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Coulter Department News

Coulter Department News

BME Faculty at MLSE 2019 Conference. Top row, left-to-right: Mark Borodovsky, Gari Clifford, Cassie Mitchell. Bottom row, left-to-right: Wei Sun, Denis Tsygankov, May Wang, Cheng Zhu
BME Faculty Presenting at Machine Learning in Science and Engineering 2019 Conference

2nd annual MLSE conference hosted at Georgia Tech
Abigail Paulson
Using Brain Wave Stimulation to Treat Alzheimer’s

Georgia Tech and MIT researchers develop noninvasive treatment to improve memory and reduce amyloid plaques in mice
James Dahlman
DNA: Faster Data, More Storage, Better Drugs

Georgia Tech researcher James Dahlman pens essay for Scientific American as new DNA barcoding company continues to grow
Michael E. Davis, Ph.D., has been promoted to full professor with tenure effective September 1, 2019 by the Board of Trustees at Emory University.
Michael Davis Promoted to Full Professor

Emory University promotes Davis to full professor with tenure
Steven Marzec with BME chair Susan Margulies
Spring 2019 Celebration of Community

BME Department holds 2nd Annual Celebration of the BME Community
Professor Lena Ting from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
Synergy II/Nexus Awards Fund Collaborative Research

Research proposal aims to pursue mapping the human “gaitome”
Pictured left to right are: Dan Mote, Jr., Paul Benkeser, Wendy Newstetter, Joe Le Doux, and Alex Van Adzin.
National Academy of Engineering Ceremony Honors Three Biomedical Engineering Faculty

Gordon Prize ceremony honors innovative engineering education
A team of trainees from the NIH Cell and Tissue Engineering Training Program (CTEng) and the NSF Engineering Research Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT) visited global pharma company Celgene.
Trainees Gain Cell Manufacturing Industry Insight

Grad students from Georgia Tech and three other universities get rare close-up look at big pharma facility
Devina Puri won in the Ph.D. candidate category. Her talk covered, “Single-cell Dynamics of Bacterial Biofilm Formation.”
Best Seminar Award Winners

Best Coulter Department Ph.D. candidate and postdoctoral seminar presenters announced
WiSAT - Wheelchair In-seat Activity Tracker
Coulter Translational Program Announces Funding Collaboration with Rick Hansen Institute

Funding will support commercialization of wheelchair in-seat activity tracker
Scott Hollister
Hollister and Team Study Long-term Effects of Tracheal Splint

Coulter Department/Petit Institute researcher at Georgia Tech says next step for groundbreaking device would be Phase One clinical trials
Wilbur Lam, associate professor of pediatrics at Emory School of Medicine and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
NIH selects biomedical engineer/hematologist for Emerging Investigator Award and $5 million grant

The award is one of only seven NHLBI emerging investigator awards nationally this year.
Anagha Krishnan, a third-year biomedical engineering undergraduate student, from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
Anagha Krishnan Among 24 Under 24 Leaders and Innovators in STEAM and Space Award

Mars Generation selects BME student as a leader who is breaking barriers in STEAM fields
Georgia Tech BME students Julia Woodall and Lee-Kai Sun are 2019 recipients of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. 
Two BME Students Win Goldwater Scholarships

The Barry Goldwater Scholarship was established by congress in 1986
Team SecURO (left to right): Rachel Mann, Jared Brown, and Bailey Klee
SecURO Takes First Place at Johns Hopkins University Healthcare Design Competition

Two BME teams advanced to the competition finals with one team winning in its category
Jaydev Desai
Desai Secures $2.8 Million Grant to Develop Steerable Robotic Guidewire

NIH ranks researcher’s proposal with its best possible score
Tube Team takes center stage to accept their BME Capstone award. Left to right are Emily Dunford, Arielle Margulies, Sarah Nixon, and Director of BME Capstone, James Rains.
Tube Team Takes Top BME Capstone Honors

ME team wins overall project award as 236 teams from 11 different schools and programs compete in spring event
Cristi Bell-Huff, Ph.D., from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Women in Engineering Honors Cristi Bell-Huff

