Ravi Bellamkonda, a professor in the Wallace
H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named an associate
vice president within the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research
(EVPR). The three-year appointment, which begins on August 1, enables
Bellamkonda to divide his time evenly between his own research and the
administrative responsibilities of this new position.
In announcing the appointment, Executive
Vice President for Research Steve Cross said, “I worked closely with Ravi
during the strategic planning process of the past year and was pleased to learn
of his continued interest in supporting Georgia Tech research on an
institutional level. Ravi is a first-rate scientist with excellent intellectual
curiosity and temperament, and I am excited about his joining our leadership
team.”
A Georgia Cancer Coalition
Distinguished Scholar, Bellamkonda directs the Neurological Biomaterials and
Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory and a National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32
training program in the Rational Design of Biomaterials. He also served as
deputy director for research at the Georgia Tech & Emory Center for
Regenerative Medicine (GTEC).
Though the appointment is part time,
Bellamkonda’s portfolio will be substantial, supporting the EVPR both in terms
of oversight and coordination of the Institute’s research strategy as well as
in establishment and growth of partnerships that further Tech’s research
mission.
“The breadth of expertise at Georgia
Tech, and the associated research converging at the intersection of disciplines,
has created a unique opportunity.” Bellamkonda said. “I am grateful for the
opportunity to have direct involvement in shaping our research program and in
helping build an institutional culture that will define the technological
research university of the 21st century.”
The
Georgia Institute
of Technology is one of the world’s premier research universities.
Ranked
seventh among U.S. News & World Report’s top public
universities and the eighth best engineering and information technology
university in the world by Shanghai
Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia
Tech’s more
than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture,
Computing,
Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the
nation’s
top producers of women and minority engineers. The Institute offers
research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and
is home
to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research
Institute.
