Biomolecular Systems

The smooth muscle cells lining our arteries can serve as the foundation for the fatty plaques in coronary artery disease. UVA Professor Mete Civelek's team has identified the genes that are responsible for this risk at these locations.

UVA Today spoke to Dr. Richard Price, a biomedical engineer, about the definition of biotechnology and the role it plays at UVA Health.

Professors John A. Hossack and Mool C. Gupta have been recognized for their innovations.

Understanding the interactions between C. difficile and the human gut offers new opportunities for heading off potentially fatal infections.

Patent-Prolific Biomedical Engineering Professor Tackles Disease with Ultrasound Innovations

Hossack’s advancements have given health care providers life-saving information and the ability to treat patients with an elevated standard of care.

Miniature “guts in a dish” and advanced computer modeling to reveal how microscopic organisms that naturally live in our guts direct the timing of daily activities of the cells lining our intestines.

The Leducq Foundation, which is dedicated to battling cardiovascular disease and stroke, has funded four projects worldwide for 2022. Two of those involve researchers here at UVA.

Pioneers in Cancer Systems Biology will Establish a Center to Look Deep Inside Cells at the “Little Organs” of Cancer

New research center, funded by the NIH's National Cancer Institute, to leverage UVA's expertise in cancer systems biology and biomedical data sciences.

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.

By turning off a single gene, University of Virginia researchers and their collaborators caused stem cells already becoming heart cells to change course and become future brain cells.