$1.5M Grant Funds Research Aimed at Reducing Strokes in Children with Sickle Cell Disease
A researcher from the Georgia Tech and Emory University biomedical engineering department has received a $1.5 million NIH Director's New Innovator Award to support a project aimed at reducing the incidence of stroke in children with sickle cell disease. Manu Platt, an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and co-investigator on an ACTSI pilot award, will use the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to develop models for identifying which children with the disease are at risk for stroke. Read more...