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• Modified Enzyme and Delivery System Enable Spinal Cord Regeneration (November 2, 2009) — Researchers have improved an enzyme that degrades dense scar tissue that forms when the central nervous system is damaged—and developed a new system to deliver it, ultimately enabling spinal cord regeneration.
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• ISyE Faculty Forms System Informatics & Control Group (October 19, 2009) — The aim of the SIAC group is to develop research and education programs that will provide a new scientific base for the design, analysis and control of complex manufacturing and service systems, anchored upon the effective and seamless integration of physical and analytical models with empirical data-driven methodologies.
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• New Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience Director Named (October 16, 2009) — Mechanical Engineering Professor Robert Guldberg has been named the new director of the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.
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• HSI Seed Grant Recipients Receive Federal Grants to Continue Work (October 13, 2009) — The Health Systems Institute (HSI) is pleased to announce that three seed grant recipients have recently received federal grants to continue their work. The initial funding for these research efforts were provided via the HSI Seed Grant program, an initiative to support collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects that are designed to help stimulate innovative healthcare research and promote improvements in healthcare.
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• Two Tech Professors Win NIH New Innovator Award (September 24, 2009) — Two Georgia Tech professors have been honored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for work that celebrates creativity and innovation among young and promising researchers.
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• Cancer Biomarker Identification Software Tools Earn Certification (August 18, 2009) — Two new software programs that improve the process of identifying cancer biomarkers from gene expression data earned silver-level compatibility certification from the the National Cancer Institute’s cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, also known as caBIG.
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• Dr. Manu Platt Honored as Cancer Scholar (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 5 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.
  
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• Hang Lu Selected to Receive�2009 Sloan Research Fellowship (February 17, 2009) — ChBE Assistant Professor Hang Lu has been selected to receive a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced their selection this morning, and noted that recipients are conducting research at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, and neuroscience.
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• BME Senior Design Project Featured in 11Alive Segment on Heart Disease (November 5, 2009) — Georgia Tech's Senior Design Program in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering has their work featured in an NBC 11Alive News segment about heart disease in gorillas at the Atlanta Zoo.
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• Phil Sharp Presentation Available for Viewing in GT's Repository (October 16, 2009) — Phil Sharp, IBB Distinguished Lecturer, gives talk entitled, "The Biology and Therapeutic Promise of Small RNAs" which can be viewed in GT's Institutional Repository
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• Delivery of Adult Versus Fetal Stem Cells for Bone Regeneration Atlanta, GA (October 14, 2009) — Alexandra Peister and her collaborators received an NIH program project grant which will support research at Morehouse, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Rochester, Emory University, and the University of Queensland in Australia.
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• Labs report progress in regrowing bones (October 12, 2009) — ATLANTA �" As military doctors in Iraq and Afghanistan have seen more horrific injuries involving skin, nerve, vascular and bone losses from explosions, they have tried to think of what more could be done for the victims besides bandaging things up and hoping for the best.
  
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• Petit back, new role with MiMedx Group Atlanta (September 11, 2009) — Having knocked the ball out of the proverbial park with last year’s $900 million sale of Matria Healthcare Inc., Atlanta biotech big shot Parker “Pete” Petit is giving it another shot... this time with a medical implant firm.
  
  
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• An On-chip Operation - Hang Lu's Research Highlighted in RSC.org (September 2, 2009) — An On-chip Operation - Hang Lu's Research Highlighted in Rcs.org
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• McDevitt and Nerem Discuss Georgia Stem Cell Research Debate (September 1, 2009) — Todd McDevitt, PhD, and Bob Nerem, PhD, discuss Georgia debate regarding stem cell research in Georgia Trends article.
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• Soojin Yi's Research on Human-chimp Interbreeding Featured in Nature (August 28, 2009) — Research on Human-chimp interbreeding from the lab of Soojin Yi,PhD, evolutionary geneticist in School of Biology at Georgia Tech, featured in Nature.
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• Vice Provost Barabino Facilitates First Academic Diversity Symposium (August 24, 2009) — Charged with creating an inclusive academic environment for underrepresented groups in faculty and student populations, the Vice Provost for Academic Diversity, will facilitate the Institute’s inaugural Diversity Symposium on Sept. 14.
  
