News and Highlights
PhD Graduate Student Benjamin Marwedel receives NSF Fellowship
04/10/2025
Undergraduate and Doctoral Students Win Awards at the 9th CAREsearch Day
03/28/2025
Congratulations, Anakaren and Tony!
Undergraduate student Kyran To wins Research Felowship
11/19/2024
Dr. Huiliang (Evan) Wang wins National ASEE Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award
06/25/2024
Our PI, Dr. Huiliang (Evan) Wang, has won the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award for the contributions in the field of biomedical engineering education from the 2024 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference.
Neurawear Team Successfully Completes National I-Corps Program!
05/13/2024
Our team, Neurawear, led by Entrepreneurial Lead Ilya Pyatnitskiy and Technical Lead Leon Hsieh, successfully completed the National I-Corps program. We conducted intensive customer development and are now ready to proceed with further development and commercialization of the wearable brain-computer interface smart clothing system for at-home stroke rehabilitation!
Postdoctoral Fellow Wenliang Wang wins the Best Symposium Presentation Award at MRS 2024
05/09/2024
During the 2024 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting & Exhibit, our Postdoctoral Fellow Wenliang Wang won the Best Symposium Presentation Award for his talk titled “Non-invasive and Programmable Molecular Manipulation for Deep Brain Modulation Using Focused Ultrasound.” Congratulations, Wenliang!
PhD graduate student Anakaren Romero has been awarded NSF GRFP Fellowship!
04/05/2024
Biomedical engineering PhD graduate student Anakaren Romero receives the 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Each fellowship provides tuition support and annual stipends for three years. Congratulations, Anakaren!
Dr. Huiliang (Evan) Wang wins the ASEE-GSW Outstanding Young Faculty Award!
03/12/2024
Our PI, Dr. Evan Wang, wins the 2024 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Gulf Southwest (GSW) Outstanding Young Faculty Award! Congratulations, Dr. Wang, and thanks to Dr. Mia Markey for the nomination!
Ph.D. graduate student Leon Hsieh has been awarded the prestigious University Graduate Continuing Fellowship!
02/26/2024
Congratulations to Leon for receiving the UT Fellowship as a testimony to his academic record as a UT graduate student and his advancements in the development of novel EEG electrodes for wearable brain-computer interface systems!
Dr. Wang received a NSF CAREER Award!
01/04/2024
The award will enable us to develop hydrogen-bonded organic framework nanoparticles for targeted neuromodulation and outreach activities with Austin Community College (ACC). Thanks to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the support!
Ph.D. graduate student Leon Hsieh has received the Inspire Commercialization Grant from the Texas Innovation Center!
12/02/2023
This grant will enable Leon and the team to further develop a wearable brain-computer interface system for in-home stroke rehab. Congratulations, Leon, and thanks to TIC for the support!
We received a DoD DAPRA Grant!
12/01/2023
The grant will enable us to develop a wearable electronics system for sleep modulation and recording. Thanks to the Department of Defense (DoD) for the support!
Ph.D. graduate student Aaron Tasset has won the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Best Abstract Award!
11/02/2023
During the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) conference, biomedical engineering Ph.D. graduate student Aaron Tasset received the Best Abstract Award! Congratulations, Aaron!
09/04/2023
Our Postdoctoral Fellow, Wenliang Wang, has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious “DBS Think Tank Rising Star Junior Investigator Challenge.” Congratulations, Wenliang!
07/27/2023
Our PI, Dr. Evan Wang, has won the Young Investigator Award from the Gene Delivery and Gene Editing Focus Group at the Controlled Release Society (CRS) 2023 Annual Meeting. Congratulations, Dr. Wang!
Undergraduate student Thomas Wynn has been awarded Patricia L. Johnston Student Research Scholarship!
06/08/2023
Our undergraduate student, Thomas Wynn, has received the Patricia L. Johnston Biological Sciences Student Research Scholarship to continue his research project in our lab! Congratulations, Thomas!
PhD graduate student Brinkley Artman has been awarded NSF GRFP Fellowship!
03/30/2023
Biomedical engineering PhD graduate student Brinkley Artman receives the 2023 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Each fellowship provides tuition support and annual stipends for three years. Congratulations, Brinkley!
We received Alzheimer's Association Research Grant!
11/17/2022
The grant was awarded to develop wearable electronics for Alzheimer’s disease. Thanks Alzheimer’s Association for the support!
Stable Electrodes for Long-Term, Wearable Brain-Machine Interface
10/13/2022
UT Austin Engineering news reported our recent work on “A highly stable electrode with low electrode-skin impedance for wearable brain-computer interface”. Thanks Dr. Jose Millan’s lab and Dr. Yaoyao Jia’s lab at UT ECE for the collaborations.
