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UVA Scientists Target Dangerous, Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
Researchers hope to find shared traits and weaknesses in bacteria that develop resistance to antibiotics and use those weaknesses against them. Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem around the world.
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A New Tool to Prevent Harmful Medication Side Effects
From the "Making of Medicine" blog: Jason Papin, PhD, is one of the developers of a sophisticated new computer model that will help produce safer medications.
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Inviting Applicants for Multiple Open Rank Faculty Appointments in BME at UVA
Applicant review will begin December 1, 2023.
Housed both in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Medicine, the department's unique positioning provides a collaborative and translational...
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UVA Discovery Could Ease Jet Lag, Improve Chemotherapy, Among Other Benefits
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.
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UVA Health Awarded $15 Million to Better Understand Artery Hardening
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.
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UVA's Exploration of New Frontier in Cancer Research Nets $12M Award
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.
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Maternal and Placental Immune Regulation
From Mother to Baby: Uncovering the Mechanisms of Antibody Transfer Across Racial Groups
Sepideh Dolatshahi, Ph.D., has earned seed grant funding from the Jeffress Trust to uncover the mechanisms of antibody transfer across racial groups.
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University of Virginia Researchers Are Mapping Lung Cell Communication and Behaviors to Save Lives
An engineering-medicine-data science collaboration aims to end terminal disease diagnoses for more than 100K Americans.
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Two UVA Engineering Professors Elected AIMBE Fellows
Joining the top 2% of medical and biological engineering professionals
William H. Guilford and Aidong Zhang have joined the top 2% of medical and biological engineering professionals.
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Muscle by Muscle, This UVA Startup Company is Revolutionizing Sports Medicine and Beyond
Within five years, the team hopes that Springbok’s precision muscle analysis will be widely used in pro and college sports, and also in many areas of medicine.