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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.
Molecular Barcodes Reveal Tumor Lineages
Cancer researchers, including Dr. Amy Brock, talk with Nature about expanding the tumor barcoding toolkit to track cancer cells over time in order to learn about mutations that cause therapy resistance, including with Brock's innovative ClonMapper technique. Keep Reading
Celebrating the Class of 2022
Last week, The University of Texas at Austin granted 120 bachelor's degrees, 12 master's degrees (seven of which were integrated bachelor's/master's), and 6 doctoral degrees in biomedical engineering. Graduates received their diplomas at livestreamed events located in the EER, which... Keep Reading
Sacks Receives R01 for Collaborative Biomechanical Breast Modeling Project
Professor Michael Sacks has received a $3.7 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop an accurate biomechanical model to be used as a reliable and useful tool in patient-specific diagnosis and management of breast cancer. The... Keep Reading
Research Areas
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Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
New imaging technologies are providing the ability to interrogate and manipulate living biological specimens...
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Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering
Cellular and biomolecular engineering forms the underpinning of molecular medicine. Areas include...
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Computational Biomedical Engineering
Due to dramatic, multidisciplinary advances in molecular biology and technology, the first...
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Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics
Biomechanics is the study of the structure and function of biological systems such as humans,...
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