RESEARCH FACILITIES
Georgia Research Alliance (GRA)
GRA Centers of Research Excellence foster multi-university collaborations that drive the development of breakthrough technologies.
Bioscience Incubators
The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), a technology business incubator at Georgia Tech, provides strategic business advice and access to experts to help its members build and launch successful companies.
CollabTech at Georgia State University provides new bioscience companies with sophisticated equipment and access to scientific expertise.
Georgia BioBusiness Center and the Center for Applied Genetic Technologies (CAGiT) at the University of Georgia house several companies and facilitate collaboration and access to research and technology at UGA.
Emtech Bio, a commercial research and development center formed by Georgia Tech, Emory University, the GRA and the ATDC generates breakthroughs for companies focusing on genomatics, informatics, drug discovery and vaccine development.
The Lifescience Innovation Center (LSIC) is a joint program of the State of Georgia and the Bioscience Business Development Center at the Medical College of Georgia.
Additional Research Facilities
American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society (ACS), based in Atlanta, has an often over-looked, yet very remarkable, research program composed of two main umbrellas: the extramural grants and the components of epidemiology and surveillance research:
Behavioral Research Center (BRC)
Statistics and Evaluation Center
The ACS Epidemiology and Surveillance Research Program was established to collect information regarding trends in cancer incidence, mortality, and survival and examining cancer risk factors in the general population in the United States for the past 60 years.
United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture has many distinct areas and a number of branches, including the Agricultural Research Service in Athens.
This location consists of 4 sites:
Richard B. Russell Agricultural Research Center
Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory
Animal Physiology Research Unit
J. Phil Campbell Sr. Natural Resource Conservation Center
There are 10 research management units with 29 current research information system (CRIS) projects.