Three biomedical engineering graduate students earned poster awards at Graduate and Industry Networking (GAIN) 2012, an annual event hosted by The University of Texas at Austin’s Graduate Engineering Council.

Three biomedical engineering graduate students earned poster awards at Graduate and Industry Networking (GAIN) 2012, an annual event hosted by The University of Texas at Austin’s Graduate Engineering Council.

Hieu Nguyen, from Professor Christine Schmidt’s lab, won the Stress Engineering Award for excellence in research for his poster titled Electric Fields Orient Peripheral Nervous Cells and Have Prolonged Effects On the Extracellular Environment.

Prinda Wanakule, from Professor Krishnendu Roy’s lab, won the Shell Research Award for excellence in research for her poster titled Enzymatically-degradable Microgels for Pulmonary Disease-responsive Release of Therapeutic Nanoparticles and Biologic Drugs.

Justina Tam, from Professor Kostia Sokolov’s lab, won the Sandia National Labs Research Award for excellence in research for her poster titled Plasmonic Biodegradable Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications.