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Illustration of cancer cells along a road with location markers next to each cell to represent the cancer "atlas" Gabe Kwong and his collaborators are building.

October 16, 2025

Cancer Atlas Offers a Roadmap to Detecting Tumors Earlier Than Ever

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Two years into a $49.5 million cancer-mapping project, researchers are opening the door to new kinds of tests that could alert doctors to multiple kinds of cancer when they’re most treatable.

A lizard wearing one of the sensors, which weigh just three-hundredths of a gram each — the same as a two grains of rice. (Credit: Jon Suh)

October 15, 2025

Mapping Evolution: James Stroud Named 2025 Packard Fellow

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The award will support Stroud as he creates evolution’s first high-definition map — with the help of 1,000 backpack-wearing lizards.

Grace Tang (Left) and Alison Onstine (Right) holding bacteria plates that spell "BIOL 4590" (Credit: Tang and Onstine)

October 13, 2025

Undergraduate Bioinformatics Class Produces Published Research

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“This course truly underscores Georgia Tech’s commitment to pioneering meaningful undergraduate experiences,” says teacher Vinayak (Vinny) Agarwal. “No other peer institution I know of is exposing undergraduates to bioinformatics at this level.”

October 7, 2025

ChBE Professor Leads Team Awarded $9.2M NSF Grant to Build “Plug-and-Play” Biotechnology

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Researchers received a $9.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to accelerate the adoption of cell-free systems in biomanufacturing.

September 30, 2025

Nathan Wallace Takes Steps to Advance Prosthetics

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Born with a congenital limb disorder, Wallace wants to use his own experience to develop new prosthetics.

Researchers show off a lung-on-a-chip that has an immune system. Long term, this technology could lead to highly personalized medicine

September 24, 2025

Breathtaking Breakthrough: Lung-on-a-Chip Defends Itself

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Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with the potential to reshape how we study disease, move beyond animal testing, and administer lifesaving therapies.

Georgia Tech's Tech Tower with flowers blooming in the foreground

September 18, 2025

The Robotic Breakthrough That Could Help Stroke Survivors Reclaim Their Stride

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Georgia Tech's AI-fueled exoskeleton adapts to every step, helping patients relearn to walk with less effort and more confidence.

September 16, 2025

Saad Bhamla Named 2025 Schmidt Polymath

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Schmidt Sciences announces next cohort of early-to mid- career scientists to each receive up to $2.5 million to pursue novel research

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September 11, 2025

A Nexus of Ideas

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Nexus is Georgia Tech’s next-generation supercomputer, replacing the HIVE.

September 4, 2025

Rampi Ramprasad Awarded $2 Million Grant to Pioneer AI-Driven Recyclable Packaging Materials Design

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The project addresses one of the world’s most pressing challenges in sustainability: eliminating plastic waste.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

A photo shot from the back of a conference room with people sitting at conference tables while a person at the front of the room shows a presentation on a flat TV screen

July 16, 2025

Improved Cancer Detection, Better MRI Imaging Among 2025-2026 Biolocity Awardees

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Commercialization program in Coulter BME announces project teams who will receive support to get their research to market.

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).

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.

July 11, 2025

Pancaked Water Droplets Help Launch Europe’s Fastest Supercomputer

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Assistant Professor Spencer Bryngelson participated in the JUPITER Research and Early Access Program, which innovated his fluid dynamics software while stress testing Europe's fastest supercomputer in preparation for launch.

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.

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.