A three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy will allow the Texas A&M team to study materials that can store and release heat on demand.
A $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow the team to create a wrist-worn system that can continuously monitor a user's blood pressure while they are asleep.
Texas A&M biomedical engineering researchers designed a medical device that mimics blood vessels to design and monitor drugs for patients with clotting disorders.