Recipient of Georgia Tech’s WIE 2019 Faculty Award
Manu Platt, associate professor in the Coulter Department, won the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award.
Six BME Faculty Honored at Georgia Tech’s Annual Faculty and Staff Awards Event

Georgia Tech recognizes top faculty members for the 2018-19 academic year
Bilal Haider (center) is flanked by his co-researchers, grad students Joseph Del Rosario (left) and Anderson Speed (right).
How to Influence Perception

Research from Haider lab demonstrates that visual behavior is impacted by the moment-to-moment state of activity in the primary visual cortex
William (Bill) W. George, former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, delivered the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering’s distinguished lecture at the Academy of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Pictured with BME chair Susan Margulies.
BME’s 2019 Distinguished Lecture Delivered by Bill George

Former CEO of Medtronic Focuses on Innovation Leadership in Biomedicine
The activity sensor illustrated in reddish-pink with small, green attachments is shown here in its application to detect organ transplant rejection. T cells secrete the enzyme granzyme, here in gray, which kills cells but also severs the fluorescent green signal molecules from the activity sensing nanoparticle. The green signal molecules make their way into the urine, where they give off a fluorescent cue. Credit: Georgia Tech / EllaMaru Studios work for hire / press handout
Urine Test to Evaluate Immunotherapy Success Gets $1.8 Million NIH Research Grant

Immunotherapy can eradicate cancer or fall down trying, and this sensor monitors that success or failure.
Lizzy Kappler and Yahia Ali of Libi Medical, a student team from Georgia Tech, took top honors in the Rice 360° Institute for Global Health’s design competition March 29 for their fetal heart-monitoring technology. (Photo by Jack Wang)
Georgia Tech BME Team Wins Highest Honor at Rice 360⁰ Design Competition

Team Libi Medical Won First Place and the People’s Choice Award
After intramuscular injection, isolated tissues were examined at the cellular level via confocal microscopy and flow cytometry.
New PET/CT Scanning Approach Could Help Accelerate mRNA Vaccine Development

The non-invasive approach combines radionuclide and near-infrared imaging
Susan Margulies is a GRA Eminent Scholar and the chair of the top-ranked Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
Susan Margulies Wants to Protect Your Brain

Georgia Research Alliance Interviews Susan Margulies, Ph.D.
Cheng Zhu is a Regents Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Credit: Allison Carter
Mediating from the Middle

From the lab of Cheng Zhu: Integrin, vital proteins that play a major role in hemostasis and thrombosis, biomechanically facilitate platelet…
Image shows the view through the PR2’s cameras showing the environment around the robot. Clicking the yellow disc allows users the control the arm. (Credit: Phillip Grice, Georgia Tech)
Seeing through a Robot’s Eyes Helps Those with Profound Motor Impairments

An interface system that uses augmented reality technology could help individuals with profound motor impairments operate a humanoid robot to feed…
Ethos Medical Wins 2019 Georgia Tech InVenture Prize

Leading-edge medical device takes 1st place in 2019 Georgia Tech InVenture Prize.
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech and Emory is ranked #3 in U.S. News & World Report’s latest ranking of the nation’s top graduate biomedical engineering programs for 2019-2020.
Biomedical Engineering Ranked #3 in U.S. News Graduate Rankings for 2020

Biomedical engineering graduate program among top three in latest U.S. News rankings
TremorTrainer is a therapeutic glove that implements counter-weight technology in order to enable those suffering from hand tremors to regain their ability to perform any everyday task.
2019 InVenture Finalist: TremorTrainer

TremorTrainer is a therapeutic glove that implements counter-weight technology in order to enable those suffering from hand tremors to regain their…
Three engineering graduates constructed a handheld medical device to help guide the placement of needles used for spinal tap procedures. The goal is to make the procedure safer by providing a tool to assist medical professionals in placing the injection correctly without having to guess or repeat to find a precise location.
2019 InVenture Finalist: Ethos Medical

The three members of Ethos Medical have been building a device that could someday touch millions of lives, and they’ve been doing it in their…
Eberhard Voit
Eberhard Voit Named an SMB Fellow

Pioneering researcher in computational systems biology earns rare honor
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