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A UT Austin Biomedical Engineering Graduate student received a prestigious grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her research on a highly prevalent and fatal cardiovascular disease.

Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer in males, with about 1 in 8 men facing a prostate cancer diagnosis during their lifetime. UT Austin Biomedical Engineering researchers collaborated with four additional research partners in a project known as SENTINEL to develop a new way to monitor prostate cancer patients. 

Tyrone Porter speaks at a conference.

UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering Chair Tyrone Porter, Ph.D., spoke at the 2023 Rising Scholars Conference hosted by the University of Minnesota Biomedical Engineering Department about his life and academic career as an underrepresented minority.

A computer connected by wires shows brainwave activity.

Throughout your day you make hundreds of decisions, ranging from what you eat for breakfast to when to go to bed, and every decision you make is based on your experiences—including the state of your mental health.

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) named a UT Austin biomedical engineering student as part of their 2023 Astronaut Scholar Class. Maanas Gupta is a rising senior whose research focuses on patient-specific stem cells to engineer functional cardiac tissue.

The lobby of the UT Austin Biomedical Engineering Building

You’ve decided to take the plunge into earning your degree in biomedical engineering—a complex and highly rewarding field of study that entails several important components you need to know.

Two UT Austin Cockrell School of Engineering graduates, including one from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, are recipients of this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholarship.

Cover of Pulse magazine

In this year's edition of Pulse, discover how UT Austin Biomedical Engineering faculty members are expediting translational research with healthcare provider partnerships and dive deep into groundbreaking discoveries.

If home is where the heart is, then one UT Austin couple painted theirs burnt orange.

The UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering held its first-ever Academy of Distinguished Biomedical Engineers with dozens of people in attendance and a significant surprise to close out the evening.