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For Women Struggling with Obesity or Diabetes, UVA Discovery May Help
Based on their new discovery, the UVA team was able to change whether female lab mice’s bodies stored fat subcutaneously (under the skin) or viscerally (wrapped around the organs). Visceral fat can be particularly harmful to good health.
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UVA Alumnus Aims to Accelerate Breakthroughs in Critical and Emerging Technologies as Head of New NSF Directorate
Erwin Gianchandani Plans to Forge Expanded Network to Ensure the United States Leads in Global Competitiveness
Alumnus Edwin Gianchandani intends to create stronger ties between research, manufacturing and the marketplace across the nation to develop and scale key technology areas such as...
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World’s First Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center Will Be at UVA
The $8 million investment will generate clinical trials and other research that will directly benefit patients.
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Scientists Transform Beating Heart Stem Cells Into Brain Cells
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.
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Engineering New Tools for New Hearts: Helping Children on the Transplant Waitlist
A University of Virginia pediatric cardiologist and data scientist team up to better match hearts to patients
Almost 20% of pediatric patients on the U.S. wait list for heart transplants die before they receive a heart. A UVA engineering-medicine research team is dedicated to saving lives...
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Bold Predictions for a Brave New World
How a Timely Grant from the National Science Foundation Enabled the University of Virginia to Lead a Transformational Effort to Combat COVID and Future Pandemics
Researchers from UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute and School of Engineering and Applied Science, working with a team of multi-disciplinary scientists from around the world, have...
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Scientists Use Powerful Computer Models to Battle Deadly Infections
Jason Papin, professor of biomedical engineering and a researcher in the School of Medicine, is part of a team of UVA researchers using advanced computer modeling to better understand C. difficile infections.
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New Technology Could Help Doctors Improve COVID-19 Patient Outcomes
Researchers at the University of Tokyo and University of Virginia find an early and treatable indicator of blood clotting in COVID-19 patients
The technology generates data within a matter of hours to determine patients at risk for micro thrombosis-related issues.
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UVA’s Craig Meyer Elected to National Academy of Inventors
Meyer, a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and Medical Imaging, Joins the List of the Nation’s Top Innovators for His Contributions to MRI Technology and Imaging.
Meyer's work in high-speed MRI technology and imaging has accounted for more than 36 patents and countless patients helped in over three decades of research.
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Natasha Sheybani Named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Science
Sheybani, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was also UVA's first-ever recipient of the prestigious NIH Director's Early Independence Award.