Category Health | Research News Center

A tall white man wearing a blue GT-branded polo standing next to a slightly shorter man wearing a UGA-branded red polo. They're smiling and both holding a football.

November 24, 2025

Clean, Old-Fashioned Collaboration: Engineering the Future of Healthcare at Georgia Tech and UGA

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By uniting expertise and resources, Georgia’s leading institutions are creating practical solutions to improve health outcomes across the state.

November 19, 2025

Lights, Camera, Memory!

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Can flickering light and sound help fight Alzheimer’s disease?

The Canada Jay is one of the birds struggling in the Pacific Northwest. (Credit: Mason Maron)

November 12, 2025

A 30-Year “Snapshot” of Pacific Northwestern Birds Shows Their Surprising Resilience

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After discovering a historic bird survey in the Pacific Northwest, Georgia Tech’s Ben Freeman located the original sites, repeating the surveys three decades later.

Small Proteins: Big Hope | Felipe Quiroz

November 11, 2025

Biomedical Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow: Small Proteins, Big Hope with Felipe Quiroz

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Quiroz reveals how his lab engineers the invisible — proteins, cells, and genes — to understand and treat diseases like Alzheimer’s.

President Ángel Cabrera of Georgia Tech stands at a podium and delivers a speech.

November 10, 2025

Georgia Tech Hosts Annual Summit Devoted to Pediatric Health Innovation

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The Pediatric Healthcare Innovation Summit 2025 convened experts, entrepreneurs, and clinicians to accelerate breakthrough technologies and collaborative solutions aimed at transforming pediatric care.

Deleon cofounders from left to right, Chad Pozarycki and José Andrade.

November 4, 2025

Deleon: Bridging Space Technology and Preventive Health

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Inspired by NASA technology, Georgia Tech alumni launched Deleon—a startup using biochemical data to advance preventive health, backed by CREATE-X.

Founders of Allez Go: Adam Kulikowski and Jason Mo

November 4, 2025

Built in I2P: The Student Inventions You’ll Want to See to Believe

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Georgia Tech’s Fall 2025 I2P Showcase will feature over 60 student prototypes tackling real-world challenges.

Illustration of cancer cells along a road with location markers next to each cell to represent the cancer "atlas" Gabe Kwong and his collaborators are building.

October 16, 2025

Cancer Atlas Offers a Roadmap to Detecting Tumors Earlier Than Ever

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Two years into a $49.5 million cancer-mapping project, researchers are opening the door to new kinds of tests that could alert doctors to multiple kinds of cancer when they’re most treatable.

A lizard wearing one of the sensors, which weigh just three-hundredths of a gram each — the same as a two grains of rice. (Credit: Jon Suh)

October 15, 2025

Mapping Evolution: James Stroud Named 2025 Packard Fellow

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The award will support Stroud as he creates evolution’s first high-definition map — with the help of 1,000 backpack-wearing lizards.

Grace Tang (Left) and Alison Onstine (Right) holding bacteria plates that spell "BIOL 4590" (Credit: Tang and Onstine)

October 13, 2025

Undergraduate Bioinformatics Class Produces Published Research

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“This course truly underscores Georgia Tech’s commitment to pioneering meaningful undergraduate experiences,” says teacher Vinayak (Vinny) Agarwal. “No other peer institution I know of is exposing undergraduates to bioinformatics at this level.”

October 7, 2025

ChBE Professor Leads Team Awarded $9.2M NSF Grant to Build “Plug-and-Play” Biotechnology

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Researchers received a $9.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to accelerate the adoption of cell-free systems in biomanufacturing.

September 30, 2025

Nathan Wallace Takes Steps to Advance Prosthetics

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Born with a congenital limb disorder, Wallace wants to use his own experience to develop new prosthetics.

Researchers across Georgia Tech are joining forces to explore the brain — advancing science, technology, and society through interdisciplinary collaboration.

September 25, 2025

From Lab to Life: Inside the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society

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Neuroscience at Georgia Tech is entering a new era — one defined by interdisciplinary research, educational innovation, and real-world impact.

Researchers show off a lung-on-a-chip that has an immune system. Long term, this technology could lead to highly personalized medicine

September 24, 2025

Breathtaking Breakthrough: Lung-on-a-Chip Defends Itself

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Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with the potential to reshape how we study disease, move beyond animal testing, and administer lifesaving therapies.

September 18, 2025

The Robotic Breakthrough That Could Help Stroke Survivors Reclaim Their Stride

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Georgia Tech's AI-fueled exoskeleton adapts to every step, helping patients relearn to walk with less effort and more confidence.

September 16, 2025

Saad Bhamla Named 2025 Schmidt Polymath

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Schmidt Sciences announces next cohort of early-to mid- career scientists to each receive up to $2.5 million to pursue novel research

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September 11, 2025

A Nexus of Ideas

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Nexus is Georgia Tech’s next-generation supercomputer, replacing the HIVE.

September 4, 2025

Rampi Ramprasad Awarded $2 Million Grant to Pioneer AI-Driven Recyclable Packaging Materials Design

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The project addresses one of the world’s most pressing challenges in sustainability: eliminating plastic waste.

The seed grants will fund projects focused on enhancing wheelchair seating surfaces, supporting stroke patients as they transition home from rehabilitation, assessing lower limb exoskeleton technologies, and exploring the use of AI in remote rehab settings. Photo: Shepherd Center.

August 21, 2025

Georgia Tech, Shepherd Center Award Inaugural Seed Grants

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Grants include projects on improving seating surfaces for wheelchair users, easing the transition home after stroke rehabilitation, evaluating lower limb exoskeletons, and using AI in remote rehabilitation.

Adam-MacCallum,Jim Pope Fellow and translational research advocate in Georgia Tech’s Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, sits pensively, looking out.

August 15, 2025

Jim Pope Fellow to Offer New Course on Biotechnology Commercialization this Fall

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Adam McCallum, a Jim Pope Fellow at Georgia Tech, is advancing entrepreneurial education in biomedical engineering by mentoring students, launching a new commercialization course, and supporting innovations that address neurological diseases t