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The BBUGS Research Committee presents:

“Translating Your Research: IRB Approval and Clinical Trials”

Where: Suddath Seminar Room (IBB 1128)
When: Monday, 30th November 2009, 11am-12pm

From the Georgia Tech Office of Research Compliance:
Barbara Henry – Director
Melanie Clark – Compliance Officer
Kelly Winn – Compliance Officer

Michelle LaPlaca – Assoc. Professor, BME; Advisory Board, Zenda Technologies
Erin Spinner – Graduate Research Assistant, Yoganathan Lab
Jessica O’Neal – Graduate Research Assistant, Guldberg Lab

How do you implement clinical studies or use human tissues for graduate research? Or if you commercialize your technology, how do you deal with clinical trials in a start-up company? To answer these questions, we will have  panelists from the Office of Research Compliance explain IRB policies and submission procedures for  human subject research protocols at Georgia Tech. Current graduate students who have submitted IRB protocols and implemented clinical trials for their research will also share their experiences . For a comprehensive overview of the translational process, Dr LaPlaca will provide the start-up perspective by speaking about clinical studies for Zenda Technologies. This will be an informal and interactive session, so please feel free to come with questions. Food and drinks will be served.

We hope to see you there!

Your BBUGS Research Committee Chairs,
Asha and Chi-Chi

Conversations with Clinicians Series

The conversation series aims to promote informal dialogue between bioengineering graduate students/faculty and clinician-scientists, with three end goals in mind:

1. To expose researchers to the outstanding medical challenges that could be addressed with technological and scientific innovation
2. For researchers to understand the process of translating research and technologies into clinical solutions
3. For researchers to discuss their current work with physicians to obtain feedback on the clinical feasibility of their ideas.

These events are held in an informal discussion format in which the clinician will give a 30 minute presentation on their own research, as well as current state-of-the-art technologies and remaining challenges within their field of clinical expertise. The presentation will also address common barriers to translating research and how these obstacles can be overcome. This will be followed by a 30 minute dialogue in which the attendees will ask questions about their research or about the earlier presentation. Food will be provided at these events.

Technique Symposium
Summer 2010
This three-day event will feature short seminars (30-45 min) and in-lab demonstrations (1-3 hrs) of different experimental techniques used around campus taught by graduate students, staff, and corporate representatives.  Courses range from traditional to cutting edge techniques and include topics such as Western Blotting, table top SEM, and Fast PCR.   For more information, visit last year’s page at http://www.techniquesymposium.bbugs.gatech.edu.

Upcoming Events

If you want to help with BBUGS Research Committee events, please contact the Research Co-Chairs: Asha Shekaran (ashashekaran@gatech.edu) and Chi-Chi Esimai (cesimai@gatech.edu).

Thanks to everyone who attended courses yesterday!

We still have some openings for today so stop by the registration table and sign up.

Don’t miss out on any of the exciting seminars today.

Open seminars in the Suddath room include:
-real time label-free cell monitoring by Roche
-Journey to center of the Cell: organelle tagging and cell proliferation assays by Invitrogen
-30 minute Western blotting technology by Millipore
-an introduction to biostatistics by Dr. Teresa Snow
-introduction to microfabrication
-ELISA

Visit our website  http://www.techniquesymposium.bbugs.gatech.edu/ for more information.