Computational Biomedicine

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.

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...

The $8 million investment will generate clinical trials and other research that will directly benefit patients.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.