{"144931":{"#nid":"144931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Third Class of Stem Cell Biomanufacturing IGERT Trainees Selected","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program in Stem Cell Biomanufacturing announced its third class of Ph.D. student trainees. The five new graduate students come from a wide variety of disciplines including the School of Chemical and Biomolecular \u0026nbsp;Engineering, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis grant provides a unique training opportunity for top engineering graduate students looking to understand how to control stem cells into clinically relevant numbers,\u201d stated Todd McDevitt, PhD.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMcDevitt, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering is co-directing the IGERT program with Robert M. Nerem, professor emeritus of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. \u0026nbsp;McDevitt is also director of the Stem Cell Engineering Center which administers this award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently highlighted by Nature magazine as one of the \u201cout of the box\u201d manufacturing educational programs in the country, the $3 million NSF-funded IGERT was awarded to Georgia Tech in 2010 to educate and train the first generation of Ph.D. students in the translation and commercialization of stem cell technologies for diagnostic and therapeutic applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Stem Cell Biomanufacturing IGERT program supports new incoming Georgia Tech Ph.D. students for their first two years of graduate school. 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