News and Highlights
PhD graduate student Brinkley Artman 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 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 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 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.