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New findings about our body fat help explain the differing health risks men and women face – and set the stage for better, more targeted treatments.

UVA researchers, including BME Professor Jason Papin, have made critically important discoveries linking gut bacteria to everything from babies’ brain development to risks of metastatic breast cancer or depression.

Student volunteers repair masks with new elastic bands.

Biomedical Engineering effort will repair 35,000 masks from the National Strategic Stockpile.

We asked 14 biomedical engineering graduate students four questions. Where did you go to undergrad? What do you like about your research? What do you do outside the labs? What is...

Welcome to an overview of grad student life in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia

Here's the scoop on Charlottesville, life outside the lab, and our tight knit graduate student community.

The staff who support biomedical engineering students and department operations are working remotely. Here's how to reach us:

Student Virtual Office BME Undergraduate Student Support Collab (Piazza Discussion Board, Zoom Office Hours, Student Forum Google Doc) and BME Major on MS Teams (klb4f) BME Grad...

A total of 75,000 swabs are slated for production each week, with 15,000 swabs remaining at UVA Health to support testing at the health system.

Projects range from development of biosensors, artificial intelligence for testing, vaccine development, novel treatment options, and better data analytics to predict the spread of the virus.

UVA Engineering faculty lead $3.2 million, multi-university study to model microbe and mucus interactions.

UVA Engineering's Jason Papin, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Roseanne Ford, professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, lead a new...

Eli Zunder’s New National Institutes of Health RO1 Award

The findings could ultimately help researchers find better ways to regenerate damaged nerve tissue and produce more effective non-opioid painkillers.