just experienced engineers, and it effectively enables us to observe the process by which the blood cells and endothelial cells function together in the human body\u201d says Wang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EOne driving factor in the research, according to Mannino, was economics. \u201cWe\u2019ve reduced the time it takes and also the cost,\u201d he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EAnd now Wang, the Petit Scholar, is taking the research to the next step. \u201cHe\u2019s studying sickle cell biomechanics,\u201d Mannino says. \u201cBasically, this will be the first practical application of the device.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWang will leverage the advantages of the system Mannino conceived, \u201ctowards questions that really couldn\u2019t be answered with any other type of device,\u201d Lam says. \u201cThis kind of system is great for asking questions related to biophysics and how these cell interactions occur in normal processes and how they go awry in diseased processes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EUsing the new system, Wang can make a model of an artificial blood vessel, with tight control of the geometry and curvature, and investigate how endothelial cells pathologically respond. This is important stuff, because while we know that blood vessels in sickle cell disease are, in fact, diseased, putting patients at risk for stroke, we really don\u2019t understand why.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cSo Payne is essentially asking this biophysical question of, how does the shape or curvature or the geometry of the blood vessel itself affect these cellular interactions in sickle cell disease and only an \u003Cem\u003Ein vitro\u003C\/em\u003E system like this can we answer that question. These experiments can\u2019t be conducted \u003Cem\u003Ein vivo\u003C\/em\u003E as there are too many other confounding issues,\u201d says Lam, also a physician with Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWang is planning to present his research later this year at the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting in October, and also at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting in December. 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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience has grown by one world-class researcher with the recent addition of Ravi Kane to its multidisciplinary community of scientists and engineers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EKane is a brand new professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (where he is the Kathy and Garry Betty Faculty Chair), having lately arrived at the Georgia Institute of Technology following 14 years at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he headed the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EBefore taking his career to Rensselaer, Kane served a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard. 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The layers are grown on palladium nanocrystal templates, and then the palladium is etched away to leave behind nanocages approximately 20 nanometers in diameter, with between three and six atom-thin layers of platinum.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUse of these nanocage structures in fuel cell electrodes could increase the utilization efficiency of the platinum by a factor of as much as seven, potentially changing the economic viability of the fuel cells.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe can get the catalytic activity we need by using only a small fraction of the platinum that had been required before,\u201d said Younan Xia, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Xia also holds joint faculty appointments in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. \u201cWe have made hollow nanocages of platinum with walls as thin as a few atomic layers because we don\u2019t want to waste any material in the bulk that does not contribute to the catalytic activity.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research \u2013 which also involved researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Arizona State University and Xiamen University in China \u2013 was reported in the July 24 issue of the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlatinum is in high demand as a catalyst for a wide range of industrial and consumer applications. The high cost of platinum needed for the catalysts deposited on electrodes has limited the ability to use low-temperature fuel cells in automobiles and home applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn catalytic applications, only the surface layers of platinum contribute to the chemical reaction, leading researchers to develop new structures designed to maximize the amount of platinum exposed to reactants. The hollowing out process reduces the amount of the precious metal not contributing to the reaction, and allows the use of larger nanocrystals that are less susceptible to sintering, an aggregation phenomenon which reduces catalyst surface area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe can control the process so well that we have layer-by-layer deposition, creating one layer, two layers or three layers of platinum,\u201d said Xia, who is also a Georgia Research Alliance eminent scholar. \u201cWe can also control the arrangement of atoms on the surface so their catalytic activity can be engineered to fit different types of reactions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHollow platinum structures have been made before, but not with walls this thin, he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarlier work produced shells with wall thicknesses of approximately five nanometers. The new process can produce shell walls less than one nanometer thick. With both the inner layer and outer layer of the porous nanocages contributing to the catalytic activity, the new structures can use up to two-thirds of the platinum atoms in an ultra-thin three-layer shell. Some palladium remains mixed with the platinum in the structures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis approach creates the highest possible surface area from a given amount of platinum,\u201d said Xia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe nanocages can be made in either cubic or octahedral shapes, depending on the palladium nanocrystals used as templates. The shape controls the surface structure, thus engineering the catalytic activity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of this research was to reduce the cost of the cathodes in fuel cells designed to power automobiles and homes. The fuel cell\u2019s oxygen-reduction reaction takes place at the cathode, and that requires a substantial amount of platinum. By reducing the amount of platinum by up to a factor of seven, the hollow shells could make automotive and home fuel cells more economically feasible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers measured the durability of the platinum nanocages for oxygen-reduction reaction, and found the catalytic activity dropped by a little more than one-third after 10,000 operating cycles. Earlier efforts to maximize surface area relied on making very small platinum nanoparticles just two or three nanometers in diameter. Particles of that size tended to clump together in a process known as sintering, reducing the surface area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy using hollow structures, we can use much larger particle sizes \u2013 about 20 nanometers \u2013 and we really don\u2019t lose any surface area because we can use both the inside and outside of the structure, and the shells are only a few atomic layers thick,\u201d Xia added. \u201cWe expect the durability of these larger particles to be much better.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther applications, such as catalytic converters in automobiles, also use substantial amounts of platinum. The new hollow shells are unlikely to be used in automobile catalytic converters because they operate at a temperature beyond what the structures can tolerate. However, the platinum nanocages could find use in other industrial processes such as hydrogenation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContributing to the experimental work done at Georgia Tech, researchers at Arizona State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory used their specialized microscopy facilities to map the nanocage structures. 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This year\u2019s amount also includes $100,000 contributed by the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe were very happy with the number of good projects we saw during this year\u2019s funding round,\u201d said Rachael Hagan, who serves as program director for the Coulter Translational Partnership Program. More than 50 applications requesting funding were received this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn June, we vetted each application for its potential to achieve commercial success with the help of professional health care consultants in marketing, regulatory, reimbursement and intellectual property to determine the likelihood of receiving commercial follow-on funding for these health care innovations. 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There are currently no FDA-approved CRRT devices for patients who weigh less than 20 kilograms, and the KIDS technology is being developed to meet this unmet need (principal investigators:\u0026nbsp;Shiva Arjunon and Matt Paden).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELevit Catheter\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u0026nbsp;a drug delivery catheter for localized delivery of therapeutic-seeded hydrogels to the pericardial space (principal investigators: Andres Garcia and Rebecca Levit).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMitraPlug\u003C\/strong\u003E: a transcatheter implant that seeks to \u201cplug\u201d the fluid path, which is seen in patients with mitral regurgitation (principal investigators: Murali Padala and Eric Sarin).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENanocomposite Scintillators: \u003C\/strong\u003Ean imaging replacement for current, expensive crystals (principal investigators: Brooke Beckert, Eric Elder and Jason Nadler).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIC3D\u003C\/strong\u003E: an imaging silicon chip for Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) procedures with improved visualization for physicians (principal investigators: Levent Degertekin and Habib Samady).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E These newly funded academic projects were chosen by a committee composed of Emory doctors, Georgia Tech biomedical engineers and technology transfer representatives from each school. The other half of the selection committee included industry experts, venture capital specialists, serial entrepreneurs and angel investors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis seed funding is similar to venture capital funding, except there are no strings attached,\u201d said Hagan. \u201cOur committee picks projects based on a higher probability of receiving\u0026nbsp; commercial follow-on investment in hopes our best clinical research moves out of our universities to actual patient care.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is tremendously exciting to reinvigorate the Coulter Translational Program with an investment of over $1.5 million per year,\u201d said Ajit Yoganathan, Regents\u2019 Professor and associate chair for translational research in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. \u201cThe excitement and need for the program was obvious based on the number of initial applications. It demonstrates there is a pipeline of translational projects that has the potential for commercialization at Georgia Tech and Emory. The projects selected for funding cut across various areas of medicine including pediatrics. Funding pediatric technologies is critical, since kids are an underserved population.