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Guo-Wei Wei and Francisco Fernandez-Lima named GRA Eminent Scholars at UGA
- GRA Scholar Jeff Skolnick to lead new AI-driven health research center
- Micron Biomedical lands $4.5M contract to develop nuclear threat countermeasure
- BedDot device gets FDA clearance
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Prominent Georgia Tech researchers Shimeng Yu and Andres Garcia named GRA Senior Fellows
- Stellar Scale Nano Fabrication raises $2M in pre-seed round from angels, institutional investors
- GRA Distinguished Investigator Debra Bangasser explores the mysteries of neuroscience
- To Market: Treatment for pneumonia (startup Pneuomotactix) and a stress test for cybersecurity products (MalwareLab)
- and 3 more
Engineers of Innovation
Andrés García and Shimeng Yu join the GRA Academy as Senior Fellows
Georgia Southern, Kennesaw State become newest members of GRA
- Micron Biomedical opens manufacturing facility in Georgia
- Farming, optimized: UGA startup Harvest Capture demonstrates tech
- Scholar Spotlight: Yana Zavros
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Georgia Southern, Kennesaw State Join the Georgia Research Alliance
May 20, 2026—The Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) announced today that Georgia Southern University and Kennesaw State University have been...
Spring 2026 is season of the pitch for GRA’s innovative portfolio companies
- Guido Silvestri: A career marked by progress fighting HIV
- A novel way to navigate the day: MapHabit
- To Market: Spotting contamination in peanuts, planning radiation therapy
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The Relentless Ralph Tripp
A tribute to the late GRA Eminent Scholar
A new declaration of independence
GRA-backed MapHabit helps Georgians navigate the day
Renowned immunologist Liang Qiao coming to Georgia State as GRA Eminent Scholar
- Gates Foundation, Mars invest $6.2M into new peanut research at UGA
- Scholar Spotlight: Neal Weintraub, the heart of cardio health at Augusta U
- GRA Innovation & Entrepreneurship program gets new funding structure
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Streamlining the path to market
GRA refreshes its Innovation & Entrepreneurship program
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How an AI platform from Codoxo is improving healthcare
Grant to Marcus Autism Center will fund exploration of autism severity
- Investors show high confidence in Altesa BioSciences with $75 million Series B funding round
- Mercer helps bring EarliPoint diagnostic for autism to families in rural Georgia
- GRA Scholar Liang Dong of UGA is key to USDA-funded collaboration in precision farming
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Newest GRA Eminent Scholar Charles Noussair to join Georgia State University August 1
- NSF: Georgia universities cross $4 billion mark in research to retain #8 U.S. ranking
- New Trustees Bird Blitch, Jack Draughon, Larry “LG” Gellerstedt, IV and Lynn Hedrick appointed to GRA board
- GRA publishes report of 2025 impact
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GRA Impact Report 2025
Highlights from a year of university innovation
Wireless systems expert Sriram Vishwanath comes to Georgia Tech as GRA Eminent Scholar
- Codoxo gets $35M in Series C funding round
- GRA Scholar Vince Calhoun gets sharper view of how small biology drives large networks in the brain
- Augusta U Scholar Qin Wang finds that existing arthritis drug can reduce plaque buildup in the brain
- and 4 more
Fresh findings
10 takeaways from the 2025 GRA Academy meeting
New GRA Distinguished Investigator Francesca Vinchi is recruited to Emory University
- Andson Biotech gets $5M funding infusion
- GRA Eminent Scholar Robin Buell, collaborators discover enzymes that could yield new medicine compounds
- FDA clears IND application from Moonlight Therapeutics
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Governor and First Lady highlight 35th anniversary board meeting for GRA
- Secretary/Treasurer Pete McTier attends final meeting after decades of supporting GRA (Q&A)
- Augusta U doubles down on skin cancer fight (Jorge Cortes)
- GRA Eminent Scholar Todd Golde finds proteins that offer new insights into Alzheimer’s
- and 3 more
The ultimate closer
40K+ surgeries have used Brijjits for better healing
The view from 35+ years
With GRA, Pete McTier has always been in “the room where it happens”
$21.9M in funding to propel new progress in Alzheimer’s research at Emory
- Software Automation closes $20M round led by Danish fashion company BESTSELLER
