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  • UVA's Exploration of New Frontier in Cancer Research Nets $12M Award

    New research center, funded by the NIH's National Cancer Institute, to leverage UVA's expertise in cancer systems biology and biomedical data sciences.

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  • Leading Tissue Regeneration Expert to Chair UVA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Her research focuses on tiny blood vessels that are one-tenth the diameter of a human hair, needed to regenerate tissues damaged by injury or disease. 

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  • UVA Alumnus Aims to Accelerate Breakthroughs as Head of New NSF Directorate

    Alumnus Edwin Gianchandani intends to create stronger ties between research, manufacturing and the marketplace across the nation to develop and scale key technology areas.

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  • Engineering New Tools for New Hearts: Helping Children on the Transplant Waitlist

    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 changing that.

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  • How Sex Differences in Musculoskeletal Structure Influence Movement, Injury and Disease

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  • Maternal and Placental Immune Regulation

    Sepideh Dolatshahi, Ph.D., has earned seed grant funding from the Jeffress Trust to uncover the mechanisms of antibody transfer across racial groups.

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  • On the Fast Track

    UVA Biomedical Engineer Receives NIH Director's Early Independence Award

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  • University of Virginia Researchers Are Mapping Lung Cell Communication and Behaviors to Save Lives

    An engineering-medicine-data science collaboration aims to end terminal disease diagnoses for more than 100K Americans.

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  • A Messenger for Medicine

    Yanjun Qi is using powerful deep-learning models to analyze biomedical data to uncover how genes and messenger RNA interact.

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  • A Research Hat Trick

    When an athlete scores three times in a single game, it's called a hat trick. If scientific research had hat tricks, Janes would have fans screaming in the stands.

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  • New Faculty Member Has a Strategy for Unraveling the Complexity of Cancer Research

    Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani moved his research lab to UVA, in part because this is a great place for a cancer systems biologist to take on a complex challenge.

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  • A Healthy Dose of Data Improves Patient Care

    Using analysis and modeling to individualize treatment strategies for Type 1 diabetes

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