Congratulations to Sofia and Elif for winning President’s Undergraduate Research Salary Awards (PURA) for Spring 2023! PURA funds student salaries to conduct undergraduate research with Georgia Tech faculty and offsets travel expenses for undergraduates to present their research at professional conferences. Read more about PURA here.
Congrats to the now-Dr. Brandon Holt, who successfully defended his thesis entitled “Activity-based molecular circuits for programmable medicine” in front of his committee, friends, and family!
Congratulations to Henry Zhao for winning an award from the Alfred H. Gibeling Family Research Fund through the Biomedical Engineering department to conduct undergraduate research!
Congratulations to Lena Gamboa for defending her Ph.D. thesis! Lena received glowing remarks from her committee after defending her thesis, titled “Programming synthetic T cell immunity against solid tumors,” on December 13, 2021. We look forward to your future success!
Dr. Kwong was among five faculty members to receive a distinguished fellowship from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering this spring. He was recognized for his “ongoing and outstanding impactful contributions […] to Coulter BME – and the biomedical engineering profession, writ large.”
Read more here.
Congratulations to Quoc Mac for defending his Ph.D. thesis! Quoc successfully defended his thesis, titled “Engineered activity sensors for predictive immune monitoring,” in front of a virtual crowd on March 9, 2021. We look forward to your future success!
Students in Dr. Gabe Kwong’s BMED 3310: Biotransport course rated him as one of the best instructors at Georgia Tech for 2020! He is among ten faculty members in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering to make Georgia Tech’s first-ever teaching honor roll.
Read more here.
Congratulations to Shreyas Dahotre for becoming the second LSI Ph.D. graduate! Shreyas successfully defended his thesis, titled “Programmable Immune Cytometry and Diagnostics,” in front of a virtual crowd on July 14, 2020. We look forward to your future success!
Congratulations to Ian Miller for being the first Ph.D. graduate from LSI! Ian successfully defended his thesis, titled “Remote control of CAR T cell therapies by thermal targeting,” in front of a virtual crowd on June 23, 2020. We look forward to your future success!
Congratulations to McKenzie, Melanie, Haley, and the rest of their team for their winning app at EGHI/GT HACK COVID-19! The team developed CAPACIT, an app that communicates current population density at businesses to potential shoppers. Users can plan their day from live updates on current capacity of public spaces through the app.
Watch their pitch video below and follow the progress of the team here.