- Center led by Eminent Scholar Vince Calhoun secures grants for cutting-edge brain projects
- Grant to Eminent Scholar Rampi Ramprasad will advance design of new sustainable packaging materials
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Tribute: In GRA, Tom Cousins saw Georgia’s universities as key to future growth
- Liang Dong, innovator in precision agriculture, is Georgia’s newest Eminent Scholar
- Georgia Chamber report spotlights status, future of the state’s innovation economy
- To Market: Minus Filtration filters forever chemicals from water; MSM develops a new therapy for “caustic ingestion”
- and 2 more
Georgia shines as nation’s inventors gather here for annual conference
- UGA Scholar Karen Norris’s vaccine is shown to offer protection from common yeast infection
- Emory investigator Bill Wuest and team identify new way to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria
- Micron Biomedical to evaluate needle-free technology for delivering rotavirus vaccine
- and 2 more
Expert in AI and health coming to Augusta U as GRA Eminent Scholar
- UGA plants new innovations in agriculture to benefit Georgia farmers, food producers
- TopoDX develops test for antibiotic resistance
- Spave Science develops small-molecule drug for central nervous system disorders
- and 4 more
GRA-backed Pindrop reaches major milestone: $100 million in annual recurring revenue
- New picto-feature: How an Emory microscope impacts many fields — and universities
- Article: New technology from Georgia Tech could be a powerful tool for purifying water
- Emory’s Eric Sorscher and team improves cancer fighting capabilities of nanoparticles
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The Instrumental Edge
Powerful microscope keeps GA researchers competitive
Partners, supporters celebrate new endeavor to solve sickle cell in GA
- Georgia Tech Scholars Emelianov, Xia develop new way to monitor T cells used for cancer therapy
- GSU investigator Eric Krause identifies neuron targets that may lower anxiety and blood pressure
- UGA Scholar Robin Buell develops potato genome database SpudDB
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GRA developing new collaborative in high-impact neuroscience research
- NIH grant will expand Mercer U investigation of faster treatments for high blood pressure
- Nikki Stephenson and Beth Lowry named to GRA Board of Trustees
- GRA Eminent Scholar Klaus Ley addresses Trustees
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$29M in new funding will accelerate progress for Micron Biomedical
- Georgia Tech Scholar Felix Herrmann develops tools to guide the storage of CO2 underground
- Hunger can be suppressed by activated neurons, Ga. State Investigator Eric Krause discovers
- Georgia State University breaks ground on new research tower
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Impact 2024
How Georgia benefits from growing university research + entrepreneurship
Georgia Trend feature: Revolutionary research is making its mark on Georgia
- Georgia retains high ranking in university R&D
- Georgia Tech Scholar Jeff Skolnick and colleague develops tool to predict effectiveness of COVID antibodies
- GRA Scholar Vince Calhoun discovers potential way to identify schizophrenia earlier
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A Day for Dialogue
Members of GRA’s Academy of Scholars convene to share ideas and insights
Entrepreneurial scientist Nathan Lewis is new GRA Eminent Scholar at UGA
- NIH awards $11.8M grant to Clark Atlanta to advance prostate cancer research
- Inhibikase closes on $110M from stock sale; new aggregate financing could top $275M
- Bill Wuest Lab at Emory finds deadly pathogen can withstand cleaners and disinfectants
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A future clinical researcher for Georgia
GRA Student Scholar Victory Ladipo
Two new GRA Eminent Scholars named at the University of Georgia
- Scott Jackson returns to UGA as Eminent Scholar
- Yana Zavros becomes first Scholar in UGA med school
- Moonlight Tx nets $5M in Series A round
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FDA clears sleep apnea diagnostic developed by Huxley Medical
- UGA team led by Lance Wells lands $18 million grant from NSF
- Todd Golde and colleagues find potential new culprit for Alzheimer’s
- Startup CytoNest announces its first product
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GRA Eminent Scholar named to lead Georgia’s Solve Sickle Cell Initiative
Global educator Solomon Fiifi Ofori-Acquah has established research centers in Ghana and the U.S.
