Research

UVA Engineering is responding to a need for engineers trained to solve the complex, global problems of the 21st century.

A 253-acre site at the University of Virginia Research Park is now certified by the Commonwealth of Virginia as infrastructure ready through the Virginia Business Ready Site Program (VBRSP).

UVA helps address the opioid crisis by dedicating expertise and resources from an array of disciplines to tackle the problem throughout the state, including Virginia's most rural areas.

UVA researchers propose that the business community can address sustainability challenges through innovation and development of new technologies.

The Biophilic Cities Project at UVA is a partnership to integrate the beauty of nature into urban environments.

The Environmental Resilience Institute and the Global Infectious Diseases Institute bring top researchers together to tackle some of the biggest problems facing society: the environment and infectious disease.

UVA faculty member Michael Timko lends research expertise to cultivate industrial hemp and re-establish it as an important sector in the Virginia economy.

UVA licenses technology to Type Zero so that diabetes research can transition to the marketplace and create local jobs.

Virginia-based Smithfield Foods and UVA Engineering are partnering to explore and advance regenerative medicine technologies that use porcine bioproducts.

Devoted to a diversity of thought and the power of collaborative research, UVA unleashes 3 Cavaliers, a program for high-risk, high-payoff research projects.

UVA is committed to the autonomous vehicle industry in Virginia, developing research that paves the way to the future of transportation.