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PhD Students from BME, UT-Austin Publish in Nature Materials
PhD student McKayla Torbett-Dougherty is the second author on a Nature Materials paper describing a 3D-printable, tissue-like material with nearly boundless applications.
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TCE Team Launches Project to Make Hand Prosthetics More Intuitive
Tickle College of Engineering Associate Professor Dustin Crouch (BME), Professor Jindong Tan (BME), and ADVANCE Professor Nicole McFarlane (EECS) have launched a project to develop and test the Myo-Bridge, a novel implantable robotic device that creates a virtual mechanical link between an amputee’s residual muscles and an external robotic prosthetic hand.
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BME Reaches One-Year Mark with Upward Momentum
Record enrollment, high-level faculty hires, and increased national recognition are among the milestones being celebrated at the one-year mark of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) becoming an independent academic department within the Tickle College of Engineering.
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BME Senior Design Teams Showcase Innovative Projects
From novel gene guns to biodegradable mesh sutures to training devices and protective shields, the 2025-26 senior design teams in the Department of Biomedical Engineering showcased an array of innovative projects that helped address real-world problems.
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Ren ‘Shaking Up’ Biofilm Research
Department Head Dacheng Ren is engineering active biomaterials that inhibit biofilms, a dangerous type of bacterial infection that can form on medical devices like catheters.
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BME Seniors Go Out with a Bang
BME alumni Pailin Beller, Aaron Boehm, Kilian Linder, and Jack Rittler’s gene gun increases gene modification throughput sevenfold over the industry standard—and decreases costs.
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Biomedical Alumna Goodsell is Bonnaroo’s ‘Festival Engineer’
Biomedical engineering alumna Shelby Goodsell uses the analytical skills she gained at UT in her current job directing music festivals like Bonnaroo for C3 Presents.
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BME Welcomes New Faculty to Growing Department
Three new faculty members are joining the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the fall 2026 semester, bringing new expertise in bioimaging, biomaterials, and biomechanics.
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Good and Crouch Investigate Biomarkers of Fontan Failure
Assistant Professors Bryan Good and Colleen Crouch are hunting for early signs of Fontan failure, a lethal condition in adults who received lifesaving heart surgery as infants.
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Senior Design Teams Create Pediatric Chest Tube Trainers for College of Nursing
Two senior design teams in the Tickle College of Engineering developed prototypes of pediatric pneumothorax chest trainers that can be used to help train UT nursing students.
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