Biomaterials, Biomechanics, and Biomanufacturing

We are excited to announce two faculty searches for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia with a focus on autonomous systems.

"Super Sunday” is almost here, and while many people are planning Super Bowl parties and looking forward to an exciting game, engineers with the University of Virginia’s Center for Applied Biomechanics and a UVA spin-off company, Biocore, will be watching with a particular degree of insight,...

Multi-Scale Systems Bioengineering REU at UVA

Each summer, UVA trains undergraduates from a variety of STEM backgrounds in the skills, confidence, and mentorship necessary for successful careers in the exciting field of...

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."

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"Also, everyone here is doing VERY cool science."

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"After recruiting visits to several other schools, it was clear to me that the culture and mentorship style at UVA was what I was looking for."

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.

The Virginia iGEM team presented “Quorus," a novel synthetic gene network that enhances the productivity of bacteria-based bio-manufacturing. Applications are being accepted for the 2019 team!