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UVA 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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Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Biotechnology and Bioengineering Biomedical and Molecular Imaging   Clinical and Translational Science  Systems Biology and Biomedical Data Sciences Biomaterials, Soft Materials and Tissue Engineering
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  • UVA Engineering Professor Elected AIMBE Fellow

    Jeffrey Saucerman has joined the top 2% of medical and biological engineering professionals.

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  • Two UVA Engineering Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Inventors

    Professors John A. Hossack and Mool C. Gupta have been recognized for their innovations. 

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  • A Sponge that Could Give Wounded Soldiers a Fighting Chance

    UVA professor George Christ teams with UC Berkeley professor Kevin Edward Healy to develop a hydrogel material that can be placed directly in wounds to make up for missing muscle mass. 

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  • New Training Grant Matches Computation and Modeling to Experimental Design

    When Remziye Erdogan learned about the new Systems and Biomolecular Data Science Training Program designed to immerse students in the techniques of systems biology, she jumped at the chance to apply.

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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 Biomedical Engineers Aim to Mass Produce Muscle Cells for Treating Traumatic Injuries

    Rachel Bour is part of a team that’s getting closer to helping the thousands of Americans who suffer from perm

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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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  • Chair of Biomedical Engineering Named UVA Engineering’s Associate Dean for Research

    Frederick H. Epstein’s appointment follows his highly successful decade leading growth and transformation in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He started his new role March 1.

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

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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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  • Electronic Sensor Can Classify Chronic and Infectious Disease Metrics

    Swami's cover article for Lab on a Chip presents data analytics for high throughput phenotypic identification of cells, bacteria and viruses.

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