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November 6, 2026
Inaugural Marcus Center Distinguished Lecture Highlights CAR-T Cell Innovation
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Dr. Marcela Maus highlighted advances in CAR-T cell therapy and emerging strategies to improve cancer treatment through engineered immune cells at the inaugural Marcus Center Distinguished Lecture.
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November 4, 2026
The Body’s Hidden Signals
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Discover how Coulter BME's Zachary Danziger uses AI, brain-computer interfaces, and neuroscience to uncover the body's hidden communication signals.
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November 4, 2026
Microscopic “Porcupines” Poke a Path for Improved Skin Treatments
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Georgia Tech’s biodegradable STAR particles could help medicine get where it needs to go —while limiting exposure elsewhere in the body.
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November 4, 2026
Can the Nervous System Help Fight Cancer? $3M NIH Award Aims to Find Out
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Georgia Tech researchers are investigating how ovarian cancer connects with the nervous system, and whether those interactions could reveal new approaches to treatment.
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October 29, 2026
U.S. Department of Commerce to Invest $7.4M to Support Georgia Timber Manufacturing Industry
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The award comes from the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Disaster supplemental funding and is supported by $24 million in private investment.
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October 29, 2026
New Faculty Joins Tech to Advance Medicine and Science through AI
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Jiayun (Peter) Wang began his tenure-track career at Georgia Tech on Oct. 15. He is an assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) specializing in computer vision and AI for healthcare, biology, and science.
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October 26, 2026
Susan Napier Thomas Earns Georgia Life Sciences Deal of the Year Award
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Susan Napier Thomas, Woodruff Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB), received a Golden Helix Deal of the Year Award from Georgia Life Sciences for the
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October 22, 2026
AI Improves Diabetes Care One Decision at a Time
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School of CSE researchers Kai Wang and B. Aditya Prakash are PIs of a $1.2 million NIH R01 grant to build AI models that consider individual, social, and system factors when treating patients with Type 2 Diabetes and other chronic illnesses.
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October 22, 2026
Georgia Tech Researchers Develop a New Recipe for Better Molecular Imaging
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Andrei Fedorov and his team have found a way to take some of the guesswork out of mass spectrometry imaging (MSI), potentially giving scientists better tools to explore the molecules that influence our health.
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September 29, 2026
Reaching Where Neurosurgeons Can't
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A Georgia Tech-Emory collaboration is advancing microrobotic technology designed to extend the reach of modern neurosurgery.
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September 28, 2026
Gut mRNA Tech Supercharges Vaccine and GLP-1 Delivery
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Georgia Tech and Emory researchers found that delivering vaccine and GLP-1 mRNA nanoparticles through different regions of the gastrointestinal tract can redirect therapies to key organs while reducing side effects.
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September 28, 2026
Beyond DNA: Large Study Adds Context of Life Circumstances, Environment to Genetic Risks
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New research from Georgia Tech shows that a person's environment and life circumstances can amplify or reduce the health risks encoded in our DNA — leading to an array of health outcomes.
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