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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 Biotechnology & Biomolecular Engineering Biotechnology and Bioengineering Biomedical Imaging   Clinical and Translational Science  Systems Biology and Biomedical Data Science Biomaterials, Soft Materials and Tissue 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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  • 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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  • For Good: Luis Lopez Ruiz

    Ph.D. candidate Luis Lopez Ruiz is building smart healthcare devices that are powered by the human body in order to achieve better health outcomes for patients.

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  • UVA Engineering's Graduate Enrollment Continues Sharp Upward Climb

    UVA Engineering’s graduate program has grown significantly, while the quality of its incoming students has remained as high as ever.

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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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  • UVA Medicine Teams with the Coulter to Launch a Clinical Fellow Program

    UVA cardiothoracic surgery resident Dr. Evan Rotar will collaborate with UVA School of Medicine clinicians and UVA engineers to design a device that will help cardiac patients with severe heart failur

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