| 3/16/11 Our streak continues! Abby Hill wins the BME department Best Undergraduate Research award. She will receive a $250 prize, well-deserved for her many dedicated hours with the lab over the past two years!
 3/15/11Catherine Rivet is named the winner of the 2011 IBB Suddath Student Award, one of the highest honors for a graduate student in the biosciences/bioengineering at Georgia Tech. She will receive $1500 for research and travel and will deliver a special seminar next spring on her work. Congratulations!
 3/2/11We have a press release on our paper this month in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics.
 2/27/11Melissa Kemp is awarded the Georgia Tech Undergraduate Research Mentor award among junior faculty across the university.
 1/6/11Catherine Rivet's and Abby Hill's manuscript "Predicting cytotoxic T cell age from multivariate analysis of static and dynamic biomarkers" has been accepted to Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. You can check it out here.
 12/10/10Phillip Lee is awarded the runner-up prize (and $250) at the annual Georgia Tech Bioinformatics poster session.
 11/11/10 Willa Ni and Debika Mitra have received the President's Undergraduate Research Award for the Spring 2011 semester!
 8/18/10Phillip Lee has been awarded a Computational Biology Faculty Graduate Research Assistantship by the Department of Biology.
 8/13/10 Ailia Gardezi has been selected to participate in the 2010-11 Graduate Leadership Program. She will be traveling to a weekend retreat at Callaway Gardens this month as part of the program.
 8/2/2010Katie Brasuk and Abby Hill have both received President's Undergraduate Research Award for the Fall 2010 semester.
 5/3/10Melissa Kemp has been selected to receive the Council for Systems Biology in Boston (CSB2) Prize for Innovative Measurement Methods. As this year’s recipient, she will deliver a plenary talk at the Conference on Systems Biology of Human Disease (June 13-15) at Harvard Medical School.
 4/22/10Phillip Lee has been awarded a Computational Biology Faculty Graduate Research Assistantship by the Department of Biology. This award is designed for Bioinformatics master's students to conduct research during the summer term.
 4/15/10Ted Chen is awarded a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship. He will be enrolling in the Bioengineering Ph.D. program at University of Washington in the fall to study biomaterials and tissue engineering. Congratulations, Ted!
 3/3/10Ted Chen is selected by the College of Engineering as a winner of the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! This award comes with a $250 cash prize. Ted will be honored at a reception following the Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium on 3/16.
 2/23/10The NSF Science and Technology Center "Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems" between MIT, UIUC, and Georgia Tech, has been funded for 5 years and 25 million dollars. Here are links to the press releases:
 http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=53825
 http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/001897654-nsf-grant.html
 The Kemp lab will be involved in developing the enabling computational modeling technologies needed to design and assemble complex multicellular biological machines.
 2/4/10Nnenna Adimora's manuscript "A model of redox kinetics implicates the thiol proteome in cellular hydrogen peroxide responses" has been accepted to Antioxidants & Redox Signaling. You can check it out here.
 1/18/10Katie Brasuk and Debika Mitra received President's Undergraduate Research Award for the Spring 2010 semester. Congratulations to both of you!
 
 11/21/09Dr. Don-Ricardo Miller is awarded a Young Investigator award at the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine's 2009 meeting!
 10/23/09Willa Ni is accepted into the prestigious Undergraduate Research Scholar program run by IBB. This is the second year in a row that we have an award winner with a full year of sponsored undergraduate research and a $3000 summer stipend. Congratulations, Willa!
 10/15/09 Don-Ricardo Miller's abstract is accepted to the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine annual meeting, to be held in San Francisco Nov. 18-22.
 9/22/09Melissa Kemp is honored with a NIH Director’s New Innovator Award!
 Press release information:
 http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/newsbriefs.html?c=203
 http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/newinnovator/Recipients09.asp
 8/20/09Abby Hill's poster abstract, titled "Quantification of Senescence in Cultured Primary T Cells", was accepted for the fall meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Congratulations!
 8/9/09Gaurav Dwivedi presents his poster "Redox regulation of phosphatases as a mechanism for activating the MAPK cascade" at the Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering biannual symposium, held in Denver, CO.
 2/9/09 Dr. Don-Ricardo Miller joins the group as a postdoc, advised jointly with Christine Payne. Don will be working on cellular imaging of protein movement during oxidative stress
 1/7/09 Catherine Rivet successfully completes her qualifying exam in the Bioengineering Ph.D. program. Great job, Catherine!
 11/25/08 Ted Chen receives a President's Undergraduate Research Award for the Spring 2009 semester. This is his second year in a row to receive this competitive honor.
 
 11/13/08 Catherine Rivet successfully defends her M.S. thesis "Study of early signaling events in T cell activation enabled through a modular and multi-time point microfluidic device". She's the first to get a degree awarded from research in the lab!
 
 10/23/08 Abby Hill is designated an Undergraduate Research Scholar in IBB. This award is for a full year of undergraduate research and a $4000 summer stipend. Congratulations, Abby!
 
 9/5/08 Ted Chen receives a PURA travel award to participate in the BMES annual meeting.
 
 9/1/08 Our grant on microfluidic devices for assessing T cell functionality (Hang Lu, Melissa Kemp co-PI's) is awarded by the National Cancer Institute's Innovative Technologies for Molecular Analysis of Cancer Progam.
 
 7/30/08 Congratulations to John Vaughns for his Fall 2008 President's Undergraduate Research Award!
 
 6/27/08 Melissa Kemp and Hang Lu receive pilot funding from the Integrative BioSystems Institute
 
 4/1/08 Nnenna Adimora is awarded a NSF Graduate Fellowship!
 
 11/15/07 Congratulations to Karen Shih for her Spring 2007 President's Undergraduate Research Award!
 
 10/31/07 Melissa Kemp is named a Distinguished Cancer Scholar by the Georgia Cancer Coalition
 
 6/25/07 Congratulations to Ted Chen for his Fall 2007 President's Undergraduate Research Award!
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