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A University of Texas at Austin engineering professor and a cardiologist from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have received a $300,000 award to develop a new imaging technique with the potential to predict, or even prevent, heart attacks.

Professor Michael Sacks and Professor John Zhang have both been appointed to the editorial boards of journals applicable to their fields of expertise.

Dr. Ning Jenny Jiang, a distinguished cancer researcher whose early work has contributed to understanding the immune response to diseases, has joined The University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

On Thursday, November 10, 2011, The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Biomedical Engineering hosted the Donald D. Harrington Symposium in Biomedical Engineering.

Dr. Mary Caldorera-Moore, a postdoctoral fellow working in Professor Nicholas Peppas’ lab, won the Best Paper Award in a competition of the Princeton Physical Sciences–Oncology Centers program held in Houston, Texas, on November 3 and 4, 2011.

Professor George Georgiou has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Georgiou is the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #9 and a professor of biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, and molecular genetics and microbiology at The University of Texas at Austin.

Katheryne Wilson recently received the Young Investigator Award at the 2011 World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC), held in San Diego, California, September 7–10.

Dr. Jeanne Stachowiak, formerly a senior researcher with Sandia Laboratories, has joined The University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Stachowiak is a leading biomedical researcher whose work has already received recognition.

Ali Khademhosseini, and 2011 Donald D. Harrington Fellow and visiting scholar in the Department of Biomedical Engineering is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in early stages of their careers.

Raiyan Zaman, Ph.D. ’11, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has been selected to participate in the school’s Multidisciplinary Training Program in Cardiovascular Imaging (CVIS).