  
  
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• Georgia Colleges Hold the Course on U.S. News Rankings (August 19, 2009) — Georgia’s colleges hardly moved in U.S. News & World Report’s latest college rankings, scheduled to be released Thursday.
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• Microneedles Research from Prausnitz Lab Featured in TIME.com (August 19, 2009) — What if, instead of having to brave a hypodermic needle each time you needed a shot, you could simply slap on a patch and go about your day? According to some preliminary research from scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, that possibility may be just a few years off.
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• Fontan Research from Yoganathan Lab Featured in Reuters Article (August 11, 2009) — Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, collaborating with pediatric
  cardiologists and surgeons at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, have
  developed a tool for virtual surgery that allows heart surgeons to view the
  predicted effects of different surgical approaches.
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• The Next Hot Entrepreneurs: Science PhDs (August 6, 2009) — The Next Hot Entrepreneurs: Science PhDs
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• CAU and Georgia Tech Collaborate to Fight Cancer (August 5, 2009) — Three local scientists have been researching cancer treatments. A new partnership announced today brings them together in hopes of better results.
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• The Right Recipe (July 28, 2009) — Researchers believe that a number of anti-inflammatory drugs, if delivered directly into the heart following heart attack, could prevent permanent damage and prolong heart function. The challenge, however, is finding an effective way to deliver the drugs. Some drugs require such large doses that toxicity becomes a risk. Others must be injected daily. Certain drug delivery methods themselves can cause inflammation.
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• Researchers Race to Strip Stem Cells of Cancer Risk (July 12, 2009) — Researchers race to strip stem cells of cancer risk
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• IBB Faculty Featured in Research Horizons (July 1, 2009) — IBB faculty members featured in Winter/Spring 2009 issue of Research Horizons
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• Video Archive - Engineering Stem Cell Technologies IBB 1128 (April 21, 2009) — Engineering Stem Cell Technologies - A video library of Todd McDevitt giving an overview of his laboratory at the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.
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• Georgia Tech Faculty Elected as New AIMBE Members (April 3, 2009) — Georgia Tech Faculty Elected as New AIMBE Members
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• GTEC Celebrates Success - Renews Commitment to Regenerative Medicine Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (January 26, 2009) — January 13, 2009. The Georgia Tech Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues (GTEC), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, celebrated its tenth year of innovative research. When founded in 1998, GTEC's focus was on replacing tissues or growing cell-based substitutes outside the body for implantation into the body. As GTEC has evolved over the last decade, its approach has broadened from a focus on tissue engineering to one that includes tissue regeneration.
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• Video Archive - Evolutionary Role of DNA Methylation in Animal Genomes IBB 1128 (October 21, 2008) — Soojin Yi, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Biology
  
  Title: "Evolutionary Role of DNA Methylation in Animal Genomes"
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• Nerem and Clough to be honored by NAE (October 3, 2008) — During its 2008 annual meeting, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) will present two awards for extraordinary impacts on the engineering profession. NAE's Founders Award will be given to ROBERT M. NEREM, who has made important contributions to the field of bioengineering. G. WAYNE CLOUGH will receive the Arthur M. Bueche Award for leadership in science, technology, and engineering policy. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 5.
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• Biomaterials Team Awarded NIH Training Grant (July 9, 2008) — A training grant, entitled "Graduate Training for Rationally Designed, Integrative Biomaterials" or "GTBioMAT" was awarded by the National Institutes of Health to the Georgia Tech/Emory Biomaterials Research Team. Ravi Bellamkonda, PhD, Principal Investigator and Director and Julie Babensee, PhD, Co-Director, will be responsible for the overall management and implementation of the program's objectives.
  
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