UTD’s Baxter Award Winners Are Engineering Ways To Save Lives

(from left to right) Sasya Madhurantakam, PhD, Ivneet Banga and Qi Cai, PhD

Three University of Texas at Dallas researchers who are developing innovative ways to help save people’s lives have received second-tier Baxter Young Investigator Awards for their work.

Bioengineering postdoctoral researcher Dr. Sasya Madhurantakam, biomedical engineering doctoral student Ivneet Banga and mechanical engineering research associate Dr. Qi Cai are the latest UT Dallas recipients of the award, which supports research to develop therapies and medical products that save and sustain patients’ lives.

Medical technology company Baxter International Inc. named 17 winners of the award, which included six first-tier recipients. UT Dallas was the only institution with more than two awardees in 2022.