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;In 2001, the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation made a $25 million grant to the Georgia Tech-Emory biomedical engineering program. In recognition of this grant, the combined department is known as the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. The department combines Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering with Emory\u2019s School of Medicine. The grant also contains a $10 million endowment to provide ongoing funding specifically for translational research. 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The College of Engineering has approximately 350 staff members providing critical support to our faculty, researchers and students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was honored to have been nominated and extremely pleased to have won.\u0026nbsp; I am so very proud to be part of the BME team, we have something good going on here with important research, a great staff, bright students and excellent faculty.\u0026nbsp; My work ethic is to always be efficient and knowledgeable about my chosen craft. Being proactive, working smarter and not harder are my number one goals. \u0026nbsp;I am a teacher at heart so if I can point someone else towards the same work ethic then I do not mind sharing a little knowledge to help get them there. 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I told the team, \u2018come at this as if everything you know isn\u2019t true and you have to reprove it.\u2019\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the end of the seven-week grant period, the students will have a clear go or no-go decision concerning the viability and effectiveness of the Stem Cell Plinko, as well as a transition plan to move the project forward and bring their idea to scale, assuming it\u2019s a go.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe have all these different ideas about potential versions of our product, and potential markets. Hopefully, I-Corps L will help us pare it all down,\u201d says Lassahn, the team leader, who earned her Master\u2019s degree in Bioengineering (BioE) this past spring.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo be eligible for the I-Corps L grant applicants must have received a prior NSF award relevant to the proposed innovation. The Stem Cell Plinko project had been fostered by the NSF-funded Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program in Stem Cell Biomanufacturing, as well as through the education and outreach committee of the Bioengineering and Bioscience Unified Graduate Students (BBUGS).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of the things working to the Petit Institute team\u2019s advantage is, they are coming at this project now from a bicoastal perspective, with three students based at the Georgia Institute of Technology and one in California. Lassahn has entered the workforce while Bongiorno is in the fourth year of pursuing his Ph.D. in BioE, and Tellier is a third year Ph.D. student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (a collaboration of Georgia Tech and Emory University). Butts is based in San Francisco since leaving Georgia Tech to work and study at the Gladstone Institutes. She plans to complete her Ph.D. through the University of San Francisco and the University of California-Berkeley.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThis is a coast-to-coast effort,\u201d says Bongiorno. \u201cThis is nationwide, which can only help as think about scalability.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn addition to the support the students have received through Georgia Tech, Butts says the Plinko project has the backing of Gladstone researchers like former Petit Institute faculty member Todd McDevitt, among others. \u201cWe have their support, they\u2019re excited about the prospects of a stem cell education tool,\u201d Butts says. \u201cSan Francisco is also a startup-heavy place and the PIs here serve on the boards of companies, which means we have connections to networks in Atlanta and San Francisco.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInitially, the team along with fellow graduate students, Emily Jackson and Lauren Priddy, developed a small Plinko game that they demonstrated to public school classrooms in the Atlanta region. They built a larger model for the Atlanta Science Festival. And so far, they haven\u2019t seen anything on the market quite like their simple device, which is based on the game made famous on the TV show, The Price is Right.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUltimately, the students want to create some kind of start-up enterprise featuring their Stem Cell Plinko. But the bottom line they\u2019re eyeing isn\u2019t necessary drawn in black ink.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cA lot of people go into this with monetary gain in mind, and I understand that,\u201d says Tellier. \u201cThe better thing would be, we get this to more students, maybe on a national level. That would be a great scenario.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor Bongiorno, it comes down to the human experience, sharing what he knows with younger, grade-school students, and watching the reaction.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s always great when we can go into a school and teach them something new, something they haven\u2019t seen before,\u201d he says. \u201cWe get to see how excited these kids are when they make the connections. It reminds me of why I love science.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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Following a year at the Georgia Institute of Technology that saw her earn multiple honors and accolades, she\u2019s giving her passport a good workout and making tracks across Europe as part of the Oxford Study Abroad Program.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cA once in a lifetime experience,\u201d is how Marr, an undergraduate in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), describes her summer following several weeks of jaunting from city to city, as part of \u201ca highly interactive study abroad program that exposes students to a vast range of European cities, as well as historical art, architecture and music.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOverall, not a bad way to cap a busy and eventful year of university study and research. The highlights for Marr during the 2014-2015 academic campaign include the President\u2019s Undergraduate Research Award and being named Mentor of the Year in BME Mentoring Program. The culmination of it all for Marr was taking first place for research poster presentation in the College of Engineering\u2019s annual Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cIt was such an honor,\u201d says Marr, who represented the labs of Bob Guldberg, executive director of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and former Petit Institute faculty member Todd McDevitt. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThey provide so many opportunities and unrelenting support to their researchers,\u201d says Marr, who also credits the influence of fellow researcher, Ph.D. student Olivia Burnsed. \u201cI could not have achieved what I did without her support and influence. She is such a powerful role model and without her guidance I could not have been awarded these opportunities.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarr\u2019s poster was entitled \u201cDetermining the phenotypic stability \u0026amp; ex vivo expansion of human chondrocytes on decellularized cartilage microcarriers\u201d and focused on improving treatment of osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis, which affects 13.9 percent of U.S. adults aged 25-65 and 33.6 percent of those over 65. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConventional surgical treatments do not promote cartilage regeneration and are therefore ineffective in the long-run, often leading to consequences like total knee or hip replacement. Plus, these surgeries require long recovery periods and residual weakness is typically detected years after the procedure. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cMy project focused on improving chondrocyte expansion, a process necessary to the success of cell based regenerative therapies used to treat osteoarthritis,\u201d explains Marr (who also is part of the BME Learning Commons leadership team). \u201cWe utilized the extracellular matrix that surrounds chondrocytes in vivo and created microcarriers that utilized influential physiological components to aid in successful expansion of healthy chondrocytes.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe data from this experiment yielded successful results. Marr and her fellow researchers hope to further explore expansion platforms in future projects. \u201cWith further success in these projects, we hope to improve regenerative therapies used to treat patients affected by osteoarthritis,\u201d she says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut first, there is Europe. Marr has seen a lot of it this summer. Specifically, she\u2019s visited the countries of Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, and their cities, some of Europe\u2019s greatest cultural centers: Paris, Zurich, Venice, Rome, Florence, Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Prague, Offenbach, Bruges.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWith each destination we are exposed to multiple museums and timeless monuments, as well as operas, symphonies and other musical varieties the city has to offer,\u201d Marr says. \u201cThe program does a fantastic job of immersing us in the cultures of the very different regions of Europe, while allowing us to reflect on how all art forms are influenced by history and other cultures.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBefore coming back to the States, Marr and her fellow students abroad will spend five weeks at Oxford University in England.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cI\u2019m excited to see what the next half of the program brings,\u201d she says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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In early 2015, SUSS also joined Georgia Tech\u2019s Packaging Research Center (PRC) where advanced exposure tools, including excimer laser ablation systems, are utilized for via drilling on non-photosensitive materials. \u0026nbsp;Initial results of the collaboration on via drilling will be jointly presented by Suss and PRC at IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC) in San Diego on May 26~29, 2015. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech\u2019s IEN maintains a leading research facility and is part of the NSF-funded National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NINN) formed by 14 US universities\u201d, states Dr. Oliver Brand, Executive Director of IEN. \u201cThe addition of this new technology will provide needed functionality for our bio-medical and micro-fluidic research by enhancing our soft lithography capabilities with a wide number of related nanotechnology applications. \u0026nbsp;IEN is dedicated to providing access to this state-of-the-art facility and technology workshops to outside industrial users.\u0026nbsp; It is also Georgia Tech\u2019s vision to train a local workforce for the growing demand in the nanotechnology industry, particularly in the US Southeast region\u201d. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cExcimer laser ablation provides a simple solution for imaging on non-photo-sensitive materials without the high cost of conventional photolithography where multiple coating, exposure, developing and etching processes are required\u201d, says Professor Rao Tummala, Director of Packaging Research Center at Georgia Tech. \u201cWe are fortunate to have access to advanced exposure tools like excimer laser ablation systems to demonstrate smaller features such as via drilling down to 1um \u201c. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany engineers and researchers get to know SUSS MicroTec through their first experiences with our machines at undergraduate or graduate schools\u201d, says Ralph Zoberbier, General Manager Exposure and Laser Processing at SUSS MicroTec. \u0022We are excited to deepen our relationship with the Georgia Institute of Technology, which is a leading industrial research partner for the high potential growth markets of bio-medical and emerging advanced packaging applications, like 3D-IC, 2.5D interposer solutions and panel size packing\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SUSS MicroTec and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announced today a collaboration for nanotechnology, bio-medical andsemiconductor 3D packaging research."}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2015-06-23 11:57:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:45","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-06-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"417371":{"id":"417371","type":"image","title":"SUSS MA","body":null,"created":"1449254269","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:37:49","changed":"1475895155","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:35","alt":"SUSS MA","file":{"fid":"202578","name":"suss_mask_aligner.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/suss_mask_aligner_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/suss_mask_aligner_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":112168,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/suss_mask_aligner_0.png?itok=U9Vjqvxg"}}},"media_ids":["417371"],"groups":[{"id":"1271","name":"NanoTECH"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12072","name":"3D Systems Packaging Research Center"},{"id":"129691","name":"advanced packaging research"},{"id":"129681","name":"biomedical research"},{"id":"14219","name":"Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"12701","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"167927","name":"soft lithography"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"Christa Ernst - IEN Communications \u0026amp; 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May, was in Washington, D.C. this week to receive his Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). May is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2015\/03\/27\/president-obama-honors-outstanding-science-mathematics-and-engineering-m\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow\u0022\u003Eone of 14 individuals and one organization\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;named as the newest recipients of the PAESMEM. May was accompanied at the ceremony by his wife, LeShelle May, as well as other family members.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I could not be more honored to receive this recognition from President Obama,\u201d said May. \u201cMentoring engineering students and broadening participation among underrepresented groups has been a pillar of my career, and it is truly gratifying for my contributions to be acknowledged. I want to thank the White House and all of the students who have enriched my life in so many ways.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMay created the Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering\/Science (SURE) program, for which he was granted more than $2.7 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Through SURE, he annually hosted minority students to do research at Georgia Tech in the hopes that they would pursue a graduate degree. More than 73 percent of SURE participants enrolled in graduate school. May was also the creator and director of the Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science (FACES) program, for which he was granted over $10 million from NSF to increase the number of African-American Ph.D. recipients produced by Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe mentors received their awards during a White House ceremony. May is pictured with John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and France A. C\u00f3rdova, Director of the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring is awarded by the White House to individuals and organizations to recognize the crucial role that mentoring plays in the academic and personal development of students studying science and engineering\u2014particularly those who belong to groups that are underrepresented in these fields. By offering their expertise and encouragement, mentors help prepare the next generation of scientists and engineers while ensuring that tomorrow\u2019s innovators represent a diverse pool of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics talent throughout the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPicture credit: National Science Foundation\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Engineering Dean, Gary S. May, was in Washington, D.C. this week to receive his Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM). 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Since coming to Georgia Tech in 2012, the Wu lab has published several important research papers focused on aspects of MS and MS-based proteomics. And recently, the Wu lab was given a critical boost for its groundbreaking research thanks to a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWu\u2019s CAREER project, \u201cCharacterizing the Glycoproteome with Effective MS-based Chemical and Enzymatic Methods,\u201d is receiving $625,000 over five years from the NSF. The glyproteome includes all proteins bearing carbohydrates, and glycosylation is one of the most common and essential protein modifications.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThis CAREER Award research is mainly about developing new methods to globally analyze glycoproteins in complex biological samples,\u201d says Wu, whose lab is known for its innovative MS-based proteomics techniques, and for applying them to biomedical research. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cIt is well known that aberrant protein glycosylation is directly related to disease, including cancer and infectious diseases,\u201d he continues. \u201cHowever, a huge gap exists between glycoproteins in complex samples and glycoproteins that can be identified by current methods. There is an urgent need to develop effective methods for the comprehensive identification and quantification of glycoproteins. This research can help us better understand protein function and the molecular mechanisms of disease, which will lead to the discovery of glycoproteins as effective biomarkers and drug targets.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn addition to the award, another research paper from the prolifically published Wu lab has been accepted for publication in Chemical Science.\u0026nbsp; The article entitled \u201cSystematic and site-specific analysis of N-sialoglycosylated proteins on the cell surface by integrating click chemistry and MS-based proteomics,\u201d co-authored by Weixuan Chen and Johanna M. Smeekens and Wu has received some enthusiastic feedback from reviewers, who have noted, \u201cthis is a nice and very solid proteomics study on the metabolic labeling and localisation of sialic acid expression on glycoproteins at the cell surface,\u201d according to Wu.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFurthermore, Wu adds, \u201cSialic acid modification is a very active topic due to its importance as a cell surface marker and up-regulation in cancer cells, as well as a handle used by pathogens to bind to the host cells in several human viral infections (influenza, adenoviruses). This work is particularly significant because it combines a novel chemoselective tagging approach that is compatible with imaging in live cells, and an enrichment protocol for profiling glycoproteins by mass spectrometry.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2028This is just the latest in a flurry of research papers published by the busy trio \u2013 post-doctoral research fellow Chen, Ph.D. student Smeekens, and Wu. Earlier this year they were published in the journal Analytical Methods as well as Journal of Proteome Research (with co-authors from the Wu lab, graduate student Haopeng Xiao and undergrad George X. Tang). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter being published online in Chemical Science, their latest this paper was highlighted in Chemical \u0026amp; Engineering News, whose editors wrote, \u201cSialic acid-containing glycoproteins are important players in cancer metastasis and viral infections, yet there hasn\u2019t been a method for their complete analysis on cell surfaces. To address that problem, Ronghu Wu and coworkers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a method that combines metabolic labeling, chemical modification, and mass spectrometric proteomics.\u201d \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd this is just the latest in a flurry of research papers published by the busy trio of post-doctoral research fellow Chen, Ph.D. student Smeekens, and Wu. Earlier this year they published papers in Analytical Methods, Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, as well as Journal of Proteome Research (with co-authors from the Wu lab, graduate student Haopeng Xiao and undergrad George X. 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The third-year Ph.D. student from the lab of Bob Guldberg, executive director of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, has won a National Science Foundation GROW (for Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide) award. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u2019s a distinction that involves two of the things she loves most \u2013 research and travel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cI tell people that I\u2019m a gypsy. I\u2019m OK with packing up and going,\u201d says Salazar-Noratto, who will spend nine months in Ireland, beginning in August, researching in the lab of Frank Barry, one of the world\u2019s leading stem cell and cartilage biologists, at the National University of Ireland in Galway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe seems to have been born with a travel bug. A native of Peru, Salazar-Noratto moved to the U.S. when she was 12, graduated magna cum laude from Texas A\u0026amp;M, spent a summer working in Spain and intends to do her postdoctoral work in Europe. But it isn\u2019t a keen sense of adventure that earned Salazar-Noratto the GROW award. It\u2019s her ideas. It\u2019s also a result of the partnership between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESalazar-Noratto was working on a collaborative project involving Georgia Tech biology professor Greg Gibson and Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta orthopedic surgeon Cliff Willimon that focused on the childhood joint disorder, juvenile osteochondritis dissecans (JOCD). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cIn order to understand the etiology of this increasingly common clinical problem that causes early onset osteoarthritis, Giuli became interested in creating patient specific induced pluripotent stem cells so we can more effectively study the disease in a petri dish and develop more effective treatment strategies,\u201d says Guldberg. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo they reached out to Barry, the only person they knew of in the world to have created induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for a subset of JOCD, familial osteochondritis dissecans (FOCD), and they applied to the GROW program. The NSF and the Science Foundation of Ireland will jointly fund Salazar-Noratto\u2019s research experience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cI plan to learn how to generate, characterize, and differentiate JOCD-specific iPSCs into cartilage and bone cells, and see where they fail,\u201d says Salazar-Noratto, a former Petit Scholar mentor who is pursuing a joint Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Georgia Tech and Emory University. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe overall goal of her doctoral thesis is to explain the causes of JOCD in order to develop a bench-to-bedside program for better diagnosis and treatment of the musculoskeletal disorder. Barry\u2019s lab uses cutting edge technology to generate and characterize iPSCs. His most recent work has focused on causes of FOCD by examining patient-derived iPSCs. FOCD is not the same as JOCD, but Salazar-Noratto says Barry\u2019s groundwork is invaluable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThis international collaboration is critical in achieving the overall goal of my thesis,\u201d she writes in her GROW application, \u201cas well as providing me with a professional edge in the field of tissue regeneration.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlus, she sees this opportunity as good preparation for an extended international experience when she\u2019s a postdoc. But there is the inevitable yang to this yin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThe toughest thing is, like any place I\u2019ve been, I\u2019ll get used to things, I\u2019ll make friends and learn to love it there, really get to the know the area, and at the end of nine months it will be like home,\u201d she says, thinking about the complexity of leaving home in order to come home. \u201cIt happens all the time.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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And that brings students from around the world to our program, as well as companies that want to hire those students [to the state of Georgia].\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA report from Georgia\u2019s Department of Labor predicts how the Georgia workforce will look in 2020, and it predicts a shift from farmers to careers such as biomedical engineering. The show\u0027s host, Celeste Headlee, talks about the job changes coming with Emory finance professor Tom Smith, Ravi Bellamkonda of the Biomedical Engineering department at Georgia Tech, and cotton farmer Matt Coley.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EListen to GPB\u0027s June 3, 2015, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/onsecondthought\/whats-the-hottest-job-to-have\u0022\u003EOn Second Thought radio interview below\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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The pair of undergraduates from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) recently took first place for Best Oral Presentation in the 10\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E annual Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECrawford and Turbyfield presented research from their project, called, \u201cBiomechanical comparisons of leukemia cells and their healthy counterparts,\u201d which focused on using a microfluidic chip to separate leukemia cells from healthy white blood cells.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe clinical impact of this project has the potential to shift the diagnostic protocol from a bone marrow biopsy, which is what is typical now, and is very painful, to a simple blood sample,\u201d explains Crawford, who has also joined with Turbyfield to start a biomaterials testing company through what they\u2019ve learned as undergraduate researchers in the lab of Todd Sulchek, faculty member of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. Their company, Vesalius Technologies, LLC, was incorporated in January.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCory and I have been working on characterizing disease in a different way,\u201d Crawford says. \u201cIn the past, we\u2019ve seen healthy cells and diseased cells being distinguished from each other based on what genes they express, or what proteins they are producing. So this could mean differences in things like what biomolecules are present on the cell\u2019s surface, or what structurally is different about a diseased cell. Does it have a different cellular \u201cskeleton\u201d? Did it shrink in size?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis type of information is definitely helpful and relevant, but until very recently, it\u2019s been the only information we\u2019ve had.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe continues, \u201cOur lab is focusing on adding a new piece of information to the picture. We measure mechanical properties of cells, and then compare the differences we see in the healthy versus the unhealthy. The explicit mechanical properties we study are stiffness and viscoelasticity, as well as compare size measurements. If people aren\u2019t familiar with viscoelasticity, we\u2019re using it here to describe the rate at which a cell can regain its shape after it is compressed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey measure these properties with a technique called Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). These two BME students have become experts in this difficult skill, so\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESulchek, an assistant professor based in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, suggested they start a company. Vesalius Technologies will provide measurements that can used \u201cfor anything from FDA regulations to patent law infringement legal cases,\u201d according to Crawford.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn their study, the students proved there were differences in the mechanics between healthy and cancerous cells, using a microfluidic chip (\u2018lab on a chip\u2019) the Sulcheck lab had developed to separate cells. \u201cWe knew if we flowed a sample containing cancerous cells through the chip, we should be able to isolate stiffer, healthy cells from softer cancerous ones,\u201d Crawford says. \u201cThis is revolutionary in terms of diagnostics. Using this technology, we are able to envision a day where you go to the doctor and find if you have cancer from a blood test.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECrawford and Turbyfield plan to continue their studies this summer, using blood samples from patients with leukemia. They also want to grow their company. All of it, they both agree, has been made possible through the professional connections, hands on experience, and entrepreneurial focus at BME.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe best part about the biomedical engineering program here at Tech is the fact that it is always evolving,\u201d Turbyfield says. \u201cThe professors and administrators are always on the look out for new and better ways to teach and support the students that make up this department. It is reassuring to know that you are part of a program that cares so deeply about your success as an individual.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to their award at the symposium, and their recently minted company, Crawford and Turbyfield are both PURA award recipients and have served as teaching assistants for BMED 2300, the Engineering Design class.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUltimately, the wide-ranging BME undergraduate experience has opened doors of discovery and opportunity for these two, bringing them to the brink of uncharted territory. \u201cUndergraduate research has been my best experience at Georgia Tech,\u201d says Turbyfield. \u201cI have had the opportunity to work on the fringe of cancer research with cutting edge technology and brilliant minds. Kaci and I are uncovering knowledge that was previously unknown to the world and it is beyond exciting.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003ECONTACT\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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So, what do they do?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cStudents ask me all the time, \u2018how do I approach life science companies, how do I get my foot in the door,\u2019\u201d says Cynthia Sundell, director of life science industry collaborations for the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and Georgia Tech\u2019s Office of Industry Collaboration. \u201cSummer internships are a great way to open those doors.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis summer, there is a new door for students to walk through. Sundell is spearheading a student innovation internship program with two of Georgia Tech\u2019s biotech industry partners. Ten students from multiple disciplines will spend the summer working at pharmaceutical company UCB\u2019s U.S. headquarters in Smyrna, and two students from the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) will work for Boston Scientific in Maple Grove, Minnesota.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cOur students will see what the working world looks like, and get a sense of a company\u2019s unique corporate environment, which is important because all companies are different. Their cultures are different,\u201d says Sundell, who has taken a \u2018One Georgia Tech\u2019 approach to the new internship program.\u0026nbsp; Life Science companies often require diverse expertise that crosses over multiple schools and academic units at Tech.\u0026nbsp; So, the summer interns represent a wide range of disciplines. In addition to BME, other areas represented by the student interns are mechanical engineering (ME), bioinformatics, industrial \u0026amp; systems engineering (ISYE), computer science, statistics, and business administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe students serving internships at UCB, and their disciplines, are: Stephanie Alberts, BME, undergrad; Sophia Pan, ME, Ph.D. candidate; Hamid Hassanzadeh, Bioinformatics, Ph.D. candidate; Hang Wu, BME, Ph.D. candidate; Stephanie Zhang, BME, undergrad; Kartik Kaila, ISYE, masters candidate; Yanjun Zhu, ISYE, master\u2019s candidate; Nikhil Howlett, computer science, undergrad; Kaiyan Ding, statistics, master\u2019s candidate; Divad Miles, business administration, undergrad. Spending the summer with Boston Scientific are Katherine Neuberger, an undergrad, and Jada Selma, a Ph.D. candidate, both from BME.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThese are high quality people going into high quality internships,\u201d Sundell says. \u201cIt\u2019s great experience for them, but it\u2019s also good for the companies, because they\u2019re getting a glimpse into the future workforce. What companies want, the reason they come to Georgia Tech, are our students, which is our greatest resource.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt both locations, students will play important roles in helping to chart each company\u2019s path going forward. Boston Scientific wants its interns to research new medical innovation opportunities. The students will research regulatory and reimbursement landscapes for different opportunities and help decide whether the technology fits with the company\u2019s strategic direction.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cBoth companies want students that are going to be creative in helping to solve some interesting problems,\u201d Sundell says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBruce Lavin, UCB\u2019s vice president heading up the medical neurology division, sees this as an opportunity to engage with the next generation of scientists and engineers, \u201cbrilliant minds that have not yet been exposed to the pharmaceutical industry,\u201d he says. