UVA BME, recently ranked the No. 1 public and No. 2 overall BME department in the Blue Ridge Rankings, is seeing success in new research funding, despite a turbulent year.
According to a report from Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), UVA saw an 18.7% jump in total National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025.
Here in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, our faculty secured seven new NIH grants in FY 2025 (up from six last year), helping to drive this overall institutional success.
Top 50 NIH Funded Institutions of FY 2025
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Seven new NIH research grants received by UVA Biomedical Engineering faculty members in FY 2025:
| Daniel Abebayehu—BME (PI) | R35GM160121 | Mechanisms regulating inflammatory fibroblasts in wound healing |
| Frederick Epstein—BME (PI) and Amit Patel—UVA Medicine (Co-I) | R01HL181257 | MRI of epicardial adipose tissue composition: developmeR01HL175874nt of methods and application to heart failure with preserved ejection fraction IN THE NEWS |
| Craig Meyer—BME (PI), Adrienne Campbell—NIH (co-I) and John Mugler—UVA Radiology (Co-I) | U01HL178354 | Proton and hyperpolarized xenon pulmonary MRI at 0.55T IN THE NEWS |
| Natasha Sheybani—BME (PI) and Dalia Haydar—GWU Pediatrics (Co-I) | R21CA292273 | Focused Ultrasound and CAR T Cells for Pediatric Brain Malignancies IN THE NEWS |
| Jeffrey Saucerman—BME (PI) and Jennifer Davis—UW Bioeng (Co-I) | R01HL176700 | Modeling intra- and inter-cellular networks for TRPC6-dependent cardiac fibrosis IN THE NEWS |
| Evan Scott—BME (PI) | R01HL175874 | Nanotherapeutic strategies for the treatment of chronic Chagas Disease IN THE NEWS |
| Rich Price—BME (PI) and John Lukens—UVA Neuroscience (Co-I) | R01AG086344 | Alzheimer's Disease Therapy via the MR Image-Guided Deletion of Microglial SHIP-1 with Focused Ultrasound IN THE NEWS |