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Professor Nicholas A. Peppas has received a new research grant from the Biomedical Engineering Program of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems.

Natalie Craik, a Biomedical Engineering and Plan II Honors undergraduate student, has been honored as one of two winners of the 2009-2010 Larry Temple Scholarship.

Nicholas Peppas is this year’s recipient of the C. William Hall Award from the Society for Biomaterials.

Nicholas Peppas will be the recipient of the 2010 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal Award, one of the most prestigious awards in biomaterials science recognizing “excellence in research and development”.

Vaccines against various cancers, emerging infectious diseases and drug-resistant infections need new and transformative strategies to increase protective immunity many-fold over currently available vaccine concepts.

Biomedical engineering professor Mia K. Markey and electrical engineering Al Bovik have been awarded $50,000 from the UT System to develop a computer program to improve evaluation of x-ray images, specifically mammograms.

The National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute), has awarded Professor Mia K. Markey a five-year $3.1 million grant.

Professor Stanislav Emelianov and his collaborators from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston (Dr. Sokolov and Dr. Esteva) recently received a $1.7 million, five-year National Institutes of Health grant.

The National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering), has awarded Professor Andrew Dunn a four-year $1.3 million grant.

Professor Nicholas Peppas has been selected by an international scientific committee as the winner of the 2010 Maurice Marie Janot Award.