Research Centers
The Petit Institute is the home of many research centers. The Petit Institute's role is to provide infrastructure to support research centers so that each center does not have to try to maintain its own staff and resources. Support comes in the form of access to core facility usage as well as other services such as accounting, marketing, and website support, event planning, multi-investigator proposal development, industry relations, and tech transfer to facilitate center operation.
Cancer Technology Innovation Center (CTIC)
Georgia Tech leads the development of transformative innovations to better predict, diagnose and treat cancer more safely, with fewer side effects, to benefit more patients. The mission of the Cancer Technology Innovation Center (CTIC) is eliminating the health burden of cancer through technology innovation and cancer research.
https://ctic.research.gatech.edu/
Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT)
CMaT will enable robust, scalable, low-cost biomanufacturing of high-quality therapeutic cells to bring affordable, curative therapies against incurable chronic diseases to everyone. This will transform healthcare, improve the economy, add new jobs, and enhance national security.
Center for 3D Medical Fabrication
The Center for 3D Medical Fabrication (3DMedFab) at Georgia Tech provides rapid prototyping of a wide range of multiple biomaterials in 3D.
Center for Immunoengineering
At the Center for Immunoengineering at Georgia Tech engineers, chemists, physicists, computational scientists, and immunologists come together to collaboratively understand how the immune system works and find breakthrough solutions to improve the lives of patients suffering from cancer, infectious diseases (e.g. HIV, tuberculosis, hepatitis, polio etc.), autoimmune and inflammatory disorders (e.g. diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, fibrosis, asthma etc.) as well as those undergoing regenerative therapies (e.g. organ transplantation, spinal cord injury, bone and cartilage repair, etc.).
Center for Integrative Genomics
The Center for Integrative Genomics (CIG) at Georgia Tech is a virtual affiliation of researchers interested in the application of genome-wide research strategies to diverse biological themes. The goals of the center are to: Conduct quantitative genetic analysis of Genomes, Transcriptomes, Proteomes, Metabolomes and Phenomes and foster partnerships within the School of Biology, across Georgia Tech, and with collaborators in the Atlanta region.
Center for The Origin of Life
The Cool Center is a part of NASA’s Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments (PCE3) Consortium, one of five Research Coordination Networks within the Astrobiology Program. The PCE3 Consortium is focused on investigating the delivery and synthesis of small molecules under the conditions of the Early Earth, and the subsequent formation of proto-biological molecules and pathways that lead to systems harboring the potential for life.
Center for Pharmaceutical Development
The Center for Pharmaceutical Development (CPD), established in February 2010, provides a forum for academic and industrial scientists to develop novel approaches for the improvement of pharmaceutical API manufacturing, for product formulation, and for analytical methods. The distinctive strengths of each of the University partners will provide industrial participants with unique opportunities to advance topics on the manufacturing, formulation and analysis of pharmaceuticals. The Center facilitates technologies such as the creation of more selective and robust biological and chemical catalysts that allow more streamlined processes, the development of improved methods for stabilizing drugs and vaccines to protect the nation’s drug supply, and the design of new techniques for the nondestructive evaluation of pharmaceutical products.
Georgia Center for Medical Robotics
The Georgia Center for Medical Robotics (GCMR) brings together people with expertise in several areas of medicine as well as technology development from the nano-scale to macro-scale. GCMR is highly interdisciplinary, comprised of people from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA), and Morehouse School of Medicine. One of its unique features is that it addresses the needs of both adult and pediatric populations.
Marcus Center for Therapeutic Cell Characterization and Manufacturing (MC3M)
Marcus Center for Therapeutic Cell Characterization and Manufacturing (MC3M) is the first such research center in the United States. The current state-of-the-art in cell therapies involves small scale, hospital-centric processing of cells, operated with minimal characterization, and little involvement of process engineering and QA/QC concepts leading to wide variability and uncertainty in clinical trials. In addition to developing new tools and technologies, standards development will be a long term goal of Marcus Center for Therapeutic Cell Characterization and Manufacturing (MC3M).
Neural Engineering Center
The Neural Engineering Center develops cutting-edge science and technology for measuring, understanding, modifying, and stimulating neural activity. There is a critical need for novel collaborative integration between researchers developing interfacing technologies and those advancing our scientific understanding of brain and nervous system function. Applications of these technologies span advancing understanding of neural function to translational methods that improve clinical outcomes.
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center brings clinical experts together with Georgia Tech scientists and engineers to develop technological solutions to problems in the health and care of children. The PTC provides extraordinary opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration in pediatrics, creating breakthrough discoveries that often can only be found at the intersection of multiple disciplines. These collaborations also allow us to bring discoveries to the clinic and the bedside, thereby enhancing the lives of children and young adults.
Regenerative Engineering and Medicine (REM)
The Regenerative Engineering and Medicine (REM) research center is a joint collaboration between Emory University and Georgia Tech. REM is specifically focused on endogenous repair or how the body can harness its own potential to heal or regenerate. Bone, muscle, nerves, heart, blood vessels, and other tissues each have a baseline ability to regenerate. REM investigators ask what can be done when trauma or disease in humans overwhelms the ability of tissues or organs to regenerate on their own.
