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Manuel Rausch, an assistant professor of  biomedical engineering and aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at UT Austin, has received a prestigious R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $3.9 million. He will use the funding to lead a study of the heart’s tricuspid valve to better understand functional tricuspid valve regurgitation (FTR)—a condition that causes leakage of the valve located between the right atrium and the right ventricle of the heart.

The second class of Clinical Innovation Design (CID) Fellows finished their nine-month program with a presentation of their identified clinical need and proposed solution on Monday, May 9, 2022.

Heart attacks and strokes triggered by electrical misfiring in the heart are among the biggest killers on the planet. Now, researchers have created a “liquid wire” that, when injected into pig hearts, can guide the organs to a normal rhythm. Professor Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez presented this new development at the American Chemical Society.

Hyun Jung Kim has been developing his "gut-on-a-chip" technology for more than a decade. These miniature systems represent accurate models of the patient's own gut, as well as the disease simulation. The aim is to use the patients’ own cells to test drugs and understand disease processes to determine the right treatment for the patient.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed new guidelines for fabricating nanoscale gel materials, or nanogels, that can deliver numerous therapeutic treatments to treat cancer in a precise manner. In addition to enabling the delivery of drugs in response to tumors, their nanogels can target malignant cells (or biomarkers), degrade into nontoxic components and execute multiple clinical functions.

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Manuel Rausch Receives NIH R01 to Make Way for Early Intervention of Tricuspid Valve Leakage

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Tyrone Porter Receives Funding to Investigate Effectiveness of Ultrasound-Guided Drug Delivery for Treatment of Pediatric Brain Tumors

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Alum Wins Cade Prize for Promising Blood Flow Measuring Device

Ashwin Parthasarathy is fascinated with imaging modalities and how they can be used to collect data and provide physicians with information. The alum, who earned his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from UT in 2010, has a startup called SPKL and... Keep Reading

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