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Richard W. Kent

Chair, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Professor, Biomedical Engineering (Courtesy) Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery (Courtesy)

Dr. Kent is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia. He has worked in the field of automobile safety for 25 years.

Jason R. Kerrigan

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery (courtesy) Director, Center for Applied Biomechanics

Dr. Kerrigan’s research portfolio includes everything from small sample to whole body post-mortem human surrogate testing, human body computational modeling, structural crashworthiness, field data analyses, and dummy biofidelity assessments and improvements. His work has been supported by industry, government, and universities in various countries.

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Matthew J. Lazzara

Professor of Chemical Engineering Professor of Biomedical Engineering Member, UVA Cancer Center

Work in the Lazzara Lab employs a combination of experimental and computational methods to study problems in cell signaling, the complex biochemical process cells use to make decisions.

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Xiaodong (Chris) Li

Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professor ASME Fellow, SEM Fellow

Dr. Li’s expertise and interests include (but not limited to) additive manufacturing, smart manufacturing, nanomaterial-enabled energy systems, biological and bio-inspired materials and devices, biomechanics, micro/nanomechanics, surface engineering, and tribology. He has been PI/Co…

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Tim McMurry

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Dr. McMurry is a biostatistician in the Department of Public Health Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. He then taught statistics at DePaul University and worked as a statistical consultant in Chicago for 7 years before moving…

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Craig H. Meyer

Professor, Biomedical Engineering Professor, Radiology and Medical Imaging

Craig Meyer develops magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques for rapid acquisition and processing of image data in the setting of cardiovascular disease, neural diseases, and pediatrics, using tools in physics, signal processing, image reconstruction, and machine learning.

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Matthew B. Panzer

Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Courtesy) Deputy Director, Center for Applied Biomechanics MAE Director of Graduate Studies (M.E., M.S., Ph.D.)

Dr. Panzer is an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engieering at the University of Virginia, and serves as Deputy Director at the Center for Applied Biomechanics, and is a member of the UVA Brain Injury and Sports Concussion Center.

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Joseph Park

Associate Professor, School of Medicine

Dr. Park is the associate director of the Foot and Ankle Fellowship at UVA and is the team foot and ankle surgeon for UVA Athletics. His research interests include injury biomechanics, sports-related injuries to the foot and ankle, tendon reconstruction, ankle replacement, bone grafting and biomechanical properties of orthopedic implants.

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Richard J. Price

Nancy and Neal Wade Professor of Engineering & Applied Science Department of Biomedical Engineering Co-Director of the UVA Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center

Dr. Price's research program centers on the development and implementation of image-guided drug and gene delivery systems for treating cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

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Daniel Quinn

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associate Professor Quinn first came to the University of Virginia as an undergraduate student in 2006. For his doctoral work, Professor Quinn was awarded the American Physical Society’s Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics. He went on to become a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Bio-Inspired Research and Design at Stanford University.

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Shawn Russell

Assistant Professor

Russell's research interests lie in the increased understanding of the mechanisms of human movement

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Robert S. Salzar

Associate Professor, Academic General Faculty, Research Track

Dr. Salzar has over 25 years of experience in the field of engineering mechanics, with the last 13 years focusing on injury biomechanics. After a two year post-doctoral NRC appointment with the NASA-Glenn Research Center researching advanced aerospace composite materials, Dr. Salzar…