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a sense, the students at UCB will help the company discover more about itself. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe want to tap into their knowledge and passion,\u201d says Lavin, who will personally mentor four of the students. \u201cWe\u2019ll present them with challenges we\u2019re facing, such as, how do we bring greater value to our partners and make a difference for our patients suffering from neurological diseases. As an organization, we\u2019re involved in dialogue with healthcare practitioners and scientific thought leaders in the area of neurology. How do we capture the experience and the value of those encounters?\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Lavin says \u0022capture the experience,\u0022 he imagines something like Yelp, a crowd-sourced business review and social networking website, or TripAdvisor, a site where vacationers can rate their experiences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cHow do we come up with a way to coordinate and consolidate all the experiences that our thought leaders and healthcare providers are gaining from their interactions with us,\u201d Lavin says. \u201cHow do we identify the impact we\u2019re having as an organization? At the present time, there is no systematic way to do this. We\u2019re looking for these students to help come up with solutions.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe likens it to the Google approach. \u201cI call it \u2018student sourcing.\u2019 We present them with problems and let them work together on the solutions.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELavin sees his job as a mentor to ensure a meaningful experience for the interns \u2013 to make sure they are deployed in the most appropriate way, not relegated to doing tasks such as editing papers or updating files, \u201cbut truly challenged,\u201d he says.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThese students are pioneers, the first students to come into our neurology unit. We want their experience at UCB to be the most rewarding, worthwhile experience they can have over the course of a summer.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EYoganathan recently won a Standards Developer Award from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EAccording to AAMI, Yoganathan was honored for his ongoing work on revising standards for cardiac valve repair devices, as well as developing a risk assessment paradigm for medical devices. He\u2019s been working on U.S. and ISO Heart Valve Standards for more than 30 years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cI am truly honored by this award, since it recognizes my passion for impacting human lives,\u201d Yoganathan told AAMI. \u201cThis is my research philosophy: from bench to bedside.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EEarlier this year, Yoganathan was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering for his work and achievements in the biomechanics of prosthetic heart valves and the development of heart repair devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EAAMI is a nonprofit organization founded in 1967. It is a diverse community of nearly 7,000\u0026nbsp;professionals united by one mission \u2013 the development, management, and use of safe and effective healthcare technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Communications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E Wallace H. 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Team members were: Blair Naples, Matthew Brooks, Jarad Heimer, Alexander Pergakis, and Jackson Thomas. An interdisciplinary team combines two or more academic disciplines or fields of study.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChildren with physical disabilities, but who possess the ability to swing a golf club, will have an opportunity to play the game of golf using this car. The project was sponsored by CSF, E-Z-GO, and Jones Global Sports. Bob Jones IV, Psy.D., the grandson of legendary golfer Bobby Jones, said, \u201cThis car allows people with physical challenges to get out and enjoy this fantastic game. It is a wonderful and exciting thing. I am very proud to see this contribution being made by my grandfather\u2019s alma mater Georgia Tech.\u201d His grandfather suffered from syringomylelia (a spinal disorder) later in life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EE-Z-GO donated the car to the Georgia Tech team. Steven Meyer, product manager from E-Z-GO, said, \u201cThis is the perfect project for our company because it allows us to partner with a great school like Georgia Tech to develop their engineering students, help a great charity, and grow the game of golf.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the Bobby Jones Classic Golf Car project was to develop a newly imagined, lighter and more cost-effective device that would enable children and adults who live with differing levels of paralysis to play golf and remain physically active and healthy. The car features a custom designed swivel seat with 45-degree forward actuation, 85-degree outward rotation, and an upper body and lower body belted harness system. The golf car provides users with unparalleled ease of play. Novel hand controls allow users to control the acceleration and braking of the car with a special turtle mode for optimal green movement. Most importantly, the golf car provides users with a strong sense of independence and loads of fun.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe students who developed this concept interviewed subject matter experts and disabled children to ensure its safety, comfort, and ergonomics,\u201d said Dorothy Poppe, executive director of CSF. \u201cAs the parent of a young adult with a spinal disorder, this is a breakthrough for kids suffering from paralysis. Its applications are vast and makes sports, particularly the game of golf, a once seemingly impossible physical activity possible.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoe Le Doux and James Rains, faculty members of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) were on hand at the event. Rains, BME\u2019s Director of Capstone, introduced features and technical specifications associated with the new car design to the crowd of onlookers. And it turns out that Le Doux, associate professor, was nearly a scratch golfer in his youth. So, Le Doux was in his element. And so was Bobby Baird, the young golfer who gave the car its test run, a living, breathing example of why CSF and Georgia Tech are working together on this project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe came up with the idea of creating a handicap friendly car for children because they did not have an opportunity to play golf at a younger age,\u201d said Paul Farrell, chairman and founding member of CSF, who is battling the same disease that Jones had. \u201cCSF is very proud to be part of the project with Georgia Tech. The students did a phenomenal job. And you can see the car gives children of approximately any age the opportunity to play golf.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Communications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E Wallace H. 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But even before its official grand opening earlier this year, the Neuro Design Suite (NDS) was having an important impact on the work of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, when Craig Forest and Garrett Stanley applied for grant funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for President Obama\u2019s BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), they made sure to include the Neuro Design Suite in their description of available facilities. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u2019s because facilities were among the important five criteria on which these grant proposals were scored by NIH, who awarded the Forest\/Stanley research team $1.5 million as part of the first wave of BRAIN Initiative funding. Part of NIH\u2019s reasoning on this score is that the NDS is a state-of-the-art facility with some of the best research tools available.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThey want to know, \u2018does your team have adequate facilities to conduct this research?\u2019 So, it made a great impression,\u201d says Forest, associate professor of bioengineering in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. \u201cThe modern tools of neuroscience are allowing researchers unprecedented access to the living brain at work. These tools allow measurements at the level of single cells, and the connections between them.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike all core facilities, the Neuro Design Suite are shared resources, a high-tech \u201csandbox\u201d for engineers and scientists to try out their novel inventions in a controlled setting with all the necessary equipment at hand. So far, a number of different researchers from different disciplines have utilized the tools.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cHaving a shared facility that can support multiple grants and multiple [principal investigators] is absolutely essential,\u201d Forest says. \u201cWe\u2019re excited that these tools invented for neuroscience could be brought to bear on entirely different problems.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn other words, you don\u2019t have to be a neuroscientist to reap the research benefits of the Neuro Design Suite. Assisting researchers who use the facility is lab manager Bo Yang, who can sit down with a scientist and help design experiments suitable to their needs or discipline.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cBo has recorded the electrical activity of 2,500 brain cells,\u201d says Forest. \u201cWe\u2019re fortunate to have one of the world\u2019s experts working with researchers.\u201d \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe suite features three major rigs that allow researchers to perform manual and\/or automated \u003Cem\u003Ein vitro, in vivo\u003C\/em\u003E patch clamping and \u003Cem\u003Ein vivo\u003C\/em\u003E extracellular electrophysiology recordings. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Q-Scientifica SliceScope within\u0026nbsp;the \u003Cem\u003Ein vitro\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;patch clamping rig is a compact upright microscope equipped with a fully-motorized fixed stage, various electrode manipulators, a wide range of Olympus objectives and an LED system to meet the demands of electrophysiology study.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe electromagnetically shielded\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ein vivo\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;extracellular electrophysiology rig is constructed with various elements, including Zesis surgical microscopes, a 128-channel Tucker Davis Technologies data acquisition system (RZ2), Kopf stereotaxic frames, and DC temperature controllers to enable stable, reliable and high-quality recordings. Also, a complete LED driver system (Thorlabs) was equipped to this rig to facilitate optogenetic \u003Cem\u003Ein vivo\u003C\/em\u003E experiments.\u003Cbr \/\u003EAutomatic patch clamping devices (autopatchers) are also attached to both\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ein vitro\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ein vivo\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;patch clamping rigs to obtain high yield and high quality whole cell recordings. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EForest and Stanley, professor in the Wallace H. 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But these students rarely come back to campus with much of a tan, because that isn\u2019t really part of the agenda on the annual Pharmaceutical Education Industry Plant Trip to Puerto Rico, which is all about exposure, but not exposure to the sun.