Platt Lab Mission: To fuse engineering, cell biology, and physiology to understand how cells sense, respond, and remodel their immediate mechanical and biochemical environments for repair and regeneration in health and disease, then to translate that knowledge to clinics domestically and internationally to address global health disparities.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS and NEWS:

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Platt Lab Leading a team for the 33rd Annual Sickle Cell Road Race
Saturday April 14, 2012
We are looking to build a HUGE team to raise money for the Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia!
The more the merrier!

Click here to register for our team: Georgia Tech BME
or
Right-click to download registration form

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Platt Lab Dodgeball team takes on Georgia Tech undergraduates!
Team captain and coach Daniel Clough sees improvement week to week, and promises a win with new strategy. Pictures coming soon!

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Dr. Platt's recent trip to Johannesburg, Africa to test HIV blood for biomarkers of adherence to antiretroviral drug regimens featured on College of Engineering homepage.

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Congratulations to Binbin Chen and Sindhuja Surapaneni for being selected for Georgia Tech
President's Undergraduate Research Awards for Spring Semester! (Nov 2011)

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Congratulations to Dr. Platt for being 1 of 5 selected for the Keystone Symposia Fellows Program
This highly unique, research-driven, diversity-centered program educates early career scientists regarding the inner workings of the life sciences community and provides a venue for high-level interaction with established and leading scientists nationally and globally. The Fellows Program provides context, understanding and insight regarding the development of high-powered research meetings, utilizing shadowing experiences with scientist organizers and key Keystone Symposia staff members. These experiences allow for learning how the research agenda is set, how to engage in high-level discourse on research topics and how to broaden perspectives in life science research. (Nov 2011)

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New Platt Lab publication accepted into Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics!

"Manipulating substrate and pH in zymography protocols selectively distinguishes cathepsins K, L, S, and V activity in cells and tissues" Catera L. Wilder, Keon-Young Park, Philip M. Keegan, Manu O. Platt (Nov 2011)

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Welcome new faces to Platt Lab: Dr. Idy Akinsanmi, Dr. Usman Saeed, Terrance White, and Saranya Karthikeyan. Check them out on the People page

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Paintball and Annual Dinner pictures now up on the Photos page! Check them out...

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New Platt Lab publication accepted in collaboration with the Segura Lab at UCLA in Integrative Biology!

"VEGF internalization is not required for VEGFR-2 phosphorylation in bioengineered surfaces with covalently linked VEGF." Sean M. Anderson, Bhupinder Shergill, Zachary T. Barry, Eleana Manousiouthakis, Tom T. Chen, Elliot Botvinick, Manu O. Platt, M. Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Tatiana Segura (July 2011)

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New Platt Lab publication accepted into Journal of Translational Medicine!
"Multiplex Zymography Captures Stage-specific Activity Profiles of Cathepsins K, L, and S in Human Breast, Lung, and Cervical Cancer." Binbin Chen and Manu O. Platt (July 2011)

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Congratulations to Jerald Dumas for being awarded the FIRST Postdoctoral Fellowship!! (May 2011)

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Return of the Platt Lab FELLOWSHIP EXPLOSION!! Congratulations to Catera Wilder for being awarded an
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! AND a Ford Foundation Fellowship

That makes 5 out of 5 NSF Fellows for the Platt Lab. AMAZING!    (April 2011)

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Congratulations to Binbin Chen for winning SECOND PLACE from the College of Engineering at the UROP Spring Research Symposium this April! Great job Binbin. (April 2011)

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Congratulations to Dr. Platt for being chosen for the 2010 NIH Director's New Innovator Award!

Press release: Pediatric Stroke Prediction: $1.5M Grant Funds Research Aimed at
Reducing Strokes in Children with Sickle Cell Disease (Oct 2010)