Forever, one of us
High-tech for the win
Georgia’s investment in university labs creates a major competitive advantage
Federal agency grants $64M+ to GRA-backed companies CyanVac, GeoVax for COVID vaccine development
- $3.8M grant will advance MapHabit platform
- BioCircuit’s Nerve Tape implanted in patients
- Georgia State study: Plants can potentially treat cancer
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Georgia Tech Eminent Scholar Suman Datta exploring acceleration of AI with less energy use
- New Emory center will speed development of new medicines
- UGA center explores brain’s self-repair ability
- Augusta Scholar Jorge Cortes to edit new research journal
- and 1 more
Investors add $21.5M to expand EarliTec’s autism diagnostic
- Georgia Tech Scholar Ravi Kane’s vaccine shows promise against COVID
- Andson Biotech raises $3.6 million seed round
- GRA President Tim Denning featured in Georgia Trend
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MSM Investigator Melissa Davis to spearhead $25M cancer research effort
- Emory Investigator Rui Kong uncovers new insights into the body’s immune defenses
- UGA Scholars Ralph Tripp and David Crich honored for inventiveness
- GRA welcomes two new staff members
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Georgia Tech Scholar and team discover a way to detect ovarian cancer early
- Emory Scholar Eric Sorscher advances new respiratory drug
- 7 Georgia leaders join GRA’s Board of Trustees
- MSM, CAU among recipients of $14M grant
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Invented: A first-in-class drug
Emory Scholar’s compound shows great promise
FDA clears IND application for Aruna Bio; trials to begin in 2024
- Lizanne Thomas appointed GRA board chair
- Emory’s Bill Wuest to advance agrochemical work
- CAU Scholar Shafiq Khan explores prostate cancer drugs
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GRA 2023 Highlights
Gates Foundation investment moves Micron Biomedical toward manufacturing
- Georgia universities rank no. 8 in R&D expenditures in U.S.
- Statewide magazines James, Georgia Trend spotlight GRA’s impact
- UGA expands the work of the Isakson Center for Neurological Diseases
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Emory, Georgia Tech & Children’s Healthcare land major NIH grant for diagnostics
- GT Scholar Ramprasad helps develop process to reduce natural resources needed in fuel production
- UGA Scholars Buell, Tsai and colleagues pursue new options for biofuel
- Grant to BioCircuit will advance Nerve Tape
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GRA President/CEO Susan Shows to retire; Trustees name Tim Denning successor
- Georgia State recruits Eric Krause as GRA Distinguished Investigator
- Lucid Scientific nets $7M in Series A round
- Controller technology from startup Kinemo can bring greater independence to many
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Georgia Research Alliance Trustees Name New President and CEO
Tim Denning, Ph.D. will succeed retiring Susan Shows in November
GRA President and CEO Susan Shows to Retire with 22-Year Legacy
Tenure marked by shaping all major aspects of the organization
Free to navigate the world
Technology from startup Kinemo empowers people with limited mobility
Emory to lead $24.8M effort to develop new kinds of therapeutics
- Ga. Tech Scholar Ravi Kane to advance work on flu vaccine
- GRA Student Scholars gain invaluable lab experience
- Eminent Scholar Vince Calhoun finds that brain patterns could point to schizophrenia
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With summer’s end, a potential career path begins
Second NIH grant to Moonlight initiates drive to clinical trials
- FDA authorizes EarliTec’s second-generation system
- GRA’s Solve Sickle Cell Initiative gains momentum
- UGA Scholar Rob Maier is awarded patent for therapy that can safeguard poultry from bacteria
- and 1 more
A new treatment rises for peanut allergies
Moonlight Therapeutics innovates drug delivery
Start of summer brings new crop of university innovations for farmers
- American Society of Virology convenes in Georgia for first time
- Georgia Tech’s Bill Koros, colleagues discover new way to clean water
- Article: Immunotherapy holds great promise for fighting cancer — but there are drawbacks
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Micron Biomedical’s big month: Strong clinical results, $3M in new investment
- Georgia nets three NSF “Engines” awards
- Augusta University, Jorge Cortes aim to improve leukemia survival
- GRA shapes initiative to prep future workforce
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Professionals in the making
A novel program turns students into problem solvers
OncoSpherix gets $2.1 million award to advance cancer drug candidates
- Morehouse School of Medicine holds roundtable for state’s ARPA-H bid
- UGA initiative targets Parkinson’s Disease
- Georgia Tech Scholar Stas Emelianov seeks new view of cancer
- and 3 more
$25M investment will propel growth of Cognosos
- GaBiz Magazine spotlights GRA, life sciences in Georgia
- Emory opens cutting-edge research facility
- Georgia Tech Scholar Deepak Divan brings power to the people
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Remembering Jim Balloun, a longtime champion of GRA
- UGA Scholar Karen Norris: Fungal vaccine shows promise
- Inhibikase gets $10M to advance therapeutic drug development
- 5 more university inventions move toward Georgia farms in Greater Yield Initiative
- and 2 more
Five industry leaders join GRA board
GRA is fortunate to have a Board of Trustees representing industry, philanthropy, government and higher education. These leaders provide ...