Postdoctoral Fellow Jinmo Jeong was awarded Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship
09/01/2022
Our Postdoctoral Fellow Jinmo Jeong receives the prestigious 3-year Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships from Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP). Congratulations, Jinmo!
We received NIH R35 MIRA!
07/12/2022
We are very grateful for receiving the R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)!
Undergraduate student Christian Gabbert was awarded Hispanic Scholarship Fund
07/02/2022
Our BME undergraduate student Christian Gabbert receives the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) for his second time. HSF provides students of Hispanic heritage with financial aid, mentorship, and internship/career opportunities. Check out the organization here: https://www.hsf.net/
We received Crag Neilson Foundation Grant!
06/01/2022
The grant will enable us to collaborate with Linda Noble’s lab at Dell Medical School to work on Spinal Cord Injury. Thanks Crag Neilson Foundation for this generous support!
Undergraduate student Michael Solomon awarded a summer scholarship
05/05/2022
Our neuroscience undergraduate student Michael Solomon receives UT College of Natural Sciences scholarship for continuing his research in our lab during summer 2022. Congratulations, Michael!
PhD graduate student Aaron Tasset awarded NDSEG Fellowship
03/31/2022
Biomedical engineering PhD graduate student Aaron Tasset receives the 2022 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award. Each fellowship provides tuition support and annual stipends for three years. Congratulations, Aaron!
Our first review paper was published in Nanoscale
03/20/2022
Our first review paper, “Overcoming barriers in non-viral gene delivery for neurological applications”, has been published in Nanoscale. Thank you to PhD candidate Diedra Ward and Dr. Nicholas Peppas for their collaboration on this publication.
We hosted Dr. John Rogers at UT
10/22/2021
The Wang Lab hosted Dr. John Rogers during his visit to UT where he gave a talk on the recent progress in soft, wireless wearables for health monitoring and rehabilitation.
We received ADPA Research Grant!
09/01/2021
The grant was awarded to develop sono-optogenetics for Parkinson’s disease treatment. Thanks, ADPA, for this support!
We received Welsh Foundation Grant
03/30/2021
We have got the first grant for the lab. Thanks Welch Foundation for the generous support!
Our lab started at UT Austin from 2021!
01/01/2021
Our lab started at UT Austin BME. We are located at the UT Austin BME building.
Recent Publications
H-bonded organic frameworks as ultrasound-programmable delivery platform W. Wang, Y. Shi, W. Chai, KWK. Tang, I. Pyatnitskiy, Y. Xie, X. Liu, W. He, J.Jeong, JC. Hsieh, A. Romero Lozano, B. Artman, X. Shi, N. Hoefer, B. Shrestha, NB. Stern, W. Zhou, DW. McComb, T. Porter, G. Henkelman, B. Chen & H. Wang, Nature, 638, 401 – 410, (2025)
Design of Injectable, Self-Adhesive and Highly-Stable Hydrogel Electrode for Sleep Recording J.-C. Hsieh, W. He, D. Venkatraghavan, V. Koptelova, Z. Ahmad, I. Pyatnitskiy, W. Wang, J. Jeong, K.W.K. Tang, C. Harmeier, C. Li, M. Rana, S. Iyer, E. Nayak, H. Ding, P. Modur, V. Mysliwiec, D. Schnyer, B. Baird, H. Wang, Device (Cell Press), 1, 100182, (2024) 23, 20, 9310–9318, (2024)
Ultrasound-Induced Cascade Amplification in a Mechanoluminescent Nanotransducer for Enhanced Sono-Optogenetic Deep Brain Stimulation W. Wang, K.W.K. Tang, I. Pyatnitskiy, X. Liu, X. Shi, D. Huo, J. Jeong, T. Wynn, A. Sangani, A. Baker, J.-C. Hsieh, A.R. Lozano, B. Artman, L. Fenno, V. P. Buch, and H. Wang, ACS Nano (2023)
Reversible, Covalent DNA Condensation Approach Using Chemical Linkers for Enhanced Gene Delivery W. Wang, A. Tasset, I. Pyatnitskiy, P. Lin, A. Bellamkonda, R.Mehta, C. Gabbert, F. Yuan, H.G. Mohamed, N.A. Peppas, H. Wang, Nano Letters (2023)
Ultrasound-Triggered In Situ Photon Emission for Noninvasive Optogenetics W. Wang, X. Wu, K.W.K. Tang, I. Pyatnitskiy, R. Taniguchi, P. Lin, R. Zhou, S.L.C. Capocyan, G.Hong and H. Wang, Journal of the American Chemical Society 145, 2, 1097–1107, (2023)