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UVA tests new dummy, aiming to make vehicles safer for soldiers
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UVA is one of seven universities working with the U.S. Army to develop crash test dummies that can closely predict how the human body would behave during an under-body blast – the type of blast generated when land mines or improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, explode beneath a vehicle.
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What's so novel about an internship program for BME graduate students?
Read MoreProfessional Development for PhD Students
The failure to train graduate students for non-academic careers has been the subject of much discussion in professional and popular publications. Going Pro is UVA's answer.
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Advancing Biomanufacturing
Read MoreUVA Engineering Partners in New Manufacturing USA Institute
University of Virginia biomedical engineers and physicians have earned a role in a new, national initiative that will develop technologies for manufacturing human tissues and...
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Advancing Biomanufacturing
Read MoreUVA Engineering Partners in New Manufacturing USA Institute
UVA biomedical engineers earned a role in a national initiative to develop technologies for manufacturing human tissues and organs.
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Modeling a Cure
Read MoreDiscovering new treatments for a devastating disease
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a devastating progressive genetic disease. Two UVA Biomedical Engineering faculty members, Silvia Salinas Blemker and Shayn Peirce-Cottler, have...
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Battling Fibrosis
Read MoreLearning fundamental truths about a leading contributor to disease and death
When Professor Thomas Barker, an expert in pulmonary fibrosis, joined the University of Virginia Department of Biomedical Engineering, his brief was not only to expand his...