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April 10, 2020
Facing 45 distinguished judges that she could not see, Emelia Funnell shared the story of Team Abibas from the Georgia Institute of Technology, who traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to witness the challenges within that country’s medical system, as well as the potential opportunities to reduce in

April 6, 2020
Three Georgia Tech interdisciplinary engineering student teams were among the four declared winners in their category at the MIT COVID-19 Challenge event held April 3-5.

April 6, 2020
Gabe Kwong, associate professor Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and a researcher in the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, wins Georgia Tech’s 2020 Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper award.

April 6, 2020
A simple, low-cost ventilator based on the resuscitation bags carried in ambulances – and widely available in hospitals – has been designed by an international team of university researchers.

April 1, 2020
ATLANTA — This is a story about collaboration in a time of crisis. A group of Georgia Tech and Emory students learning the skills they hoped would change the world someday, found that day is now.

March 31, 2020
Susan Margulies, chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, has been elected chair-elect for the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) College of Fellows effective on March 30, 2020.

March 26, 2020
This week, three Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering professors at Georgia Tech received promotions:
* Gabe Kwong was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
* Melissa Kemp was promoted to Professor

March 24, 2020
Anyone who has diabetes can develop diabetic retinopathy, which is caused by damage to the nerve cells and blood vessels of the light-sensitive tissue in the back of the eye—the retina.

March 23, 2020
It’s a race against time that some participants liken to Apollo 13, the stricken NASA spacecraft for which engineers improvised an air purification system from available parts to get three astronauts back from the moon.

March 17, 2020
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory is ranked #2 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 ranking of the nation’s top graduate biomedical engineering programs.

March 10, 2020
The "Discussions on Science and Diversity” video series held at Yale University features casual conversations with scientific leaders focusing on their career trajectories and views on diversity.

March 9, 2020
Lena Ting is in the liminal space between computation and neurophysiology, illumining how the brain works with the nervous and musculoskeletal systems to move the body.

March 9, 2020
Bob Nerem often said, “research, like life, is a people business,” and he spent most of his 56-year academic career proving the point.

February 27, 2020
One of the nasty potential byproducts of surgery to remove cancerous lymph nodes doesn’t rear its ugly head until it’s usually too late to fix.

February 27, 2020
You see and want the glass of milk on the table across the room. That’s no problem for most of us, who will simply walk to the table, grab the glass, and enjoy the milk.

February 24, 2020
As National Engineers Week draws to a close, two young women engineers say they’re excited to work on advancements in heart technologies.

February 18, 2020
Ethos Medical, a startup founded by Georgia Tech engineering alumni, was recently awarded a $225,000 grant from the Nati