Emory professors Dennis Liotta and Raymond Schinazi and former postdoctoral research associate Woo-Baeg Choi developed key HIV antiretroviral medications that helped transform HIV from a fatal disease to a manageable condition, saving millions of lives worldwide.
Emory researcher Michael Woodworth advances new proof of concept study in long term fight against multidrug-resistant organisms
The Emory BioFoundry Institute is designed to empower Emory researchers and encourage investment in order to transform groundbreaking ideas into real-world solutions that improve patient care and public health.
Emory researchers play a critical role in evaluating new medical devices for NIH intended to help women with newborns in areas lacking maternal health resources.
A new training program through the Biological Discovery through Chemical Innovation initiative offers a highly interdisciplinary approach for predoctoral students to become drug discovery scientists.
Dozens of Atlanta-area high school students shadowed Emory researchers and genetic counselors during the five-week program organized by the Department of Human Genetics. The program aims to diversify biomedical career paths through hands-on research exposure.
Q & A with Anant Madabhushi, director of the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute.
Biomedical graduate students who joined Emory's Biotech Consulting Club met recently to eat, drink, network and swap strategies for exploring careers in the biotechnology business.
Wilbur Lam, Susan S. Margulies and Cassandra Quave have been named to the National Academy of Inventors’ 2023 class of Fellows. Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.
Emory scientists have developed technology with the potential to better assess the effects of antiplatelet drugs on individuals and to gain a clearer picture of bleeding risks for patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery.
Emory's inaugural AI.Health Symposium, hosted by the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute, included sessions on AI's clinical potential and breakthrough innovations, as well as issues of ethics, bias and privacy.
For PhD students and postdoctoral fellows working in professor Philip Santangelo’s lab, as well as undergraduates invited to join the audience, Jill Biden’s campus visit proved to be an inspiring, “once-in-a-lifetime” moment.
New research led by Hanjoong Jo, a professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at Emory, looks at how better understanding the complex dynamics of blood flow may help treat some heart disease.
First lady Jill Biden toured the lab of Emory professor Philip Santangelo, the first recipient of funding from a new federal agency supporting the Biden Cancer Moonshot, and discussed his groundbreaking research to train the immune system to treat and cure cancers and other diseases.
Emory leads biomedical research into a new era through an NIH center to advance technology for cellular mechanics, developed in the lab of chemist Khalid Salaita.
President Joe Biden announced that a new federal agency has selected Emory to receive $24.8 million in funding to drive the development of a cutting-edge approach to prevent, treat and potentially cure diseases such as cancer, autoimmune disorders and viral infections.
Emory biophysicists have gained a new insight about the dynamics of cellular movement, which is key to processes ranging from stem-cell differentiation and wound healing to the development of diseases such as cancer.
Emory’s Next Gen biomedical research internship provides hands-on research experience and works to diversify STEM fields. This year’s program expanded to host more students and offer more lab placements.
Chemist Khalid Salaita received the 2023 Merck Future Insight Prize. The award comes with $540,000 to fund the next phase of his lab’s research into an air sensor that can continuously monitor indoor spaces for pathogens that can cause pandemics.
The Center for Advanced Motor BioEngineering and Research will make cutting-edge biosensors, disseminate them to neuroscientists and provide training for using the biosensors to explore a range of research questions.
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has awarded a $2.46 million grant to Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers to develop a multi-sensor biopatch for farmworkers that can predict symptoms of heat-related illness, dehydration, and acute kidney injury.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
A dozen high school students spent five weeks of their summer shadowing Emory researchers and genetic counselors, getting hands-on experience related to areas of personal interest.
Alyssa Panitch, Edward Teller Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, has been selected as the new chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Adults and children showing symptoms of COVID-19 can participate in a study helping to test COVID-19 tests. To be eligible, individuals must have symptoms and not have been tested for the virus during their current course of illness.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
To learn how to make an artificial heart, Harvard and Emory/Georgia Tech researchers have made artificial fish.
Hanjoong Jo, distinguished faculty chair in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected as an AAAS Fellow, one of the highest distinctions in the scientific community, for his contributions to atherosclerosis research.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Emory researcher Chethan Pandarinath is using artificial intelligence to build brain-machine interfaces to assist people with paralysis, specifically those with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. The NIH award will support a clinical trial launching this fall.
The National Institutes of Health has announced a New Innovator Award for Emory researcher Candace Fleischer, who plans to use magnetic resonance imaging in new ways to study metabolic disease.
Though their main campuses are located less than six miles apart, Emory University and Georgia Tech have combined forces and complementary strengths to make Atlanta — and the world — a better place.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Biomedical engineering assistant professor Cassie Mitchell has earned World Championship medals, world titles and world records. She’s won silver and bronze Paralympic medals. Now she’s in Tokyo on a quest for Paralympic gold.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Here’s a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Here’s a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have received a landmark commitment to accelerate the scope and impact of Parkinson’s disease studies and to position Georgia as a hub for collaborative research on this and other neurological diseases.