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis trip offers a unique way to introduce students to a number of different, important experiences,\u201d says Mark Prausnitz, director of the Center for Drug Design, Development and Delivery (CD4) at the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. \u201cBut mostly, it provides them with an up-close look at state-of-the-art pharmaceutical manufacturing processes in action that they have learned about in the classroom.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrausnitz and CD4 Associate Director Andreas Bommarius, both professors in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, led last month\u2019s Puerto Rico field trip, part of a class they teach called Drug Design, Development and Delivery (D4). From the start, the class was designed to be interdisciplinary, bringing in students from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Puerto Rico trip that Prausnitz and Bommarius have organized for the past eight years has become an important rite of spring for students interested in learning more about the pharmaceutical industry. The five-day trip also is the reason that Prausnitz and Bommarius were named winners of the 2015 Innovation in Co-Curricular Education Award from the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, which recognizes faculty who increase student learning outside the traditional setting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents who choose to go on the trip (travel contingent is limited to about 25) get a rare and comprehensive look at Puerto Rico\u2019s burgeoning biotech industry, which features some of the world\u2019s top drug and device manufacturing facilities and companies, such as AbbVie, Amgen, Medtronic and Merck.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStudents get to interact with the industry professionals who operate and, in some cases, developed these manufacturing processes, thereby gaining a deeper understating of the profession,\u201d Prausnitz says. \u201cAnd they get to have these experiences in the context of the rich Puerto Rican culture, which provides additional new experiences.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor some students, like Monica Perez Cuevas, it\u2019s an opportunity to learn a little more about their own backyard.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe trip had an added benefit for me, because I\u2019m actually from Puerto Rico,\u201d says Perez Cuevas, a first-year graduate student in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. \u201cIt\u2019s a great advantage getting to see, first hand, how things work in the pharmaceutical industry. It gives you great perspective on what biomedical research is about, and we really did have first-hand exposure.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe adds, \u201cI mean, here\u2019s a machine right in front of your face, and here are the experts telling us how it works, why it was built this way \u2013 all of the technical aspects we discussed in class, right there in front of us. This is the kind of experience that will help me make an informed decision later on when I consider my career options.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThomas Ng, a third-year BME undergraduate student, says that deep dive into the manufacturing process is, \u201can eye-opening experience, because you\u2019re seeing the process from start to finish.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Angel Cobos, a recent graduate in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the opportunity to speak with industry professionals was key, and he found the panel discussion with human resources people at Amgen especially interesting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese are executives and experts who basically told us how to get our foot in the door,\u201d says Cobos, who has a job lined up at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but says he\u2019s also interested in pursuing a Ph.D. down the road and is considering a career in academia. \u201cThey sat us down and gave us an overview of what they did and how they got where they are in their careers. These were people who are really successful in this industry, and they were willing to answer all of our questions. You don\u2019t typically get that kind of access.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Ng, the spring trip was mostly, \u201cwork, work, work, on the bus by 7:30 in the morning, and by the time you\u2019re done touring facilities, get back at 7, get dinner around 8, you\u2019re tired. Some us managed to do some fun stuff, though.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome of the fun stuff \u2013 that is, the non-biotech study, study, study stuff \u2013 has become part of the annual spring tradition, such as trips to Old San Juan, the bioluminescent bay in Fajardo, and a tour of the Bacardi Rum Distillery. 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I feel that, engaging freshmen when they first come to campus helps gives them ownership of their experience. That student to student connection is important.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs part of his work with BME Learning Commons, Sanders produced a video about the experience. The student leadership team for the learning commons is currently working on building a collection of stories via podcast and video. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re trying to capture stories about BMEs who are successful in their careers, who can tell current students how they got where they are now,\u201d says Sanders, who is also involved in BME Healthreach, an education enrichment program that is collaboration of Georgia Tech, Emory, and Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA). BME undergrads create interactive teaching modules for math and science directed towards hospitalized children at CHOA Egleston.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re teaching pediatric patients science and math through the lens of their own disease,\u201d Sanders says. \u201cIt helps them relate to the disease, and why doctors are telling them what they are telling them. It\u2019s a way for these young patients to catch up on schoolwork. This is something I really enjoy.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESanders is now working on a distance learning component for BME Healthreach (a program operated out of the lab of Wilbur Lam, assistant professor in the joint Tech\/Emory Coulter Department and a faculty member of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThe idea is to make the activities we create for patients more available online,\u201d says Sanders, who also made a community impact through his work in the For the Kids program at Georgia Tech. He helped organize the For the Kids annual dance marathon in March, an event that raised $106,000 for CHOA. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThat is something dear to me, CHOA and the work they do for children,\u201d Sanders says. \u201cI know that I\u2019ll be immersed in that kind of world very soon, because I love working with kids, and I want to work directly with pediatric patients some day. I\u2019m very passionate about that. Being able to start early with programs like Healthreach and For the Kids is something that I really appreciate. These are great service opportunities and it\u2019s given me a good grasp of why we do what we do.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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First, there\u2019s no doubt that he believes the Coulter Department to be the best of its kind in the U.S. Second, he\u2019s absolutely convinced that the young people assembled before him are bound for great things. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen, as if he needed proof of the talent among BME students, former Petit Undergraduate Research Scholar Maria Diaz Ortiz walked away with the Tau Beta Pi Award, the highest honor granted to graduating seniors by the College of Engineering (COE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cYou are the top of the top BME program,\u201d Bellamkonda told the students and their guests, mostly family, gathered to recognize the accomplishments of BME undergraduate students. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECo-hosts for the event were Joe Le Doux, associate professor and associate chair for undergraduate learning and student experience, and James Rains, director of Capstone. But Bellamkonda\u2019s opening remarks set the tone for a celebration of the top performing seniors from BME, who were recognized in a number of different categories.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWhen you think about BME and you think about the work you choose to do\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand the possibilities are really immense, coming from the top BME program in the country \u2013 consider the meaning of what you do, and seek work that gives you meaning,\u201d Bellamkonda said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the most important advice I can give you. I believe in your power to do this.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDiaz Ortiz was one of several BME students to receive or be nominated for national, institute, or College of Engineering awards. Rachel Ford won the Alvin M. Ferst Leadership and Entrepreneurship Award, given to two students each year at Georgia Tech. Rehman Ali won the Henry Ford II Scholar Award, for the top third-year students in the College of Engineering. Elizabeth Carpenter was a candidate in the running for the Helen Grenga Outstanding Woman Engineer Award (the highest award for graduating female engineers) and Caleb Appleton was a candidate for the Love Family Foundation Scholarship, the highest honor accorded a graduating senior at Georgia Tech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen there were the BME Leadership Awards, for which there were many candidates but only seven winners: Caleb Appleton (Outstanding Academic Achievement Award for holding to the highest academic standards); Sara Khalek (Outstanding Academic Service Award for significant service to the academic community); Elizabeth Carpenter (Dr. G.D. Jain Outstanding Senior Award for a student exemplifying all-around excellence); Mohamed Ali Najia (Mr. S.K. Jain Outstanding Research); Karthik Nathan (Outstanding Community Service); Alex Weiss (Outstanding Entrepreneur); and Andrew Kolpitcke (Outstanding Industrial Work Experience).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdditionally, the Biomedical Engineering Student Advisory Board honored Barbara Fasse, director of learning sciences innovation and research for BME, with the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWhen I look at all of you,\u201d Bellamkonda told the assembly gathered at the Wardlaw Building, \u201cand I consider the possibility in this room for invention, for value creation, for social justice, for our country continuing as the leader in medical education and medical innovation, I can\u2019t help but think, all of that is important, but at the end of the day it is what it means to you and the world and the impact you have on people that will be most important.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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It was the most personal of three major events that determined the course of his life and brought him to the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was summer baseball before his junior year of high school. A long-time catcher, Kolpitcke loved being involved in every pitch, his analytical mind immersed in the game. But, typical of catchers, \u201cPeople used to tell me that I should unstrap the elephant and piano from my back while running the bases,\u201d says Kolpitcke, who grew up in Dayton, Ohio. \u201cI was not the most fleet of foot.