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The Institute for Biomedical Sciences is training future generations of leading biomedical scientists and professionals through a unique approach to education that highlights the connection among science, business and law and teaches sought-after, technical skills in our advanced labs. Our world-class researchers are tackling some of the most urgent human diseases such as COVID-19, developing new vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics in research centers focused on microbial pathogenesis, translational immunology and inflammation, immunity and infection.
Breakthroughs in Georgia: Enterprising Biomedicine
In a very short time, Georgia State University has built an impressive research enterprise. It’s the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, and its scientists are unlocking new insights and answers to an array of diseases and ailments. Tens of millions of dollars in research grants flow into the institute each year, and the university is planning even more expansion.
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STOPPING A GLOBAL KILLER
FIGHTING DISEASE THREATS
While humans have encountered some deadly viruses over the centuries such as influenza, Ebola, smallpox, SARS, MERS and HIV, there are inevitably new, life-threatening diseases out there waiting to emerge. Experts have agreed that it wasn’t a question of if – but when – another lethal infectious agent would occur and speculated if the world would be ready to fight it. Sadly, the answer is no.
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Summer Research Internship Opens New Career Paths
Khayla McClinton, a master’s student in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, spent her summer at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in San Francisco, participating in projects related to data science, biomedical research and biomedical engineering.read more ❯
Biomedical Sciences Researcher Gets $270,000 Grant to Study Environmental Influences on Gut Microbiota, Immunity and Inflammation
Michal Kuczma, a research assistant professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, has received a Career Development Award from the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation to study environmental influences on gut microbiota, immunity and inflammation.read more ❯
Biomedical Sciences Researcher Gets Two NIH Grants Totaling $816,534 to Study Coronaviruses
Professor Christopher Basler has received two grants from the National Institutes of Health to study two coronaviruses that cause human disease: Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus and SARS-CoV-2.read more ❯