Centers, Labs, Groups

In research labs and groups across UVA Engineering, our faculty and students are making discoveries and disseminating their breakthroughs across the globe.

  • Bourne and Mura Lab

    Our objective is to improve the drug discovery and safety pipeline, our understanding of sequence-structure-function relationships, often from an evolutionary perspective, and broadly contribute open data and methods to further our collective understanding of living systems.

  • Burns Research Group

    The Burns Research Group is a member of the Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering, which operates inside of the Materials Science and Engineering Department here at UVA. Our research is primarily directed towards investigating environmental fracture in structural metals, including ultra-high strength steels, 5xxx and 7xxx-series aluminum, and Ni-based super alloys.

  • Caliari Lab

    We engineer biomaterials to better understand the dynamic reciprocity between cells and their microenvironment. We apply these platforms to address fundamental human health challenges including treatment of fibrotic diseases and repair and replacement of musculoskeletal tissues.

  • Cardiac Systems Biology Group

    Heart function and failure are controlled by complex molecular networks that are just beginning to be mapped. The CSBG combines computational modeling and experiments to discover molecular networks that control cardiac remodeling and regeneration.

  • The Caregiver CARE Project

  • Cell Signaling Engineering Lab

    The Cell Signaling Engineering Lab, led by Matt Lazzara, integrates experimental and computational methods to study fundamental aspects of cell signaling regulation and applied aspects of cell signaling including the efficacy of therapeutics that target particular signaling pathways in cancer.

  • Center for Advanced Biomanufacturing

    The UVA Center for Advanced Biomanufacturing supports collaborative research focused on developing innovative regenerative materials for use in advanced biomanufacturing, rapid proto-typing platforms amenable to scale-up, and integration and patterning for construction of hierarchical tissue systems. Co-Directors: George Christ and Shayn Peirce-Cottler.
    Capabilities
    • 3-D bioprinting
    • Spraybase Electrospinners / Electrosprayers
    • Nanoimprint Lithography, soft and smart NIL, Biomolecular printing
    • Peptide Synthesis
    • Rheometers including extensional testing and light (UV and visable) curing

  • Center for Applied Biomechanics

    As the largest university-based injury biomechanics laboratory in the world, the center specializes in impact biomechanics for injury prevention. Started by NHTSA back in 1989, the center now operates out of a 30,000-square-foot facility located in the University of Virginia Research Park.

  • Center for Automata Processing

    CAP's mission is to build a vibrant ecosystem of researchers, developers, and adopters for the exciting new Automata Processor. We invite you to explore AP technology by reading about our Center’s research, learning about our partners’ AP applications, and keeping up with news in the community.

  • Center for Research in Intelligent Storage & Processing in Memory

    UVA Engineering leads the $29.7 million, 10-university Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory (CRISP) as part of the Semiconductor Research Corporation's Joint University Microelectronics Program. CRISP researchers are working to unlock the power of big data to solve some of society's biggest challenges by removing the computing "memory wall," which refers to the separation between computer memory that stores data and the processors that operate on the data. Director: Kevin Skadron.