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Engineering For Health

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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  • Running With the Right Crowd

    Rachel Letteri is chemical engineering’s second early-career faculty member to earn the NIH Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award.

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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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  • UVA Alumnus Aims to Accelerate Breakthroughs in Critical and Emerging Technologies 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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  • Class of 2022: Garrett Johannsen

    Johannsen wants to work on technologies to treat Type 1 diabetes.

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  • Class of 2022: Will Ashe

    Ashe Has Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

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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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  • UVA Researchers Advance Bioprinting

    Rsearcher’s paper, Digital Assembly of Spherical Viscoelastic Bio-ink Particles, termed DASP, is featured as a cover article in Advanced Functional Materials. 

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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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