• BME Grad Student Translates Lab Results to Health Policy

    Samantha Perez is seeking to develop new treatments for pancreatic cancer – and to make sure those treatments are available to everyone, regardless of race or socioeconomic status.

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  • UVA Engineering student invents new wound care technology

    InMEDBio LLC, a company founded by University of Virginia fourth-year student Ashwinraj Karthikeyan, will be one of six undergraduate entrants to compete in the prestigious Collegiate Inventors Competition in November.

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  • UVA Engineering projects on display at the Smithsonian for ACC Innovation Festival

    UVA Engineering students and faculty members are presenting their projects at the inaugural ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival.

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  • Meet the Faculty Entrepreneur Developing a Cancer Drug With Fewer Side Effects

    A company started by a University of Virginia faculty member is developing a drug with the potential to treat multiple cancers without the severe side effects of chemotherapy.

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  • Uncovering the Next Breakthrough in Heart-health Research

    BME Professor Jeff Holmes is one of two investigators nationwide to receive a $1.5 million award from the American Heart Association and the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group's new "Distinguished Investigators" program. A collaboration with Dr. Sarah Ewald in Microbiology and Dr. Zunder in BME, this project will track information flow in the cardiac extracellular matrix during aging and following myocardial infarction.

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  • Triage tool helps doctors save lives by identifying patients at greatest risk

    An international team of researchers has developed a simple way for health care providers to quickly identify and prioritize patients at the greatest risk of death.

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  • Research experience redirects engineering student toward medical school

    Carolyna Teresa Quiles, a fourth-year biomedical engineering major and psychology minor, traveled to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for its “Discoveries in Bioimaging” Research Experiences for Undergraduates program.

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  • UVA mentors join community leaders in event supporting girls in STEM

    UVA Engineering students were among the mentors who met with Charlottesville students during the city's first ESTEAM Conference for Girls.

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  • Alumna-turned-internet security expert listed among nation’s top young innovators

    UVA Engineering alumna Adrienne Porter Felt was named to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review’s list of 35 top innovators under age 35 for her work on web security.

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  • Don’t know where UVA’s Pinn Hall is? There’s an app for that

    Third-year systems engineering major Matthew Wajsgras wanted to get the lay of the land at the University of Virginia before transferring from Virginia Tech, so he created ’Hoos Mobile, an app with everything from maps to class descriptions.

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  • Driverless cars are coming. How will they affect Charlottesville?

    The University of Virginia hosted a daylong community conversation around the coming driverless car age’s impacts on Charlottesville and other small to mid-sized cities around the country.

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  • UVA tests new dummy, aiming to make vehicles safer for soldiers

    UVA is one of seven universities working with the U.S. Army to develop crash test dummies that can closely predict how the human body would behave during an under-body blast – the type of blast generated when land mines or improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, explode beneath a vehicle.

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