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March 6, 2026

Target the Tumor. Spare the Body.

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Housley and his team are developing self‑assembling nanohydrogels that deliver cancer drugs only when they reach tumor‑specific conditions, aiming to reduce side effects and make treatment more precise across multiple cancer types.

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March 4, 2026

Georgia Tech Receives Up to $21.8M Award in ‘Unprecedented’ Push to Treat Lymphatic Disease

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The project aims to move lymphatic disease out of the medical margins and toward patients who have had few meaningful treatment options.

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February 25, 2026

Proving the Hypothesis: Kendreze Holland Becomes First Project ENGAGES Scholar to Earn Doctorate

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In December 2025, he became the first Project ENGAGES alumnus to successfully defend his dissertation, and he is expected to graduate this spring.

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February 18, 2026

The Future of Healing: Smart Bandage Could Transform Diabetic Wound Care and Beyond

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GTRI and Georgia Tech have developed a smart bandage that could transform wound care for diabetic patients, battlefield soldiers, and others by enabling real-time insights and reducing invasive bandage changes for timely treatment.

February 18, 2026

Biophysicist Lynn Kamerlin Becomes Institute of Physics Fellow

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It is the highest degree of membership awarded by the society.

February 17, 2026

Mapping Mountain Birds in a Changing World: Benjamin Freeman Awarded Sloan Fellowship For Mountain Bird Ecology Research

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The fellowship is one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early-career scholars.

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February 11, 2026

2026 Awardees Announced for Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Center Collaborative Seed Grant

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The 2026 awards support three cross‑institutional teams advancing innovative research in personalized immunotherapy, cancer stem cell communication, and therapies for Alzheimer’s disease.

February 6, 2026

Leanne West Named 2026 Innovator of the Year in Pediatric Health

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This recognition celebrates West’s leadership and impact in pediatric health innovation at both the local and national level.

February 2, 2026

Yellow Jacket Connection Sparks Glaucoma Research Fund at Tech

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When Postdoctoral Research Fellow Hannah Youngblood’s work on exfoliation glaucoma (XFG) was featured by the BrightFocus Foundation, it caught the attention of Jennifer Rucker, an Alabama resident who was diagnosed with XFG several years ago.

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January 29, 2026

Confronting the Roadblocks in Medical Technology Innovation

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Clinicians and researchers outlined why breakthrough devices often fall short in clinical settings and emphasized the need for interdisciplinary collaboration and practical workflow integration.

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January 28, 2026

Better Brain-Machine Interfaces Could Allow the Paralyzed to Communicate Again

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Biomedical engineer Chethan Pandarinath collaborates with neurosurgeons and scientists across the country in a massive project to help patients with ALS or stroke damage reconnect with the world.

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January 22, 2026

Wearing the Future

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From smart textiles to brain-computer links, Georgia Tech engineers are designing wearables that connect humans and machines more closely than ever to sense, respond, and heal.

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January 16, 2026

Researchers Discover How Worms Clean Their Environment Without a Brain

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When placed in sand-filled Petri dishes, centimeter-long aquatic worms like T. tubifex spontaneously sweep up particles and reorganize their environment — all without a brain.

January 15, 2026

Science for Public Good: Introducing the Community Engagement Graduate Fellows

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Four graduate students from the College of Sciences were selected for the new Community Engagement Graduate Fellowship, made possible through a gift from Google, to develop projects that positively impact the metro Atlanta area.

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January 12, 2026

Coastal Resilience Project Secures Nearly $1 Million to Restore Wetlands

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The award will support the design of nature-based solutions including living shorelines and marsh restoration in flood-prone areas of Camden County, Georgia.

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January 8, 2026

Illness Is More Than Just Biological – Medical Sociology Shows How Social Factors Get Under the Skin and Cause Disease

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By studying the way social forces shape health inequalities, medical sociology helps address how health and illness extend beyond the body and into every aspect of people’s lives.

January 6, 2026

Joints in Motion: Armita Manafzadeh Receives Carl Gans Young Investigator Award

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Manafzadeh will join Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences in August 2026. The new Manafzadeh Lab at Georgia Tech will investigate how joints work and where they come from — both evolutionarily and developmentally.

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January 5, 2026

Georgia Tech Climbs to No. 2 University in Federally Sponsored Research Expenditures

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This is the Institute’s best ranking in the National Science Foundation’s annual survey.

Affectionally called "DragonCon for neuroscience," the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting is one of the largest academic conferences in the world.

December 16, 2025

Georgia Tech Researchers Make Waves at the World’s Largest Neuroscience Conference

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With more than 60 presentations and recognition for neuroscience outreach and AI research, Georgia Tech demonstrated its growing impact at the 2025 Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting.

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December 16, 2025

Gazing Into the Mind’s Eye With Mice – How Neuroscientists Are Seeing Human Vision More Clearly

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Studying how mice see has helped researchers discover unprecedented details about how individual brain cells communicate and work together to create a mental picture of the visual world.