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OVERVIEW

Every tissue in the body needs a blood supply, and that demand is met by a network of interconnected blood vessels called the microcirculation. The microcirculation is a highly adaptable system of small blood vessels that are a tenth of the diameter of a human hair–-you need a microscope to see them–-and there are over a million microvessels in a single gram of tissue. Microvascular growth and remodeling are important processes in nearly every major disease, including diabetes, heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, stroke, neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer. In our lab, we develop and use experimental and computational techniques to study and design new approaches for growing and regenerating injured and diseased tissues by manipulating the structure and composition of the microvasculature.

NEWS

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2024 Eugene M. Landis Award
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Tune into Dr. Peirce-Cottler's Biomedical Frontiers Podcast 
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TEAM

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OUR RESEARCH

ARCHIVED NEWS

Julie Leonard-Duke, PhD
wins 2024 BME Outstanding Student Award and All-University Graduate Teaching Award
Lilly DeCostanza, PhD Candidate
wins 2024 John T. Casteen, III Diversity - Equity - Inclusion Leadership Award
Dr. Rachel Bour, PhD
Advanced Biomanufacturing
Innovator

9.8.22
Dr. Peirce-Cottler
Appointed BME Department
Chair

9.14.22
Hydrogels Model Fibrotic Lungs to Study Blood Vessel Formation, Disease Progression
1.29.24
Dr. Peirce-Cottler
named BMES Fellow

10.2020
Dr. Peirce-Cottler wins
UVA School of Medicine
Kadner Award
for Graduate Teaching

11.2020
Alumna, Dr. Alyssa Taylor wins Univ. of Washington
Distinguished Teaching Award

1.2021
Cross-Grounds Collaborations
12.2019
Dr. Peirce-Cottler named AIMBE Fellow
02.23.2016
UVA's Center for Advanced Biomanufacturing 
5.2020
Pioneering Agent-Based Modeling
04.19.2016
Multi-cell Modeling of Bacteria in Mucus
7.2020
New $2.5M Collaborative NIH Grant Awarded
02.23.2017 
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