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The December 2009 issue of the Elsevier publication Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews features the latest review of graduate student Mary Caldorera-Moore and Professor Nicholas Peppas on “Micro- and nanotechnologies for intelligent and responsive biomaterial-based medical systems.”

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering is among a consortium of leading research entities from across the United States selected to receive up to $11.6 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to establish a center to conduct innovative cancer research.

A team of scientists, led by a biomedical engineer at The University of Texas at Austin, has demonstrated – for the first time – that mathematical models created from data obtained by a recently developed technology called DNA microarrays can be used to correctly predict previously unknown cellular mechanisms.

Laura Suggs and John Zhang are among the latest recipients of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) most prestigious award in support of junior faculty, the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.

Nicholas A. Peppas was elected today to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences, becoming the first faculty member from The University of Texas at Austin to receive this honor — the highest recognition a scientist or engineer in the medical sciences can receive in the United States.

Muhammad Zaman is one of a small number of young and promising researchers who have been selected to participate in the 2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium of the National Academy of Engineering.

Muhammad Zaman has received the Cockrell School of Engineering Award for Outstanding Teaching by an Assistant Professor for his exceptional and effective classroom instruction methods.

Six professors in the Department of Biomedical Engineering have received grants funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA): Orly Alter, Stanislav Emelianov, Krishnendu Roy, George Georgiou, Laura Suggs and Konstantin Sokolov.

Professor Andrew Dunn of the Department of Biomedical Engineering has been selected as a 2009 recipient of the Coulter Foundation Early Career Award for Translational Research.

In a just-published research paper in Advanced Functional Materials [19, 3543-3551 (2009)], investigators at The University of Texas at Austin disclose a new technique that can improve the way researchers approach repairing damaged nerves in the clinic.