{"482591":{"#nid":"482591","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ciciliano wins Suddath Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFred Leroy \u201cBud\u201d Suddath was a pioneer, one of the scientists who came together to help form what would become the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and the first vice president for information technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen he died suddenly on June 17, 1992, his loss was felt throughout the Georgia Tech community. So his family, friends, and colleagues established an award in his honor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvery year since, the F.L. \u201cBud\u201d Suddath Memorial Award has been given to a Ph.D. student who has at least one year remaining in his or her program and who has demonstrated a significant research achievement in biology, biochemistry, or biomedical engineering. This year, that student is Jordan Ciciliano, who earned the top prize in the 2016 Suddath Award competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECiciliano is a bioengineering student whose home school is the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. She\u2019s a member of Wilbur Lam\u2019s lab in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, where her research interests are biomechanics, diagnostics, microfluidics, hematology, and oncology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EAs winner of the $1,000 top prize, her name will be engraved on the award plaque and she\u2019ll deliver a presentation on her research, entitled, \u201cDeveloping microfluidic approaches to solve longstanding hematologic questions,\u0022 at the Suddath Symposium (Feb. 11-12 at the Petit Institute).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA second place Suddath Award ($500) went to Eric Parker, a chemistry and biochemistry grad student in the lab of Facundo Fernandez. Third place ($250) went to Jose Garc\u00eda, a bioengineering student who works in the lab of Andr\u00e9s Garc\u00eda.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Suddath Awards were announced during the Petit Institute\u2019s annual holiday party in December 2015, along with a number of other awards and honors for institute faculty, staff and students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe evening\u2019s other award winners were:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2022 Al Merrill, Krishnendu Roy and Fred Vannberg took home the faculty awards. Merrill is a professor in the School of Biology, where he is the Smithgall Chair in Molecular Cell Biology. Roy is a professor in the Coulter Department and director of the Center for ImmunoEngineering at Georgia Tech. Vannberg is assistant professor in the School of Biology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2022 Trainee awards went to Kyle Blum (grad student in the lab of Lena Ting), Josh Hooks (Brandon Dixon\u2019s lab) and Claire Segar (Ed Botchwey\u2019s lab).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u2022 Staff awards went to Karen Ethier and Floyd Wood.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Petit Institute honors researchers, scholars and staff"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EPetit Institute honors researchers, scholars and staff\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Petit Institute honors researchers, scholars and staff"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2016-01-06 13:28:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:20","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"482581":{"id":"482581","type":"image","title":"Suddath winner 2016","body":null,"created":"1452106800","gmt_created":"2016-01-06 19:00:00","changed":"1475895236","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:56","alt":"Suddath winner 2016","file":{"fid":"204238","name":"bob_and_suddath_winner.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bob_and_suddath_winner_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bob_and_suddath_winner_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1580518,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bob_and_suddath_winner_0.jpg?itok=lRd-4Jgw"}}},"media_ids":["482581"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"84901","name":"grad students"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/node\/jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr class=\u0022Apple-interchange-newline\u0022 \/\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003EBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}