Georgia climbs to 8th in U.S. in university research
- Georgia Tech gets $65.7M for JUMP 2.0 centers
- Augusta University’s Qin Wang reports potential PTSD treatment
- UGA Scholar Anumantha Kanthasamy honored by peers
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2022 Highlights
Our year of growing university research and entrepreneurship
Georgia continues to climb the rankings in university research
Georgia Trend spotlights strength of university research in Georgia
- Nyra Medical nets $20M Series A investment
- Micron Biomedical joins GRA Venture Fund
- Greater Yield companies help Georgia farmers
- and 2 more
Innovating for GA Farmers
12 startups with promising inventions
Dr. Melissa B. Davis Joins Morehouse School of Medicine as Inaugural Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator
Davis to lead Institute of Genomic Medicine in new role at MSM
Cancer disparities expert Melissa Davis to join MSM as inaugural GRA Distinguished Investigator
- UGA Scholars Robin Buell, C. J. Tsai to explore new energy source
- GRA-backed Brijjit is ‘one hot startup’
- UGA Scholar Steve Stice to study brain injury treatments
- and 4 more
Outside investment in GRA-backed startups now tops $2 billion
- BioCircuit attracts $9 million in funding round
- Emory Scholar Iñaki Sanz: Autoimmunity from COVID sometimes turns the body against itself
- Carbice unveils impressive new global facility in West End
- and 2 more
GRA venture program reaches $2 billion milestone
Careful investment, seasoned advice bring university projects from lab to market
University researchers, USG Chancellor convene at annual GRA Academy
- Ga. State names Debra Bangasser GRA Distinguished Investigator
- Augusta Scholar Qin Wang finds peptide can block seizures
- UGA Scholar Robin Buell gets grant to build a better bean
- and 3 more
Top researcher in structural biology Lynn Kamerlin coming to Ga. Tech
- Ga. Tech recruits GRA Distinguished Investigator Jason Azoulay
- GRA-backed innovators Biao He, Mark Prausnitz appear on White House panel
- GRA Student Scholars recount their ‘experimental summer’
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In the Lab with Audree Garrett
GRA Student Scholar’s experimental work at UGA
My Experimental Summer
Acclaimed researcher in Alzheimer’s Todd Golde to join Emory as newest GRA Eminent Scholar
- GRA, Georgia Chamber team up to benefit Georgia
- Augusta University Scholars Weintraub, Cortes and Mattson explore cancer, cardiovascular disease ties
- Emory gets $11M grant for cancer research
- and 1 more
Cancer and the Heart
An Augusta U center is tackling some good questions about the two
Urjanet acquired by leading climate tech company Arcadia
- Watch a new video about GRA’s venture development program
- Emory, GSU center created with $52 million grant
- UGA, Axion Biosystems team up after a chance encounter
- and 4 more
Serendipity to the rescue
The story of how a chance encounter super-charged a UGA breast cancer research project
Startup EarliTec advances its answer to autism diagnosis
- UGA Scholar Anumantha Kanthasamy develops probiotic that generates Parkinson’s drug levodopa
- Ga. Tech Scholar Larry Heck dishes on digital assistants
- Augusta Scholar Xin-Yun Lu explores enzyme’s ties to aging
- and 3 more
GRA, GDEcD summit delivers innovations to Georgia’s ag businesses
- FDA greenlights TendoNova’s surgical tool
- UGA Scholar Anumantha Kanthasamy receives $5M for Parkinson’s research
- Startup Apptega nets $37M in new venture investment
- and 4 more
Nanotech expert Suman Datta to join Georgia Tech as new GRA Eminent Scholar
- EarliTec DX generates $19.5M funding round
- New GRA partnership aims to expand student participation in university research
- Altesa BioSciences joins GRA Venture Fund portfolio
- and 2 more
It was a very good year
A look back at the highlights of 2021
New Augusta U scholars will speed exploration of vital health issues
- Codoxo closes on major funding round
- Now on board: 12 new GRA Trustees
- Georgia rising in research + entrepreneurship
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Georgia Trend Magazine spotlights researchers who launch businesses around inventions
- Kennesaw State team invents way to help Georgia farmers
- Antios gains momentum in Hepatitis B treatment
- Emory GRA Eminent Scholar Iñaki Sanz lands $3M research award
- and 5 more
How Georgia investment pays off: The case of Molnupiravir
- How Georgia investment pays off, part 2: SKC production line announced
- New GSU center will advance brain research, help prepare future innovation workforce
- UGA Scholar Art Edison is central to new ocean life study
- and 4 more
Prescience Pays Off
How the State of Georgia’s past investment in GRA helped bring about a major manufacturing operation
In the fight against HIV, Emory takes up new leadership roles
- GRA Eminent Scholar Ralph Tripp of UGA advances COVID treatment
- Vaccine boosters in the news — and in Georgia labs
- Rampi Ramprasad’s startup Matmerize offers a faster path to better materials
- and 2 more
What they did last summer
GRA’s first cohort of Student Scholars share their experiences
Don’t just hypothesize on your product material... Matmerize!
