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Texas BME professor Nicholas Peppas

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

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.

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. The graduate portfolio program in pharmacoengineering is an interdisciplinary effort that bridges expertise in pharmaceutics, chemistry, engineering, biochemistry, biologics and drug metabolism.

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.

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.”

UT Austin Biomedical Engineering Professor Jose Milan stands next to a computer and two students wearing EEG caps.

Non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are at the forefront of neurotechnology, enabling a direct link between the brain and external devices. BCIs hold great potential for clinical and consumer applications

Left: Conventional EEG cap and electrodes. Right: Printed e-tattoo sensors connected to conventional EEG reader.

The e-tattoos serve as the sensors for electroencephalography (EEG), a medical test that measures the brain's electrical activity. EEG can help diagnose and monitor brain tumors, sleep disorders and other neurological disorders.

Former UT Austin Biomedical Engineering Professor Christine Schmidt stands outside.

A trailblazer who helped pave the way to a degree in biomedical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin was recently honored with an election to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).

An exterior photograph of the UT Austin Dell Medical School building.

The strong, strategic connection between academia and the clinical setting is transforming biomedical research and education at The University of Texas at Austin.