For the second year in a row, the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia is the no. 1 public and no. 2 overall biomedical engineering department in the Blue Ridge Rankings!
The Blue Ridge Rankings provides annual rankings of institutions, departments, and investigators based on the funding they receive from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), compiled and published by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR). The ranking includes biomedical engineering and bioengineering departments that are formally affiliated with a school of medicine.
At the University of Virginia, the Department of Biomedical Engineering is a joint program of UVA's School of Medicine and UVA Engineering. The department is located within the UVA Health University Medical Center, the top hospital in Virginia and a top-40 hospital nationally.
MORE: 2024 Blue Ridge Rankings
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Here's a list of all-new NIH research grants originated by UVA Biomedical Engineering faculty members in 2024:
| R01HL171377 | 2024 - 2028 | Brent French (Co-I) and Jonathan Lindner (PI) | Ultrasound Cavitation for Facilitated Cardiac Transduction of AAV |
| R01AI18456 | 2024 - 2029 | Sepideh Dolatshahi (PI) | Mechanistic insights into the kinetics of Fc receptor-mediated placental antibody transfer to optimize maternal vaccine strategies |
| R01AI186222 | 2024 - 2029 | Kevin Janes (PI) | In silico modeling of subcellular infection by diverse families of RNA virus |
| R21EB035402 | 2024 - 2026 | Matthew Lazzara (PI) and Shayn Peirce-Cottler (Co-I) | Multiscale Computational Modeling to Design Patterned Tissue Assembloids for Biomanufacturing |
| R21CA286367 | 2024 - 2026 | Richard Price (PI) | Augmenting focused ultrasound-mediated drug delivery to brain tumors with vascular normalization |
| R01HL174999 | 2024 - 2028 | Jeff Saucerman (PI), Antonio Abbate (Co-I), Toldo Stefano (Co-I) | Modeling of cell-specific LRP1 signaling in acute myocardial infarction |