{"69772":{"#nid":"69772","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Collaborative Initiative Funds Interdisciplinary Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe\nParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience awarded $100,000 to\ntwo interdisciplinary teams under a new initiative, the Petit\nBioengineering and Bioscience Collaborative Grant program, which was created to support\nearly-stage innovative biotechnology research.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe seed grant recipients address a wide range of\ntopics including profiling\u0026nbsp; single\ncells to understand the heterogeneity\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eof different cell types and new\napproaches to traumatic brain injury. \u0026nbsp;The\ncall for proposals was welcomed by teams of Petit Institute faculty with one\nfaculty member from Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Science and one from the College\nof Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis new program aims to promote the collaboration\nof new teams of researchers and help them establish preliminary results to\napply for large external grant proposals,\u201d said Robert Guldberg, PhD, director\nof the Petit Institute.\u0026nbsp; \u201cThis initiative\nis directly in-line with the Petit Institute\u2019s mission, funding cutting-edge\nresearch at the interface of bioengineering and the biosciences.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMelissa\nKemp, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department for Biomedical\nEngineering and Greg Gibson, professor in the School of Biology, proposed a\nproject which aims to develop the measurement tools for relating variability in both genomic\nand protein information at the single cell level. The ability to conduct this type of\nprofiling in single cells represents a remarkable technological advance in the\nlast two years.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cStudies of\ngenomic data often fail to bridge the observed variation in DNA sequences to\ncellular function, in part due to the variation that is present by both types\nof measurement,\u201d Kemp said, \u201cwith the technologies this project is developing,\nwe will be able to compare population-averaged data to single cell measurements\nin order to gain new insight in relating genes to phenotype.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMichelle\nLaPlaca, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical\nEngineering and Al Merrill, professor in the School of Biology, are partnering\nto merge traumatic brain injury with lipid biology in the hopes of evaluating, for the\nfirst time, plasma membrane breakdown mechanisms and lipid signaling following\ntraumatic brain injury.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u201cTraumatic brain injury remains a major clinical problem with few effective\ntreatments and the devastating sequelae following this type of injury leads to\nchronic neural deficits,\u201d LaPlaca stated. \u201cWe are optimistic that these funds\nwill propel this important research forward.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFunding\nfor the new seed grants comes chiefly from Petit Institute\u0027s endowment as well as contributions\nfrom the College of Science and College of Engineering. \u0026nbsp;Each team will receive $50,000 a year for two\nyears, however, the second year of funding will be contingent on submission of\nan external collaborative grant proposal by July 2012.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Petit bioengineering and bioscience collaborative grant program"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience awarded $100,000 to two interdisciplinary teams under a new initiative, the Petit Bioengineering and Bioscience Collaborative Grant program, which was created to support early-stage innovative biotechnology research.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Petit bioengineering and bioscience collaborative grant program"}],"uid":"27224","created_gmt":"2011-09-01 15:50:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:05","author":"Megan McDevitt","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"69773":{"id":"69773","type":"image","title":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience","body":null,"created":"1449177264","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:24","changed":"1475894611","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:31","alt":"Parker H. 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