Research @ UVA Engineering
Engineering For HealthUVA Engineering is co-located with the top-ranked UVA School of Medicine and UVA Health System, and our culture values and rewards collaboration and initiative.
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Improving Lives: Toddlers With Type 1 Diabetes Can Now Benefit From UVA Invention
A life-changing technology is now available to toddlers. Systems engineering faculty member Marc Breton co-invented the artificial pancreas system that manages insulin levels in diabetic patients.
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Mete Civelek Receives Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association
Mete Civelek uses big data analytics to understand the molecular pathways of disease and develops personalized medicine approaches to cardiovascular and metabolic disorders.
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UVA Bioengineer Finds in Cellular Glue New Answers About Heart Attacks, Strokes
Researchers have found answers about cardiovascular diseases in the cellular “glue” our bodies make to protect us from heart attacks and stroke.
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Biomedical Engineering Alumni and AgroSpheres Co-Founders Share Lessons in Ag Biotech
Classmates Payam Pourtaheri and Ameer Shakeel tell AgroSpheres’ story, from class project to agricultural technology no one else was doing — and what they learned along the way.
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Hear How These Health Innovators Avoid Getting ‘Lost in Translation’
In its debut podcast, the Coulter Center for Translational Research highlights health-care innovators at UVA and beyond who are translating scientific discoveries into tangible healthcare solutions.
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How Artificial Intelligence May Benefit Heart Patients
With machine learning and human learning, scientists uncover the biological cause and effect of fibroblast behaviors after heart attack and advanced the development of new treatments.
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Blood Cancer Discovery Identifies High-Risk Patients, Could Improve Outcomes
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UVA Identifies Trigger for World’s Most Common Liver Disease
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a key trigger for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition causing fat to build up in the liver for no clear reason.
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Kelsey Kubelick Joins the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UVA
Kubelick develops imaging tools to track the movement and efficacy of T cells deployed in cancer therapies, aiming ultimately to enhance the cells’ defensive abilities.
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They've Done It Again!
Noah Perry and Ridhi Sahani won praise from both students and faculty for their ability to bring out the best in their students though engaging, responsive and effective teaching.