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETherefore, his third base coach figured no one would expect Kolpitcke, standing on second, to run. So he gave him the steal sign. Kolpitcke took an extra big lead and went on the pitcher\u2019s first twitch. He dove into third head first, catching a corner of the bag with his left arm, but momentum slid him past the bag while his hand held on, dislocating his shoulder. He let go of the base in pain \u2013 out at third, and out of baseball for the season.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cI got the only ambulance ride of my life,\u201d says Kolpitcke, who was lead designer for the Capstone Design Expo winning team, OculoSeal, fall semester. \u201cLooking back on [the injury], it was a neat experience to be exposed to the medical field on such a personal level.\u201d \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKolpitcke plans on making a career of designing medical devices because of what he calls \u201cthe three defining moments that came within a year and a half.\u0022 There was his shoulder injury, and his younger brother had earlier suffered a fractured leg playing soccer. And then, the worst news of all. His father, Ken, was diagnosed with colon cancer, beginning a courageous three-year battle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKen, who was an engineer in the automotive industry, died in 2013. So it was a bittersweet if triumphant reunion for the Kolpitcke family at the Georgia Institute of Technology when Andy graduated recently with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. Both of his parents are Georgia Tech graduates \u2013 Ken in mechanical engineering, Melanie in chemistry. But it Andy\u2019s sudden, back-to-back-to-back experiences with healthcare issues that ultimately sent Kolpitcke packing for Atlanta.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cMy experiences with sports injuries and my dad\u2019s battle with cancer definitely thrust me into the medical field,\u201d Kolpitcke says. \u201cI was interested in anatomy and physiology in high school, but wasn\u2019t sure about my major at first. I knew at the end of the day that I wanted to use my knowledge and skills to help patients. I wanted to be in a medical field.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis father\u2019s fight against cancer gave him an understanding of humanity that opened his mind and revealed his path. \u201cWatching him fight the disease provided me with motivation to help other people and other families not experience the pain of surgery, disease, and other medical conditions,\u201d Kolpitcke says. \u201cMore importantly, he and my mom provided me with amazing opportunities and support and encouragement while growing up. I wouldn\u2019t be where I am without them.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe had medical school aspirations, but co-op work experiences in research and development at Ethicon Endo Surgery in Cincinnati, made him realize that he\u2019d rather be the guy creating solutions and devices than the one using the solutions and devices. Working three semesters in product development and a fourth in pre-clinical R\u0026amp;D, he was hooked. Following graduation he\u2019ll take a few months off then begin his career as assistant design engineer at Ethicon (a minimally invasive surgical device company under the Johnson \u0026amp; Johnson umbrella).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to further developing my technical skills and designing innovative surgical devices that improve patient care and outcomes for people around the world,\u201d says Kolpitcke, who recently won a BME Leadership Award for \u2018Outstanding Industrial Work Experience.\u2019 \u201cBefore I get started, though, I hope to have a little down time to travel, play a lot of softball, and umpire youth baseball games.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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Coulter Chair in Biomedical Engineering and lead investigator of this project. \u201cResearch labs such as ours are set up to achieve scientific and engineering breakthroughs, but for these breakthroughs to reach patients, we need to follow good manufacturing practices, rigorous safety and quality testing, adhere to FDA guidelines for obtaining regulatory approvals, and design appropriate clinical trials. All of these processes are going to be greatly enhanced and accelerated with this critical and visionary Marcus Foundation support.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFunding from The Marcus Foundation will enable researchers to move this technology into clinical trials and ultimately to people who are facing these medical challenges. The grant will also enable device design and prototyping, development of an FDA-compliant manufacturing process and FDA approvals for a clinical Investigational New Drug (IND) study to be conducted in Atlanta. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECritical support for the project was provided by Ian\u2019s Friends Foundation, an Atlanta-based non-profit that supports pediatric brain tumor research. The monorail project was inspired by a desire to treat pediatric brain tumors. The research may also be applied to adult brain tumors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the past five years, the research team has demonstrated that the tumor monorail device is capable of significantly reducing tumor load in rodent brains, by guiding tumors to grow into a specially designed \u201cgel sink.\u201d This study, published in Nature Materials in 2014, received worldwide media attention and interest.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe interdisciplinary research team includes Bellamkonda and his laboratory based at Georgia Tech; Dr. Barun Brahma, Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta; and Dr. Tobey McDonald, Emory Pediatrics and AFLAC Cancer Center. Harold Solomon from Georgia Tech\u2019s VentureLab is providing product development leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project exemplifies Georgia Tech and Atlanta\u2019s unparalleled strength in developing innovative technologies to better child health \u2013 a burgeoning area of research known as \u201cpediatric bioengineering.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOn behalf of our lab, our collaborators and most importantly all the patients that may benefit from this therapy, I am deeply grateful to The Marcus Foundation for their vision and commitment to accelerate the development of our breakthrough research so it can reach patients faster than it would have otherwise,\u201d said Bellamkonda.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe tumor monorail project, a collaboration between the Georgia Institute of Technology, Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University, will receive a $6.5 million grant from The Marcus Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The tumor monorail project, a collaboration between the Georgia Institute of Technology, Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University, will receive a $6.5 million grant from The Marcus Foundation."}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2015-05-06 10:48:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:13","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"290171":{"id":"290171","type":"image","title":"Ravi Bellamkonda, PhD - Chair and Professor, Wallace H. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) student teams got another chance to showcase their senior projects in a different competitive setting.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIan\u2019s Friends Foundation, which supports pediatric brain tumor research, sponsored a competition on April 30 focusing on issues associated with pediatric brain cancer. Students presented their work before a panel of medical doctors, engineers, and a spectrum of biomedical educators.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winning team, VenTrickle, presented a novel wireless pressure communicating cerebral shunt product called CranioCheck, which is designed to instantly alert patients if cerebrospinal fluid pressure increases to unsafe levels. CranioCheck consists of sensors, a tiny battery, and wireless Bluetooth technology to communicate with a customized phone app. The judges felt this product could make a significant impact in the medical device industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winning team, consisting of Bailey Ernstes, Jacob Kazlow, and Carrie Simpson, received a $5,000 first-place award from Ian\u2019s Friends Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second place team, Coalesce, won $1,000 for its redesigned spinal implant that uses dentin as a spinal fusion material. Team members are Beth Carpenter, Naser Ibrahim, Kavya Muddukumar, and Karthik Nathan. The third place team, VerteVision, won $500 for an automated allograft bone shaping machine envisioned for use in the operating room. Team members are Katie Byrum, Cambre Kelly, Greg O\u2019Neal, and Becky Wyche.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI thought the competition was incredible,\u201d said Phil Yagoda, founder of Ian\u2019s Friends Foundation. \u201cFor students that have no prior knowledge of pediatric brain tumors and associated medical issues, and to be able to get up to speed and then actually create innovative products in such a short time, is a testament to the program and professors in the BME department. It was difficult to select a winner from among the great projects. Georgia Tech and Emory have been great partners over the years that care so much about getting positive results.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYagoda and his wife Cheryl established Ian\u2019s Friends Foundation when their then two-year old son, Ian, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The foundation\u2019s mission is to undertake and support initiatives at research institutions around the country, focusing on the development of new therapeutic methodologies and treatments for pediatric brain tumors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are so impressed by the minds at Georgia Tech and Emory. Every student team came up with amazing projects,\u201d said Cheryl Yagoda. \u201cThese projects are the future of science and will help children and doctors in the operating room for years to come.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou can find information about Ian\u2019s Friends Foundation here: \u003Cbr \/\u003E iansfriendsfoundation.com\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wrich@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EWallace H. 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Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and a member of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. \u201cBecause there are not only many ways in which your muscles can perform a particular task, but there are many different centers in the nervous system that can generate similar motor tasks.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of which really complicates the study of neuroscience and the mechanisms of normal movement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cSo imagine what happens when you\u2019re now trying to take that knowledge and apply it to somebody with a neurological injury or disorder in which their movement is impaired,\u201d says Ting, who addresses that challenge as lead author in a recently published perspective essay in the journal \u003Cem\u003ENeuron\u003C\/em\u003E, entitled, \u201cNeuromechanical Principles Underlying Movement Modularity and Their Implications for Rehabilitation.