Single cell biotechnology and spatial omics

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      Awards

      2025 Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award

      2025 Received teaching funds from the Class of 1969 Teaching Fellows

      2025 Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure

      2024 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award.

      2024 Young Innovator, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Special Interest Group, Biomedical Engineering Society, 2024. Selected to present at the BMES annual meeting in October 2024.

      2023 Rising Star Award, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Special Interest Group, Biomedical Engineering Society, 2023. (The first Georgia Tech faculty member to win the CMBE-BMES Rising Star Award in more than a decade).

      Healthy Longevity Award, Interstellar Initiative, The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), and the New York Academy of Sciences, 2020.

      Career Award at the Scientific Interface (CASI), Burroughs Wellcome Fund, a distinction given to the 10 most innovative cross-disciplinary investigators in the nation per year, 2018-2023.

      Kenan Sahin Award, Turkish American Scientists & Scholars Association, 2018.

      Career Development Program (CDP) Fellow, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, 2015-2018.

      Teaching Honors

      Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Spring Semester 2023 CIOS Honor Roll, Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Georgia Institute of Technology, for BMED 3520: Biomedical systems and modeling, Spring 2024.

      Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: CIOS Award, Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Georgia Institute of Technology, for BMED 4783: Introduction to Medical Image Processing, Fall 2023.

      Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Spring Semester 2023 CIOS Honor Roll, Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Georgia Institute of Technology, for BMED 3520: Biomedical systems and modeling, Spring 2023.

      Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Spring Semester 2022 CIOS Honor Roll, Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Georgia Institute of Technology, for BMED 3520: Biomedical systems and modeling, Spring 2022.

      Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Class of 1934 CIOS Award, Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Georgia Institute of Technology, for BMED 4783: Introduction to Medical Image Processing, Fall 2021.

      Thank A Teacher Certificate for BMED 4783, Center for Teaching and Learning, Fall 2021.

      Public Releases

      Grillo, Jerry, “Coskun Receives $1.86 Million NIH MIRA Award to Map Spatial Molecular Neighborhoods,” Communications, Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, October 24, 2023. [Online Article], Available: https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/coskun-receives-186-million-nih-mira-award-map-spatial-molecular-neighborhoods  [Accessed April 9, 2024].  This online article featured our outstanding investigator grant that was funded by NIH/NIGMS, September 2023.

      Grillo, Jerry, ” Coskun Lab Pioneering New Field of Research: Single Cell Spatial Metabolomics,” Communications, Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, December 20, 2023. [Online Article], Available: https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/coskun-lab-pioneering-new-field-research-single-cell-spatial-metabolomics [Accessed April 9, 2024].  This online article featured our work that was published in Nature Communications, December 2023.

      Parmelee, Georgia, “A Look Inside Stem Cells Helps Create Personalized Regenerative Medicine,” Communications, Georgia Tech Research, May 12, 2023.  [Online Article], Available: https://research.gatech.edu/look-inside-stem-cells-helps-create-personalized-regenerative-medicine [Accessed April 9, 2024].  This online article featured our works that were published in Scientific Reports and Cell Reports Methods, May 2023.

      SciTechDaily, “The Inner Workings of Stem Cells: A Game-Changer for Personalized Medicine,” Hot Topics, Health News, May 12, 2023. [Online Article], Available: The Inner Workings of Stem Cells: A Game-Changer for Personalized Medicine [Accessed April 9, 2024].  This online article featured our works that were published in Scientific Reports and Cell Reports Methods, May 2023.

      News Medical, “Using an intracellular toolkit to map organelle bio-geography in stem cells,” Life Sciences, May 12, 2023. [Online Article], Available: Using an intracellular toolkit to map organelle bio-geography in stem cells [Accessed April 9, 2024].  This online article featured our works that were published in Scientific Reports and Cell Reports Methods, May 2023.

      Paul Taylor, Nick, “Researchers map RNA to inform selection of stem cells for therapeutic applications,” The Science Advisory Board contributing writer, May 12, 2023. [Online Article], Available: Researchers map RNA to inform selection of stem cells for therapeutic applications [Accessed April 9, 2024].  This online article featured our works that were published in Scientific Reports and Cell Reports Methods, May 2023.

      EurekAlert, “A look inside stem cells helps create personalized regenerative medicine,” AAAS News Release, May 12, 2023. [Online Article], Available: A look inside stem cells helps create personalized regenerative medicine [Accessed April 9, 2024].  This online article featured our works that were published in Scientific Reports and Cell Reports Methods, May 2023.

      Grillo, Jerry, “Ahmet Coskun Wins 2023 BMES-CMBE Rising Star Award,” Communications, Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, December 22, 2022. [Online Article], Available: https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/ahmet-coskun-wins-2023-bmes-cmbe-rising-star-award  [Accessed April 9, 2024].  This online article featured our award that was received in January 2023.

      Grillo, Jerry, ” Coskun Lab Zooming in on the Signals of Cancer,” Communications, Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, September 29, 2022. [Online Article], Available:  https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/coskun-lab-zooming-signals-cancer  [Accessed April 9, 2024].  This online article featured our works that were published in npj Precision Oncology and iScience, Sep-August 2022.

      Stewart, Joshua, “5 Coulter BME Instructors Make Spring Honor Roll,” Communications, Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, May 31, 2022. [Online Article], Available:  https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/5-coulter-bme-instructors-make-spring-honor-roll  [Accessed April 9, 2024].  This online article featured our CIOS teaching award, May 2022.

      Stewart, Joshua, ” Best Teachers at Tech? Students Say Ahmet Coskun, Martin Jacobson,” Communications, Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, February 28, 2022. [Online Article], Available: https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/best-teachers-tech-students-say-ahmet-coskun-martin-jacobson  [Accessed April 9, 2024].  This online article featured our Fall 2021 CIOS teaching award, February 2022.

      Grillo, Jerry, ” Coskun Gets Pilot Grant from SPORE to Study Cell Signaling in Lung Cancer,” Communications, Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, August 25, 2021. [Online Article], Available: https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/coskun-gets-pilot-grant-spore-study-cell-signaling-lung-cancer [Accessed April 9, 2024].  This online article featured our grant that was funded by Winship Lung SPORE, August 2021.