Emory, Georgia Tech receive first human exposome center grant in U.S.

Posted On Sunday, May 26, 2013 By . Under GEORGIA  Tags: , , , ,   
Emory, Georgia Tech receive first human exposome center grant in U.S.Investigators at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, along with partners at the Georgia Institute of Technology, have received a $4 million grant over four years to establish the HERCULES Center at Emory University (Health and Exposome Research Center: Understanding Lifetime Exposures). The grant is the first exposome-based ...

Biomaterial Shows Promise for Type 1 Diabetes Treatment

Posted On Saturday, May 11, 2013 By . Under GEORGIA  Tags: , , , , ,   
Biomaterial Shows Promise for Type 1 Diabetes TreatmentResearchers have made a significant first step with newly engineered biomaterials for cell transplantation that could help lead to a possible cure for Type 1 diabetes, which affects about 3 million Americans. Georgia Tech engineers and Emory University clinicians have successfully engrafted insulin-producing cells into a diabetic mouse model, reversing diabetic ...

National Academy of Inventors and Emory Announce NAI Charter Fellows

Posted On Monday, January 7, 2013 By . Under GEORGIA  Tags: , ,   
National Academy of InventorsThe National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named James W. Wagner, president of Emory University, and Raymond I. Schinazi, Frances Winship Walters Professor of Pediatrics at Emory and director of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology, as Charter Fellows. Election to NAI Fellow status is a professional distinction accorded to academic inventors ...

Nobel Laureate Will Deliver Breinin Lecture At Emory

Posted On Thursday, December 20, 2012 By . Under GEORGIA  Tags: , , , , , ,   
Bruce Beutler, MD, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will deliver the annual Goodwin and Rose Helen Breinin Lecture in Basic Sciences at Emory University. The lecture, entitled “Forward genetic analysis of immunity,” will take place Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 at 4 p.m. in the Woodruff Health ...

School of Medicine researcher receives $2.7 million grant to study telehealth

Posted On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 By . Under SOUTH CAROLINA  Tags: , , ,   
September 25, 2012 Meera Narasimhan, M.D., vice dean for innovative health care technologies and professor and chair of the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, has been awarded a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study telehealth ...

Darling named director of MSU Early Childhood Institute

Posted On Saturday, September 22, 2012 By . Under MISSISSIPPI  Tags: , ,   
Lynn Darling September 21, 2012 STARKVILLE, Miss.--Lynn Darling brings a wealth of knowledge and experience as the new director of Mississippi State's Early Childhood Institute. Interim director since 2011, she has worked for the ECI in different capacities for the past decade, including teaching, curriculum writing and coordinating training. This varied background in ...

IPHONE Attachment Designed For At-Home Diagnoses Of Ear Infections

Posted On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 By . Under GEORGIA  Tags: , , , , ,   
September 18, 2012 A new pediatric medical device being developed by Georgia Tech and Emory University could make life easier for every parent who has rushed to the doctor with a child screaming from an ear infection. Soon, parents may be able to skip the doctor’s visit and receive a diagnosis without ...