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Atlanta, GA | Posted: October 13, 2011
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Helping Children: FDA Grant Launches Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium
Barbara Boyan, Ph.D. Director of the new FDA Altanta Pediatric Device ConsortiumThe Boyan & Schwartz's Laboratory's very own,Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D., is the Director of the new Atlanta Pediatric Device Consortium, created with support from the FDA with a two-year, $1.8 million grant awarded to foster the development of medical devices focused on the special needs of Children.
The consortium will provide assistance with engineering design, prototype development, pre-clinical and clinical studies and commercialization for novel pediatric medical devices.
Technologies are already underway to be investigated and include:
Consortium Leadership
Barbara D. Boyan Ph.D., Director
Kevin Maher, a cardiologist and researcher at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta SIbley Heart Center and Emory University will co-direct along with WIlbur Lam, pediatric hematologists/oncologist and bioengineer at Emory, the Aflac Cancer Center of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Georgia tech.
Additional Leadership roles by Franklin Bost, professor of the practice and director of design instruction in the Coulter Department here at Georgia Tech and David Ku, Regents professor, Georgia Tech School of Mechanical Engineering and College of Management, Emory's Department of Surgery; and Nicholas Chronos, president of SJTRI.
To read the full article on Georgia Tech Research News click here
