Biomaterials, Biomechanics, and Biomanufacturing

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...

Team’s Work Advances Soft Matter Science for Bioprinting Materials

Assistant Professor Liheng Cai and his Ph.D. student Jinchang Zhu were invited to share their latest research in a special issue of Acta Biomaterialia.

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.

Collaborations Inspired Early-Career NIH Grant that Could Lead to Treatment Breakthroughs for a Range of Medical Conditions

Rachel Letteri is chemical engineering’s second early-career faculty member to earn the NIH Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award.

First, He Needs to Catalog All the Fibroblasts

Biomedical engineering post-doctoral fellow Dan Abebayehu plans to tackle fibrosis by identifying different types of fibroblasts and determining how they work with immune cells.

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.

Chemical Engineering Labs at UVA Team with Hampton University on Collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates

A new research internship program for undergraduates taps into talent pool for graduate student recruitment, while building ongoing collaborations.

Ailene Edwards, biomedical engineering major and Harrison Undergraduate Research Grant recipient in Matt Lazzara’s chemical engineering lab, is trying to develop 3D models of tumors that can mimic real-life conditions.

New Technique Uses Hydrogel Particles to Build 3D Structures

Their paper, Digital Assembly of Spherical Viscoelastic Bio-ink Particles, termed DASP, is featured as a cover article in Advanced Functional Materials.

Silvia Blemker Aims to Correct a Profound Limitation in Musculoskeletal Modeling Research

Biomechanics expert Professor Silvia Blemker is building a set of tools to rigorously examine sex as a biological variable in musculoskeletal modeling research.