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After her first week as a University of Virginia student, Catherine Henry knew she wanted to be a researcher.

Investigating drug-resistant parasites and movement disorders has netted two University of Virginia second-year students prestigious research awards.

Bryan Berger, an associate professor of chemical engineering, is collaborating with UVA and UVA-Wise researchers to spur economic development in Southwest Virginia through an Appalachian Prosperity Project fellowship.

A First-Ever International Meeting on the Role of Fibroblasts

The World Health Organization estimates that fibrosis is directly implicated in, or responsible for, as many as 40 percent of all deaths across the globe. The University of...

When WebMD wanted to know more about the promise of Focused Ultrasound, they called BME Professor Rich Price, research director of the UVA Focused Ultrasound Center.

One way to get drugs through the blood-brain barrier: smuggle them across using sound waves. BME Professor Richard Price talks in Protomag about his lab's pioneering work using focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and brain tumors.

In an op-ed in Forbes, Dr. Bruce Lee of Johns Hopkins cites the work of BME Professors Shayn Peirce-Cottler and Silvia Blemker. He says their work is an example of how multi-scale modeling promises to fundamentally shift how health and medical research are approached.

Mete Civelek's new award from the American Heart Association

This project will lead to the identification of how genetic factors perturb the function of vascular smooth muscle cells.

The National Academy of Inventors has named George Gillies, a University of Virginia research professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering, as a 2018 fellow.

Christina Kim is a “CODA” – a child of deaf adults – and that identity has shaped her life. The soon-to-graduate University of Virginia biomedical engineering student has sought opportunities during her four years on Grounds to make life its best for the deaf community and for other CODAs.