Georgia State’s Chris Basler publishes Ebola study, begins new exploration of coronaviruses
- Moonlight Therapeutics wins $1.9M grant to advance “dermal stamp” for treating peanut allergy
- COVID survivor stress, Alzheimer’s biomarkers are latest areas of study for GRA Eminent Scholar Vince Calhoun
- TendoNova’s rollout of treatment for chronic tendinopathy gets GRA backing
- and 3 more
NSF awards Georgia $60M in grants to create 3 research centers in artificial intelligence
- GT, GRA recruit Larry Heck as GRA Eminent Scholar in artificial intelligence
- Equity fund acquires majority stake in Axion Biosystems
- GSU Scholar advances novel treatment for kidneys (it involves artificial sweeteners)
- and 4 more
NSF investing $20 million in Georgia-led effort to transform online education for adults
Project centers on artificial intelligence; new National Institute in AI to be headquartered at Georgia Tech
$40M NSF grant allows UGA to blaze new trails in study of molecular structures
- Augusta Scholar David Mattson affirms value of plant-based diet
- Emory’s Bill Wuest wins NIH grant to advance work in drug-resistant bacteria
- Initiative led by Augusta’s RIchard McIndoe will help test bold ideas
- and 3 more
GRA unveils initiative to fight sickle cell disease
- GRA Summer Scholars program (How I spent my summer: In a Scholar’s lab!)
- New York Times piece spotlights Emory nonprofit DRIVE
- NIH innovation grants to BioCircuit will advance system to treat spinal cord injuries
- and 3 more
GRA unveils initiative to fight sickle cell disease
Gov. Brian Kemp makes announcement; Eminent Scholar chair named for Rep. Calvin Smyre
Big research grants, VC investment make for a memorable April
- Aruna Bio, Antios Therapeutics attract major investments
- UGA gets green light to launch flu research center
- Georgia State scholars to get $5.3M for projects
- and 7 more
UGA, GRA recruit Parkinson’s researcher Anu Kanthasamy as Eminent Scholar
- Emory’s COVID-19 drug, now molnupiravir, shows great promise
- UGA is no. 1 for getting new products to market
- GRA-backed Hypercell protects livestock — and people
- and 5 more
GRA marks 30th year with rollout of metrics showing impact on Georgia (with video)
- UGA names research chair after Sen. Johnny Isakson
- Augusta U Scholar Xin-Yun Lu IDs new target for depression
- Ga Tech Scholars Dupuis, Sholl, Tummala receive high honors
- and 5 more
GRA marks 30 years of impact
Public-private partnership generates big returns on state’s investment
UGA, GRA recruit plant genomics expert Robin Buell as Eminent Scholar
- Atlanta Business Chronicle: GRA key to preparing for COVID-19 fight
- GRA launches YouTube video series about life in a college lab
- Lucid Scientific is a “company to watch”
- and 5 more
Featured in Atlanta Business Chronicle
GRA credited for Georgia’s rise in research
Lucid Scientific is speeding drug development
The Mushroom Bloom
Kennesaw State team creates a cash crop out of ag waste
Why automakers will love WEAV3D
Keep an eye on TendoNova
An epic collaboration
Universities team up to share labs, equipment
It’s in their DNA
AKESOgen emerges as a go-to genetics partner
Georgia grows a startup
How Vertera Spine went from university lab to surgical suite
Ming-Hui Zou Director Of Center For Molecular And Translational Medicine at Georgia State University
Dr. Ming-Hui Zou, an internationally recognized researcher in molecular and translational medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health S...
Origins of GRA
A 20th anniversary retrospective
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