Manu Platt, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received a 1.5 million dollar grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to develop models for identifying which children with the sickle cell anemia are at risk for stroke.  For more information, visit the original article here. 

Manu Platt

Dr. Platt received a B.S. in biology from Morehouse College in 2001 and continued on to receive his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006.  Dr. Platt then served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2006-2008 before returning to Georgia Tech.  Dr. Platt's research focuses on tissue remodeling in regenerative medicine and microenvironmental cues modulating stem cell signaling networks. 

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