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 & Services

    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 - 2016 Winners

Baxter Young Investigator Award - 2016 Winners

To celebrate and promote innovative research, Baxter sponsors an annual award program open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The 2016 winners are listed below:

FIRST-TIER WINNERS

Zida Li
Graduate Student 
University of Michigan
Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Jianping Fu
Research Title:A Miniaturized Hemoretractometer for Blood Clot Retraction Testing

Joonyoung Park
Graduate Student
Purdue University
Industrial & Physical Pharmacy 
Advisor: Yoon Yeo
Research Title: Development of carrier-free albumin functionalized paclitaxel nanocrystals

Jeffrey Plott
Graduate Student 
University of Michigan
Mechanical Engineering 
Advisor: Albert Shih
Research Title: Device to Aid in Arterial Microvascular Anastomosis

Shang Song
Graduate Student
University of California, San Francisco 
Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences
Advisor: Shuvo Roy
Research Title: Silicon Nanopore Membrane (SNM) for islet encapsulation and immuniosolation under convective transport to treat Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)

Jacqueline Wallat 
Graduate Student 
Case Western Reserve University 
Macromolecular Science & Engineering 
Advisor: Jon Pokorski 
Research Title: A Clickable-Fluorous Nanoparticle Platform for Imaging Tumors

Andrea Wolf 
Graduate Student
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Surgery
Advisor: Gregory Beilman
Research Title: Preclinical Characterization and Optimization of BHB/M, a Low-Volume Intravenous Resuscitation Fluid for the Treatment of Hemorrhagic Shock

SECOND-TIER WINNERS

Elizabeth Brisbois
PostDoctoral Fellow 
University of Michigan
Surgery 
Advisor: Mark Meyerhoff
Research Title: Therapeutic nitric oxide (NO) delivery from biomedical polymers for improved hemocompatibility for extracorporeal circulation (ECC)

Kambez Hajipouran Benam
PostDoctoral Fellow 
Harvard
Biologically Inspired Engineering
Advisor: Donald Ingber
Research Title: Small airway-on-a-chip enables analysis of human lung inflammation, drug responses and recreation of inhaled smoke-induced micropathologies in vitro

Umer Hassan
PostDoctoral Fellow
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Bioengineering 
Advisor: Rashid Bashir
Research Title: Differential Immuno-Capture Biochip for Disease Diagnosis & Management

Jungwoo Kim 
Graduate Student 
California Institute of Technology 
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
Advisor:James Heath
Research Title: Serum proteomic measurement for monitoring and predicting glioblastoma patient responses to an anti-angiogenic drug treatment

Joshua Laber 
Graduate Student 
University of Texas, Austin
Chemical Engineering
Advisor: Jennifer Maynard
Research Title: High trehalose and histidine formulation tempers surface charge mediated solubility and viscosity effects for supercharged green fluorescent proteins at high concentrations

Buddhadev Layek 
PostDoctoral Fellow 
University of Minnesota 
Experimental & Clinical Engineering 
Advisor: Swayam Prabha 
Research Title: Glycoengineered Mesenchymal Stem Cells as an Enabling Platform for Two-Step Targeting of Solid Tumors

Phillip Lewis
Graduate Student
Northwestern University
Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Ramile Shah
Research Title: 3D Printing and Matrix Culture Strategies for in vitro Liver Tissue Models

Chien-Sheng Liao
Graduate Student
Purdue University
Biomedical Engineering
Advisor:Ji-Xin Cheng
Research Title: Quantification of circulating tumor cells by intravital stimulated Raman flow cytometry

Lorenzo Rossini
Graduate Student 
University of California, San Diego
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Advisor:Juan Carlos del Alamo
Research Title: A Clinical Method to Assess the Risk of Thrombus Formation in the Left Ventricle

Metin Uz
PostDoctoral Fellow
Iowa State University
Chemical & Biological Engineering
Advisor: Surya Mallapragada
Research Title: Bioinspired Stimuli-Responsive Membranes for Biomedical Applications

Qian Wu
PostDoctoral Fellow
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Chemistry
Advisor: Jonathan Sweedler
Research Title: The development of novel measurement approaches for unbiased chemical characterization of the temporal and spatial changes of tissue samples