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World’s First Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center Will Be at UVA
The $8 million investment will generate clinical trials and other research that will directly benefit patients.
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Scientists Transform Beating Heart Stem Cells Into Brain Cells
By turning off a single gene, University of Virginia researchers and their collaborators caused stem cells already becoming heart cells to change course and become future brain cells.
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Faculty Spotlight: Valdez Makes Travel Easier for People With Disabilities
Rupa Valdez, associate professor in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, conducts research that involves thinking about and designing useful systems to help people living with disabilities and chronic health conditions.
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UVA Engineering Graduate Students Earn Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Eight graduate students and two graduating fourth-year students at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have received National Science Foundation...
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Could a UVA Professor’s Invention Have Saved my Father?
Biomedical Engineering Professor Kimberly Kelly’s Company Advances to Human Clinical Trials with a Promising Antibody Treatment for Deadly Pancreatic Cancer
UVA Engineering's Kimberly Kelly, and her team at ZielBio Inc., have moved a potential cure for one of the world’s most heinous diseases into human clinical trials.
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Student Researcher Adding 3D Printers to the Anti-Cancer Arsenal
Ailene Edwards, biomedical engineering major and Harrison Undergraduate Research Grant recipient in Matt Lazzara’s chemical engineering lab, is trying to develop 3D models of tumors that can mimic real-life conditions.
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Engineering New Tools for New Hearts: Helping Children on the Transplant Waitlist
A University of Virginia pediatric cardiologist and data scientist team up to better match hearts to patients
Almost 20% of pediatric patients on the U.S. wait list for heart transplants die before they receive a heart. A UVA engineering-medicine research team is dedicated to saving lives...
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Medicine Meets Big Data: Clinicians Look to AI for Disease Prediction and Prevention
Donald E. Brown, W.S. Calcott Professor in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, and Dr. Sana Syed, a UVA Health pediatric gastroenterologist, are using deep learning methods in their quest to improve patient outcomes.
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Policy Internship Program Alumnus Vinu Ilakkuvan's TEDx Talk on Our Approach to Health
Vinu Ilakkuvan, a PIP 2007 alumnus, hosted a TEDx talk on our misguided approach to health in the United States and how to solve it.
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UVA Researchers Advance Bioprinting
New Technique Uses Hydrogel Particles to Build 3D Structures
Their paper, Digital Assembly of Spherical Viscoelastic Bio-ink Particles, termed DASP, is featured as a cover article in Advanced Functional Materials.