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Petit Institute Seed Grants Awarded to Three Teams
Annual funding program supports diverse range of interdisciplinary research projects
FRIDAY
DEC
7
ImmunoEngineering Research Days
Open to Georgia Tech and Emory faculty doing research in ImmunoEngineering
TUESDAY
NOV
27
ImmunoEngineering Research Days
Open to Georgia Tech and Emory faculty doing research in ImmunoEngineering
Rubbing Shoulders with the Giants
BioEngineering/BME grad student Dennis Zhou invited to attend annual meeting of Nobel Laureates
WEDNESDAY
OCT
10
ImmunoEngineering Research Days
Open to Emory and Georgia Tech faculty doing research in ImmunoEngineering
Thomas Wins Biomaterials Honor
Petit Institute researcher selected for 2018 Young Investigator Award
TUESDAY
MAY
15
“Supramolecular Immunotherapies” – Joel Collier, Ph.D. – Duke University
Georgia Tech leading the effort to develop manufacturing expertise and expand cell therapies
FRIDAY
DEC
8
Cell Manufacturing and Immunoengineering Seminar
“Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells: Clinical Development, FDA Approval, and What’s Coming Next” – Bruce Levine, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Boost for Breast Cancer Research
Petit Institute researcher Susan Thomas awarded funding from It’s the Journey and Georgia CORE
TUESDAY
SEP
12
“Supramolecular Immunotherapies” – Joel Collier, Ph.D. – Duke University
Technology Developed at Petit Institute Gets Test Run
Portable 3-D scanner developed in lab of Brandon Dixon assesses patients with elephantiasis
FRIDAY
MAY
5
ImmunoEngineering Trainee Seminar
Synthetic Nanoparticle Antibodies for Target Cell Depletion in Cancer Immunotherapy – Jiaying Liu (Dr. Krish Roy lab); A Microfluidic Platform for Enhanced Lentiviral Transduction Efficiency – Reggie Tran (Dr. Wilber Lam Lab)
Santangelo lab makes startling discovery in research of common, widespread virus.
TUESDAY
APRIL
4
ImmunoEngineering Trainee Seminar
Engineering Therapeutic T Cells that Activate by Photothermal Triggers – Ian Miller (Gabe Kwong Lab)
FRIDAY
MARCH
17
ImmunoEngineering Trainee Seminar
Transplant Rejection and Immunoengineering – Dave Mathews ( ); Functionalized Microenvironments for Enhanced CAR T cell Manufacturing – Nate Dwarshuls (Dr. Krish Roy Lab)
Researchers join the Cancer Systems Biology Consortium with $3.2 Million NCI Grant
Will study metabolic features predictive of tumor response in head and neck cancers