Our faculty are not content to trod well-worn engineering paths. Instead, they are driven to pursue innovations in teaching, research that address truly complex challenges, and to pursue worldwide leadership roles in their fields. See Also: Emeritus Faculty Directory.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Currently Recruiting
Using biomaterials to investigate immune cell-fibroblast crosstalk during tissue fibrosis and regeneration in order to better understand disease pathogenesis and identify new therapeutic targets.
Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, Biomedical EngineeringDirector, NSF REU in Multiscale Systems Bioengineering and Biomedical Data Sciences
Timothy E. Allen teaches and mentors students in the areas of computational modeling of complex biological systems, molecular and cell biology assays, and medical device design.
Assistant Professor, Departments of Cell Biology and Biomedical Engineering
Currently Recruiting
Sameer Bajikar uses multidisciplinary approaches from human stem cells to computational models to understand how brain function goes awry in neurodevelopmental disorders to engineer new therapies for these diseases.
Thomas Barker explores and therapeutically exploits the fundamental links between fibroblast adaptation to their physical and biochemical microenvironment and their myofibroblastic differentiation during tissue repair, fibrosis and cancer.
Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty, Teaching Track, Biomedical EngineeringUndergraduate Program Director
Shannon Barker, Ph.D., focuses on ensuring that the BME undergraduate program's educational objectives and learning outcomes, as well as its curriculum, reflect an innovative and highly effective learning environment that meets the needs of all of its students, as well as employers…
The Berger lab uses biotechnology to solve important biomedical, environmental and industrial challenges, and seeks opportunities to translate these technologies to market.
Professor, Biomedical EngineeringProfessor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Courtesy)
Currently Recruiting
Silvia Blemker uses experimental and computational models to characterize the relationships between muscle structure, biomechanical properties, biology, and function in order to develop new treatments for musculoskeletal disease
Founding Dean, School of Data ScienceProfessor, Biomedical Engineering
Currently Recruiting
Philip E. Bourne leads a range of initiatives to encourage and facilitate the use of big data in large-scale research across the scientific and technological disciplines, with special emphasis on structural bioinformatics and systems pharmacology.
Associate Professor of Chemical EngineeringAssociate Professor of Biomedical EngineeringChE Graduate Program Director
The Caliari Lab designs, synthesizes, and characterizes new biomaterials to explore the dynamic interplay between cells and their microenvironment, applying these platforms to address fundamental human health challenges in understanding disease and engineering tissues.
Managing Director, Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational ResearchAssistant Dean for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Partnerships, UVA EngineeringProfessor of Practice, Biomedical Engineering
David Chen is the founding Managing Director of the Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational Research at the University of Virginia and Professor of Practice in Biomedical Engineering.
