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How you get a complete functional blood vessel that can withstand the mechanical force exerted by blood pressure? Researchers combined computational models from two labs in the Schools of Engineering and the School of Medicine to show that the gene Oct4 is of central importance.

Q&A with BME 3rd Years: How and why did you become involved with undergraduate research?

UVA Engineers are 28% of the 2019 cohort of Harrison Undergraduate Research Award winners. CS and BME majors were particularly successful in securing the $5000 grant.

Company’s founders draw lessons from predecessors in pursuit of a trophy for fourth consecutive year

Alexander Singh and Rohit Rustagi, founders of Minimally Invasive Spinal Technology LLC, know that representing UVA at this year’s ACC InVenture Prize means filling big shoes.

Mete Civelek's new award from the American Diabetes Association

Mete Civelek builds on work published in Nature Genetics in 2018 to understand how the KLF14 gene affects fat cells, body fat distribution, and Type 2 Diabetes.

University of Virginia Biomedical Engineering Professor Silvia Blemker explains why cultural messages of perfection for girls are keeping them out of STEM work at the highest academic levels.

AgroSpheres, a company founded by UVA Engineering graduates Payam Pourtaheri (nanomedicine engineering, 2016) and Ameer Shakeel (biomedical engineering, 2017), is one of eight agricultural technology startups to compete for $250,000 in the Radicle Challenge.

Machine Learning for Brain Tumors

Assistant Professor of Research Xue Feng wins the BraTS Challenge, which focuses on the evaluation of state-of-the-art methods for the segmentation of brain tumors in multimodal...

"Super Sunday” is almost here, and while many people are planning Super Bowl parties and looking forward to an exciting game, engineers with the University of Virginia’s Center for Applied Biomechanics and a UVA spin-off company, Biocore, will be watching with a particular degree of insight,...

The University of Virginia announced plans to establish a School of Data Science, an effort made possible in part by the largest private gift in the institution’s 200-year history. The School of Data Science – UVA’s 12th school and the first established since 2007 – will position the University as...