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Margo Cousins, the BME Academic Advising Coordinator, and Arohi Ranade, a BME senior, have both been awarded by the Cockrell School of Engineering for their exceptional leadership of First-Year Interest Groups throughout the Fall 2017 semester

Two biomedical engineering graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow won awards at the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes’ second Basic and Translational Research Retreat poster competition on December 8.

Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation.

Membership in the CAE is the highest engineering distinction in China, and the academy is among the most prestigious engineering communities in the world. 

Sparkling. Regal. Timeless. Diamonds have been called a girl’s best friend, but could they also help us see deeper into the vasculature of the brain?

Nicholas Peppas, a professor of biomedical engineering and the director of the Institute for Biomaterials, Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine, has been included in Clarivate Analytics’ 2017 Highly Cited Researchers List. 

Can seaweed reverse the effects of chronic inflammation in our blood vessels? Will better understanding of vascular cells lead successful vascular grafts?

Kayla Henderson, a graduate student working in the lab of Professor Aaron Baker, recently authored a review paper in Advanced Healthcare Materials.

UT Austin has named a top cardiovascular research center in honor of internationally acclaimed cardiologist and distinguished UT Austin alumnus Dr. James Willerson. 

Professor Aaron Baker has received a grant from the American Heart Association to create therapies for ischemia using lipid nanodiscs.