The Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University has named Ravi V. Bellamkonda as chair.
NIH Director Francis Collins recently visited Emory to discuss the importance of NIH funding, along with Georgia Congressman Jack Kingston and staff and top researchers from other Georgia universities. Collins called Georgia a "hotbed of great science and wonderful interactive research from basic to clinical."
The first human exposome-based center grant from the NIH has established the HERCULES Center (Health and Exposome Research Center: Understanding Lifetime Exposures) at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, along with partners at Georgia Tech.
Emory and the Atlanta VA Medical Center are participating in a new NIH study comparing the long-term benefits and risks of four widely used type 2 diabetes drugs in combination with the first-line drug metformin.
A new research study is using virtual reality exposure therapy to treat an incapacitating fear of flying, but with the addition of a trigger, or cue, before each cognitive behavioral therapy session to help prevent relapse.
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