Brandon Taylor and Amelia Scott interned in the Rosales Lab and the Marras Lab as a CDCM REU Research Fellow at UT Austin this summer
Dillon Gee interned in the TRUST Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center as a Biomedical Engineering Research Fellow this summer
The Betancourt Lab presented and helped run the National CAMPS Conference this summer at Texas State as Keya Das was awarded 3rd place in the Rapid Fire Talk Session
Keya Das, Moriom Afiza, Dillon Gee, and Sakib Bhuiyan presented their research project at the annual HEXT Conference at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY
Nicolas Bueno Ponce and Mckenzie Siller presented their individual research projects at the RICE Symposium at Texas State
Keya Das and Sakib Bhuiyan were awarded the Texas State Graduate College Scholarship, Congrats!
Keya Das, Sakib Bhuyian, Moriom Afiza, and Shuvo Brahma attended the Texas Soft Matter 2025 Conference at Rice University as Keya Das was awarded Distinguished Appreciation for her talk on “Nanoparticle-Enhanced Differentiation Therapy for Pediatric Neuroblastoma”
Jessica Peterson graduated Spring 2025 with her Masters of Science in Biochemistry Congrats!
Denally Escalona graduated Spring 2025 with her Bachelors of Science in Biology Congrats!
Eunice Rodriguez graduated Summer 2025 with her Bachelors of Science in Clinical Laboratory Science Congrats!
Dr. Tania Betancourt was welcomed into the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) as part of the 2025 Class of Senior Members
Dillon Gee was awarded the prestigious Barry M Goldwater Fellowship for his work in “Creating a Degradable Therapeutic Hydrogel System that Activates Under Oxidative Stress”
Brandon Taylor participated in the UT Girls Day Outreach at UT Austin
Shuvo Brahma presented his work at the MRSEC Annual Meeting and Industry Meeting Day at UT Austin
Brandon Taylor, Nicolas Bueno Ponce, Denally Escolona and Dillon Gee presented at the 2025 TXST STEM Conference as Dillon Gee won 2nd Best Poster Presentation
Junaid ur Rehman, Sakib Hossain Bhuyian, and Dillon Gee presented posters at the 2024 MRS Conference in Boston, MA
Dr. Tania Betancourt, Director of PREM CIMA, was selected as one of AIMBE’s 17 Inaugural Emerging Leaders by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
Brandon Taylor, Amelia Strait, Nicolas Bueno Ponce, and Dillon Gee presented their research at the PREM Poster Showcase
Dillon Gee won Best Poster Presentation in the Engineering, Physics, and Math Division at the National ABRCMS Conference in Pittsburgh, PA
Dillon Gee and Brandon Taylor presented their research at the Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium at UT Austin as Dillon Gee won Best Presentation in the Chemistry 2 Division
Dillon Gee and Nicolas Bueno Ponce participated in an REU at UT Austin this summer
Sakib Hossain and Amelia Strait presented two posters at the annual UT Austin PREM Day meeting
Amelia Strait, Yordanos Kinfe, Brandon Taylor, Ellee Bounds presented posters at the RICE showcase
Amelia Strait presented a posteR at the annual CAMPS conference at U. Chicago with Dr. Betancourt being an invited speaker for the conference
Dillon Gee, Nicolas Bueno Ponce (and their graduate mentor Jessica Peterson) – 1st Place Poster Presentation Award at Undergraduate Level (TXST STEM Conference)
Kushal Thapa (with undergraduate and graduate team members Mackenzie Otakpor, Amelia Strait, Eunice Rodriguez, Yordanos Kinfe and Sakib Bhuiyan) – 2nd Place Poster Presentation Award at Graduate Level (TXST STEM Conference)
Nicolas Bueno Ponce, Larry D. Herwig Research Scholarship, 2024
Jessica Peterson, Wilcox Family Endowed Scholarship, 2024
Ellee Bounds graduated with her BS degree in biology
Jessica Peterson graduated with her BS degree in biochemistry and is now continuing in the early MS program.
Yordanos Kinfe was admitted into the McNair Scholar Program
Betancourt Lab Social at EVOS
Dr. Betancourt was promoted to full professor
Brandon Taylor was accepted into the NIH-funded U-RISE Program which provides further professional development and preparation for pursuit of a graduate degree.
Jessica Peterson was admitted into the CAMINOS for Success Fellowship Program
