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UT Austin Biomedical Engineering Professor Nuttada Panpradist stands with Nigerian researchers holding HIVDR tests.

Years after envisioning a smarter, more accessible approach to HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) testing, Nuttada Panpradist’s research continues to transform lives while coming full circle to the country that first sparked her mission.

Texas BME professor Nicholas Peppas

Cockrell School of Engineering | 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).

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

Cockrell School of Engineering | 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.

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

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.

Texas biomedical engineers giving presentation in front of screen

Cockrell School of Engineering | Rausch and his students have partnered with the Science Mill for the past three years to provide workshops for kids in the Hill Country. This year’s workshop earlier this month focused on the most vital and complex organ: the heart.

Texas Engineer Umberto Villa

Oden Institute | When Umberto Villa joined the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences in 2022, he brought with him what he calls a “unique background in engineering, computational science and mathematics.”

FRI Biobricks and Microbe Hackers stream students work in the lab.

Graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin have a new opportunity to revolutionize how medicines are developed and delivered. 

Jeongwook "Luke" Yun stands in front of computer servers

Jeongwook “Luke” Yun, a senior in The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Biomedical Engineering, is being recognized for his passion, dedication and transformative work involving the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and health care.

UT Austin Biomedical Engineering Professor Evan Wang and his colleague in a lab performing an experiment.

Cockrell School of Engineering | A new ultrasound technology developed by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin can activate drugs delivered to targeted cells or parts of the body, a leap forward in the ability to control interactions between molecules for enhanced treatments.

UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering Professor Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez stands outside.

Cosgriff-Hernández received a five-year, National Institutes of Health grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development entitled “Model-Directed Design of Vaginal Stents to Prevent Post-radiation Stenosis.”