Emory and Georgia Tech are participating in the largest exercise research program of its kind as both join institutions across the country to collect and turn data from nearly 2,600 volunteers into comprehensive maps of the molecular changes in the body due to exercise.
More than 100 student teams competed to hack pandemic problems. Among the winners: Emory student Alexandra Tuttle and her sister McKenzie, a student at Georgia Tech, and their teammates proposed an app to help businesses operate under COVID-19.
Through a technique known as DNA origami, Emory scientists have created the fastest, most persistent DNA nano motor yet, providing a blueprint for how to optimize the design of motors at the nanoscale — hundreds of times smaller than the typical human cell.
Emory has advanced to the second round of STAT Madness, the bracket competition for biomedical research. Vote for Emory's 2020 entry, detecting Alzheimer's and mild cognitive impairment using eye tracking.
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory and Georgia Tech will share in a $5.7 million Innovation Fund aimed at identifying new functional cures for children born with single ventricle heart defects, a rare but incurable condition.
Just as the steam engine set the stage for the Industrial Revolution, nanoscale devices made from DNA are opening up a new era in bio-medical research and materials science. Emory chemists Khalid Salaita and Aaron Blanchard are working at the forefront of DNA mechanotechnology.
A half-century ago, Emory immunologist Max Cooper made a discovery that forever changed our understanding of the human immune system. Now he is being honored with a prestigious Lasker Award for his joint work on the discovery that has helped save countless lives.
Sandra Garraway, PhD, Assistant Professor of Physiology at Emory University School of Medicine, is the new scientific director of the Emory Multiplex Immunoassay Core (EMIC).
Two new chairs in the basic sciences in Emory School of Medicine are the result of an effort to promote and support collaborative research among fundamental scientists across the university through the One Emory framework.
Three faculty members from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University have been accorded one of the highest professional distinctions awarded a medical and biological engineer.
Two faculty members from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University have been awarded research fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Chethan Pandarinath, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, has been awarded an Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Research Career Development Grant (IREK12) through the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
C. Michael Cassidy has been inducted into Georgia Trend magazine¿s Most Influential Hall of Fame. Cassidy, who joined Emory University last October as director of the new Emory Biomedical Catalyst, was president and CEO of the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) for 18 years before joining Emory.
2019 Bernard M. Gordon Prize Awarded to Georgia Tech and Emory University Educators
Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory (DRIVE) today announced the licensing of ATI-2173, its leading candidate for the treatment of hepatitis B virus (HBV), to Antios Therapeutics (Antios), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel antiviral therapies for unmet medical needs.
Through a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant of $7.49 million over five years, a multidisciplinary team of researchers at Emory University is working to make the routine inclusion of sex as a biological variable a scientific cultural norm in biomedical research.
Celltrion signed an "incubation" agreement with Emory University to jointly research and develop new drug candidates for atherosclerosis.
Vince Calhoun, one of the world's foremost experts in brain imaging and analysis, has been named the founding director of the Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS) at Georgia State University, an effort supported by Georgia State, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, with a focus on increasing cooperation among Atlanta brain imaging researchers.
Biomedical engineers are developing methods for decoding communications between the brain and the body's biological networks by analyzing electrical patterns in the motor control areas of the brain.
Meet three Emory students spending eight weeks in an English castle as they compete for the Hult Prize and $1 million to develop their device to help cope with climate change.
Journey deep into the pine forests of South Georgia as Emory ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave leads students in a search for secrets of ancient remedies that may benefit modern medicine.
Immunology pioneer Max Cooper and researchers in his lab are hoping that an ancient immune system can provide therapeutic insights into our own.
DNA bricks enable the self-assembly of 3D nanostructures from 10,000 unique components.
An emeritus professor finds commonality with Impressionist masters when his vision begins to fail due to cataracts. Take an in-depth look at the surgical advances that help restore his clarity.
The Association of American Medical Colleges has selected Emory University as one of six winners nationally in its 2017 research program awards, recognizing exceptional initiatives that enhance rigor and reproducibility or research sharing in biomedical research.
Established in 1985, Emory's Office of Technology Transfer has helped launch thirty-six pharmaceutical startup companies, and its licensees have developed nineteen drugs approved by the FDA, with more in development and testing.
The bio-research partnership between Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology has produced biomedical discoveries for decades, one of the most dramatic being the recent successful human clinical trial of a microneedle patch for flu vaccines.
The academic biomedical research community should improve its ability to mitigate and recover from the impacts of disasters, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have created a device that makes walking up and down stairs easier. They've built energy-recycling stairs that store a user's energy during descent and return energy to the user during ascent.
