Category Health | Research News Center

Research team members Ishita Kumar, Corey Wilson, and Luisa F. Barraza-Vergara

April 1, 2026

Georgia Tech Researchers Develop First Genetic Passcode Lock to Protect Valuable DNA

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Research published in Science Advances demonstrated the effectiveness of this technology in protecting high-value engineered cell lines.

March 20, 2026

ATDC Startups Secure Rare FDA ‘Breakthrough Device’ Status

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Milestone designation signals strong potential to reshape care for dialysis patients and those with chronic knee pain.

March 18, 2026

Why Mosquitoes Swarm Your Head: They’re Following Signals, Not Each Other

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Researchers have visualized mosquito flight behavior for the first time — which could improve mosquito-control strategies.

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March 17, 2026

Turning Carbon Into Chemistry

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Georgia Tech researchers have developed a breakthrough system to manufacture valuable amino acids. It’s the most efficient system of its kind — and removes more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits.

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March 4, 2026

Georgia Tech Receives Up to $21.8M Award in ‘Unprecedented’ Push to Treat Lymphatic Disease

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The project aims to move lymphatic disease out of the medical margins and toward patients who have had few meaningful treatment options.

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February 25, 2026

Proving the Hypothesis: Kendreze Holland Becomes First Project ENGAGES Scholar to Earn Doctorate

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In December 2025, he became the first Project ENGAGES alumnus to successfully defend his dissertation, and he is expected to graduate this spring.

February 24, 2026

Augusta Positioned to Become a Leader in Medical Device Entrepreneurship

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A partnership between Georgia Tech and Augusta University supports the effort .

February 18, 2026

Biophysicist Lynn Kamerlin Becomes Institute of Physics Fellow

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It is the highest degree of membership awarded by the society.

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February 18, 2026

The Future of Healing: Smart Bandage Could Transform Diabetic Wound Care and Beyond

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GTRI and Georgia Tech have developed a smart bandage that could transform wound care for diabetic patients, battlefield soldiers, and others by enabling real-time insights and reducing invasive bandage changes for timely treatment.

February 17, 2026

Mapping Mountain Birds in a Changing World: Benjamin Freeman Awarded Sloan Fellowship For Mountain Bird Ecology Research

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The fellowship is one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early-career scholars.

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February 11, 2026

2026 Awardees Announced for Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Center Collaborative Seed Grant

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The 2026 awards support three cross‑institutional teams advancing innovative research in personalized immunotherapy, cancer stem cell communication, and therapies for Alzheimer’s disease.

February 2, 2026

Yellow Jacket Connection Sparks Glaucoma Research Fund at Tech

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When Postdoctoral Research Fellow Hannah Youngblood’s work on exfoliation glaucoma (XFG) was featured by the BrightFocus Foundation, it caught the attention of Jennifer Rucker, an Alabama resident who was diagnosed with XFG several years ago.

January 15, 2026

Science for Public Good: Introducing the Community Engagement Graduate Fellows

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Four graduate students from the College of Sciences were selected for the new Community Engagement Graduate Fellowship, made possible through a gift from Google, to develop projects that positively impact the metro Atlanta area.

Degraded marsh on Cumberland Island, Georgia.

January 12, 2026

Coastal Resilience Project Secures Nearly $1 Million to Restore Wetlands

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The award will support the design of nature-based solutions including living shorelines and marsh restoration in flood-prone areas of Camden County, Georgia.

Lack of access to safe and affordable housing is harmful to health. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

January 8, 2026

Illness Is More Than Just Biological – Medical Sociology Shows How Social Factors Get Under the Skin and Cause Disease

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By studying the way social forces shape health inequalities, medical sociology helps address how health and illness extend beyond the body and into every aspect of people’s lives.

January 6, 2026

Joints in Motion: Armita Manafzadeh Receives Carl Gans Young Investigator Award

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Manafzadeh will join Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences in August 2026. The new Manafzadeh Lab at Georgia Tech will investigate how joints work and where they come from — both evolutionarily and developmentally.

Mice have complex visual systems that can clarify how vision works in people. Westend61/Getty Images

December 16, 2025

Gazing Into the Mind’s Eye With Mice – How Neuroscientists Are Seeing Human Vision More Clearly

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Studying how mice see has helped researchers discover unprecedented details about how individual brain cells communicate and work together to create a mental picture of the visual world.

Affectionally called "DragonCon for neuroscience," the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting is one of the largest academic conferences in the world.

December 16, 2025

Georgia Tech Researchers Make Waves at the World’s Largest Neuroscience Conference

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With more than 60 presentations and recognition for neuroscience outreach and AI research, Georgia Tech demonstrated its growing impact at the 2025 Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting.

December 11, 2025

Meet CSE Profile: Ph.D. Graduate Ziqi Zhang

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Ph.D. graduate Ziqi Zhang will join the Class of 2025 in walking across the stage, receiving diplomas, and graduating from Georgia Tech.

December 10, 2025

NSF Grant Funds Protein Research for Drug Discovery and Personalized Medicine

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Yunan Luo is the recipient of an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to use artificial intelligence to solve the protein annotation inequality problem.