Here are all the good things that come from great research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia.
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Virginia BME retweeted
The University of Delaware's Biomedical Engineering Department is looking for a passionate and dedicated Academic Advisor II to join their team! 🎓
🌟UD Careers (link below) #udbme
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Virginia BME retweeted
Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate @UVA Innovators of the Year Silvia Blemker, Craig Meyer and Joe Hart! #GreatAndGood #TechTransfer #UVALVG @UVAEngineers
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Everyone knows the health risks of carrying too much fat around the waist and hips, but @MedicineUVA scientists have developed a noninvasive way to assess the health risks of unseen fat around the heart.
🫀 Learn more: bit.ly/4aCdLxN
Virginia BME retweeted
Jeff Saucerman, PhD, and his research group combine computational and experimental methods to identify new drugs for heart disease. They find new uses for existing drugs already approved for other conditions.
#BiomedicalEngineering #CardiovascularMedicine
A progress report from our 1st Milton Adams Fellowship award! Graham Lenert and Noah Perry in @mete_civelek lab are investigating how heart attacks are experienced differently in men and women. The Adams Fellowship is helping them disseminate their work:
engineering.virginia.edu/dep…
ALT Graham Lenert is a third year biomedical engineer at the University of Virginia.
Virginia BME retweeted
Congrats to BME professor Silvia Blemker on her election as Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors! Read about the fascinating work Silvia does and her successful efforts to translate research into products that help people.
at.virginia.edu/z3fu3l
@UVABME @AcadofInventors
ALT Silvia Blemker
Virginia BME retweeted
Jeff Saucerman advisee Malcolm O’Malley helped NASA researchers make sense of life sciences data to mitigate impacts of space travel on our immune systems.
at.virginia.edu/2lggs9
@UVABME @spacedailycom @jsauce7 @NASA
ALT Malcolm O’Malley
Virginia BME retweeted
Matthew Lazzara and his team of researchers have found multiple ways to interrupt a process in pancreatic cancer cells that makes them more resistant to chemotherapy, potentially leading to better treatments for patients.
at.virginia.edu/6j2tla
@uvachechair @cr_aacr
ALT Matthew Lazzara
Virginia BME retweeted
New insights from research led by UVA Engineering professor Kevin Janes could change the game for treating viral heart infections and preventing heart failure.
at.virginia.edu/pf96hx
@UVABME @ScienceAdvances
ALT Kevin Janes
Virginia BME retweeted
Assistant professor Sepideh Dolatshahi and Ph.D. student Remziye Wessel lead research on vaccines that may help save more moms and newborns with personalized therapies.
at.virginia.edu/7r9v9b
@UVABME
ALT Sepideh Dolatshahi
Virginia BME retweeted
UVA biomedical engineering researchers have developed an MRI technique to analyze the fat surrounding a patient’s heart, potentially enabling earlier heart disease interventions.
Read more: at.virginia.edu/bu6ofs
@UVABME @EarthDotCom
ALT Fred Epstein
Virginia BME retweeted
New research from BME Ph.D. student Jordan Reed and her UVA team showed how weight and metabolism are likely determined more by a person’s genetics than their diet.
Read more: at.virginia.edu/mavqf3
@iScience_CP @UVABME
ALT An illustration of a scale
Virginia BME retweeted
Prof. Kevin Janes discusses his research on cancer and infectious disease for Research in Motion: “We combine quantitative experiments in the laboratory with computer models that formalize how we think the disease works.” @UVABME @MedicineUVA
Watch here: at.virginia.edu/4wsheo
We cleared out all the people and backpacks this morning, to show off the @UVA booth at the @BMESociety national meeting.
Designed by @ahnasee at Mountain High Media with help from @iamdjamison. Looking good! Now time to break it all down!
Virginia BME retweeted
Here's a group photo from the Coulter Fellowship Program! Currently in its third year of funding, the program has provided $117,500 in stipend support to 50 BME students during summer industry internships. @UVABME
ALT Fellows group photo
Virginia BME retweeted
Congrats to BME professor Shayn Peirce-Cottler for receiving the 2024 Eugene M. Landis award from The Microcirculatory Society! The award recognizes Peirce-Cottler for her lab's research on microvasculature and its role in diseases. @The_MCSociety @uvabme
at.virginia.edu/rk9cpz
ALT Shayn Peirce-Cottler
Virginia BME retweeted
Tempo Therapeutics, founded by BME & CHE associate professor Donald Griffin, recently dosed the first patients in their TT101 trial. TT101 is a solution designed to regrow large volumes of tissue while preventing disfiguring scars for skin cancer patients.
@uvachechair @uvabme
ALT Don Griffin