The future of academic science depends on young researchers, but only about 11 percent of PhD graduates land in tenure-track faculty positions. Laney graduate students share their complex perspectives on scientific research at universities.
Emory professor and two-time Paralympian Cassie Mitchell has been nominated as the May 2017 International Paralympic Committee Allianz athlete of the month. The public may vote daily online through June 8.
Thanks to a collaborative agreement between Emory and Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, faculty members from both schools are working together on projects ranging from cancer treatment to biomedical engineering.
Aimed at undergraduates and new graduate students, the Emory Initiative to Maximize Student Development seeks to diversify the STEM workforce through mentoring, seminars and career coaching.
New insight into flamingo posture could be applied to neurological or balance problems, better robotics, orthopedic braces, or artificial limbs, as well provide clarity to a long-standing biological question.
Susan Margulies, PhD, has been named the Wallace H. Coulter Chair of the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Injury Biomechanics.
Working from a similar breakthrough by his thesis adviser, ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave, Emory senior Matt Mendelsohn discovered two root extracts help conquer staph's defense system.
From new treatment methods for life-threatening diseases to new techniques for health education, Emory women help shape the world in which we live. In honor of Women's History Month, the Office of Technology Transfer highlights the university's female inventors.
Emory University's Office of Technology Transfer will celebrate its faculty entrepreneurs and their innovative discoveries at the 11th Annual Celebration of Technology and Innovation.
A new research report highlights a high performance brain-to-computer interface that can enable people with paralysis to type words and messages with much higher performance than has previously been demonstrated.
Emory ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave uncovered a medicinal mechanism of berries from the Brazilian peppertree. The plant is a weedy invasive species in Florida, but valued by traditional healers in the Amazon as a treatment for infections.
Georgia Bio has honored Abel De La Rosa, PhD, chief scientific officer of Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory (DRIVE) and the Emory Institute for Drug Development (EIDD) with a 2017 Community Award.
As a new research year begins, Emory's Lab Land blog offers a preview of top areas where scientists are likely to advance their work in 2017.
Researchers at Emory University and Morehouse School of Medicine are building an ambitious project to work with teen-aged and young adult minority communities in metro Atlanta to co-create an mHealth (mobile health) platform supported by mobile devices.
The Emory Center for Ethics is bringing together an interdisciplinary array of experts to engage the topic of drug pricing.
Two new grants to researchers at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology will support studies that will increase our understanding of how balance and movement are affected in people with disorders such as Parkinson's disease, stroke and dystonia.
The Collegiate Inventors Competition has selected a team of two Emory and Georgia Tech graduate students as finalists in its 2016 annual competition: Aaron Blanchard and Kevin Yehl.
As an internationally decorated athlete, research professor in biomedical engineering, and now a patient at Winship Cancer Institute, Emory alumna Cassie Mitchell refuses to let any obstacle get in the way of her goals.
Despite the hubbub about pluripotent stem cells' potential applications, when it comes time to introduce products into patients, the stem cells are actually impurities that need to be removed.
More than 130 academic and biotech industry scientists and leaders gathered at Emory University June 22-24 for the Southeastern Association of Shared Resources (SEASR) annual meeting.
Emory neurologist Charles Epstein helped refine a novel therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), to become an FDA-approved treatment for depression. In a Q&A, he explains the treatment's background and future.
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has inducted Lena Ting, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, into its College of Fellows.
The Seventh Annual Academic [amp] Industry Intersection Conference: Georgia as a Biotechnology Capital? will explore the challenges, successes and future horizons of Georgia's journey to national leadership in biotechnology.
Emory University's Office of Technology Transfer will celebrate its faculty entrepreneurs and their innovative discoveries at the 10th Annual Celebration of Technology and Innovation.
Her mother's journey with breast cancer inspired MaKendra Umstead to pursue a PhD in cancer biology. Now a fifth year student in Laney Graduate School, she focuses her research on processes that might lead to better cancer treatments.
Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory (DRIVE) and the Emory Institute for Drug Development (EIDD) have launched an effort to identify and develop antivirals to treat the infection caused by Zika virus.
Simple physics may play a larger role than previously thought in helping control key bodily processes - such as how the body fights infection.
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has awarded Emory University a $9.7M contract to develop drugs to treat infections caused by emerging and man-made viral threats.
Research leaders at Emory University and the University of Georgia recently agreed to the reciprocal use of core facilities at the two institutions. Cores are available for the use of researchers from either institution at the same rates and terms offered to internal faculty users.
John S. Lollar III, MD, and Helen S. Mayberg, MD, have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
A video starring Winship Cancer Institute researchers has won first place in the GRAND Basic Research video contest, the Association of American Medical Colleges recently announced.