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The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Biomedical Engineering undergraduate program ranked at No. 15 in the recently released rankings from U.S. News & World Report.

UT Austin Biomedical Engineering Professor Nicholas Peppas sits at his desk.

Nicholas Peppas, a professor in The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Institute for Biomaterials, Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences.

Researchers discovered an antibody able to neutralize all known variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as distantly related SARS-like coronaviruses that infect other animals.

UT Austin Biomedical Engineering Professor Mia Markey sits at a table.

The project, supported by a $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, is set to make reconstruction more suitable for patients whose reconstructive goals are more complex than reproducing their preoperative appearance, promoting psychosocial adjustment to cancer survivorship and reducing time in care.

UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering professor Tom Yankeelov holds his Friar award alongside his students.

Tom Yankeelov, professor of biomedical engineering and core faculty member at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, received the 2024 Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship.

UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering professor Evan Wang holds his ASEE Award.

Assistant Professor Huiliang (Evan) Wang received the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award at the 2024 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference.

A photograph of UT Austin Professor Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez overlayed atop a photograph of the Department of Biomedical Engineering building.

Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernández, professor in The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Biomedical Engineering, is one of the newest fellows of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative International Society (TERMIS).

UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering professor Michael Sacks speaks at the 2024 CMBE Conference.

Michael Sacks, professor in The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, gave the plenary lecture at the 2024 International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering (CMBE).

A computational model of the Left Val

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin's Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences shed new light on heart health by focusing on the complexities of the mitral valve and heart valve function as well as high speed computational models of heart function. 

 Six students in the UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering are among dozens of others pedaling to Anchorage on a mission to raise awareness and money for the fight against cancer.