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Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Biotechnology and Bioengineering Biomedical and Molecular Imaging   Clinical and Translational Science  Systems Biology and Biomedical Data Sciences Biomaterials, Soft Materials and Tissue Engineering
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    UVA and NCI-Funded SASCO Center Marks Milestones in Cancer Cell Organelles Research

    UVA’s Center for Systems Analysis of Stress-adapted Cancer Organelles (SASCO) recently hosted its first annual symposium.

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  • UVA Engineering Professor’s $600,000 Grant Set to Innovate Pediatric Brain Tumor Treatment

    The study will examine a combination of two cutting-edge cancer technologies, aiming to create a treatment that improves survivorship.

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  • How Do You Mend a Damaged Heart? UVA Researchers Have Solid Leads

    Biomedical engineering professor Jeff Saucerman and his research team have identified medications that might be able to regenerate heart cells to repair damage.

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    • The Engineering-Girls Formula: Show Science, Create Welcoming Space, Add Acts of Kindness

    During Engineering-Girls week, UVA Engineering students, faculty and staff rolled out the red carpet and lit Bunsen burners for the next generation of female students.

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    UVA Engineering Professor Lands $1.9 Million NIH Award To Maximize Biomedical Research

    Assistant professor Liheng Cai aspires to mimic the structure and functions of living tissue. The National Institutes of Health signaled their support for the research with a prestigious MIRA grant.

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  • Organs on Demand? UVA Prints Its First Voxel Building Blocks

    UVA’s Soft Biomatter Lab is bioprinting 3D structures with a material that is a close match for human tissue, paving the way for true biomanufacturing.

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  • Researchers Drive Safety Forward on 3 Toyota Collaborative Projects

    UVA Engineering researchers received funding from a Toyota initiative to study injury prediction and prevention in collisions.

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  • Komen Supports UVA Engineering Researchers Targeting ‘Triple Negative' Breast Cancer

    Catalina Alvarez Yela, who was awarded a $100,000 research grant by Komen, and faculty mentor Kevin Janes are among those at UVA leading the fight against breast cancer.

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  • Community Servers: Largest Computing Society Says 2 UVA Profs Among 7 Best

    The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, recognized computer scientists Aidong Zhang and Jack Davidson for above-and-beyond service to the organization and their field. 

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  • Biomedical Engineering Researcher Is Taking on Health Disparities and Infant Mortality

    Sepideh Dolatshahi has earned a Hypothesis Fund grant to study prenatal stress impact on immunity for mother and fetus, with implications for understanding health disparities and infant mortality.

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  • Synthetic Blood Platelets Might Be as Good as the Real Thing to Stop Bleeding

    In emergency medicine, access to blood-clotting platelets has long been a problem due to short shelf life and limited supplies. A UVA professor’s startup company might have the solution.

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  • Every Breath You Take: Invention Detects Breathing Problems Before It’s Too Late

    A device co-developed by an emeritus professor of electrical and computer engineering and his Ph.D student could measure labored breathing as precisely as a thermometer takes your temperature.

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