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A UVA Post-Doc Wants to Teach the Immune System How to Regenerate Tissue
First, He Needs to Catalog All the Fibroblasts
Biomedical engineering post-doctoral fellow Dan Abebayehu plans to tackle fibrosis by identifying different types of fibroblasts and determining how they work with immune cells.
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How Sex Differences in Musculoskeletal Structure Influence Movement, Injury and Disease
Silvia Blemker Aims to Correct a Profound Limitation in Musculoskeletal Modeling Research
Biomechanics expert Professor Silvia Blemker is building a set of tools to rigorously examine sex as a biological variable in musculoskeletal modeling research.
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Meet our Graduate Students
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...
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UVA Engineering Faculty Member Elected Fellow of the American Society of Biomechanics
Pioneering New Insights into the Form, Function, Biology and Diseases of Muscles
Blemker was elected for exemplary contributions to the understanding of the relationship between skeletal muscle structure and function, in health and disease.
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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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Proving Immersion Matters: UVA Pioneers Engineering-to-Medicine Faculty Fellowships
The UVA Center for Engineering in Medicine pairs engineers with clinicians to transform health care research.
The UVA Center for Engineering in Medicine pairs engineers with clinicians to transform health care research.
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New Funding Roundup
Principal Investigators Earn National Funding to Support New Research
Biomedical engineering faculty originated 13 new research awards over the past 12 months from external sources.
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A Vision for the Future of Tissue Repair
Professors' Big-Picture Ideas for Tissue Engineering Backed by Prestigious AFIRM III Award
George Christ is drawn to tackle large challenges in his field and complete them as quickly as possible.
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Researcher’s Dream
Prestigious NIH Award Frees Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Investigator to Follow the Science
The first proposal Steven Caliari submitted to a funding agency since becoming a father was a big one. He had reason to be hopeful.
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Engineers Develop Device to Automate Tissue Manufacturing for Muscle Repair
Imagine if muscle stem cells could be harvested from the patient, cultured, and then 3-D printed onto a biocompatible substrate, where they would be stretched and exercised to grow and mature to produce a foldable tissue patch that would then be implanted at the muscle wound site.