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Professor Nicholas A. Peppas received the prestigious Pierre Galletti Award at the 2008 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on February 21st.

Biomedical engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin report development of a gel-like material that could help speed the long-awaited arrival of insulin that can be taken in a pill by mouth, rather than with injections. The study appears in the April 14 issue of the American Chemical Society's Biomacromolecules, a monthly journal.

Prof. James Tunnell is the recipient of a 5-year, $1.51 million National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute R01 grant titled, “Metal Nanoparticle Mediated Imaging, Targeting, and Treatment of Cancer.”

Cindy Zimmerman of the BME Undergraduate Advising Office has been awarded the Cockrell School of Engineering Outstanding Facilitator Award for Fall 2007.

Professor Ken Diller has completed ten years as Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering (ARBE).

A detergent solution developed at The University of Texas at Austin that treats donor nerve grafts to circumvent an immune rejection response has been used to create acellular nerve grafts now used successfully in hospitals around the country.

Dr. Muhammad H. Zaman, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to participate in the 6th Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference this year in November.

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.

Nicholas Peppas recognized by AIChE as one of the One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era.

Professor James W. Tunnell has received a Phase II Early Career Award from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation to support his work in developing optical spectroscopy for the early detection of skin cancer.