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Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are building a new type of ventilator made of cheap, widely available materials to help fill the demand created by the spread of COVID-19 for these critical devices that help patients breathe.
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.
Finding Blood's Breaking Point: New Research Aims to Explore the Relationship Between Coronavirus and Blood Clots
Blood clots have emerged as one of an increasing number of deadly side effects of the novel coronavirus in some patients. Assistant professor Manuel Rausch and other Cockrell School of Engineering researchers are embarking on a project to learn more about the... Keep Reading
Santacruz Selected to Participate in NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Samantha Santacruz has been selected to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium. Santacruz, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is one of 85 of the nation's brightest early-career engineers to be selected to... Keep Reading
Adapting During COVID-19: Two Seniors Share Their Experiences
Seniors Susana Simmonds and James Choi opened up about what is helping them as they wrap up their last semester at UT Austin. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused all of us to make adjustments in our daily lives. To remain... 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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