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Payam Pourtaheri and Ameer Shakeel met in their final year as biomedical engineering students at the University of Virginia (UVA), looking for one last research project that could help propel them into medical school. Three year later (and no medical school), their company AgroSpheres is...

Greg Medlock is pioneering the bulk production of probiotics with the help of a $100,000 award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

After her first week as a University of Virginia student, Catherine Henry knew she wanted to be a researcher.

Investigating drug-resistant parasites and movement disorders has netted two University of Virginia second-year students prestigious research awards.

The Biomedical Engineering Society has selected postdoc Adam Dixon (PhD '16) for a national student award.

Bryan Berger, an associate professor of chemical engineering, is collaborating with UVA and UVA-Wise researchers to spur economic development in Southwest Virginia through an Appalachian Prosperity Project fellowship.

UVA Engineering Partners with American Society for Matrix Biology to Lead First-Ever International Meeting that Focuses on the Role of Fibroblasts

The World Health Organization estimates that fibrosis is directly implicated in, or responsible for, as many as 40 percent of all deaths across the globe. The University of...

When WebMD wanted to know more about the promise of Focused Ultrasound, they called BME Professor Rich Price, research director of the UVA Focused Ultrasound Center.

One way to get drugs through the blood-brain barrier: smuggle them across using sound waves. BME Professor Richard Price talks in Protomag about his lab's pioneering work using focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and brain tumors.