Healthcare Professionals

Committed to helping you meet the evolving challenges and opportunities in patient care.

Healthcare Professionals
  • Primary Care

    Supporting every aspect of your clinical practice, including physical exam, diagnostic cardiology, vitals monitoring and vision screening

  • Hospital Care

    Advancing products and technologies designed to speed patient recovery and streamline clinical workflows

  • Surgical Care

    Delivering innovations that enable reduced operating times, faster patient recovery and improved outcomes

  • Kidney Care

    Pioneering care in hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD) and digital health to support better outcomes for your patients

  • Nutritional Care

    Personalizing nutritional care designed to improve patients’ health in the hospital, the ICU and at home

  • Respiratory Care

    Helping your patients with respiratory therapies designed to simplify delivery and improve mobility

  • Our Products

    Our portfolio of acute, nutritional, renal, hospital and surgical care products helps advance healthcare around the world.

Perspectives

For nearly a century, we have worked at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives.

Perspectives

Our Story

Our 90-year heritage gives us distinct perspective on the needs of patients and caregivers. We lead today by putting those insights to work to deliver new, better healthcare solutions and access to care in the communities where we live and work.

Our Story
  • Our Leadership

    Our forward-looking leadership team is a driving force in ensuring we meet the needs of all our stakeholders – every day and everywhere.

  • Our Governance

    We are proud of our strong commitment to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance.

  • Fueling Collaborative Innovation

    Nurturing a culture of innovation is critical to delivering on our mission to save and sustain lives. We partner with the healthcare community to continually find more efficient, smarter ways to help solve the world's most pressing healthcare challenges.

  • Corporate Responsibility

    We strive to create lasting value by empowering our patients, protecting our planet and championing our people and communities.

  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

    We are committed to attracting, motivating and retaining an inclusive and diverse workforce.

  • Our History

    For nearly a century, we’ve been focused on saving and sustaining lives and elevating patient care.

Patients

Helping you reach a healthy life, full of possibility.

Patients
  • General Healthcare

    Whether you are receiving care in the hospital, at your doctor’s office or at home, we are here to support every step of your journey.

  • Nutritional Care

    When medical conditions prevent you from adequately feeding yourself, we provide life-saving clinical nutrition options to help you regain your nutritional status.

  • Kidney Care

    Kidney disease is an ongoing journey for you and your family. While every journey is unique, Baxter is committed to supporting access to care options to meet your medical and lifestyle needs.

  • Respiratory Care

    We are committed to helping you with innovative products that deliver effective, proven respiratory therapy in the hospital and at home.

Baxter Young Investigator Award - 2018 Winners

Baxter Young Investigator Award - 2018 Winners

To celebrate and promote innovative research, Baxter sponsors an annual award program open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The 2018 winners are listed below:

FIRST-TIER WINNERS

David Miller
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Texas at Austin
Advisor: Andrew Dunn
Research Title: Visualization of Blood Flow During Surgery with Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging

Yihua Pei
Postdoctoral Fellow
Purdue University
Advisor: Yoon Yeo
Research Title: Engineering Vancomycin-loaded Nanoparticles for Treating Intracellular MRSA Infection

Shreya Kulkarni
Graduate Student
University of Connecticut
Advisor: Robin Bogner
Research Title: Factors Governing the Reconstitution Time of Highly Concentrated Lypophilized Protein Formulations

Danilo Donato
Baxter Renal
Hechingen, Germany
Advisor: Markus Storr
Research Title: A Novel Reference Framework to Optimize the Design of Hollow Fiber Dialyzers Based on Mathematical Model

Leslie Rank
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graduate Student
Advisor: Samuel Gellman
Research Title: Development of Peptide-like Nylon-3 Polymers for the Treatment and Prevention of Fungal Lung Disease

Shachi Mittal
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Student
Advisor: Rohit Bhargava
Research Title: Rapid and Digital Assessment of Breast Tissue: a Paradigm Shift in Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment and Patient Outcomes

SECOND-TIER WINNERS

Srivats Sarathy
Graduate Student
University of Iowa
Advisor: Suresh Raghavan
Research Title: ECMO Circuit Flow Monitoring: Detecting Oxygenator Complications

Forough Jahandideh
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Alberta
Advisor: Stephane Borque
Research Title: Novel Approaches to Target the NO-sGC Axis for the Treatment of Organ Hypoperfusion in Sepsis and Septic Shock

Priyadarshini Singha
Graduate Student
University of Georgia
Advisor: Hitesh Handa
Research Title: Antifouling, Anti-Infection, and Antithrombotic Medical Device Coatings for Renal and Critical Care

Buket Aydas
Graduate Student
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Advisor: Mukul Goyal
Research Title: A Discrete-Evident Simulation Approach for Modeling Human Body Glucose Metabolism

Rashid Alobaidi
Graduate Student
University of Alberta
Advisor: Sean Bagshaw
Research Title: The Association Between Acute Kidney Injury and Fluid Overload in Critically Ill Children

Misuk Bae
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Illinois at Chicago
Advisor: Richard Minshall
Research Title: Novel Peptide Micellar Nanoformulation Inhibits von Willebrand Factor Secretion and Reduces Thrombotic Complications in Sepsis

Pawel Zbysynski
Graduate Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Advisor: Glen Kwon
Research Title: PEGylated FUD Peptide (PEG-FUD) as a Renal Fibrosis Therapeutic

Pan Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Northwestern University
Advisor: Jing Jin
Research Title: Targeted Design of a Novel Kidney-targeting Biologic Tracer for the Detection of Kidney Injury by SPECT

Ana Morais
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kansas University
Advisor: Mark Shiflett
Research Title: Next-generation of Drug Delivery Carriers; Enhanced Thermal Stability of Proteins, and their Release in Biologically Active Form