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).

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As the COVID-19 pandemic creates unprecedented challenges and takes an enormous toll on our healthcare system, engineers across the College of Engineering are heeding the call to put their skills to the test. Our researchers are creating personal protective equipment (PPE), respirator parts, ventilators and more. Here are just a few stories of what the College is doing to fight COVID-19.