News
Georgiou Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Friday, 24 April 2015 08:27
Georgiou has paved the way for advances in medicine that improve people’s lives, with discoveries to fight macular degeneration and osteoporosis.
Ramamoorthy Makes Glamour’s “Top 10 College Women” List
- Friday, 17 April 2015 13:00
Divya Ramamoorthy, a biomedical engineering junior, was selected as one of Glamour’s Top 10 College Women, for her work generating heart tissue.
Students Receive 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
- Wednesday, 15 April 2015 13:58
The National Science Foundation has selected four graduate students and one graduating senior from the Department of Biomedical Engineering for its prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Markey Recognized with ASEE Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering
- Monday, 06 April 2015 11:25
Mia K. Markey is recognized for her dedication to teaching and innovative research in the area of cost-effective, computational medical decision aids to help physicians better diagnose, treat, and manage cancer.
Tunnell Takes Home SXSW Interactive Innovation Award
- Wednesday, 18 March 2015 10:15
A UT Austin-developed 3-in-1 noninvasive skin cancer detection device that could save billions in health care costs took home top honors at the 18th annual SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards.
BME Celebrates E-Week, Takes 1st Place in Competition
- Friday, 13 March 2015 15:45
Biomedical engineering students took first place in the school-wide competition and raising over $1,100 to be donated to Helping Hand.
Peppas Receives Honorary Doctorate from University of Patras
- Tuesday, 10 March 2015 15:40
Nicholas A. Peppas has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Greece's University of Patras, making this his sixth honorary doctorate.
NIH Appoints Sacks to Scientific Review Center
- Thursday, 26 February 2015 10:37
The National Institutes of Health has invited Michael Sacks, professor of biomedical engineering to serve as a member of the Bioengineering Technology and Surgical Sciences Study Section.
Perillo Receives Young Investigator Award for High Resolution Microscope
- Wednesday, 25 February 2015 11:31
Evan Perillo, a third-year doctoral student working with Professors Andrew Dunn and Tim Yeh, received the PicoQuant Young Investigator Award at the SPIE Photonics West BiOS Conference.
Zaman Receives NIH Pathway to Independence Award
- Tuesday, 17 February 2015 10:07
Raiyan Zaman, who received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2011, has been awarded Pathway to Independence funding by the National Institute of Health.
Researchers Use Light to Manipulate Stiffness of Extracellular Matrix
- Monday, 09 February 2015 13:55
Light is used as a diagnostic, therapeutic, and drug delivery tool. Researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering believe light can also be used to help answer biological questions about the effect of extracellular matrix stiffness on disease progression, according to a paper published by Professor Laura Suggs’ research group in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Texas Engineering Alumna Elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Friday, 06 February 2015 11:28
Cheryl R. Blanchard, Cockrell School of Engineering alumna and CEO of Microchips Biotech Inc., has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
Four Professors Elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows
- Wednesday, 21 January 2015 09:43
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has elected Professors Andrew Dunn, Pengyu Ren, Laura Suggs, and James Tunnell from the Department of Biomedical Engineering to its College of Fellows.
Texas Biomedical Engineer Wins Prestigious Award to Study Cancer-Fighting Cells
- Friday, 16 January 2015 10:54
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation selected Professor Jenny Jiang for its prestigious 2015 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award.
Peppas Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:43
Nicholas Peppas, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering and the College of Pharmacy at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).