Ravi V. Bellamkonda, PhD
Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University

Prof. Bellamkonda is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Joint Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech/Emory. Prof. Bellamkonda obtained his PhD from Brown University, Providence RI and completed his post-doctoral training at M.I.T in Cambridge, MA. Prior to moving to Georgia Tech in 2003, he was a tenured Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.

Prof. Bellamkonda's research interests are in applying biomaterials based technologies for the repair and regeneration of the nervous system. Specifically, Prof. Bellamkonda's laboratory is interested in bridging long peripheral nerve gaps, overcoming regenerative failure in the central nervous system, interfacing electrodes with the brain and treating gliomas of the brain.

Prof. Bellamkonda leads the Neural Tissue Engineering programmatic thrust at GTEC, a National Science Foundation funded Engineering Research Center based at Georgia Tech/Emory. Prof. Bellamkonda has received numerous awards including a CAREER award, and Globus Indus Technovator award. Prof. Bellamkonda is a Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the Institute of Physics. He serves on the editorial board of Journal of Neuroengineering, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation and Experimental Biology and Medicine. Prof. Bellamkonda is the Founding Scientist of Marval Therapeutics, Inc and his research is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Norma Reed Foundation, and the Whitaker Foundation.