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Assistant professor Andrew Nordin is part of a collaborative effort, “Free Rein,” to show via mobile EEG how music and dance influence the mind at a certain of performances recently. He talked about this effort on Houston Public…
Nordin part of multi-discipline effort to ‘show’ creativity via EEG
University of Houston students aren't just learning in classrooms — they’re helping advance the future of health care through hands-on research in cancer, diabetes and microbiology planetary protection. Working alongside faculty…
The Future of Health Care is Here: Student Imagination Powers Research and Innovation at UH
Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student Guzel Musina has been awarded her second predoctoral fellowship by the American Heart Association (AHA) for her project, “Novel optogenetics tool for the mouse embryonic cardiodynamic research…
Guzel Musina Receives Second AHA Fellowship Award
A passionate interest in their chosen topic and a range of engineering knowledge were the keys to success for the team of five that took home the audience award for the Fall 2025 UH NAE Grand Challenges Summit & Create@UH…
Clean water in Ecuador project earns audience award at NAE Grand Challenges Summit & Create@UH Showcase
Sanidh Shah, an undergraduate honors biochemistry student and a student researcher in Cullen Endowed Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering Kirill Larin’s Biomedical Optics Lab (BOL), was selected to participate in the…
BME’s Student Researcher Shah Participates in Exclusive Fraunhofer Photonica 2025 Summer School
In a finding set to change the way disease is monitored, Chandra Mohan, an international expert and pioneer in lupus research at the University of Houston, is reporting that urine samples can indicate lupus nephritis in a…
BME’s Mohan Reports Simple Urine Test Could Transform Kidney Care
For Amanda Nash, there isn’t one specific factor that can fully explain how she went from not planning on going to college at all, to becoming an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering with multiple degrees from the University of…
BME graduate Nash now assistant professor at Rice University
The University of Houston is a national leader in vision science, receiving more National Eye Institute research funding than any other institution in Texas and placing among the top 10 recipients nationwide. With 29 active NEI-…
UH Leads Texas in National Eye Institute Research Funding, With Help From Cullen
A team of endowed professors and vision researchers at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has been awarded more than $3.6 million by the National Eye Institute to investigate a gene in the eye, crucial for…
BME Researchers Awarded $3.6M to Examine Retinal Diseases, Blindness
A new review paper published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers from the research group of Kirill Larin, Cullen Endowed Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, highlights several key advantages and limitations of optical…
Paper from BME’s Larin, Singh examines growth of non-invasive mechanical imaging technique
With a $1 million Impact Award from the U.S. Department of Defense, Tianfu Wu, a University of Houston biomedical engineer, is developing a method to send medication directly to the spleen where certain immune cells cause the…
BME's Wu Creates New Drug Delivery System to Tackle Lupus
An assistant professor at the Cullen College of Engineering has received $629,000 in funding to conduct research into helping patients recover after spinal cord injuries. Zhengwei Li is an assistant professor and Presidential…
BME’s Li earns NIH Trailblazer Award for spinal cord injury rehab
With a $1.2M grant from the Department of Defense, Tianfu Wu, associate professor of biomedical engineering, will lead a team of researchers, partnering with those from MD Anderson Cancer Center, in finding early markers for…
BME’s Wu Leads Team Advancing Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer
The University of Houston and the Cullen College of Engineering have received a generous $1.1 million gift from the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation to advance potentially life-changing research on Usher Syndrome, a rare…
Cullen, UH Receives $1.1M Gift for Biomedical Engineering Research
The new University of Houston Cancer Immunotherapy Biomarker Core facility will accelerate biomarker discovery, improve immunotherapy targeting and expand research capacity across Texas — enhancing the state’s competitiveness in…
UH, Cullen Awarded $3M to Launch Cancer Biomarker Facility for Immunotherapy Research
REMINDER! You can view the ceremony live on YouTube by click here! A replay will be available after the ceremonies as well. Hello to all friends, family and colleagues of the Cullen College of Engineering’s Spring 2025 graduation…
2025 Cullen Spring Commencement Live Blog
The Cullen College of Engineering is proud to recognize the stellar research and teaching efforts of 28 different members of its community with the 2024–25 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards. The winners were announced at the…
28 Honored With 2024-25 Faculty and Staff Excellence Awards
Guzel Musina, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded a predoctoral fellowship by the American Heart Association (AHA) for her project, “Novel optogenetics tool for the mouse embryonic…
BME Grad Student Musina Receives AHA Fellowship Award
The Cullen College of Engineering remains among the Top 50 public graduate engineering schools in the nation according to U.S. News & World Reports, coming in at #44 in the 2025 rankings released on April 8. Cullen is ranked…
Cullen Remains Top 50 Public Engineering College, Per U.S. News & World Reports
More than 60 professors from the Cullen College of Engineering were recognized for their accomplishments as scholars, researchers and academic innovators on March 31 as part of the President’s Circle Awards, presented by the…
Cullen Professors Honored at UH President’s Circle Awards