Ambalika Tanak MS’16, PhD’21 and Badrinath Jagannath PhD’21 were previous Baxter Award recipients from UTD, in 2020 and 2021, respectively. 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. “The prestigious Baxter Award is a coveted honor in the field of engineering and applied sciences, recognizing the scientific excellence, creativity and novelty, as well as addressing unmet scientific and technological needs,” Qin said. The promise of developing lab work into solutions for real people is what drew Cai to UT Dallas.