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Georgia Tech Study Finds Genetic Disease Risk Is Rarely Just About Genetics

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Sini Nagpal, who recently completed her postdoctoral training at Georgia Tech and is a graduate of its Bioinformatics Ph.D. program, and her former advisor, Professor Greg Gibson of the Center for Integrative Genomics and School of Biological Sciences, have published a new study in Nature Genetics showing that a person’s genetic risk for common diseases is deeply shaped by the environmental and social circumstances in which they live.

IBB Launches New Spatial Omics and Data Analytics Center

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The SODA Center envisions a future where spatial omics is used to help researchers understand biological function through their precise spatial and temporal relationships within tissues and organs, rather than solely through molecular components.

PhD Defense by Nikesh Kumar

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Structural Variation in Adaptive Radiations: Determining the Potential Role of Large Genomic Inversions in Lake Malawi Cichlids

Target the Tumor. Spare the Body.

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Housley and his team are developing self‑assembling nanohydrogels that deliver cancer drugs only when they reach tumor‑specific conditions, aiming to reduce side effects and make treatment more precise across multiple cancer types.

Mapping Mountain Birds in a Changing World: Benjamin Freeman Awarded Sloan Fellowship For Mountain Bird Ecology Research

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The fellowship is one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early-career scholars.

Yellow Jacket Connection Sparks Glaucoma Research Fund at Tech

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When Postdoctoral Research Fellow Hannah Youngblood’s work on exfoliation glaucoma (XFG) was featured by the BrightFocus Foundation, it caught the attention of Jennifer Rucker, an Alabama resident who was diagnosed with XFG several years ago.

Georgia Tech Researchers Make Waves at the World’s Largest Neuroscience Conference

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With more than 60 presentations and recognition for neuroscience outreach and AI research, Georgia Tech demonstrated its growing impact at the 2025 Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting.

PhD Defense by Bridget Neary

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Biological Insights from Predictors of Drug Response in Cancer Patients

Georgia Tech Ranked No. 7 Globally in Interdisciplinary Science Rankings

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Georgia Tech has been ranked 7th in the world in the 2026 Times Higher Education Interdisciplinary Science Rankings

A 30-Year “Snapshot” of Pacific Northwestern Birds Shows Their Surprising Resilience

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After discovering a historic bird survey in the Pacific Northwest, Georgia Tech’s Ben Freeman located the original sites, repeating the surveys three decades later.