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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.

Nicholas A. Peppas is the recipient of the 2010 Biomedical Engineering Society Distinguished Achievement Lecture Award.

Twenty-five biomedical engineering (BME) graduate students have received fellowship awards for the 2010–2011 academic year through either the Cockrell School of Engineering or through the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Award training grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Professor Christine Schmidt has been elected as a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) 2010 class.

Professor James Tunnell and his laboratory recently received grants totaling over $1.1 million to further cancer research.

Professor Aaron Baker has recently joined The University of Texas at Austin’s Biomedical Engineering Department.

Professor and Department Chair Nicholas A Peppas and Adjunct Professor Lisa Brannon-Peppas were elected as Fellows of the Controlled Release Society (CRS) in its inaugural class.

UT researchers are developing novel computer-aided detection and diagnosis strategies (CAD) for breast cancer.