Research

  • Surfen Cells close up

    Published ahead of print in the FASEB Journal, the study is the first known use of surfen as an application to treat GBM. To test the approach, the research team…

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  • WUGA logo

    Franklin West and Qun Zhao join the program to discuss their work with WUGA Chris Shupe.

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  • fishes

    Leidong Mao, developed microfluidic devices used to examine cells at different scales. The UGA team developed a different scale of measurement, using as many as four different devices…

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  • RBC Community Outreach

    Students at Stemapalooza

    UGA RBC graduate students Samantha Spellicy, Kelly Scheulin and Ty Scott Maughon were invited by the event’s coordinator, Sally Creel, after she heard about the RBC Poster Drive spearheaded by Spellicy …

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  • Pig Brain Scan

    RBC collaborators, Franklin West and Qun Zhao can now model a 360-degree view of which parts of the brain are no longer talking to each other and which centers in the brain are being reactivated and reconnected. The similarities of functional networks, as published in the journal Brain Connectivity, set the stage for targeted clinical…

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  • Great commitments UGA

    Steven Stice, GRA Eminent Scholar of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Georgia, believes one solution to combat the cost of chronic disease is producing cell-based therapies—products designed to cure and promote self healing—in much larger quantities and more consistent quality ….

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  • Professor and Pioneer

    Franklin West at the lab

    The Journal of Neurotrauma, the authoritative publication focused on neurodegenerative disease research linked to brain trauma, featured West’s work on the development of a translational model for the largest population of TBI victims: children up to four years old….

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  • woman with horse

    The lack of therapeutic intervention has been a longstanding frustration for those who study concussions and other traumatic brain injuries. Now some Georgia researchers may be making headway in addressing the issue…

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  • Students and staff in lab

    Such treatments could be highly beneficial, for example, to veterans. Many veterans suffer from TBIs incurred through shock waves from explosions, with no physical focal point of injury…

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  • cmat cell

    “Everything we do centers on bringing together the educational and biomedical community to accelerate workforce training initiatives statewide and beyond,”…

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