{"73680":{"#nid":"73680","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Student Wins Marshall Scholarship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERyan Haynes has the heart of a doctor, the brain of a research scientist and the tenacity of a computer programmer. All he needs now to help him realize his dream of developing life-changing medical technologies is the acumen of a business executive. As the only 2006 Marshall Scholar from a Georgia public university, Haynes will get the chance to sharpen his business skills at the University of Cambridge next year as he pursues a master\u0027s degree in nanotechnology enterprise and a degree in bioimaging sciences at Imperial College London a year later.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I feel that a lot of really good basic science research just stays in the laboratory when it could be out there helping patients,\u0022 said Haynes, a senior in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. \u0022I like clinical work because it gets things to patients more directly. I feel business is the avenue to translate basic science to clinical applications.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program at Cambridge, he said, will prepare him to take nanotechnology and biotechnology solutions into the marketplace. The Imperial program will allow him to apply the things he\u0027s learned at Cambridge to medical imaging technologies, potentially benefiting patients with neurological disorders such as Parkinson\u0027s disease and Alzheimer\u0027s disease.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0027s career path that seems natural to the Calhoun, Louisiana, native who received his first computer when he was five and started experimenting with computer programming at age 11.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn high school, he developed a distance education program that united math students over the Internet. The project earned first place honors at the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. In college, his programming has not only helped him in research but also allowed him to create an Internet software application called Endeavor to help both students and instructors in teaching college calculus. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen it came time to choose a university he was torn between Georgia Tech, Rice University and MIT. \u0022The President\u0027s Scholarship Program is pretty much what pulled me over,\u0022 he said. \u0022I liked Georgia Tech\u0027s campus better and its academic environment was what I was looking for.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Tech, Haynes has made the most of the opportunities offered in biomedical engineering, working in the neuroengineering lab of Assistant Professor Steve Potter and at Children\u0027s Healthcare of Atlanta.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022One of the great things about Tech is its research program,\u0022 said Haynes. \u0022Work in the Potter lab has greatly complemented my coursework because you learn one thing in class and the next week you see it in the lab.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Potter\u0027s lab, Haynes is testing how networks of neurons respond to different amounts of the chemical dopamine, which is involved in drug addiction, Parkinson\u0027s disease and schizophrenia. While many labs release the chemicals onto the entire culture of neurons, Potter wants to see how smaller groups of cells respond. \u0022I created an enclosure and system to locally release chemicals, which will allow small volumes of neurotransmitters to stimulate cells much like what happens in a real brain,\u0022 said Haynes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Children\u0027s Healthcare, Haynes is using a software program that renders the brain\u0027s cerebral cortex as a sphere, allowing doctors to measure the thickness of the cortex in various patient groups.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re trying to figure out what the normal thickness is and then measure children who have frontal lobe epilepsy, figure out what atrophy occurs in what area and correlate that with cognitive tests to see if there is a certain area of the brain that\u0027s more affected than others,\u0022 said Haynes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHaynes is the seventh 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. \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","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Ryan Haynes is the seventh Tech student to win the Marshall Scholarship.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ryan Haynes is the seventh student to win the honor"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2005-12-05 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:00:59","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-12-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2005-12-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73681":{"id":"73681","type":"image","title":"Ryan Haynes","body":null,"created":"1449178012","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:52","changed":"1475894380","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:40"}},"media_ids":["73681"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.marshallscholarship.org\/","title":"Marshall Scholar"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/","title":"Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}