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 Awards - 2021 Winners

Baxter Young Investigator Awards - 2021 Winners

To celebrate and promote innovative research, Baxter sponsors an annual award program open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The 2021 winners are listed below:

FIRST-TIER WINNERS

Maha Alafeef
Graduate Student
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Dipanjan Pan
Research Topic: SepSENSE, A Biosensing Platform for Synchronous Detection of Pathogen and Immune Response for the Rapid Sepsis Diagnosis

Badrinath Jagannath
Graduate Student
The University of Texas at Dallas
Advisor: Shalini Prasad
Research Topic: Real-time Tracking of Infection using Wearable Sweat Sensor

Sarah Wu
Graduate Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor: Xuanhe Zhao
Research Topic: A Multifunctional Origami Patch for Minimally Invasive Tissue Sealing

Jingjing Wu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor: Xuanhe Zhao
Research Topic: Barnacle-glue-inspired hemostatic paste for rapid and coagulation-independent hemostasis

Jayoung Kim
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
Advisor: Samir Mitragotri
Research Topic: Deep Eutectic Solvent-enabled Intravenous Formulation of Cancer Drugs

Ryan Devine
Graduate Student
University of Georgia
Advisor: Hitesh Handa
Research Topic: Mimicking Blood Vessels: Dual Action Surface for Improvement of Extracorporeal Devices 

 

SECOND-TIER WINNERS

Jean Won Kwak
Graduate Student
Northwestern University
Advisor: John Rogers
Research Topic: A Wireless, Multimodal Sensor for Continuous, Personalized Monitoring of Wound Management

Indrajit Srivastava
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Shuming Nie
Research Topic: Rapid, Ultrasensitive, and Quantitative Detection of Fibrinogen Concentration in Blood Plasma using Biomimetic SERS Nanoparticles Coated with Red Blood Cell Membranes

Niranjan Vijayakumar
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Iowa
Advisor: Suresh M.L. Raghavan
Research Topic: Flushing pressures as a novel safety parameter for intermittent clearance of arterial line conservation systems

Yeonsik Choi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Northwestern University
Advisor: John Rogers
Research Topic: Fully implantable and bioresorbable cardiac pacemakers without leads or batteries

Yuanwen Jiang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University
Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Research Topic: Wireless smart bandage for closed-loop chronic wound management

Zhenwei Ma 
Graduate Student
McGill University
Advisor: Jianyu Li
Research Topic: Bioinspired tough gel sheathed sutures for advanced surgical care

Shelby Yuan 
Graduate Student
Northwestern University
Advisor: Daniel Allar
Research Topic: TGF-β1 Mimetic Peptide Amphiphiles for Cartilage Regeneration

Thinh Le 
Graduate Student
University of Connecticut
Advisor: Thanh Nguyen
Research Topic: Biodegradable Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducer

Max Distler
Graduate Student
Northwestern University
Advisor: Chad Mirkin
Research Topic: DNA Dendrons as Agents for Intracellular Delivery

Siyu He
Graduate Student
Columbia University
Advisor: Kam Leong
Research Topic: Blood vessel organoids as a transformative platform for evaluating the radiation injury and countermeasure drug efficacy

Meilyn Sylvestre
Graduate Student
University of Washington
Advisor: Suzie Pun
Research Topic: Enhancing safety of PEGylated therapeutics with D-amino acid peptides

Max Wang
Graduate Student
Northwestern University
Advisor: Nathan Gianneschi
Research Topic: Development of Rationally Designed Cancer Vaccines Using Protein-Like Polymers (PLPs)