Georgiou Elected a Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Professor George Georgiou has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Georgiou is the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering No 9 and a professor of biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, and molecular genetics and microbiology at The University of Texas at Austin. More...

Jeanne Stachowiak Joins BME Faculty
Jeanne Stachowiak, formerly a senior researcher with Sandia Laboratories, has joined The University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. More...

Ali Khademhosseini Receives Early Career Award from White House
Ali Khademhosseini, a 2011 Donald D. Harrington Fellow in the Biomedical Engineering Department is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. More...

Students Launch Giving Campaign to Celebrate 10th Anniversary
The 2011–2012 academic year marks the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s 10th anniversary as a full-fledged academic department offering both undergraduate and graduate degrees. To celebrate the ten-year milestone, volunteers from the senior class have launched a student giving campaign to raise money toward the establishment of an endowment to support student programs. More...

Five Faculty Members Promoted to Associate Professors
Five faculty members within the Department of Biomedical Engineering have been promoted to associate professors with tenure. Andrew Dunn, Pengyu Ren, Laura Suggs, James Tunnell, and John Zhang have been recognized for their outstanding support of the university’s culture of innovation through their contributions to teaching and research. More...

Baker is Recipient of NIH Director's New Innovator Award
Aaron Baker, an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering, has been selected as one of 49 scientists and engineers around the country to receive a National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award. More...

Rochal Industries and Dr. Suggs Receive Army SBIR Grant to Help Soldiers
Rochal Industries, a privately owned research company in San Antonio, Texas, has received funding through an Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to conduct further research on a wound dressing technology developed in Professor Laura Suggs’ lab. More...

Texas 4000 Presents Gift at Annual Welcome Gathering
The Department of Biomedical Engineering hosted its annual welcome gathering on August 29. The event kicks off each year by welcoming all undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. This year's event was especially momentous as Texas 4000 presented $50,000 to fund two cancer-related research projects within the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Two researchers, Professor Aaron Baker and Professor Mia Markey, were awarded $25,000 each. More...

Peppas Named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society
Professor Nicholas Peppas has been elected to the 2011 class of the Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS). This is the third class of ACS Fellows, and it represents about 125 leading researchers in the chemical sciences. More...

Ph.D. Alumna Selected for Stanford’s CVIS Program
Raiyan Zaman, Ph.D. ’11, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has been selected to participate in the school’s Multidisciplinary Training Program in Cardiovascular Imaging (CVIS). More...

Roy Elected Fellow of BMES
Professor Krishnendu Roy has been elected a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) 2011 class. He is recognized for his pioneering contributions in biomaterials, nanabiotechnology, and drug delivery. Roy, along with six other fellows, will be inducted at the BMES 2011 Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut, October 12–15. More...

Zhang Selected to Participate in NAE’s 2011 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Professor John Zhang is one of 85 of the nation’s brightest young engineers to be selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 17th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium, which will be held September 19–21 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. More...

International Authority in Cardiovascular Biomechanics Joins Department
A world authority on cardiovascular biomechanics has joined the faculty of the Biomedical Engineering Department and the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at The University of Texas at Austin. Michael S. Sacks will teach and conduct research focusing on the use of computational simulation methods coupled with medical imaging and biomechanical experimentation to develop novel approaches for patient-specific predictive therapies for the treatment of heart and valvular disease. More...

Improving Surgical Outcomes for Children, Cancer Patients
Faculty and students at the Cockrell School of Engineering are developing ways for cancer patients and children born with facial deformities to make more informed decisions about which reconstructive surgeries would be most aesthetically pleasing and practical based on their individual body types and personal preferences. More...

Dunn Receives Coulter Phase II Translational Research Award
Professor Andrew Dunn was recently awarded a Phase II Translational Research Award from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation. The $260,000 award will provide two years of funding to support Professor Dunn in his clinical collaboration with Dr. Douglas Fox, a neurosurgeon and medical director of the NeuroTexas Institute at St. David’s HealthCare in Austin, Texas. More...

Internationally Recognized Professor to Join BME Department as Visiting Scholar Fall 2011
Professor Ali Khademhosseini, a bioengineer who is internationally regarded for his research and contributions in the area of biomedical microdevices and biomaterials, will join The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Biomedical Engineering as a Donald D. Harrington Fellow and visiting scholar for the fall 2011 semester. More...

Regenerating Body Tissue
Fox News 7 interviewed Dr. Christine Schmidt and graduate student Sarah Mayes about their work developing biomaterials to help patients heal.
Biomaterials developed in Schmidt's lab are used to regenerate nerves and prevent post-operative scarring of tissue. Watch the video.