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Our mission: Transform healthcare and medicine.

We achieve our mission by discovering new knowledge, designing new technologies and training the next generation of leaders to solve the world’s challenges. As we succeed, we disseminate hope to all people.

Working Together to Build the Future of Medicine

Our co-location within UVA Engineering, the UVA School of Medicine and the UVA Health System uniquely positions us to make a difference. Our culture values and rewards collaboration, initiative and the translation of basic advances to achieve clinical and real world impact. In all that we do, we value and strive for diversity and inclusion.

7 Federally funded student training programs

Includes two NIH T32 Training Grants and an NSF REU

18 Years in a row that a graduating biomedical engineer was a "UVA Engineering Outstanding Student"

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Biomedical Engineering's Candid Conversations

An ongoing series of inclusive discussions about race, LGBTQ+ identity, disability and other identities, led by the graduate student chairs of the department's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Committee