The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University is a joint department, equally part of the Emory School of Medicine and the Georgia Tech College of Engineering communities. As such, we off er the best of both internationally renowned institutions. The department is united through a dedication to improving the health and wellbeing of all by fostering the next generation of leaders in biomedical engineering worldwide. The Coulter Department is comprised of highly collaborative innovators in research and education with an emphasis on translational and interdisciplinary research.

Department Highlights

• Both our, graduate and undergraduate, programs ranked second in biomedical engineering, according to the 2012 U.S. News & World Report.
  
  
• The Coulter Department is the only institution to host three NIH Centers of Excellence in Nanomedicine.
  
  
• The Coulter Department has attracted 56 NSF Fellows, one of the highest records in the nation. Our 96 academic/research faculty and postdoctoral fellows are breaking new ground daily in biomedical engineering research and education and includes members of the National Academy of Engineers, and fellows/honorees from IEEE, BMES, AIMBE, NAE, NSF, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholars and Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholars.
  
  
• With over $25,000,000 in NIH Funding, the Coulter Department was awarded more NIH funding than any BME program ranked in the top 10 by U.S.News & World Report.

* Source: 2012 U.S.News & World Report rankings
** Source: Data available from the NIH Research Portfolio at time of publication

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