Biomaterials, Biomechanics, and Biomanufacturing

UVA biomedical engineers are embarking on one of the most audacious reengineering projects in history—learning how to manufacture human tissues outside the body.

BME Professor Jeff Holmes is one of two investigators nationwide to receive a $1.5 million award from the American Heart Association and the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group's new "Distinguished Investigators" program. A collaboration with Dr. Sarah Ewald in Microbiology and Dr. Zunder...

Professors Saucerman and Holmes Team Up on New NIH RO1 Award

Dr. Saucerman and Dr. Holmes received a new joint grant from the NIH to study the systems biology of cardiac fibrosis.

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.

Professional 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.

UVA 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...

UVA 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.

Discovering 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...