{"667717":{"#nid":"667717","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Multi-Institutional Team Wins $1 Million NSF Engines Development Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of researchers from Georgia Tech, Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, University of Georgia, the Center for Global Health Innovation, and the Technical College System of Georgia has been awarded $1 million over the course of two years from the U.S. National Science Foundation\u0027s Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program. They are among the more than 40 unique teams to receive one of the first-ever NSF Engines Development Awards, which aim to help partners collaborate to create economic, societal, and technological opportunities for their regions. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team, \u201cAdvancing Health Equity and\u202fDiagnostic Technologies (GA)\u202fDevelopment,\u201d will use the award to support key\u202finstitutional, corporate, government,\u202feducation, and community partners to\u202fcreate an innovative ecosystem that will\u202finspire,\u202fdevelop, and translate affordable\u202fand widely available point-of-care (POC)\u202fmedical technologies to advance health\u202fequity throughout the southeast.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Southeastern U.S. has the lowest life expectancy in the nation, and there are significant health disparities along economic, educational, racial, and geographic divisions,\u201d said Wilbur Lam, Georgia Tech professor, principal investigator, and innovation lead. \u201cThe team will work to build an ecosystem of partners to drive use-inspired research and technology translation in the area of POC diagnostics and wearables with strong community engagement to help address these areas and advance health equity.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NSF Engines program is a transformational investment for the nation, ensuring the U.S. remains in the vanguard of competitiveness for decades to come.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These NSF Engines Development Awards lay the foundation for emerging hubs of innovation and potential future NSF Engines,\u0022 said NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan. \u0022These awardees are part of the fabric of NSF\u0027s vision to create opportunities everywhere and enable innovation anywhere. They will build robust regional partnerships rooted in scientific and technological innovation in every part of our nation. Through these planning awards, NSF is seeding the future for in-place innovation in communities and to grow their regional economies through research and partnerships. This will unleash ideas, talent, pathways and resources to create vibrant innovation ecosystems all across our nation.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELed by Lam, the team aims to build an ecosystem to drive use-inspired research and technology\u202ftranslation for health equity and leverage relationships with\u202funderserved Georgia communities to\u202finspire a technology roadmap and\u202fadopt new technologies.\u200b An annual event and comprehensive roadmap will drive sustainable technology\u202ftranslation, workforce development, and systemic education.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe awardees span a broad range of states and regions, reaching geographic areas that have not fully benefited from the technology boom of the past decades. These NSF Engines Development Awards will help organizations create connections and develop their local innovation ecosystems within two years to prepare strong proposals for becoming future NSF Engines, which will each have the opportunity to receive up to $160 million.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELaunched by NSF\u0027s new Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships and authorized by the \u0022CHIPS and Science Act of 2022,\u0022 the NSF Engines program uniquely harnesses the nation\u0027s science and technology research and development enterprise and regional-level resources. NSF Engines aspire to catalyze robust partnerships to positively impact regional economies, accelerate technology development, address societal challenges, advance national competitiveness and create local, high-wage jobs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EView a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/new.nsf.gov\/funding\/initiatives\/regional-innovation-engines\/portfolio\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Emap of the NSF Engines Development Awards\u003C\/a\u003E. More information can be found on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/beta.nsf.gov\/funding\/initiatives\/regional-innovation-engines\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENSF Engines program website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENSF MEDIA REQUESTS: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:media@nsf.gov\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Emedia@nsf.gov\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGEORGIA TECH MEDIA REQUESTS: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:georgia.parmelee@gatech.edu\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Egeorgia.parmelee@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearch team to improve healthcare for a demographically and geographically diverse state and region\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Research team to improve healthcare for a demographically and geographically diverse state and region"}],"uid":"34760","created_gmt":"2023-05-11 14:53:47","changed_gmt":"2023-05-11 15:11:54","author":"Laurie Haigh","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670785":{"id":"670785","type":"image","title":"NSF Engines Type 1 Development Award","body":null,"created":"1683816032","gmt_created":"2023-05-11 14:40:32","changed":"1683816803","gmt_changed":"2023-05-11 14:53:23","alt":"NSF Engines Development Award Graphic","file":{"fid":"253713","name":"NSF_Engines_Awardee_Graphic_Social_Media.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/11\/NSF_Engines_Awardee_Graphic_Social_Media.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/05\/11\/NSF_Engines_Awardee_Graphic_Social_Media.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1148264,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/05\/11\/NSF_Engines_Awardee_Graphic_Social_Media.jpg?itok=OohYID9i"}}},"media_ids":["670785"],"groups":[{"id":"197261","name":"Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"categories":[{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187433","name":"go-ien"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["Georgia.parmelee@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}