DEAN JAKUB TOLAR, MD, PhD

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Welcome to the University of Minnesota Medical School, a world-class institution with a long history of leadership and discoveries that have changed the practice of medicine. We engage undergraduates in science and medicine, train medical students, produce PhDs in research, and enrich the experience of post-doctoral students, residents and fellows...

POINTS OF PRIDE

OUR MISSION

We provide innovative education and training, research that advances medicine, and clinical care that improves the lives of our patients.

OUR VISION

Give the best of ourselves to create a Medical School where individuals thrive, collaborations elevate, and the best of medical practice, research and education form our legacy.

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NIH Research

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Rural Physicians Training

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Training Native American Physicians

$216   Million

Sponsored Research

RANKED #10

Primary Care Physicians Training

70%

Minnesota's physicians trained at UMN Medical School

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MEDICAL DISCOVERY TEAMS

Medical Discovery Teams work to advance research and care surrounding critical issues that affect our state; Addiction, Biology of Aging, Optical Imaging and Brain Science and Rural & American Indian Health Disparities.

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OUR ALUMNI

Our graduates play an important role in improving the medical profession, changing public policy and advancing health care. Seventy-percent of Minnesota's physicians trained at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

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PHILANTHROPY

Your support enables our researchers to discover and deliver new treatments and cures, prepare leaders of the future, and transform healthcare delivery and quality.

HEADLINES

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Efforts to Advance Kidney Care Led by UMN Medical School Vice Dean for Education and Academic Affairs Receives Significant White House Endorsement

Dr. Benson gave this woman answers when no one else could. Because of Dr. Benson and his team, this woman now has her mast cells under control and she hasn’t had another attack since.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the US, with about 15 percent of men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer developing metastatic (widespread and incurable) cancer during their lifetime.

We are mission control, trying to make the right decisions, provide the right support, and ensure that everything goes well for our patients and ourselves. We are the support crew ensuring that the equipment works correctly and is in the right spot at the right time.

Research from Drs. Dawn Lowe and Michael Kyba establishes that estrogen is essential in females for muscle stem cell maintenance and function. 

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 $3.74M Awarded for Geriatric Health