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Nine biomedical engineering undergraduate students have received scholarships through the Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship (UEPS) program.
Keyue (Kevin) Ma and Chad Williams, two BME graduate students and researchers in Professor Jenny Jiang’s System Immunology Lab, have received awards from the American Association of Immunologists (AAI).
Postdoctoral fellow Wade Zeno has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health. Zeno works in the lab of Jeanne Stachowiak, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and received his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of California, Davis.
Bruno Rego, a biomedical engineering graduate student, and Daniel Howsmon, a postdoctoral fellow, both researchers in the Willerson Center for Cardiovascular Modeling and Simulation, have received fellowships from the American Heart Association.
Swetha Maddipudi, a senior undergraduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected as a 2018 Outstanding Student Award Finalist by the Texas Parents Association.
Jenny Jiang, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received a new NCI grant to develop an innovative integrated platform that will identify T cell receptors to treat cancer.
Dr. Baker has recently received a new R01 grant from the NHLBI to create better quality grafts, which would retain healthy blood flow longer and present a more durable solution for patients.
Angela Jarrett, a postdoctoral researcher working in the Center for Computational Oncology with Professor Thomas Yankeelov, has been selected as a recipient of the 2018 Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
Congratulations to John Slater (Ph.D. 2008), assistant professor at University of Delaware, on receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to develop a tissue-engineered model of ischemic microstroke.
Salma Ayoub, a biomedical engineering graduate student, is the recipient of the 2018 JoyLynn Hailey Reed Graduate Student Achievement Award. The award recognizes an outstanding graduate student mentor in UT Austin’s Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program.