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June 25, 2024

IBB Announces Changes to External Advisory Board

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The Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB) is excited to announce the following updates to its external advisory board.

June 24, 2024

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center (PTC) Announces Gian-Gabriel Garcia, Ph.D., as New Pillar 1-Co Lead

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The Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center at Georgia Tech (PTC) is excited to announce that Gian-Gabriel Garcia will serve as its Pillar 1 Co-Lead.

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.

May 15, 2024

Chatbots Are Poor Multilingual Healthcare Consultants, Study Finds

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Georgia Tech researchers found that chatbots are less accurate in Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi compared to English when asked health-related questions.

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.

A pediatrician listens to a young patient's heartbeat with a stethoscope.

May 6, 2024

Georgia Tech Partners with Children’s Hospital on New Heart Surgery Planning Tool

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Cardiologists and surgeons could soon have a new mobile augmented reality (AR) tool to improve collaboration in surgical planning.

May 2, 2024

Georgia Tech to Offer Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, New Minor

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The new interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Neurotechnology is expected to enroll its first graduate students in Fall 2025. Sciences will also offer a new Minor in Neuroscience, beginning Fall 2024.

A variety of brightly colored Lake Malawi cichlids share a freshwater aquarium.

April 29, 2024

Unique Program Offers Campus Research Opportunities for Online Students

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A new collaboration is paving the way for OMSCS students to connect with interdisciplinary research projects in labs across campus.

Rozell was joined by BRAIN Initiative Director John J. Ngai, clinical collaborators, and a family whose lives have been transformed by this work.

April 24, 2024

Neurotech Moonshot: Georgia Tech Researcher Shares Impact of BRAIN Initiative in Congressional Briefing

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Chris Rozell traveled to Washington, D.C. to share the impacts of the past decade of brain research funded by the NIH BRAIN Initiative with Congress — and share with local representatives how Georgia Tech is playing a key role in leading the charge.

April 23, 2024

New Electron Videography Technique Captures Dance Between Proteins and Lipids

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The new technique can be used to study the dynamics of other biomolecules, breaking free of constraints that have limited microscopy to still images of fixed molecules.

March 25, 2024

Dahlman, Kwong Named to AIMBE College of Fellows

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Coulter BME faculty members James Dahlman and Gabe Kwong have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.

March 18, 2024

Workshop Employs Lessons from Epidemics to Enhance Computer Science Classes

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Associate Professor B. Aditya Prakash is part of a research group that will host a workshop on how topics from computational epidemiology can enhance computer science classes.

Researchers in Hong Yeo's lab work on the electronics of wearable biosensors

March 18, 2024

Real-Time Heat Protection Device Being Tested in Florida

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Wearable bio-measurement device could alert people who work outside to dangerous levels of rising body temperature and dehydration that could help avoid heat-related injury.

March 12, 2024

Cicadas’ Unique Urination Unlocks New Understanding of Fluid Dynamics

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While most small insects and mammals urinate in droplets, cicadas urinate in jets. Researchers from the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering say the finding could be used to create better robots and small nozzles.

January 23, 2024

IMat Initiative Lead Q&A: Valeria Milam

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Milam leads the Macromolecular Materials at Biotic and Abiotic Interfaces research initiative for the Institute for Materials (IMat) and Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences at Georgia Tech.

January 5, 2024

2024 Suddath Winners Announced

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Join us in congratulating the 2024 Suddath Award Winners!

January 4, 2024

2023 Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience Annual Awards

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Congratulations to these members of the IBB community, who were recognized for their dedication and excellence in 2023!

Flexible health monitor created by Georgia Tech Researchers

December 5, 2023

New IEN Center to Research Wearable Technologies

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The Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare (WISH) Center will work to push innovation in wearable sensors and electronics technologies.

December 4, 2023

Ph.D. Student Looks to Brain Temperature as Marker of Health

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Dongsuk Sung's research and published work in studying brain temperature earned a Chih Foundation Graduate Student Research Publication award.

November 29, 2023

Faculty to use AI for Protein Design and Discovery with Support of $1.8 Million NIH Grant

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The National Institute of Health (NIH) has awarded Yunan Luo a grant for more than $1.8 million to use artificial intelligence (AI) to advance protein research.