{"623655":{"#nid":"623655","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chethan Pandarinath Makes the Shortlist","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChethan Pandarinath\u003C\/strong\u003E, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, has made the shortlist of finalists in the running for the top prize in the annual \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E Research Awards for Driving Global Impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPandarinath, who is also a researcher in the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech, is among the 10 early-career researchers who were recently introduced as finalists. The overall winner, and two runners up will be announced in November.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe annual award program, headed by the journal \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E in partnership with Tencent, a multinational investment firm, will focus on a different area of research each year. In 2019, the focus is on early-stage researchers that are revolutionizing mankind\u0026rsquo;s understanding of the brain, and whose work has made (or has the potential to make) a positive impact on society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe overall winner will receive a grant of $30,000, a feature profile in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E and on the award web site, and an expenses-paid invitation to speak at the 2019 Tencent WE Summit in Beijing. The runners-up receive a grant of $10,000 each and will be profiled in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E and on the award website.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on the awards program and to meet all of the finalists, go \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/collections\/ccjnyjxvmp\/about\u0022\u003Ehere.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"BME\/Petit Institute researcher a finalist Nature Research Awards for Driving Global Impact"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBME\/Petit Institute researcher a finalist Nature Research Awards for Driving Global Impact\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"BME\/Petit Institute researcher a finalist Nature Research Awards for Driving Global Impact"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2019-07-23 19:35:13","changed_gmt":"2019-07-24 12:00:23","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623654":{"id":"623654","type":"image","title":"Chethan shortlist","body":null,"created":"1563910282","gmt_created":"2019-07-23 19:31:22","changed":"1563910282","gmt_changed":"2019-07-23 19:31:22","alt":"","file":{"fid":"237535","name":"Screen Shot 2019-07-23 at 3.28.42 PM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-07-23%20at%203.28.42%20PM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-07-23%20at%203.28.42%20PM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":462001,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202019-07-23%20at%203.28.42%20PM.png?itok=gZWYB0KA"}}},"media_ids":["623654"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"},{"id":"1612","name":"BME"},{"id":"3803","name":"nature"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}