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Texas BME professor Nicholas Peppas

Texas Engineer Awarded Northwestern’s Kabiller Prize

June 17, 2025

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).

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

Gabriela Nomura Is Outstanding

June 04, 2025

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.

Published by the Cockrell School of Engineering

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

Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program Among Top 20 in U.S. Yet Again

April 08, 2025

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

Engineering with Heart

March 28, 2025

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.

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

Pharmacoengineering Program Enables Advanced Drug Development and Delivery

March 11, 2025

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

5 Questions With Jeongwook "Luke" Yun: An Austin Inno Under 25 Recipient

March 05, 2025

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.

Ultrasound-based Drug Delivery Method Could Lead to Safer, Targeted Treatments

February 11, 2025

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 Receives Grant to Advance Women’s Health Research

February 03, 2025

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.

The Evolving Landscape of Non-Invasive EEG Brain-Computer Interfaces

January 02, 2025

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.

Printed E-Tattoos: A Breakthrough in Brainwave Monitoring

December 10, 2024

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.

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