Latest News
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Congratulations to the Spring 2019 Warshaw Fellow and Buchter Resident Research Awardees!
June 18, 2019Congratulations to the fellows and residents whose research projects were selected for funding during the third award cycle for the Fellow and Resident Research Fund (newly named the Warshaw Fellow Research Award and Buchter Resident Research Award).
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2019 Fellows Research Competition
June 12, 2019Top 5 abstracts invited to present on Fellow Research Competition Day May, 14 and winners announced on June 11, 2019
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2019 Southeastern Pediatric Research Conference Poster Award Winners
June 11, 2019Congratulations to our 2019 Southeastern Pediatric Research Conference Poster Award Winners!
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NIH selects biomedical engineer/hematologist for Emerging Investigator Award & $5 million grant
May 03, 2019The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has chosen Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD, to receive an Emerging Investigator Award, including a seven-year grant of $5 million to Emory University. The award is one of only seven NHLBI emerging investigator awards nationally this year.
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Susan Margulies Wants to Protect Your Brain
March 29, 2019Your brain is precious. And that's what drives the work of Susan Margulies. When Margulies arrived at Georgia Tech and Emory University in August 2017, our state had landed one of the world’s foremost experts in traumatic brain injury.
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Squishing blood stem cells could facilitate harvest for transplants
March 19, 2019Scientists at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Georgia Tech have found that modulating blood-forming stem cells’ stiffness could possibly facilitate mobilization procedures used for stem cell-based transplants.
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Starving leukemia cells by targeting amino acids
March 11, 2019Cancer cells consume sugar at a higher rate than healthy cells, but they’re also hungry for amino acids, the building blocks of proteins and other biomolecules. Researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University have discovered a way to exploit that hunger to selectively block the growth of leukemias. The results were published online Monday, March 11 in Nature Metabolism.
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Emory continues high rankings in NIH research funding with Pediatrics ranking 4th
March 11, 2019The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research has posted its 2018 rankings of schools and departments by NIH funding, and Emory once again scores among the nation’s most elite universities. Overall, Emory University is ranked 18th in the nation in NIH institutional funding.