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Pneumonia has emerged as a life-threatening complication of COVID-19, accounting for nearly half of all patients who have died from the novel coronavirus in the U.S. since the beginning of the pandemic. Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, pneumonia was responsible for more than 43,000 deaths in 2019.

The biomedical engineering undergraduate program in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has been ranked No. 16 in the U.S. News & World Report’s latest undergraduate rankings released on Sept. 13.

Aaron Baker has been promoted to full professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, effective September 1, 2021. He has made significant impacts on the department's culture of innovation, teaching, and research.

Sapun Parekh, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, along with Texas BME alum Dr. Carolyn Bayer make up one of ten multidisciplinary research teams that have received a combined $1,150,000 in funding as part of the inaugural year of Scialog: Advancing BioImaging, a three-year initiative supported by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, and Frederick Gardner Cotrell Foundation, that aims to accelerate the development of the next generation of imaging technologies.

Edward Castillo will join the Department of Biomedical Engineering as an associate professor in the fall of 2021.

Castillo is currently an associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine.

Acta Biomaterialia has selected William Meador for their Acta Student Award for his primary contribution to the manuscript “A detailed mechanical and microstructural analysis of ovine tricuspid valve leaflets.”

Stephanie Seidlits, a Texas BME alum and Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Rising Star, will join the Department of Biomedical Engineering as an associate professor in January 2022.

Adam Bush joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering as an assistant professor in January 2022. His research develops, validates, and applies novel MRI methods to explore human pathophysiology and make imaging safer, particularly for children. 

On May 21, 2021, The University of Texas at Austin granted 112 bachelor's degrees, 15 master's degrees (two of which were integrated bachelor's/master's), and 19 doctoral degrees in biomedical engineering. 

Health care experts from the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at UT Austin have collaborated with researchers from King’s College of London, The Alan Turing Institute, and the University of Cambridge to determine that advances in digital twin technology make it a powerful tool for facilitating predictive and precision medicine.