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Nicholas Peppas stands with people at the CMBE conference.

UT Austin Biomedical Engineering professor Nicholas Peppas is a recipient of the 2024 BMES CMBE Shu Chien Achievement Award. The recognition is the most prestigious honor bestowed by the BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Special Interest Group.

A crowd of students look at Biomedical Engineering student Noah Stern in front of a PowerPoint presentation.

An award-winning program led by UT Austin Biomedical Engineering graduate students strives to promote inclusion for Graduate Teaching Assistants and encourage open communication.

UT Austin Biomedical Engineering Staff Member

Erika Treviño is a Research Support Coordinator who manages the operations for six faculty members and their research team members. She has been with the Department of Biomedical Engineering for a little more than a year after starting in August of 2022.

UT Austin Biomedical Engineering students in a lab work on a document next to a microcope

The University of Texas at Austin Biomedical Engineering undergraduate program ranked No. 13 in the U.S. News & World Report best college rankings released on September 18, 2023.

Students watch another student give a presentation on a slideshow.

Academic presentations are a usual sight to see in the conference rooms scattered about the Department of Biomedical Engineering building. Yet throughout the Summer of 2023, there were several presentations significantly different than your typical PowerPoint.

UT Austin Biomedical Engineering Professor Jeanne Stachowiak sits in her lab

A UT Austin Biomedical Engineering professor is one of two principal investigators who received a three-year grant worth $1.5 million for cellular membrane research. Professor Jeanne Stachowiak is working with Professor Padmini Rangamani of UC-San Diego on the project.

Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin are leading a team from 16 top engineering programs to establish a roadmap for hiring diverse faculty members. The authors of the new paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering call for an overhaul of hiring processes in engineering that despite best efforts have failed to increase diversity.

A UT Austin Biomedical Engineering Graduate student received a prestigious grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her research on a highly prevalent and fatal cardiovascular disease.

Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer in males, with about 1 in 8 men facing a prostate cancer diagnosis during their lifetime. UT Austin Biomedical Engineering researchers collaborated with four additional research partners in a project known as SENTINEL to develop a new way to monitor prostate cancer patients. 

Tyrone Porter speaks at a conference.

UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering Chair Tyrone Porter, Ph.D., spoke at the 2023 Rising Scholars Conference hosted by the University of Minnesota Biomedical Engineering Department about his life and academic career as an underrepresented minority.