{"40614":{"#nid":"40614","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student Wins Marshall Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmbika Bumb knows firsthand about the importance of technology in medicine. As an intern at GE Healthcare last summer, she helped her team diagnose and repair a problem that caused new blood pressure monitors at Children\u0027s Hospital of Philadelphia to take more than 10 minutes to get a reading - time that could mean the difference between life and death in an emergency room.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The experience reinforced Bumb\u0027s commitment to developing life-saving medical technologies. She\u0027ll continue to chase her dream next fall at Oxford where she\u0027ll pursue a Ph.D. in medical engineering as a recipient of a 2005 Marshall Scholarship.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This may sound idealistic,\u0022 said Bumb, \u0022but I want to help come up with a new technology or treatment for a disease. I want to be the person who follows it through to make sure it reaches the people I\u0027m developing it for,\u0022 she said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBumb said she knows medical treatments won\u0027t help anyone if they can\u0027t be commercially viable. \u0022You have to tailor the research to the market,\u0022 she said. \u0022For example, you develop drugs for Africa, not treatments that require lots of machines.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA senior in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, Bumb plans to get her degree this spring, just three years after she enrolled on a Reginald S. Fleet President\u0027s Scholarship. \u0022Being at Georgia Tech has changed what my future is going to be. It\u0027s offered me so many opportunities and the President\u0027s Scholarship gave me the opportunity to be at Tech,\u0022 she said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile at Tech, Bumb worked with associate professor Gang Bao on developing nanomolecular beacon tracking devices to map the territory of cells. This year, she\u0027s extending this research by designing a new tracking tool, a quantum dot, for vitamin D in the lab of professor Barbara Boyan. The quantum dot could be used to help treat bone and cartilage diseases such as osteoporosis and rickets.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022She\u0027s a natural leader and very insightful,\u0022 said Boyan. \u0022I have been struck by her systematic approach and her willingness to put in the hours necessary to tackle the problem in an organized and quite innovative way.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBumb said academics aren\u0027t the only thing to get out of college. At Tech she served on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, working with prominent business leaders to advise the administration on future goals. She also served in student government on the Joint Finance Committee, helping to decide how to allocate $3.5 million collected from the student activities fee.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The finance committee was a huge learning experience in how to take resources to benefit the most people that you can,\u0022 she said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, she helped found a new Indian dance team at Tech, Nazaaqat, which played to a packed house at the Ferst Center for the Arts.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBumb is the sixth Georgia Tech student to win the Marshall, a scholarship established by the British Government for American students in 1953 in appreciation for assistance received after World War II under the Marshall Plan. The scholarship encourages potential leaders to become ambassadors for the United States and establish personal ties between the two countries.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProminent former Marshall scholars include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer; former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt; New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman; and the scientist\/inventor Ray Dolby.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBumb said she hopes someday to fill the shoes of the Marshall Scholars who came before her. \u0022Like most kids, when I was little I had dreams of saving the world - inventing a cure or finding the key to world peace,\u0022 she said. \u0022However as you get older everyone around you becomes more realistic and you push off idealism for practicality. Now I have returned to that childhood fantasy, actually seeing that there may be a chance of me being able to make an impact on the world in some way.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Ambika Bumb is committed to developing life-saving medical technologies. 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