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Dr. Manu Platt Honored as Cancer Scholar
Atlanta (July 10, 2009) — Manu Platt, PhD, who joined the faculty of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory in January, 2009, has been selected as one of the 19 Scholars named by the Georgia Cancer Coalition for its Distinguished Cancer Clinicians and Scientists program for 2009-10.
He will receive $50,000 each year for five years to support his research efforts. The Coalition selects scientists engaged in the most promising areas of cancer research. Currently, Georgia Tech has 11 active Distinguished Cancer Scholars.
Dr. Platt is a graduate of Morehouse College where he earned a degree in biology. He completed his PhD in the Emory/Georgia Tech joint program in Biomedical Engineering, an internship at the National Institutes of Health and did postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA.
Dr. Platt’s lab at Georgia Tech will continue his research on stem cells, focusing on their
reparative and regenerative abilities, with particular attention to their homing and integration into damaged tissue.
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.