man baring chest an holding a patch against his skin
September 23, 2025
Georgia Tech Startup Sets Sights on Transforming Heart Failure Care
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Heart failure remains one of the most challenging conditions to monitor outside the clinic.
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Hong Yeo holds shoe insert.
September 18, 2025
A Step Forward: New Smart Shoe Insert Could Improve Mobility for People With Walking Problems
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The affordable wearable measures foot pressure and could improve stroke and Parkinson’s therapy.
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An aerial photo of the SPRUCE experiment.
September 16, 2025
Meet the Microbes: What a Warming Wetland Reveals About Earth’s Carbon Future
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A new study is unearthing how and why peatlands are producing carbon dioxide and methane. 
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a water bug standing on water
August 21, 2025
Tiny Fans on the Feet of Water Bugs Could Lead to Energy Efficient, Mini Robots
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A new study explains how tiny water bugs use fan-like propellers to zip across streams at speeds up to 120 body lengths per second
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Adam-MacCallum,Jim Pope Fellow and translational research advocate in Georgia Tech’s Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, sits pensively, looking out.
August 15, 2025
Jim Pope Fellow to Offer New Course on Biotechnology Commercialization this Fall
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Adam McCallum, a Jim Pope Fellow at Georgia Tech, is advancing entrepreneurial education in biomedical engineering by mentoring students, launching a new commercialization course, and supporting innovations that address neurological diseases t
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Graphic of person using an assistive device thinking about how a robot could hep learn riding a unicycle
August 8, 2025
Research Combining Humans, Robots, and Unicycles Receives NSF Award
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Novel research to improve tailored assistive and rehabilitative devices wins NSF Grant
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A man with tan skin and dark hair, wearing a mint-green shirt, is seated at a table and looking at the CardioTag device.
August 6, 2025
Georgia Tech Advances 500+ Technologies Toward Market for Real-World Impact
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Record-breaking numbers from the Office of Commercialization drive meaningful inventions, IP, and industry partnerships.
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Prototype of an "exploding" capsule next to a syringe. The capsule can deliver medications that are typically only effective if injected.
July 8, 2025
These ‘Exploding’ Capsules Could Deliver Insulin Without a Needle
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Engineers use sodium bicarb to “self-pressurize” a pill able to deliver drugs that usually require injection directly to the small intestine.
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A woman stands behind a row of skulls.
July 8, 2025
Jenny McGuire Named Teasley Professor
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Jenny McGuire has been named a Teasley Professor, advancing Georgia Tech’s leadership in biodiversity research and climate resilience.
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Tech Tower
July 1, 2025
Georgia Tech Launches Two New Interdisciplinary Research Institutes
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By uniting experts across disciplines, Georgia Tech is positioning itself at the forefront of neuroscience and space research.
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Lena Gamboa and Gabe Kwong look at colorized cells on a computer monitor while Ali Zamat loads samples into a cell counting device. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)
May 19, 2025
Painting a Target on Cancer to Make Therapy More Effective
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A BME team is putting a synthetic flag on tumors, then engineering a patient’s immune cells to find and eliminate cancer.
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Michelle LaPlaca (left), associate chair for Faculty Development and professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering; W. Hong Yeo, Harris Saunders, Jr. Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.
April 18, 2025
Newly Named Children’s PTC at Georgia Tech Peterson Professorship Recipients Work to Improve the Lives of Kids in Georgia and Beyond
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Professors Michelle LaPlaca and W. Hong Yeo are recognized for their innovative contributions to pediatric healthcare research.
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Model of a blood clot
April 10, 2025
3D Microchip Mimics Blood Clots, Potentially Enhancing Treatment Options
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Georgia Tech and Emory researchers developed a novel thromboinflammation-on-a-chip model that could offer medication delivery for blood clot treatments
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Anirudh Sivakumar (right) and Gabe Kwong led development of new gene-free biosensors for cancer detection.
January 13, 2025
New Biosensors Could Revolutionize Cancer Detection
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BME researchers combine precision and simplicity in cell-free biosensors, transforming diagnostic tools.
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Glycine, one of the critical amino acids that the system coverts carbon dioxide into. (Image Credit: NASA)
November 21, 2024
A New Carbon-Negative Method to Produce Essential Amino Acids
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In a landmark study led by Georgia Tech, researchers demonstrate a first-of-its kind way to synthesize amino acids that uses more carbon than it emits.
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Mark Prausnitz poses with arms crossed in his lab with shelves of materials and bottles in the background.
October 22, 2024
Prausnitz Elected to National Academy of Medicine
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The chemical engineer, microneedle pioneer, and entrepreneur is the fourth College of Engineering faculty member to join the Academy since 2020.
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W. Hong Yeo is leading a $3 million NSF research training program to develop a new generation of engineers focused on creating sustainable medical devices.
August 30, 2024
$3 Million NSF Grant Will Support Training in Sustainable Medical Devices
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Georgia Tech researcher W. Hong Yeo has received a $3 million NSF grant to lead a multidisciplinary team in training graduate students to develop sustainable, biocompatible medical devices that address environmental impacts, aiming to establish best pract
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Marissa Moore and Blair Brettmann in the lab.
July 19, 2024
Mentoring the Future of Nanotechnology
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IMAT’s Research Experience for Undergraduates gives students hands-on opportunities.
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Ankur Singh
June 12, 2024
Nanowires Create Elite Warriors to Enhance T Cell Therapy
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Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a method using nanowires to deliver miRNA to T-cells, preserving their naïve state and significantly enhancing their effectiveness in adoptive T-cell therapy for fighting infections and potentially cancer.
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This is a picture of Hong Yeo's father and mother in Korea.
May 14, 2024
Family Loss Brings About Medical Breakthrough
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Family tragedy changed Hong Yeo’s life, with his new direction leading to a new potentially lifesaving medical device.
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