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UVA Today spoke to Dr. Richard Price, a biomedical engineer, about the definition of biotechnology and the role it plays at UVA Health.

Patent-Prolific Biomedical Engineering Professor Tackles Disease with Ultrasound Innovations

Hossack’s advancements have given health care providers life-saving information and the ability to treat patients with an elevated standard of care.

U.S. Department of Defense Awards UVA and UC Berkeley $3.6M to Create a Muscle and Tissue Regeneration Device for Urgent Battlefield Treatment

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...

Erwin Gianchandani, a UVA graduate and assistant director at the National Science Foundation, will help administer about $450 million in new federal funding aimed at pushing technological development.

Shayn Peirce-Cottler’s Work Contributes to Improved Injury Healing and Disease Treatments

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.

Ph.D. Student Advances the Tissue Biomanufacturing Processes Needed to Scale Up Production

Rachel Bour is part of a team that’s getting closer to helping the thousands of Americans who suffer from permanent loss of skeletal muscle after injuries or diseases.

Biomedical Engineering Professor Kimberly Kelly’s Company Advances to Human Clinical Trials with a Promising Antibody Treatment for Deadly Pancreatic Cancer

UVA Engineering's Kimberly Kelly, and her team at ZielBio Inc., have moved a potential cure for one of the world’s most heinous diseases into human clinical trials.

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...

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

Biomaterials expert Don Griffin is taking his team's success using microporous annealed particle (MAP) gels for wound healing to a dynamic, difficult environment.

Within five years, the team hopes that Springbok’s precision muscle analysis will be widely used in pro and college sports, and also in many areas of medicine.