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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.
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Meet Sepideh Dolatshahi
A Systems Approach to Understand the Interconnecting Pathways of the Immune System
In this video, Sepideh Dolatshahi, a new assistant professor of biomedical engineering, explains how, early in her Ph.D. training in electrical engineering, she became interested...
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The Microbiome: Tiny Bacteria, Lifelong Impact
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.
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This Summer's REU will be Virtual
Are you self-driven, independent and interested in computational modeling and data science?
This unusual summer, the University of Virginia is hosting a “virtual” version of our NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in multi-scale systems bioengineering...