Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. As principal investigator of the Laboratory for Biomaterials and Molecular Imaging, Murthy leads an interdisciplinary research team fusing chemistry, nanotechnology, material sciences and bioengineering. Before joining the faculty at Georgia Tech, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley from 2001-2003 after earning his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2001. Murthy has been recognized for his research with awards including the 2009 Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award and a 2006 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.