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETing\u2019s lab group develops experiments and computational models to understand features of muscle coordination, taking a neuromechanical approach \u2013 neuromechanics is an interdisciplinary field that basically is the study of how neural, biomechanical and environmental dynamics interact to create movement. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUsing techniques from neuroscience, biomechanics, kinesiology, signal processing, control systems, physiology, and image processing, Ting\u2019s work aims to better characterize and model normal and impaired performance of fundamental motor tasks, thereby influencing the development of rehabilitation techniques, neural prosthetics, and neural tissue engineering to improve motor function.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThe principles of neuromechanics are a framework for understanding patterns of neural activity that generate movements in a healthy nervous system, as well as in motor deficits, and how these patterns change through rehabilitation,\u201d Ting and her co-authors write.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey hypothesize that these principles support the development of motor modules, which are coordinated patterns of muscle activity that combine to produce functional motor behaviors. Then they address how these modules may provide the basis to address limitations that impede the development of more effective and individualized rehabilitation therapies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese motor modules are solutions for movement particular to an individual and shaped by evolution, development, genetics, training, and even cultural influences. Motor modules can change over the course of a so-called normal lifetime as a body ages. They can also be disrupted by neurological disorders like Parkinson\u2019s disease, spinal cord injury, and stroke \u2013 areas of specific interest to Ting and her co-authors, some of whom are affiliated with Emory University\u2019s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s sort of a modular organization to movement, where lots of different muscles are coordinated in a particular way to perform a task,\u201d Ting says. \u201cWithin each person are different answers to how they solve a movement problem, different ways that people produce the same movement. So we have to look holistically at how muscles coordinated, rather than reading them one by one. We have to look at how the whole relationship between all the muscles and how they actually produce movement. That\u2019s challenging and a major question in neuroscience.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is a challenge that demands a collaborative approach, and Ting\u2019s co-authors\/co-researchers represent a widespread effort: Hillel Chiel from Case Western Reserve University; Randy D. Trumbower and Trish Keser, both assistant professors in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Division of Physical Therapy at Emory; Jessica Allen, post-doctoral researcher in Ting\u2019s lab in the Georgia Tech\/Emory Coulter Department; J. Lucas McKay, a research assistant professor in the Coulter Department and a member of the Ting lab; Madeleine Hackney, assistant professor of medicine at Emory and a clinical researcher affiliated with the Atlanta VA Medical Center. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETogether they postulate that motor module organization is altered after central nervous system (CNS) disease or injury, and that quantifying this disruption may provide tremendous insight into individual-specific motor impairments as well as mechanisms of learning and refining motor behaviors during rehabilitation. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cOur technologies are contributing to our basic knowledge of how we move, but also have been very practical in helping us develop and understand new rehabilitation methods,\u201d Ting says. \u201cBecause rehabilitation science is still in the very early stages, we don\u2019t know a lot about why a particular intervention works, or why it works on some people but not others.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt gets to the heart of biological systems versus engineered systems. Biological systems are inherently multifunctional. So basically, if you pull a muscle in your leg, it\u2019ll hurt and it will affect the way you walk, but you can still walk. But if your car gets a flat tire, you\u2019re done driving. Ting and her co-researchers want to understand exactly how the body manages this. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe know there are interventions that improve some people\u2019s walking, but we don\u2019t know why. And if we don\u2019t know why, we can\u2019t tweak it very well to optimize it,\u201d says Ting, whose paper touches on the interventions at the most extreme (and elite) physical levels. They write about Tiger Woods\u2019 golf swing, how it took him two years to reshape it. Even someone whose movements are ostensibly, rigidly consistent \u2013 like a pro golfer \u2013 demonstrates that there are multiple ways a body can make the transformation from neural spark to concerted movement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWhen you look at people who perform physically at a very high level, like Tiger Woods, you find that they also have large differences in how they move,\u201d Ting says. \u201cWe should take that to heart in rehabilitation, where there is no \u2018one size fits all\u2019 approach. We talk about solutions that are good enough, that may not be the most efficient, but get you where you need to go. So, they don\u2019t have to be the best solutions, just good enough, and from there you can improve and modify.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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For the third straight semester, a Coulter Department team took top prize as the overall winner in the expo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwice every school year, senior engineering teams from across the spectrum at Georgia Tech come together for the expo, a judged showcase of innovative solutions, a public unveiling of prototype products designed to address real-world problems. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis version of the expo ended like the fall version \u2013 with three BME teams taking home an award. The prize for Best Overall Project went to Shunt Doubles, a team of five BME undergrads who may also deserve a special prize for their team name. Sanjay Sridaran, Yitian Xiao, Shahram Kazemi, Hoang Nguyen and Inez Raharjo teamed up to win the largest Capstone Design Expo ever. Another team of BME students, OculoStaple, won the overall prize in the fall expo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cBME was really fortunate once again, because there were a lot of great teams from all departments in the spring competition,\u201d says James Rains, Director of Capstone for the Coulter Department. \u201cSo, from our point of view, this was a great competition.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe spring edition held on April 23 in McCamish Pavillion was the largest Capstone Design Expo yet. It included 198 projects designed by 1,040 students from 11 disciplines across three colleges \u2013 the College of Engineering, the College of Architecture, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. More than 75 sponsors funded projects with Coca-Cola sponsoring the expo itself.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn addition to Shunt Doubles, a team called Kids on the Move took consisting of BME students and a Mechanical Engineering student, took first place in the Interdisciplinary competition. Also, teams in the Capstone competition vie for awards within their discipline, so the Biomedical Engineering Award went to a Coulter Department team calling itself ULTra Efficient Storage. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBME had more than 30 teams in the competition and nine of them, including Shunt Doubles, were sponsored by Ian\u2019s Friends Foundation (IFF), an Atlanta-based non-profit (501c3) organization that supports pediatric brain tumor research. So nine BME teams focused their efforts along those lines. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShunt Doubles set out to develop a safe, reliable, and noninvasive method for assessing shunt functionality, which meets a specific need. Cerebral shunts are the current standard of treatment for children and adults with hydrocephalus, a condition in which cerebrospinal fluid builds up in the brain, causing increased intracranial pressure and other side effects. These shunts are fraught with problems, one of which is the inability to noninvasively assess shunt functionality; a needle probe is the main method used currently, which means a trip to the physician\u2019s office, or the hospital.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cIf the shunt gets blocked, or there is a problem with the flow, one of the main symptoms is a headache. People have headaches all the time, but you don\u2019t always know if it\u2019s a problem with the shunt,\u201d says Rains. \u201cImagine every time you had a headache, running to the hospital to get it checked. So this is a cool idea.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBME teams had plenty of cool ideas. Kids on the Move won the top prize for developing a new, lighter, more cost-effective device that will enable children and adults who live with differing levels of paralysis to play golf and remain physically active and healthy. This device should be adjustable or at least, adaptable in order to effectively enable play for children confined to wheelchairs. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe team, comprised of four BME seniors (Blair Naples, Jackson Thomas, Matthew Brooks, Jared Heimer) and one senior from Mechanical Engineering (Alexander Pergakis), was sponsored by the Chiari \u0026amp; Syringomyelia Foundation (CSF). Legendary golfer Bobby Jones suffered from syringomyelia (build-up of spinal fluid). At the annual Bobby Jones Classic for CSF (a fundraiser tournament that will happen May 17-18 at East Lake Golf Club), the new golf cart device will get a test run.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe team name for the BME department award winner \u2013 ULTra Efficient Storage \u2013 is particularly accurate. The team, comprised of BME seniors Nathan Fisher, Michele Mandula, Matthew Woods and Prisco Demercurio, aims to efficiently revolutionize biological sample storage in ultra-low temperature freezers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir system will store more samples of adequate volume for modern assays in a given freezer volume, be applicable on an individual freezer basis, and be compatible with current laboratory equipment. Ultra-low temperature freezers are expensive, so this is a big cost and space saver.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cFor people who actually do research, this is huge,\u201d says Rains. \u201cThose people absolutely love this project.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECapstone Design is a required semester-long course for all Georgia Tech engineering students, bringing teams of seniors together with advisors (who typically come from a research or industry environment) to design, build and test prototypes across a broad range of challenges. The first place team in the overall competition won $3,000 while the interdisciplinary and department award winning teams each won $1,000.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUltimately, win or lose, student teams in Capstone Design have a chance to utilize the engineering design skills they\u2019ve developed at Georgia Tech to create something tangible in response to real-world, open-ended problems. 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