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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 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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  • Research Team Develops New Class of Soft Materials

    Assistant Professor Liheng Cai collaborated with Brookhaven National Laboratory to conduct soft biomatter research. 

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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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  • It's a Pattern, Not a Trend

    Meet the biomedical engineering students who have continued the department's success in securing competitive funding to support research and scholarship.

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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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  • For Patient Airways Injured by Intubation, a New Approach for Healing

    Deploying a Hydrogel to Wounds in the Trachea Poses a Distinct Challenge

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  • Stretching Possibilities

    Liheng Cai aims to design soft polymers capable of new feats, such as 3D printing materials for use in tissue engineering, optical devices or stretchable fabrics with embedded electronics.

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  • Researcher’s Dream

    Steven Caliari knew what the NIH’s Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award for Early-Stage Investigators would mean for his young research program, and the good his science could do.

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  • Cine DENSE MRI: A Tool for the Early Detection of Heart Dysfunction Moves Closer to Commercialization

    For the last 15 years, Epstein and the researchers in his group have been the world leaders in developing a cardiac magnetic resonance imaging technology that can directly measure the contractile func

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  • Trailblazer Strikes Again

    With newfound research compass, Beverly Miller is branching into less-explored territory of reproductive tissue engineering.

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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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  • Silvia Blemker Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite

    Now Twelve BME Faculty Members are AIMBE Fellows

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  • Longstanding MRI relationship with Siemens

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