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Elliot Moore, professor at Georgia Tech, was named one of the top young scientists in the nation with the Presidential Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award.
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Elliot Moore, professor at Georgia Tech, was named one of the top young scientists in the nation with the Presidential Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award.Resident researcher and professor Kerry Ressler, at Yerkes Primate Research University, part of Emory University, named one of only 15 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators in 2007.Resident researcher and professor Dennis Liotta, along with colleagues Ray Schinazi and Woo-Baeg Choi, all of Emory University, discovered a breakthrough HIV drug, Emtriva, and sold it to Gilead Sciences for $525 million.The joint Georgia Tech-Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering ranked 2nd best in the country in a recent U.S. News & World Reports Survey.Georgia Tech-Emory Nanomedicine center attracted over $40 million in funding to the state from three NIH nanomedicine development center grants, the only biomedical engineering department to have three of these highly competitive grants.Emory Vaccine Center, of Emory University in Atlanta, brings in $15 to $20 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding annually.Emory Vaccine Center, of Emory University, has launched a start-up company to manufacture and market vaccines developed at the Center.In 2004, Georgia Tech graduated the nation’s first and only class with a two-year master’s degree in prosthetics and orthotics.The Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) brings together Georgia’s research universities, business community, and state government to create opportunities to grow Georgia’s economy through scientific discovery.Georgia Bio, the life sciences partnership  represents the interests of companies, universities, research institutions, government groups, and other industry associations involved in the discovery and application of life sciences products and related services.The Georgia Cancer Coalition leads the state’s effective use of resources to improve cancer prevention, early detection, and screening.The Georgia Intellectual Capital Partnership Program (ICAPP) works with companies to create customized, accelerated curricula at Georgia’s 70 public colleges and universities.The University of Georgia is home to the world’s first and only free-standing school of ecology.Georgia’s Biosciences Seed Fund has invested over $3.6 million in state funds to attract a total of $140 million in private equity  a 30-to-1 leverage.
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