Research Centers
Research is the key to maintaining competitiveness, and Georgia gives you access to the best research facilities available to accelerate the transformation of ideas into profitable business.
Georgia’s research laboratories and equipment range from large, multi-user, multipurpose centers to highly specialized laboratories and equipment. Many provide the sophisticated infrastructure essential for making the laboratory discoveries that lead to new technologies. These technologies become the basis for the creation of new companies and assist existing companies in developing new products and new markets.
These Georgia-supported laboratories and equipment, which are accessible to both university and industry researchers, cover a broad array of research and development needs. Among them are vaccine development, wireless systems, tissue engineering, digital filmmaking and NMR spectroscopy.
The Emory Vaccine Center, with its 40 affiliated faculty, is dedicated to creating new technologies to prevent emerging infectious diseases and to making Emory University and Georgia a leader in vaccine research and development. Each year the Center brings in $15 to $20 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. It also works closely with the pharmaceutical industry to conduct vaccine clinical trials and has launched a start-up company to manufacture and market vaccines developed at the Center.
The Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia was developed to promote interdisciplinary research in genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics. The Center provides sophisticated facilities for microarray analysis, proteomics and computational technologies. The Center focuses its current research on autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes. It has also established a cancer genomics and proteomics program.
The Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design was established at Georgia State University in 1994 to encourage collaboration between the biotechnology industry and the university. The Center comprises of 45 faculty members from the Departments of Biology, Chemistry and Psychology and has the goals of:
- Developing strong faculty research programs
- Training top-flight graduate students
- Attracting biotechnology business to Georgia
- Coordinating academic and industrial cooperation
The Center focuses on vaccines and diagnostics, applied genomics, bioinformatics, neuropharmacology, and drug design and synthesis.
The Research Center at Clark Atlanta University facilitates interdisciplinary and collaborative research with national and federal laboratories, other universities and industry. The Center encompasses nearly 20 major components including the Army Center of Excellence in Electronic Sensors and Combat; the Center for Environmental Policy, Education and Research; the Center for the Theoretical Study of Physical Systems; the Biomedical Research and Training Program; and the High Performance Polymers and Composites Center.
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