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November 6, 2026

Inaugural Marcus Center Distinguished Lecture Highlights CAR-T Cell Innovation

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Dr. Marcela Maus highlighted advances in CAR-T cell therapy and emerging strategies to improve cancer treatment through engineered immune cells at the inaugural Marcus Center Distinguished Lecture.

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November 4, 2026

Microscopic “Porcupines” Poke a Path for Improved Skin Treatments

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Georgia Tech’s biodegradable STAR particles could help medicine get where it needs to go —while limiting exposure elsewhere in the body.

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November 4, 2026

Can the Nervous System Help Fight Cancer? $3M NIH Award Aims to Find Out

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Georgia Tech researchers are investigating how ovarian cancer connects with the nervous system, and whether those interactions could reveal new approaches to treatment.

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November 4, 2026

The Body’s Hidden Signals

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Discover how Coulter BME's Zachary Danziger uses AI, brain-computer interfaces, and neuroscience to uncover the body's hidden communication signals.

October 29, 2026

New Faculty Joins Tech to Advance Medicine and Science through AI

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Jiayun (Peter) Wang began his tenure-track career at Georgia Tech on Oct. 15. He is an assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) specializing in computer vision and AI for healthcare, biology, and science.

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October 29, 2026

U.S. Department of Commerce to Invest $7.4M to Support Georgia Timber Manufacturing Industry

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The award comes from the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Disaster supplemental funding and is supported by $24 million in private investment.

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October 26, 2026

Susan Napier Thomas Earns Georgia Life Sciences Deal of the Year Award

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Susan Napier Thomas, Woodruff Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB), received a Golden Helix Deal of the Year Award from Georgia Life Sciences for the

October 22, 2026

AI Improves Diabetes Care One Decision at a Time

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School of CSE researchers Kai Wang and B. Aditya Prakash are PIs of a $1.2 million NIH R01 grant to build AI models that consider individual, social, and system factors when treating patients with Type 2 Diabetes and other chronic illnesses.

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October 22, 2026

Georgia Tech Researchers Develop a New Recipe for Better Molecular Imaging

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Andrei Fedorov and his team have found a way to take some of the guesswork out of mass spectrometry imaging (MSI), potentially giving scientists better tools to explore the molecules that influence our health.

September 30, 2026

IDEaS & AWS Launch Upskilling Course for Faculty, Research Engineers, and IT Specialists Working in Health Science Research

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The fall cohort of 18 researchers will participate in a free, fully remote, 5-week program.

A Georgia Tech-Emory collaboration is advancing microrobotic technology designed to extend the reach of modern neurosurgery.

September 29, 2026

Reaching Where Neurosurgeons Can't

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A Georgia Tech-Emory collaboration is advancing microrobotic technology designed to extend the reach of modern neurosurgery.

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September 28, 2026

Gut mRNA Tech Supercharges Vaccine and GLP-1 Delivery

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Georgia Tech and Emory researchers found that delivering vaccine and GLP-1 mRNA nanoparticles through different regions of the gastrointestinal tract can redirect therapies to key organs while reducing side effects.

It's not just our ancestry that determines health, Gibson says. It's also culture and environment. (Credit: Juliane Liebermann / Unsplash)

September 28, 2026

Beyond DNA: Large Study Adds Context of Life Circumstances, Environment to Genetic Risks

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New research from Georgia Tech shows that a person's environment and life circumstances can amplify or reduce the health risks encoded in our DNA — leading to an array of health outcomes.

Ramy Ghanim, Joy Jackson, and Alex Abramson test a tiny implantable device in the lab.

September 24, 2026

Engineers Connect Health Wearables and Implants Using the Body as the Network

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Inspired by the ionic signaling of our nervous system, researchers built sensors and therapeutic devices that can communicate and coordinate with each other through tissue.

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September 22, 2026

New Emory and Georgia Tech Dual-Degree Pathway Bridges Medicine and Robotics

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Emory and Georgia Tech launch a new MD/MS in Robotics pathway that combines medical training with advanced robotics education.

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September 21, 2026

Georgia Tech Launches ETHOS Initiative to Accelerate Human-Centered Medical Research

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Georgia Tech's ETHOS initiative brings together expertise from across the Institute to advance human-centered research models that could accelerate the development of safer, more effective therapies.

A microscopic image shows lab grown bone marrow and blood vessels highlighted in gray and green weaving through a network of supportive cells and proteins highlighted in magenta.

September 11, 2026

A Window Into the Hidden World of Immunity Inside Human Bone Marrow

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In a study published in Science Advances, the team developed a human bone marrow-on-a-chip, enabling them to directly observe human antibody-secreting cells.

August 31, 2026

Tiny Motors, Big Structures: Kolvin Awarded NSF CAREER Grant for Soft Materials Research

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The work could open the door to advances in wound healing, artificial tissues, and organ repair.

Scientific rendering of multiple DNA double helices with several embedded ribonucleotides highlighted in red along the strands. The red RNA building blocks appear at distinct locations within the gray DNA structure, illustrating how ribonucleotides can become incorporated into human DNA.

August 28, 2026

Georgia Tech Researchers Discover New Layer of the Human Genome

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A new study led by Francesca Storici reveals that RNA building blocks embedded in human DNA are organized in distinct patterns and may play an important role in regulating DNA structure and gene activity.

August 27, 2026

Wilkinson Elected Chair of Georgia Tech’s Faculty Executive Board

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The longtime Georgia Tech professor and academic leader in the College of Sciences will guide the Faculty Executive Board as it upholds the Institute's shared governance.