Research @ UVA Engineering

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. 

Research Area

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
122 results Restart Search

  • Class of 2022: Garrett Johannsen

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

    Read Now

  • Class of 2022: Will Ashe

    Ashe Has Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

    Read Now

  • 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.

    Read Now

  • Chair of Biomedical Engineering Named UVA Engineering’s Associate Dean for Research

    Frederick H. Epstein’s appointment follows his highly successful decade leading growth and transformation in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He started his new role March 1.

    Read Now

  • UVA Researchers Advance Bioprinting

    Rsearcher’s paper, Digital Assembly of Spherical Viscoelastic Bio-ink Particles, termed DASP, is featured as a cover article in Advanced Functional Materials. 

    Read Now

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

    Read Now

  • 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.

    Read Now

  • On the Fast Track

    UVA Biomedical Engineer Receives NIH Director's Early Independence Award

    Read Now

  • University of Virginia Researchers Are Mapping Lung Cell Communication and Behaviors to Save Lives

    An engineering-medicine-data science collaboration aims to end terminal disease diagnoses for more than 100K Americans.

    Read Now

  • A Messenger for Medicine

    Yanjun Qi is using powerful deep-learning models to analyze biomedical data to uncover how genes and messenger RNA interact.

    Read Now

  • For Good: Luis Lopez Ruiz

    Ph.D. candidate Luis Lopez Ruiz is building smart healthcare devices that are powered by the human body in order to achieve better health outcomes for patients.

    Read Now

  • UVA Engineering's Graduate Enrollment Continues Sharp Upward Climb

    UVA Engineering’s graduate program has grown significantly, while the quality of its incoming students has remained as high as ever.

    Read Now