Computing Better Drugs
Threats to human health are a moving target. Viruses evolve. New syndromes emerge. Unfortunately, the timeframe for creating targeted drugs is measured in decades, not days. More...

Zhang Receives Prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Award
Professor John Zhang has received a 2010 Young Faculty Award (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). More...

Professor Creates Device that Replaces Biopsies
A new tool from UT Biomedical engineers makes it easy and painless to detect skin cancer. More...

Bridging Nerve Gaps for Faster Regeneration
Building bridges is nothing unusual for engineers. But for Dr. Christine Schmidt, the bridges in question connect human nerves. More...

Zhang appointed Assistant Editor of Biomedical Microdevices
Professor John Zhang has been appointed an Assistant Editor of the journal Biomedical Microdevices. More...

Peppas Elected in the Inaugural CRS Fellow Class Professor and Department Chair Nicholas A. Peppas was elected a fellow of the Controlled Release Society (CRS) in its inaugural class. More...

BME Graduates Class of 2010
Nearly 100 biomedical engineering students received bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees during the Cockrell School of Engineering’s commencement ceremony on Friday, May 21 at the Frank Erwin Center. More...

Roy Receives International Recognition
Dr. Krishnendu Roy has been selected as the recipient of the 2010 Young Investigator Award of the Controlled Release Society, which is the highest recognition given to young researchers in the field of drug delivery. More...

Zhang’s Research Enables Earlier Disease Detection
Two research articles published recently in Nanotechnology [20, 23,5201, (2009)], and Applied Physics Letters [96, 131109, (2010)], featured Professor John X.J. Zhang and his associates. More...

Ren’s Lab Featured at TACC
The National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid recently awarded Dr. Pengyu Ren’s research lab 4.9 million CPU hours to support computational drug discovery.
Read more about this innovative research from the Texas Advanced Computing Center.

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Werner Appointed Associate Editor of Leading Journal
Dr. Gerhard Werner, an adjunct professor with the Biomedical Engineering Department, was recently appointed Associate Editor of Chaos, Solitons, & Fractals. More...

Professor Christine Schmidt has been appointed to the journal Acta Biomateriala’s Editorial Board
Professor Christine Schmidt has been appointed to the journal Acta Biomaterialia’s Editorial Board. More...

Professor Peppas is selected as the 2010 SURA Distinguished Scientist. Professor Peppas is the recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA). More...

Promising Cancer Research Brings In $3.3 million in Grants The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has selected two BME colleagues for their innovative research proposals targeting new avenues of cancer research. More...

Professor Markey Awarded UT System Grant to Enhance Mammogram Technology Professor Mia Markey and electrical engineering professor Alan Bovik awarded $50,000 from the UT System to develop a computer program to improve evaluation of x-ray images. More...

Professors Sokolov and Emelianov Awarded NCI Research Grant for Improved Cancer Imaging and Treatment This is a new NIH R01 grant on “Biodegradable Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Cancer Imaging and Therapy... More…

New Technique from Professor Schmidt’s Laboratory May be Useful to Improve Repair of Damaged Nerves in the Future  A new technique may be useful to improve the way researchers approach repairing damaged nerves. More…

Professor Roy Reports an Injectable Polymer-based Immune Priming Center to Improve Vaccine Efficacy Vaccines against various cancers, emerging infectious diseases and drug-resistance infections need new and transformative strategies. More…