Managing the Ups and Downs

With GlucoSense, alumni are creating a single tool to help diabetes patients wrangle data to better manage their health.

A Magician for Furniture

Jane Ivanova came to Tech to build her technical skills. She left with the entrepreneurial tools to build a startup she hopes will simplify interior design.

Cancer Fighters

Engineers are rewiring cells and creating new tools to improve cancer therapies and catch the disease earlier.

Keeping People First

Alumna Parika “Pinky” Petaipimol is inspired to persevere by people she’ll never meet.

Bulletin Board Material

A scrap of paper changed the life of two-time cancer survivor Josh Vose, leading him away from the operating room and into the field of medical devices.

Air Autonomy

AE Professor Karen Feigh is looking to the skies for the future of AI and health.

Think Big and Be Bold

25 years after creating a powerhouse program between a public and private university, Georgia Tech and Emory’s biomedical engineering department looks ahead to its next chapter.

FDA Approved

Several alumni and faculty members have received FDA approval for devices and procedures in recent years ­— and are preparing to do it again.

10 Questions with Manu Platt

Manu Platt, Ph.D. BME 2006, was a member of the second class of Ph.D. students in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and eventually returned to the faculty for more than a decade. In 2023, Platt was named founding director of the new Center for Biomedical Engineering Technology Acceleration (BETA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Industry Secrets

For these five engineering faculty, time spent in the private sector proved to be invaluable

A New Strategy to Fight Cancer

Johnny Blazeck’s research at the intersection of immunology, engineering and metabolism is creating novel therapies to help cancer patients in the fight of their lives

 

Solving the World’s Growing Problem

Marta Hatzell’s research on global sustainability in the fields of food, water and energy seeks to solve the world’s hunger problem through environmentally sustainable fertilizer