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U.S. Department of Defense Awards UVA and UC Berkeley $3.6M to Create a Muscle and Tissue Regeneration Device for Urgent Battlefield Treatment

UVA professor George Christ teams with UC Berkeley professor Kevin Edward Healy to develop a hydrogel material that can be placed directly in wounds to make up for missing muscle...

Biology is Now a Data Science

When Remziye Erdogan learned last spring about the new Systems and Biomolecular Data Science Training Program designed to immerse graduate students in the techniques of systems...

Kinase inhibitors are the most common cancer drugs approved by the FDA. They can be hugely effective, but they don’t work for everyone. UVA’s new algorithm offers a new and better way to pinpoint patients who will benefit – an important step forward in precision medicine tailored to the individual...

Erwin Gianchandani, a UVA graduate and assistant director at the National Science Foundation, will help administer about $450 million in new federal funding aimed at pushing technological development.

Miniature “guts in a dish” and advanced computer modeling to reveal how microscopic organisms that naturally live in our guts direct the timing of daily activities of the cells lining our intestines.

The Leducq Foundation, which is dedicated to battling cardiovascular disease and stroke, has funded four projects worldwide for 2022. Two of those involve researchers here at UVA.

Here's what it's like to be a graduate student in BME at UVA

In choosing a graduate school, you are choosing a local community as well as an academic home. Here's what it's like to be a BME graduate student in Charlottesville, VA.

Pioneers in Cancer Systems Biology will Establish a Center to Look Deep Inside Cells at the “Little Organs” of Cancer

New research center, funded by the NIH's National Cancer Institute, to leverage UVA's expertise in cancer systems biology and biomedical data sciences.

Shayn Peirce-Cottler’s Work Contributes to Improved Injury Healing and Disease Treatments

Her research focuses on tiny blood vessels that are one-tenth the diameter of a human hair, needed to regenerate tissues damaged by injury or disease.

Q&A with Scott Acton, New Chair of UVA’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Acton's knowledge of the research enterprise and dedication to creating a meaningful student experience positions UVA Engineering for continued growth.