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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

Computational Biomedical Engineering 

Technical Area 3

Due to dramatic, multidisciplinary advances in molecular biology and technology, the first complete human genome is available. Advances in genomic technologies have the potential to revolutionize the way health care is practiced; however, computational advances and a new kind of biological information science are required to achieve this potential.

Conducting research at the interface of computational biomedical engineering, prognostics, and diagnostics that combine clinical data with patient-specific genotyping and molecular profiling, has the potential to produce significantly improved choices of therapies for individual patients.

Area Faculty


Kenneth Diller
Jenny Jiang
Mia Markey
Nicholas Peppas
Pengyu Ren
Michael Sacks
Thomas Yankeelov

BME faculty and GSC members in Computational Biomedical Engineering

Related Coursework

  • Biomedical Modeling of Biomolecules
  • Computational Biomolecular Engineering
  • Computational Simulation of Cardiovascular System
  • Medical Decision-Making
  • Systems Biology
  • Systems Immunology

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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