Rabindra Tirouvanziam obtained an engineering degree from Agro Paris-Tech, a masters in lung physiology from Université Paris XII and a Ph.D. in development biology also from Agro Paris-Tech, for his work on human xenografts in SCID mice conducted at the Institut d’Embryologie du CNRS et College de France in Nogent-sur-Marne.

He then pursued postdoctoral studies in physiology, genetics, immunology and psychiatry at Stanford University, developing a decade-long translational program focused on collection and deep analysis of patient samples and culminating in phase 2 clinical trials in cystic fibrosis and autism spectrum disorder.

Tirouvanziam moved to Atlanta in 2011, where his translational research group of 10+ members focuses on engineering of the human innate immune system and immunometabolic disease. Main diseases of interest affecting the lung (such as cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, COVID-19, and tuberculosis), and other organ systems (diabetes, cold tumors, malaria).

The Lind lab studies microbes that live in the gut of humans and other animals, focusing on single-celled protists and how they interact with the host and other microbes. We use approaches from computational genomics, evolutionary biology, and microbiology.
 

Haonan Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. He leads the Computational Chemical Imaging Group, which focuses on (1) developing vibrational imaging platforms beyond conventional physical limits through computation-driven system design and image reconstruction, and (2) discovering previously unknown biochemical mechanisms and disease biomarkers using high-content chemical imaging data integrated with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Dr. Lin was a postdoctoral researcher and later a Research Assistant Professor at Boston University from 2021 to 2025. Dr. Lin received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in 2021 and his B.S. in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University in 2015.

Shucong Li is an Assistant Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering and School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She obtained her PhD in chemistry at Harvard University in 2022 and conducted postdoc research at MIT from 2022 to 2024. She is the recipient of the PMSE Future Leader Award, Caltech Young Investigator Award, and the Foresight Fellowship. Her research interests include the design and fabrication of soft intelligent materials by harnessing dynamic molecular switches, molecular assemblies, and their coupling to mesoscale architectures and macroscale material properties. Her work focuses on developing innovative soft materials with self-regulating capabilities across length and time scales, aiming to create next-generation multifunctional materials with enhanced autonomy to address critical challenges in healthcare, energy, and sustainability.

Dr. Jianhua Xiong is an Assistant Professor of Urology at Emory University School of Medicine. The laboratory investigates the metabolic regulation of cell fate and function, with a focus on urological disorders and cancer. Research explores how fatty acids influence cell behavior in T cells, endothelial cells, and cancer cells. A multidisciplinary approach integrates cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, super-resolution imaging, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, histology, tissue studies, and mouse models to understand cellular mechanisms and identify potential therapeutic strategies.

Dr. Gary W. Liu is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory School of Medicine. He received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Washington, Seattle. He conducted his postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Liu's research and mentorship have been recognized by the following: Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA, K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, Excellence in Mentorship Award, and nomination for the Peter Karches Mentorship Prize. His research group seeks to develop new diagnostics and therapeutics for kidney medicine.

Dr. Johnna S. Temenoff is the Carol Ann and David D. Flanagan Professor at the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech/Emory University. She is also currently the Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center in Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT) and the Director of the Marcus Center for Therapeutic Cell Characterization and Manufacturing (MC3M). Scientifically, Dr. Temenoff is interested in scaling culture of therapeutic cells and tailoring the molecular interactions between glycosaminoglycans and proteins/cells for use in regenerative medicine applications.  Her laboratory focuses primarily on promoting repair after injuries to the tissues of the shoulder, including cartilage, tendon, and muscle.

Dr. Temenoff has been honored with several prestigious awards, such as the NSF CAREER Award, Arthritis Foundation Investigator Award, and Society for Biomaterials (SFB) Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature, and was named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE), as a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), as a Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) and as a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering, International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBSE).  She has co-authored a highly successful introductory textbook - Biomaterials: The Intersection of Biology and Materials Science, by J.S. Temenoff and A.G. Mikos (now in a 2nd edition), for which Dr. Temenoff and Dr. Mikos were awarded the American Society for Engineering Education’s Meriam/Wiley Distinguished Author Award for best new engineering textbook. 

Professor Wysocki received her bachelor of science in Chemistry at Western Kentucky University in 1982 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Purdue University in 1987.
Wysocki did her postdoc work at the Naval Research Laboratory as a National Research Council fellow Virginia Commonwealth University. She became an Assistant Professor in 1990 and an Associate Professor in 1994.
Wysocki went to the University of Arizona in 1996, was promoted to Professor in 2000, and served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
From 2012 to 2024, Wysocki was an Ohio Eminent Scholar, Director of the Campus Chemical Instrument Center, and Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Ohio State University.
On Oct. 1, 2024, she became Professor and Chair of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
   
   Major awards
   2022 International Mass Spectrometry Foundation Thomson Medal,
   2022 ACS Analytical Division Chemical Instrumentation award,
   2017 ACS Field and Franklin Award,
   2009 ASMS Distinguished Contribution Award

Vision is energy-intensive. Mutations that impair a person's ability to generate energy disproportionately affect vision. Common diseases that cause blindness may also be related to a failure of the eye to generate sufficient energy to serve its needs. Our goal is to understand the metabolic function of individual cells in visual tissues, primarily the retina and retinal pigment epithelium. We want to know which cells in the eye carry out particular metabolic processes (glycogen synthesis, nucleotide synthesis, etc.), what causes a cell to be metabolically 'wired' as it is, the extent to which retina generates metabolic intermediates de novo vs. from circulating, and the extent to which neurodegenerative diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma are linked to metabolic impairments.