News and Events
News and Events
News and Events
Faculty members Tom Yankeelov and Mia K. Markey share about their experiences balancing online instruction, home-schooling their own children, and the pivots they're making in their work.
Four students working in the Department of Biomedical Engineering are recipients of the 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowships. The fellowships will allow students to pursue graduate studies in the biomedical field.
Three seniors from the Department of Biomedical Engineering received student leadership awards from the Cockrell School of Engineering on Monday, February 24th.
Bo Zhao will join the department and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences as an assistant professor.
Tyrone Porter will join the faculty as a full professor in August 2020. Porter is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University.
Cleft lip/palate(CL/P) are one of the most common birth defects in the U.S., affecting 1 out of every 940 births. Children with CL/P are susceptible to a range of functional and aesthetic problems, which can impact quality of life.
Hyun Jung Kim and his team have received a new grant from GlaxoSmithKline to study the application of chimeric antigen receptor-T (CAR-T) cell therapy to colorectal cancer. The grant will provide funding over two years for Kim and his team to use their innovative colorectal cancer-on-a-chip (CRC Chip) platform to test the efficacy of CAR-T cell therapy against colorectal tumors.
Daniel Chavarria, a graduate student working with Drs. Aaron Baker and Andrew Dunn, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Before applying to UT Austin’s Biomedical Engineering Department, Chavarria did research through the BME CUReS Cancer REU, a ten-week research experience sponsored by the National Science Foundation for undergraduate student. In this program non-UT Austin students are partnered with graduate student and faculty mentors to conduct cancer research projects.
Taylor Johnson, a senior biomedical engineering undergraduate student, has been selected to participate in the Science Mentoring and Diversity Program (SDMP). SMDP is a competitive one-year career mentoring program that pairs ethnically diverse students or early career researchers with industry mentors who work at companies in medical technology, biotechnology, and consumer healthcare.
Busy and ambitious are two accurate descriptors for biomedical engineering undergraduate student Abhishek Dasgupta. While on the 40 Acres, the 21 year old who grew up in Sugarland, Texas, co-founded TEDxUTAustin, dabbled in a food startup, worked part-time as a real estate agent, conducted summer research at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and sat in on a 16-hour open brain surgery. He was recently recognized on Austin Inno’s 25 Under 25 for 2019.
