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UVA IDs Genes Responsible for Coronary Artery Disease
The smooth muscle cells lining our arteries can serve as the foundation for the fatty plaques in coronary artery disease. UVA Professor Mete Civelek's team has identified the genes that are responsible for this risk at these locations.
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What Is Biotechnology? Where Is It Headed at UVA?
VA Today spoke to Dr. Richard Price, a biomedical engineer, about the definition of biotechnology and the role it plays at UVA Health.
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Two UVA Engineering Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Inventors
Professors John A. Hossack and Mool C. Gupta have been recognized for their innovations.
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UVA’s John A. Hossack Elected to the National Academy of Inventors
Patent-Prolific Biomedical Engineering Professor Tackles Disease with Ultrasound Innovations
Hossack’s advancements have given health care providers life-saving information and the ability to treat patients with an elevated standard of care.
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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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Leading Tissue Regeneration Expert to Chair UVA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering
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.
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Chair of Biomedical Engineering Named UVA Engineering’s Associate Dean for Research
Frederick H. Epstein’s appointment follows his highly successful decade leading growth and transformation in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He started his new role...
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UVA’s Craig Meyer Elected to National Academy of Inventors
Meyer, a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and Medical Imaging, Joins the List of the Nation’s Top Innovators for His Contributions to MRI Technology and Imaging.
Meyer's work in high-speed MRI technology and imaging has accounted for more than 36 patents and countless patients helped in over three decades of research.
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The University of Virginia Center for Engineering in Medicine Teams with the UVA Coulter Translational Research Partnership to Launch a Clinical Fellow Program
UVA cardiothoracic surgery resident Dr. Evan Rotar will collaborate with UVA School of Medicine clinicians and UVA engineers to design a device that will help cardiac patients...
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UVA IDs Genes That Influence Our Risk for Deadly Coronary Artery Disease
In addition to identifying gene variants that influence risk for coronary artery disease, researchers in Mete Civelek's group have found that one gene in particular appears to have a protective effect.