{"386431":{"#nid":"386431","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hua Wang Selected for NSF CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHua Wang has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project entitled \u201cA CMOS Multi-Modality Cellular Interfacing Platform for Drug Screening and Stem Cell Culture.\u201d Wang will investigate CMOS cellular interfacing arrays with novel pixelated multi-modality sensors\/actuators and will explore their use in transformative bioscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWang holds the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), where he leads the Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab and is a member of the Georgia Electronic Design Center. Wang is interested in innovating and engineering mixed-signal, RF, and millimeter-wave integrated systems for wireless communication and bioelectronics applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFully understanding the physiological behaviors of cells is necessary to further advance the frontiers in bioscience. At this time, existing sensors and actuators can only process electrochemical signals from cells. However, cells are highly complex systems that have numerous molecules operating in hundreds of pathways to maintain proper functions and phenotypes. At this scale of complexity, cells often undergo multi-physics responses all at once, which cannot be explored by single-modality platforms. This constraint poses a fundamental limit on the communication link between the electronics and cells\/tissues. Many sensors and actuators also require exotic processing steps, limiting their cost, yield, and scalability in mass production.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address these challenges, Wang\u2019s NSF CAREER project focuses on innovating sensor\/actuator technologies as large-scaled arrays with novel pixel-level multi-modality sensing\/actuation functionalities. These microelectronics interfaces allow interrogating and stimulating living cells\/tissues via multi-physics signaling at a high spatiotemporal resolution. Low-cost CMOS processes, widely used for manufacturing CPU and memory chips, will be employed to ensure high-integration, low-cost, and high-yield.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe proposed CMOS multi-modality cellular interfacing platform will lead to broad societal impacts. Capturing the complex cellular responses may substantially increase the throughput in drug development. As another example, real-time monitoring stem cells and enhancing the desired cell differentiation trajectories may drastically improve the purity in large-scale stem cell manufacturing and enable low-cost stem cell therapies. In addition, the cellular interfacing platform may serve as a novel research tool for new scientific discoveries.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project entitled \u201cA CMOS Multi-Modality Cellular Interfacing Platform for Drug Screening and Stem Cell Culture.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project entitled \u201cA CMOS Multi-Modality Cellular Interfacing Platform for Drug Screening and Stem Cell Culture.\u201d"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2015-03-10 14:39:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:54","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"274201":{"id":"274201","type":"image","title":"Hua Wang","body":null,"created":"1449244112","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:48:32","changed":"1475894964","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:24","alt":"Hua Wang","file":{"fid":"198716","name":"hua_wang_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hua_wang_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hua_wang_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4678905,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hua_wang_0_0.jpg?itok=qjhh-HjI"}}},"media_ids":["274201"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/fac_profiles\/bio.php?id=169","title":"Hua Wang"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/labs\/gems\/","title":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gedc.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Electronic Design Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3191","name":"Georgia Electronic Design Center"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"85861","name":"Georgia Tech Electronics and Micro-System Lab"},{"id":"67901","name":"Hua Wang"},{"id":"362","name":"National Science Foundation"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}