UVA Center for Engineering in Medicine News

Assistant professor Miaomiao Zhang hopes to dramatically improve success rates in patients who receive a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator.

Two UVA undergrads and computer science professor Rich Nguyen work with UVA Health to tackle the leading cause of death in hospitals.

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.

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...

An engineering-medicine-data science collaboration aims to end terminal disease diagnoses for more than 100K Americans.

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.

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.

$12M in new grant funding | cancer and mobile tech | sensors in patient rooms | spring seed grant recipients | CNN op-ed | more

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...

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...