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Biomedical engineering professor Laura Suggs and her students believe the key to understanding the progression of breast cancer might lie in the tiny area just outside of a cancer cell.

A team of two biomedical engineering students took first place in The University of Texas at Austin’s Idea to Product (I2P®) Competition for their research and design of a smart catheter with a thin, flexible pressure sensor that can measure blood pressure and blood flow in real-time.

Professor Nicholas Peppas has been selected for an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Excellence in Engineering Education Award.

The Society for Women's Health Research (SWHR) has awarded Dr. Mia K. Markey with the 8th Annual SWHR Medtronic Prize for Scientific Contributions to Women's Health. Markey received the award at the SWHR 20th Annual Gala Dinner on April 29, 2013 in Washington, D.C.

Age-related immune system differences may affect how the body responds to influenza vaccination, reports a new study, by Dr. Ning Jenny Jiang, who is now an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Amy Brock, formerly of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, has joined The University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Research from Jeanne Stachowiak’s lab, recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, brings a better understanding of the role of lipid rafts as concentrators of membrane proteins, which have implications in the fields of drug delivery and molecular medicine.

Michael Hill, a post-doctoral researcher working for Professor Michael Sacks, has been awarded a two-year American Heart Association (AHA) fellowship. He will receive an annual stipend of approximately $42,000 along with a $4,000 support package to help defray his training-related expenses, such as travel to scientific meetings, publications, supplies, and equipment.

A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, led by Professor John X.J. Zhang in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, have made a recent breakthrough in the design of a “smart catheter” with integrated sensors, which was recently published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering.

Nicholas A. Peppas, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmacy, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Ljubljana.