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This edition focuses on research, education and thought leadership in biomedical data sciences and systems biology.

UVA biomedical engineering professor Kimberly Kelly founded ZielBio to bring new cancer treatments to market.

Payam Pourtaheri and Ameer Shakeel met in their final year as biomedical engineering students at the University of Virginia (UVA), looking for one last research project that could help propel them into medical school. Three year later (and no medical school), their company AgroSpheres is...

The National Academy of Inventors has named George Gillies, a University of Virginia research professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering, as a 2018 fellow.

Dr. James Daniero, Center for Engineering in Medicine researcher, talks about his research on voice disorders, including the multidisciplinary nature of the "Voice Team."

Machine Learning for Brain Tumors

Assistant Professor of Research Xue Feng wins the BraTS Challenge, which focuses on the evaluation of state-of-the-art methods for the segmentation of brain tumors in multimodal...

What started as an incidental discovery in a chemistry lab has turned into a project to help drug makers and doctors better heal foot wounds of diabetes patients.

In Jeff Holmes' op ed for The Conversation, he argues that "Teaching engineers and healthcare professionals to collaborate is faster, cheaper, and more feasible than building specialty programs to train physician-engineers or launching more biomedical engineering programs."

Projects must link 3 Faculty across 2 Disciplines - and Multiple Schools

Nine new BME projects were just funded by 3 Cavaliers, a UVA seed fund that provides rapid seed funding for collaborative research.

John Hossack Achieves 100 U.S. Patents

This April, John Hossack, professor of biomedical engineering, earned U.S. Patent 9,949,722—his 100th U.S. Patent overall, and his 29th as a faculty member at UVA.