Thomas Padgett, a biomedical engineering graduate from the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering, earned a fellowship to attend the National Science Foundation's 21st International Summer Academy BIO-X on AI, ML, Data Science in Healthcare, Medicine and Biology.
The academy was held in early June in Greece. As part of the event, Padgett presented research he is working on in the field of the collection and analysis of protein biomarkers.
Padgett will be starting medical school this fall at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Cullen in May 2024, graduating first in his class. He was the Outstanding Senior for the department in 2024, and the Outstanding Junior in 2023.
Padgett currently works in the lab of Chandra Mohan, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor. He is helping to develop a platform for the collection and analysis of protein biomarkers from patient samples. They hope that this platform could one day be used by researchers to easily collect patient samples and connect a myriad of different biomarkers to associated diseases.
After completion of medical school, Padgett plans to pursue a career in neurology.