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Trailblazer Award Will Use Advanced AI to Improve Outcomes for Heart Patients
Assistant professor Miaomiao Zhang hopes to dramatically improve success rates in patients who receive a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator.
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Class of ’23: UVA Developed AI To Spot Early Sepsis. Two Undergrads Helped Lead the Way.
Two UVA undergrads and computer science professor Rich Nguyen work with UVA Health to tackle the leading cause of death in hospitals.
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A Cognitive Assistant on Your Doctor’s Smartwatch?
Reimagining Alexa and Siri’s Sensors for Helping with Patient Communication
Professor Laura Barnes blends behavioral science and systems engineering to improve communication and health.
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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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University of Virginia Researchers Are Mapping Lung Cell Communication and Behaviors to Save Lives
An engineering-medicine-data science collaboration aims to end terminal disease diagnoses for more than 100K Americans.
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For Good: Luis Lopez Ruiz
Luis Lopez Ruiz, Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering
Ph.D. candidate Luis Lopez Ruiz is building smart healthcare devices that are powered by the human body in order to achieve better health outcomes for patients.
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Electronic Sensor Can Classify Chronic and Infectious Disease Metrics
Innovative Approach Classifies Disease Characteristics Based on Cellular Biophysical Properties
Swami's cover article for Lab on a Chip presents data analytics for high throughput phenotypic identification of cells, bacteria and viruses.
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UVA Center for Engineering in Medicine Newsletter - Summer 2021
$12M in new grant funding | cancer and mobile tech | sensors in patient rooms | spring seed grant recipients | CNN op-ed | more
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The University of Virginia Center for Engineering in Medicine Teams with the UVA Coulter Translational Research Partnership to Launch a Clinical Fellow Program
UVA cardiothoracic surgery resident Dr. Evan Rotar will collaborate with UVA School of Medicine clinicians and UVA engineers to design a device that will help cardiac patients...
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Successful Research Development Approach Helps Cancer Patients Using Mobile Tech
Research Sustainability at the UVA Center for Engineering in Medicine
Home sensors to monitor cancer patients’ pain. A smartphone app to manage breast cancer patients’ anxiety and depression. And $12 million in new grant funding to pay for even more...