Institute for Engineering in Medicine News Search Keywords News Type (Articles, Press releases etc.) - Any -AnnouncementsArticleAwardsEventsHealth TalkIn the NewsMedical BulletinPress ReleaseTributesVideo Total Search Results: 15 Matches Displaying 1 - 15 of 15 Growing the Next Generation of Engineers and Entrepreneurs Bakken Medical Device Center (Bakken MDC) welcomes a new cohort of undergraduate students to its Medical Device Innovation Experience for Undergraduates (MDEIU) summer course IEM Visible Heart® Laboratories Joins the Institute for Engineering in Medicine IEM is excited to welcome Visible Heart® Laboratories (VHL) officially into the Institute as of July 2024. Moving forward, VHL will be under IEM’s administrative umbrella, which will enable both... IEM Expanding the Classroom to the Community It all started in a grade school classroom. Jalonda Combs, a Minneapolis Public Schools Associate Educator, wanted to inspire kids beyond the classroom. “I saw firsthand the transformative power of... IEM The Visible Heart® Laboratories Headed to the Professional Women’s Hockey League While leading the Gophers on the ice during her undergraduate and graduate years at the University of Minnesota, Madeline Wethington was at Visible Heart® Laboratories (VHL) working on her Master’s... IEM Finding the Rules of Shapes What do plants, brain cancer, architecture, and heart development all have in common with each other? For IEM member David Odde, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and a team from Cornell and... IEM Meet Hubert Lim, New BMDC Director Not many of our childhood dreams lead to successful careers. But Dr. Hubert Lim’s dream of helping people through technology has blossomed into his leadership of the Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices... IEM Students see an Opportunity to treat Raynaud's Phenomenon Symptoms with Blue Light While few engineering students have the opportunity to patent or publish their work while in school, Prof. Steven Saliterman's biomedical engineering undergraduate student team accomplished both.In... IEM Getting Graduate Writing Right This semester, twelve writers, one faculty member, and one editor (that’s me) are meeting every Thursday around a large table in a sunny classroom. The twelve writers range from a second-year PhD... IEM A New Force for Mentoring The University of Minnesota, Morgan State University, and the National GEM Consortium are collaborating to create the Mentoring for the Formation of Research Careers in Engineering (M-FORCE), a... IEM Brain Connections Imagine looking at a map with mediocre resolution. The further you zoom in, the less clear everything becomes. This is a problem neuroscience researchers face when trying to understand the wiring... IEM From Seed to Center Over the last two years, the Cancer Bioengineering Initiative (CBI) has become a three-grant center dedicated to integrating engineering into cancer therapies – but its roots didn’t actually stem... IEM Students Beyond the Inspire Program The Inspire program provides eye-opening opportunities to help high schoolers see what they are capable of accomplishing in medicine and engineering. IEM A Month of Medical Devices Paul Iaizzo believes that it’s time for physicians and medical device manufacturers to get to know each other better. That’s the idea behind “Introduction to Medical Device Innovation,” a new... IEM Engineering Parkinson’s Treatment Deep brain stimulation (DBS)—implanting electrodes in the brain to regulate abnormal neural impulses—has improved the lives of countless people with Parkinson’s disease. But that doesn’t mean the... IEM Fruit Flies Forever (but not frozen) Drosophila melanogaster – the humble fruit fly – has long been a giant in the world of biomedical research.According to Tom Hays, professor of genetics, cell biology and development at the U of M’s... IEM
Growing the Next Generation of Engineers and Entrepreneurs Bakken Medical Device Center (Bakken MDC) welcomes a new cohort of undergraduate students to its Medical Device Innovation Experience for Undergraduates (MDEIU) summer course IEM
Visible Heart® Laboratories Joins the Institute for Engineering in Medicine IEM is excited to welcome Visible Heart® Laboratories (VHL) officially into the Institute as of July 2024. Moving forward, VHL will be under IEM’s administrative umbrella, which will enable both... IEM
Expanding the Classroom to the Community It all started in a grade school classroom. Jalonda Combs, a Minneapolis Public Schools Associate Educator, wanted to inspire kids beyond the classroom. “I saw firsthand the transformative power of... IEM
The Visible Heart® Laboratories Headed to the Professional Women’s Hockey League While leading the Gophers on the ice during her undergraduate and graduate years at the University of Minnesota, Madeline Wethington was at Visible Heart® Laboratories (VHL) working on her Master’s... IEM
Finding the Rules of Shapes What do plants, brain cancer, architecture, and heart development all have in common with each other? For IEM member David Odde, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and a team from Cornell and... IEM
Meet Hubert Lim, New BMDC Director Not many of our childhood dreams lead to successful careers. But Dr. Hubert Lim’s dream of helping people through technology has blossomed into his leadership of the Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices... IEM
Students see an Opportunity to treat Raynaud's Phenomenon Symptoms with Blue Light While few engineering students have the opportunity to patent or publish their work while in school, Prof. Steven Saliterman's biomedical engineering undergraduate student team accomplished both.In... IEM
Getting Graduate Writing Right This semester, twelve writers, one faculty member, and one editor (that’s me) are meeting every Thursday around a large table in a sunny classroom. The twelve writers range from a second-year PhD... IEM
A New Force for Mentoring The University of Minnesota, Morgan State University, and the National GEM Consortium are collaborating to create the Mentoring for the Formation of Research Careers in Engineering (M-FORCE), a... IEM
Brain Connections Imagine looking at a map with mediocre resolution. The further you zoom in, the less clear everything becomes. This is a problem neuroscience researchers face when trying to understand the wiring... IEM
From Seed to Center Over the last two years, the Cancer Bioengineering Initiative (CBI) has become a three-grant center dedicated to integrating engineering into cancer therapies – but its roots didn’t actually stem... IEM
Students Beyond the Inspire Program The Inspire program provides eye-opening opportunities to help high schoolers see what they are capable of accomplishing in medicine and engineering. IEM
A Month of Medical Devices Paul Iaizzo believes that it’s time for physicians and medical device manufacturers to get to know each other better. That’s the idea behind “Introduction to Medical Device Innovation,” a new... IEM
Engineering Parkinson’s Treatment Deep brain stimulation (DBS)—implanting electrodes in the brain to regulate abnormal neural impulses—has improved the lives of countless people with Parkinson’s disease. But that doesn’t mean the... IEM
Fruit Flies Forever (but not frozen) Drosophila melanogaster – the humble fruit fly – has long been a giant in the world of biomedical research.According to Tom Hays, professor of genetics, cell biology and development at the U of M’s... IEM
