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Ravi Bellamkonda, Wallace Coulter Biomedical Engineering Dept. Chair
Nine Georgia Tech-Emory Biomedical Projects Receive Coulter Foundation Funding

Seed funding from Coulter Foundation is designed to accelerate nine promising projects.
Tracie Dinkins with the Hero Award
Tracie Dinkins Receives the Staff Hero Award from the College of Engineering

Tracie Dinkins Receives the Staff Hero Award from the College of Engineering
Ravi Bellamkonda talking to congressional members
Congress Briefed on Biomedical Technology Research

AIMBE President Ravi Bellamkonda Briefs Congress on Brain Cancer Discoveries
A team of students affiliated with the Petit Institute and their mentor get their photo op at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., where they are involved in an I-Corps L workshop. Pictured are, from left, Steve Renda (mentor), Jessie Butts, Katy Lassahn and Tom Bongiorno. Their teammate, Liane Tellier, isn't pictured here.
Student Team Joins the Corps

NSF grant program encourages innovation in interactive learning
Lizzie Marr
Marr Making Tracks Across Europe

BME undergrad caps banner year by studying abroad in Oxford program
SUSS Mask Aligner close-up
SUSS MicroTec and Georgia Institute of Technology Establish Partnership for Bio-medical Devices and Semiconductor 3D Packaging Research

SUSS MicroTec and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announced today a collaboration for nanotechnology, bio-medical andsemiconductor 3D packaging research.
May with John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and France A. Córdova, Director of the National Science Foundation.
CoE Dean Presented with PAESMEM Award at White House Ceremony

College of Engineering Dean, Gary S. May, was in Washington, D.C. this week to receive his Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM).
Giuliana Salazar-Noratto
Emerald Isle Awaits Salazar-Noratto

BME grad student going to research in Ireland thanks to GROW award
Cory Turbyfield and Kaci Crawford Win at Research Symposium
BME Undergrads Say It Best

Entrepreneurial duo wins award for oral presentation in research symposium
Ravi Bellamkonda, Wallace Coulter Biomedical Engineering Dept. Chair
Ravi Bellamkonda Lends Biomedical Expertise to GPB Radio

Ravi Bellamkonda discusses biomedical engineering jobs on Georgia Public Broadcasting's radio show, On Second Thought.
Petit Institute Unveils New Internship Program

Students from multiple disciplines going to work at UCB and Boston Scientific
Bobby Baird is setting up his first golf shot using the new Georgia Tech designed seat on an E-Z-GO golf car before the Bobby Jones Classic!
Golf Car Prototype Unveiled at Bobby Jones Classic

Georgia Tech students design and build for children with disabilities
Neuro Design Suite Open for Business

Newest core facility giving researchers unprecedented access to the brain
Ajit Yoganathan, Regents' Professor
Yoganathan Wins AAMI Honor

Yoganathan wins Standards Developer Award from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI).
Bharat Sanders
Sanders Wins Campus Life Scholarship

BME undergrad student capturing the spirit of service
Karthik Nathan plays keepaway with Maria Diaz Ortiz, the former Petit Scholar who won the Tau Beta Pi Award, at the BME Leadership Awards Reception.
BME Honors Top Undergrads

Diaz Ortiz takes highest honor from College of Engineering
Rite of Spring in Puerto Rico

Annual trip offers students an intimate view of pharma industry
Andy Kolpitcke, right, is greeted by Coulter Department Chair Ravi Bellamkonda after getting his BME Leadership Award for Outstanding Industrial Work Experience.
Fateful Slide Leads Kolpitcke South

BME grad followed family footsteps to Georgia Tech
Patterns of Movement

Ting essay takes interdisciplinary approach to exploring motor function
Georgia Tech receives $6.5 million grant from The Marcus Foundation for tumor monorail project

The tumor monorail project, a collaboration between the Georgia Institute of Technology, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University, will receive a $6.5 million grant from The Marcus Foundation.
Shunt Doubles took the top prize in overall competition at the Capstone Design Expo.
BME Takes Top Prize in Capstone Design Expo

Coulter Department completes sweep for 2014-2015 school year
VenTrickle team: Bailey Ernstes, Jacob Kazlow, and Carrie Simpson.
Ian’s Friends Foundation Awards Capstone Projects

Ian’s Friends Foundation Recognizes Best Biomedical Engineering Senior Capstone Project Ideas
Garrett Stanley and Shannon Barker were co-hosts for the first BME Graduate Student Awards.
First Time Honor

BME presents inaugural Graduate Student Awards
Raja Schaar, BME design instructor, created new exhibit space to showcase student achievement.
BME On Display

New exhibit space showcases award-winning work of students
Ten undergraduate students from across the country will have the unprecedented opportunity to participate in the Nation’s only pediatric bioengineering program.
Emory Pediatric Bioengineering Summer Program Accepting Undergraduate Applications

Application deadline February 2, 2015
BioID student Erin Roberts, reflected in the screen of her laptop, pays close attention to another team's end-of-semester presentation.
Bridging the Gap

BioID graduate program giving students real-world biomedical exposure
Prausnitz named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Mark Prausnitz, a ChBE faculty member, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). There are only 414 NAI Fellows worldwide.
Researchers have developed a technique for activating biological signals through the skin of a living animal using light. In this illustration, ultraviolet light is shining through a pattern, initiating fluorescence in the biomaterial implanted in a biomaterial located under the skin of a living animal. (Credit: García Laboratory at Georgia Tech)
Molecular “hats” allow in vivo activation of disguised signaling peptides

Using molecular "hats," researchers have developed a way to sneak biomaterials containing the signaling molecules into living animals.
Pictured are MCF-7 human breast cancer cells, stably transformed with SNAIL (right) or an empty vector control (left). Cells expressing SNAIL show an increased mesenchymal phenotype and malignant characteristics. The control cells display a cobblestone morphology, whereas cells overexpressing SNAIL are more elongated. Credit: MgGrail, et al., FASEB 2014.
Study shows how breast cancer cells break free to spread in the body

A new study has identified how one important gene helps cancer cells break free from the primary tumor.
The BME team, OculoSeal, was the overall winner in the Fall Capstone Expo.
BME Team Takes Capstone Crown

Senior design teams from Coulter Department win big in Fall Expo
Top row, left to right: Melissa Kemp, Krish Roy, Susan Thomas. Bottom row, left to right: Manu Platt, M.G. Finn, Ravi Bellamkonda.
The Buzz on Bioscience

The biosciences are big at Georgia Tech. Researchers discuss what’s happening and how they see the future.
M. Prausnitz Microneedle
Tiny Needles Offer Potential New Treatment for Two Major Eye Diseases

Needles almost too small to be seen with the unaided eye could be the basis for new treatment options for two of the world’s leading eye diseases: glaucoma and corneal neovascularization.