Advac, LLC, a vaccine research company founded by Sang-Moo Kang, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received $225,000 from the National Institutes of Health to develop a safer, more effective vaccine for human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
Georgia State offers a variety of global summer programs for international students interested in taking courses and exploring Atlanta. And it has 90 study abroad programs in more than 30 countries for Georgia State students seeking cultural, academic and professional opportunities across the globe.
Users of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) in the United States are no more likely to quit smoking cigarettes than people who don’t use such devices, according to a study by a group of tobacco researchers at the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.
Chimpanzee personality traits are correlated with the size of the brain’s hippocampus, according to research led by Georgia State University. The study has implications for understanding the foundation of human personality structure, which is known to be similar to that of chimpanzees and also known to underlie mental illness.
Individuals with schizophrenia, on average, have a thinner cerebral cortex, the largest part of the brain that controls higher intellectual functions and motor activity, compared to healthy people, according to an international study co-led by Georgia State University and the University of California, Irvine.
As a TV writer, comedian and independent filmmaker, Lamar Woods is a triple threat in showbiz. A staff writer for two popular TV shows, “Survivor’s Remorse” and “New Girl,” Woods has now added a feature film to his repertoire.
Reports that use of electronic cigarettes is declining may not have accounted for explosive growth in sales of the JUUL device, a novel product that has benefited from social media marketing campaigns to reach young consumers, according to a study led by researchers at Georgia State University’s School of Public Health.
An important breakthrough in understanding the mechanisms in the brain that control cognitive flexibility has been made by an international team of scientists.
The process a key enzyme uses to recognize and repair genetic damage in mammals has been described by researchers at Georgia State University.
Hainer Sibrian, an alumnus of the Honors College at Georgia State University, has received a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship.
