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Engineering For Health

UVA Engineering is co-located with the top-ranked UVA School of Medicine and UVA Health System, and our culture values and rewards collaboration and initiative. 

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Biomechanics Biotechnology & Biomolecular Engineering Biotechnology and Bioengineering Biomedical Imaging   Clinical and Translational Science  Systems Biology and Biomedical Data Science Biomaterials, Soft Materials and Tissue Engineering
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  • CAREER Award: Fixing AI’s Blind Spot in Image Analysis

    Miaomiao Zhang is improving AI image processing and analysis for real-world applications such as medical diagnoses and environmental monitoring.

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  • Fighting Heart Failure by Treating It Before It Happens

    Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student Taylor Eggertsen is using biological modeling tools to find a medicine that could prevent heart failure.

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  • They've Done It Again!

    Noah Perry and Ridhi Sahani won praise from both students and faculty for their ability to bring out the best in their students though engaging, responsive and effective teaching.

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  • New Biomechanical Models Close the Treatment Gender Gap and Advance Precision Medicine for All

    UVA Professor's Research Leads to AI-powered Software and a Start-Up Company

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  • UVA Engineering Professor Elected AIMBE Fellow

    Jeffrey Saucerman has joined the top 2% of medical and biological engineering professionals.

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  • New Training Grant Matches Computation and Modeling to Experimental Design

    When Remziye Erdogan learned about the new Systems and Biomolecular Data Science Training Program designed to immerse students in the techniques of systems biology, she jumped at the chance to apply.

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  • UVA's Exploration of New Frontier in Cancer Research Nets $12M Award

    New research center, funded by the NIH's National Cancer Institute, to leverage UVA's expertise in cancer systems biology and biomedical data sciences.

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  • Leading Tissue Regeneration Expert to Chair UVA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Her research focuses on tiny blood vessels that are one-tenth the diameter of a human hair, needed to regenerate tissues damaged by injury or disease. 

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  • UVA Alumnus Aims to Accelerate Breakthroughs as Head of New NSF Directorate

    Alumnus Edwin Gianchandani intends to create stronger ties between research, manufacturing and the marketplace across the nation to develop and scale key technology areas.

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  • Engineering New Tools for New Hearts: Helping Children on the Transplant Waitlist

    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 changing that.

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  • How Sex Differences in Musculoskeletal Structure Influence Movement, Injury and Disease

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  • Maternal and Placental Immune Regulation

    Sepideh Dolatshahi, Ph.D., has earned seed grant funding from the Jeffress Trust to uncover the mechanisms of antibody transfer across racial groups.

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