4 min read
An interdisciplinary team led by Omer Inan, associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, including collaborators from Emory University, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (Children's), and the Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI), has won the Presidents’ Award of…
Study: Oft-Ignored ‘Non-Place’ Brain Cells Play a Crucial Role in Helping Navigate to the Right Goal
4 min read
Visitors to Atlanta often are confounded by the various and sundry streets, roads, places, and drives named Peachtree (never mind the northeast, southwest, or other directional variations). Writers and late-night comedians are sure to poke fun at the region’s affinity for the name any time there’s a big event in town — and, to be sure, it can make…
5 min read
Today, cell and gene therapies treat and could even cure terminal diseases like leukemia and spinal muscular atrophy, but unlocking their full potential is still a challenge for therapy developers. Both types of therapies rely on living cells comprised of hundreds of thousands of biomolecules to work in unison. And in order for therapy developers…
4 min read
PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, doesn’t discriminate. It affects about 15 million adults in the U.S. each year. And more than half of the people with PTSD are left with a severely impaired quality of life, including disturbing thoughts, feelings, or nightmares related to their traumatic experience, as well as fear, sadness, and anger, or…
7 min read
Brooks Rehabilitation recently announced that the MagTrack study, a collaborative research endeavor with the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been successfully completed. Feedback from the Brooks clinical team and its patients has allowed Georgia Tech engineers to transform their early research prototype into a user-…
5 min read
The discrepancy between preclinical advances in breast cancer immunotherapy and poor patient outcomes is rooted in the limitations of current breast cancer models. These models often fail to mimic complex interactions between cancer cells and key immune cells present in the tumor microenvironment. Utilizing a collaborative approach, Susan N.…
7 min read
“Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.” --W.E.B. DuBois, noted African-American author and educator “Possibilities” was Amber Green’s answer to the question of what led her to pursue her current position at GTRI. Amber’s title of IT Project Management Support Specialist II is…
5 min read
While a dominant narrative of American life paints a bleak picture of poorly informed internet partisans duking it out over a landscape denuded of anything resembling truth or reality, a new study from the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy offers a different take while also advancing the use of machine learning in the social sciences and an…
7 min read
Insider Threat Program Analyst Chikita Sanders’ career path may not be a straight line, but all the experiences and people she met along the way granted her the skills to succeed. Chikita was a biologist for eight years for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “In that role, there was also some aspects of project management, policy management,…
4 min read
GTRI Senior Research Engineer and Georgia Tech alumnus Roger Hill is on a mission to help rescue Afghan families who have supported the U.S. military out of Afghanistan. Hill is working on these efforts with CMM World, a faith-based nonprofit that supports humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and anti-human trafficking efforts worldwide. In…
