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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 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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  • Two UVA Engineering Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Inventors

    Professors John A. Hossack and Mool C. Gupta have been recognized for their innovations. 

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  • A Sponge that Could Give Wounded Soldiers a Fighting Chance

    UVA professor George Christ teams with UC Berkeley professor Kevin Edward Healy to develop a hydrogel material that can be placed directly in wounds to make up for missing muscle mass. 

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  • University of Virginia Engineering Researchers Strive to Match Artistry of Biological Tissues

    Assistant Professor Liheng Cai and his Ph.D. student Jinchang Zhu were invited to share their latest research in a special issue of Acta Biomaterialia.

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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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  • For Good: Beverly Miller

    People become engineers because they have a passion for creating knowledge and technologies that serve society.

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  • Running With the Right Crowd

    Rachel Letteri is chemical engineering’s second early-career faculty member to earn the NIH Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award.

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  • UVA Biomedical Engineers Aim to Mass Produce Muscle Cells for Treating Traumatic Injuries

    Rachel Bour is part of a team that’s getting closer to helping the thousands of Americans who suffer from perm

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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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  • Class of 2022: Garrett Johannsen

    Johannsen wants to work on technologies to treat Type 1 diabetes.

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  • Class of 2022: Will Ashe

    Ashe Has Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

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