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UVA Engineering's faculty and students work to improve human health and create a sustainable and secure future.

  • Lembit Lilleleht, Chemical Engineering Professor Emeritus, Dies at 89

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  • Machine Learning Algorithm Accelerates Diagnosis of Gut Disease

    Health IT Analytics features a publication by researchers supported by the Center for Engineering in Medicine: Machine learning algorithms can rapidly analyze biopsy images and reduce the time it takes to diagnose gut diseases in children, revealed a study published in JAMA Network Open.

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  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Earn Outstanding Paper Award

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  • Engineers and Physicians Use Big Data Analytics to Improve Dialysis Drug Dosing

    Dr. Brendan Bowman sought to improve treatments for dialysis patients while cutting costs and found a possible solution using data science.

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  • Engineering and Society Professor Named Entrepreneur of the Year for Vehicle-to-Grid Startup Fermata Energy

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  • Pike Fellows Program Alumni Land Substantial Funding for Startup

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  • Chemical Engineering Welcomes Promising Ph.D. Students Thanks to New Fellowships

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  • Breaking the Ultrasound Barrier to Fight Disease

    When WebMD wanted to know more about the promise of Focused Ultrasound, they called BME Professor Rich Price, research director of the UVA Focused Ultrasound Center.

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  • Riding the Wave of Sound

    One way to get drugs through the blood-brain barrier: smuggle them across using sound waves. BME Professor Richard Price talks in Protomag about his lab's pioneering work using focused ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and brain tumors.

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  • Mete Civelek's latest grant uncovers the biologic networks that underlie coronary artery disease

    Mete Civelek's new award from the American Heart Association

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  • What Is Multi-Scale Modeling? How Can It Help Your Health?

    In an op-ed in Forbes, Dr. Bruce Lee of Johns Hopkins cites the work of BME Professors Shayn Peirce-Cottler and Silvia Blemker. He says their work is an example of how multi-scale modeling promises to fundamentally shift how health and medical research are approached.

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  • Eric Loth Op-Ed: Offshore Wind Will Drive America’s Future in Energy Technology and Manufacturing

    "If we can drive this technology forward and showcase the economic benefits of offshore wind, we can coalesce the public viewpoint around a common strength and vision for the future of energy technology and manufacturing." - Eric Loth

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