The seed grants will fund projects focused on enhancing wheelchair seating surfaces, supporting stroke patients as they transition home from rehabilitation, assessing lower limb exoskeleton technologies, and exploring the use of AI in remote rehab settings. Photo: Shepherd Center.
AI
August 21, 2025

Georgia Tech, Shepherd Center Award Inaugural Seed Grants

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Grants include projects on improving seating surfaces for wheelchair users, easing the transition home after stroke rehabilitation, evaluating lower limb exoskeletons, and using AI in remote rehabilitation.
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Sciences
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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Researchers Rakesh Singh (L) and Ludyanna Lebon with the timsTOF HT and nanoElute2 systems
August 21, 2025

New NIH-Funded timsTOF HT Mass Spectrometer Boosts Proteomics Power in Georgia Tech IBB Core Facilities

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This transformative addition is funded by a prestigious S10 Shared Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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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.
Economic Impact
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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AI
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.
Health
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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Health
August 5, 2025

Stepping Into the Future: A Paralyzed Veteran Returns to Georgia Tech for His Ph.D.

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When Ignacio Montoya left Georgia Tech, he became paralyzed in a motorcycle accident. Now he’s pursuing a Ph.D. to improve life for all spinal cord injury survivors.
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Brandon Dixon and Shao-Yun Hsu pose in their lab, where they're working on a project to improve lymph node transplant surgery.
July 31, 2025

The Doctor Is In

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Microsurgeon Shao-Yun Hsu takes treating her patients all the way to Georgia Tech, where she’s getting a Ph.D. and developing biomaterials to restore function — and quality of life — for people with lymphedema.
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Christopher Rozell, a first-generation scholar and interdisciplinary researcher, serves as the inaugural executive director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS).
Health
July 14, 2025

Rozell Named Inaugural Executive Director of New Neuroscience Institute

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Christopher Rozell to lead Georgia Tech’s new Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society, uniting disciplines to tackle the brain’s greatest challenges.
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Researchers Use Air-Tagged Macrophages to Transform Cancer Imaging, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Sciences
July 10, 2025

Researchers Use Air-Tagged Macrophages to Transform Cancer Imaging, Diagnosis, and Treatment

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Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a new approach to cancer imaging and therapy.
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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.
Health
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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Environment
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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Aerospace
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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Professor Joel Kostka at the Al­ex­an­der von Hum­boldt Found­a­tion annual meeting and reception in Germany this week.
Environment
June 26, 2025

Joel Kostka re­ceives Hum­boldt Re­search Award

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The award will support Kostka’s research on the role of marine plant microbiomes in coastal climate resilience in collaboration with Germany’s Max Planck Institute.
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Health
June 16, 2025

Georgia Tech Researcher Receives $2.9M Grant to Develop Ingestible Probes for Breath-Based Cancer Detection

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The grant will fund the development of cutting-edge technology that could detect colorectal cancer through a simple breath test.
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From clinical trial participant to BCI advocate, Ian Burkhart shares his story at “Wired Lives,” organized by Georgia Tech’s Neuro Next Initiative. Photo: Chris McKenney
Community
June 11, 2025

Unveiling the Human Stories Behind Brain Implants

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Four people who have experienced brain implants shared their personal journeys, offering rare insight into the human side of neurotechnology.
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The conference was a community-led effort, with sessions were sponsored by several centers across Georgia Tech and Emory University.
Health
June 3, 2025

InterfaceNeuro Highlights Atlanta’s Growing Role in the Neurotech Revolution

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The conference brought together voices from across the neurotechnology spectrum to explore advancing brain-computer interface research and patient-centered innovation.
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Health
May 20, 2025

Peptides, Persistence, and Publication

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For her first undergraduate research experience, Marielle Frooman did more than work in the McShan lab — she helped lead research that could shape the future of malaria treatment.
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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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Health
May 13, 2025

A Photo of a Fingernail Can Now be Used to Detect and Monitor for Anemia, Emory and Georgia Tech Research Finds

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A team of researchers from Emory University and Georgia Tech, led by IBB researcher Wilbur Lam, have developed a groundbreaking, non-invasive way to screen and monitor anemia using just a smartphone photo of a fingernail.
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