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95%

Of Ph.D. Students are Fully Funded

$77k+

Average Starting Salary for BME Undergraduates

65%

Of Undergraduate Students Participate in Research

student research

Cellular and biomolecular engineering forms the underpinning of molecular medicine. Areas include tissue engineering, immune engineering, systems biology, genomics, the synthesis of biomaterials that modulate tissue responses, development of smart drug delivery matrices, the design of therapeutic macromolecules, gene therapy and many others. We have a core of faculty that has established an outstanding record of scientific accomplishment and technological innovation. Several successful companies have sprung from research conducted by University of Texas at Austin's biomedical engineering faculty, including Pharmacyclics, Therasense and Focal, among others.

Area Faculty

Steven Abrams
Aaron Baker
Amy Brock
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
Don Elbert
George Georgiou
Hyun Jung Kim 
Nicholas Peppas
Tyrone Porter
Nichole Rylander
Michael Sacks
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert
Stephanie Seidlits
Jeanne Stachowiak
Laura Suggs
Evan Wang
Janet Zoldan

BME faculty and GSC members in Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering 

Related Coursework

  • Biopolymers in Drug/Gene Delivery
  • Engineering Biomaterials
  • Nanomedicine in Health Care
  • Stem Cell Engineering
  • Systems Immunology
  • Bioinspired Organ Mimicry

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News

Texas BME professor Nicholas Peppas

Texas Engineer Awarded Northwestern’s Kabiller Prize

Drug delivery luminary and Texas Engineer Nicholas Peppas has won the Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine from Northwestern University’s International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN).

Published by the Cockrell School of Engineering

Texas BME graduate Gabriela Nomura receiving Outstanding Scholar Leader award on stage

Gabriela Nomura Is Outstanding

The best undergraduate researcher they’d ever seen, a natural leader, someone who cares deeply about others. These are just a few superlatives that professors used to describe Gabriela Nomura. This year’s Outstanding Scholar-Leader just finished her bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering, and she plans to become a combination physician and engineer.

Published by the Cockrell School of Engineering

A group of biomedical engineering graduate students work in a lab.

Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program Among Top 20 in U.S. Yet Again

The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Biomedical Engineering graduate program ranked No. 19 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-2026 graduate engineering program rankings, released on Tuesday.

 

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