{"66189":{"#nid":"66189","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars Annual Fundraising Dinner at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Saturday, May 21, 2011, the Parker H. Petit\nInstitute for Bioengineering \u0026amp; Bioscience (IBB) will host its\nthird\u0026nbsp;annual Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars fundraising dinner on\nthe campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u0026nbsp;This event welcomes members\nof Atlanta\u2019s business community, university leaders and government officials to\ncome and support the innovative undergraduate research at IBB.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s dinner will feature guest speaker\nMitchell H. Gold, MD, who currently serves as president and chief executive\nofficer for Dendreon Corporation.\u0026nbsp;Gold will be describing an innovative\nnew cancer therapy in his presentation entitled, \u201cWinning the War.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDendreon, a Seattle-based company, recently\ncompleted a $70 million Immunotherapy Manufacturing Facility in Union City\nwhich brought over 450 jobs to Georgia. Dendreon\u2019s product, Provenge, is the\nfirst ever FDA-approved immunotherapy for prostate cancer.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nThe Petit Scholars program began in 2000 as part of a ten-year National\nSciences Foundation grant and has been continued and expanded with the help of\nprivate donations.\u0026nbsp; With this year\u2019s fundraising goal of $100,000,\nsponsorship opportunities are available at platinum, gold, silver and bronze\nlevels as well as individual dinner ticket purchases.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo date, the Petit Scholars program has provided funding and programs\nfor 166 students from Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University,\nGeorgia State University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, Agnes Scott\nCollege, Gwinnett Technical College and the University of Georgia over the past\n12 years.\u0026nbsp;IBB Undergraduate Research Scholars program is a competitive\nscholarship program that allows undergraduates to develop independent research\nprojects in Petit Institute laboratories under the director mentorship of a\ngraduate student and faculty member.\u0026nbsp; The programs\u2019 alumni go on to use\ntheir valuable research experiences in careers as research scientists,\nacademics and physicians.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Petit Undergraduate Research Scholars Annual Fundraising Dinner"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Delicious food, great music and all for a good cause!"}],"uid":"27224","created_gmt":"2011-05-13 15:21:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:45","author":"Megan McDevitt","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"66209":{"id":"66209","type":"image","title":"Petit Scholars 2011-12","body":null,"created":"1449176931","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:08:51","changed":"1475894587","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:07","alt":"Petit Scholars 2011-12","file":{"fid":"192498","name":"scholars2011.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/scholars2011_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/scholars2011_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1318724,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/scholars2011_0.png?itok=XfOyha-H"}}},"media_ids":["66209"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ibb.gatech.edu\/petit-scholars-dinner","title":"Dinner info and registration"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ibb.gatech.edu\/","title":"Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13159","name":"Dendreon"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"13160","name":"Mitchell Gold"},{"id":"901","name":"Parker H. Petit"},{"id":"857","name":"Petit Scholars"},{"id":"453","name":"undergraduate research"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMegan Graziano McDevitt\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarketing and Event Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mcdevitt@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}