• Improving Lives: Toddlers With Type 1 Diabetes Can Now Benefit From UVA Invention

    A life-changing technology is now available to toddlers. Systems engineering faculty member Marc Breton co-invented the artificial pancreas system that manages insulin levels in diabetic patients.

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  • Mete Civelek Receives Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association

    Mete Civelek uses big data analytics to understand the molecular pathways of disease and develops personalized medicine approaches to cardiovascular and metabolic disorders.


     

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  • UVA Bioengineer Finds in Cellular Glue New Answers About Heart Attacks, Strokes

    Researchers have found answers about cardiovascular diseases in the cellular “glue” our bodies make to protect us from heart attacks and stroke.

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  • Biomedical Engineering Alumni and AgroSpheres Co-Founders Share Lessons in Ag Biotech

    Classmates Payam Pourtaheri and Ameer Shakeel tell AgroSpheres’ story, from class project to agricultural technology no one else was doing — and what they learned along the way.

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  • Grant Is Helping UVA Researchers Fight Deadly Lung Disease

    Biomedical engineering professor Thomas Barker and his team have developed a novel antibody treatment to precisely target and halt progression of lung fibrosis.

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  • Hear How These Health Innovators Avoid Getting ‘Lost in Translation’

    In its debut podcast, the Coulter Center for Translational Research highlights health-care innovators at UVA and beyond who are translating scientific discoveries into tangible healthcare solutions. 

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  • How Artificial Intelligence May Benefit Heart Patients

    With machine learning and human learning, scientists uncover the biological cause and effect of fibroblast behaviors after heart attack and advanced the development of new treatments.

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  • Blood Cancer Discovery Identifies High-Risk Patients, Could Improve Outcomes

  • UVA Identifies Trigger for World’s Most Common Liver Disease

    University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a key trigger for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition causing fat to build up in the liver for no clear reason.

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  • UVA-Led Discovery Challenges 30-Year-Old Dogma in Associative Polymers Research

    A new study appears to challenge a long-held understanding of how the widely used materials function at the molecular level.

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  • Kelsey Kubelick Joins the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UVA

    Kubelick develops imaging tools to track the movement and efficacy of T cells deployed in cancer therapies, aiming ultimately to enhance the cells’ defensive abilities.

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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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