UTSW BME Grad Program

🎉 Big News! 🎉 Huge congratulations to Amogh Vaidya, Graduate Student Researcher in the @GDE_UTSW, who successfully defended his dissertation: "Development of Organ-specific Lipid Nanoparticles for Delivery of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics" Congrats, Dr. Vaidya! 🧑‍🎓🔬 #PhDLife

Congratulations to @DJSiegwart on his induction into the @AcadofInventors last night!

Congratulations to @YehuiSun, Graduate Student in the @GDE_UTSW Lab, on winning a travel award for her poster "In Vivo Editing of Lung Stem Cells for Durable Gene Correction in Mice" presented at the 2025 Celebration of Women in Science and Medicine Poster Session!

The Discovery at UT Southwestern 2025 highlights the institution's latest developments in biomedical science and clinical research. Flip to Page 10 featuring research from Professor @DJSiegwart, Ph.D., and Assistant Professor @lukasfarbiak, Ph.D. bit.ly/435kAo8

It’s Spring commencement season at #UTSW! We’re proud to celebrate graduates from the Medical School,@UTSWGradSchool, and the inaugural class of @utswosph. 📺PSA Ceremonies will be streamed live! Check out all the details: bit.ly/4lVTDvP #UTSWGrads #ClassOf2025

The @utswcancer Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Professor Susan Napier Thomas, Ph.D., from the Georgia Institute of Technology is two weeks away! Join us as Dr. Thomas presents "Bioengineering Cancer Immunotherapy Technologies" on Monday, May 19 at 12 pm on Zoom.

Throwing it back today to celebrate @YehuiSun, @GDEatUTSW Graduate Student Researcher, for earning a scholarship award to attend @KeystoneSymp's Precision Genome Engineering meeting in March. Yehui gave a talk on the lab's most recent publication in Science. #ThrowbackThursday

🚨 We’re officially on LinkedIn! 🚨 The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UT Southwestern is now sharing student stories, research highlights, and career journeys—where science meets professional growth. 🔗Connect & Grow with Us: bit.ly/3YijXGn #UTSW #PhDLife

Principal Investigator Daniel Siegwart (@DJSiegwart) and researchers at @UTSWMedCenter report the chemical design, synthesis and optimization of high-density brush-shaped polymer lipids that reduce anti-PEG antibody binding to improve protein production consistency in repeated dosing. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Graduate student Omanin Siddiqua Prova will present "Engineered, hydrazon-crosslinked fucoidan hydrogel as a novel immune-modulatory biomaterial" at @SFBiomaterials Annual Meeting in Chicago during Poster Session 3 on Friday, April 10 from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Check out this year’s of Discovery at @UTSWScience and the story ‘Nanotechnology to Delivery Genetic Medicine’ from @DJSiegwart lab 🔬 Read the full story 👉 issuu.com/casualastronau…

Professor Daniel Siegwart, Ph.D., (@DJSiegwart) will present on the development of SORT lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for genome correction at #CRISPRMED25 on Thursday, April 10 in Copenhagen, Denmark during the Innovations in Gene-Editing Delivery Systems session.

At UTSW, our trainees are mentored by expert faculty, receive multidisciplinary training across the biomedical sciences and push the boundaries of scientific progress. Join the innovative research + education of the next generation of scientists bit.ly/3TwNCJp

Faculty from BME and @UTSW_Radiology met yesterday for a mini retreat. The goal of the retreat was to spark innovative research partnerships between both departments and foster collaborative scientific discovery at @utswmedcenter.

Some of our faculty had the opportunity to present at the UTSW Department of Radiology and Department of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Mini-Retreat on Wednesday! @radnucmp @lux_jacques @FrankFYuMD1 @OmarDzaye @utswbme 📸 Check out few moments from the day.

Join the GCD Office for the next installment of our March Madness Series - Communication: Navigating Difficult Conversations. This lecture will provide critical skills to navigate any difficult conversation. You won't want to miss this one! RSVP at bit.ly/4kFGdDE

Exciting talk from Dr. Siegwart, Faculty Member of the Organic Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering Graduate Programs.

We are incredibly proud of Prof. @SamuelAchilefu who was recently elected as a member of @theNAEng. What an inspiration for me personally, for our @AzabLab members, and for every one at the @utswbme, @UtswBmeProgram and @UTSWGradSchool #NAEng #BME #UTSouthwestern

Congratulations to the 2024 Ida M. Green Award for Excellence in Scholarship & Citizenship - Maggie Wang (@MaggieWangP), M.S., 4th Year Biomedical Engineering Student, mentored by Dr. Jinming Gao (@biotransistor). Congratulations, Maggie!

Kicking off our #ComputationalBiology #GradStudent welcome with a solid #InfoSession! @LHBioinf_UTSW @UtswBmeProgram @BMESatUTSW @UTSWGradSchool #Bioinformatics