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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.

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.

People attending a scientific software poster session hosted by IDEaS and the OSPO at Georgia Tech

September 24, 2026

Open Source Program Offices’ Virtual Summer Internship Closes with Scientific Software Research Poster Session

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Event showcased the wide range of campus developed solutions across domains.

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.

A woman with brown hair wearing a navy blue blouse holds a microscope slide up to the camera. To her right is a male researcher wearing a suit holding a round lab dish with plastic organ-on-chip experiments inside.

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.

Chart shows miles traveled to access medical services

September 16, 2026

Rural Evaluation and Analytics for Community Health: AI Platform Helps Identify Solutions

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New platform can help leaders make decisions about health-related challenges

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 26, 2026

Speare Earns Highly Competitive NIH MIRA Grant

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The award will support funding aimed at uncovering new insights that could support future coral restoration and disease management efforts.

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August 24, 2026

A Neuroscientist Went Looking for Prediction. She Found Time Instead.

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A Georgia Tech study challenges a decades-old explanation for one of neuroscience's most famous signals, revealing an intrinsic neural code for tracking time.

Associate Professor Yuhang Hu and three male students from her lab gather around and look at a soft adhesive hydrogel they are studying.

August 19, 2026

Georgia Tech Researchers Discover New Mechanism Behind Soft-Material Adhesion

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The discovery challenges a long-held assumption in adhesion mechanics and reveals a new physical mechanism that governs how soft materials attach and detach.

An AI image generated using Google Gemini depicts white ingested probes release gaseous reporters after sensing the activity of GUS (in purple), an enzyme produced by the gut microbiome (tan) that is responsible for unwanted drug side effects (i.e., gastrointestinal toxicity). After release, the gaseous reporters rapidly traffic to the lungs for exhalation, enabling measurement of intestinal GUS activity via simple breath analysis. Thus, ingestible probes enable use of breath tests to predict and manage pos

August 18, 2026

How a Breath Test Could Help Decode the Gut Microbiome

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Leslie Chan's team developed ingestible probes that measure gut microbiome activity through a simple breath test, enabling earlier disease detection.

August 14, 2026

Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society Names Simon Sponberg Associate Director for Interdisciplinary Research

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The Georgia Tech researcher and longtime neuroscience community leader will help catalyze new collaborations and research opportunities across the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS).

August 7, 2026

Georgia Tech Strengthens Atlanta's Innovation Ecosystem Through Tech Square Tech Hop and Avant South

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Tech Square Tech Hop and Avant South showcase Georgia Tech's leadership in strengthening Atlanta's growing innovation ecosystem.

August 5, 2026

Where Breakthrough Meets Business: Georgia Tech Grad Makes Impact Through Research, Entrepreneurship

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Alumnus and serial entrepreneur Chris Lee is using research from his latest company, Huxley Medical, to improve the diagnosis of sleep apnea and related cardiovascular disease with a simple wearable device.

August 5, 2026

Your Immune Cells Are Tired. Georgia Tech Researchers Found a Way to Wake Them Up.

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Georgia Tech researchers developed a way to rejuvenate aging immune cells, potentially restoring the body’s ability to better fight cancer, infection, and other diseases.

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July 29, 2026

From Diagnosis to Wellness, AI's Healthcare Revolution

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As artificial intelligence becomes more integrated into healthcare, researchers are exploring its potential to support clinical decision-making, improve mental health interventions, expand access to care, and accelerate medical innovation.

Staghorn coral samples used in Lauren Speare's research.

July 27, 2026

Tiny Predatory Bacteria Help Protect Endangered Caribbean Corals

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Georgia Tech researchers found that predatory bacteria can halt the spread of a destructive coral disease by hunting and consuming pathogens responsible for the infection.

July 16, 2026

Georgia Tech Receives Commitment to Launch New AI-Driven Health Innovation Center

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Parker H. Petit’s commitment will launch a research hub focused on using artificial intelligence to model diseases, identify treatment paths, and move discoveries closer to patient care.