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Looking at the Spine Outside the Body
In July 2024, a patient with a severe cervical spine deformity met Dr. Carolina Sandoval-Garcia from the Department of Neurosurgery in the emergency room. With such a complicated abnormality,...
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Welcome New IEM Members (Feb. 2025)
We are excited to welcome four new IEM members: Shancong Mou, PhD: Dr. Mou is an assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering studying and...
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A New Year at IEM (2025)
I’m happy to share that IEM experienced great success in 2024. We grew stronger relationships within the University, with industry partners, and throughout the local community as we furthered our...
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Welcome new IEM members (Jan. 2025)
We are excited to welcome 4 new IEM members:Patricia Khashayar: Dr. Khashayar is the new Director of the International Institute for Biosensing, which aims to advance biosensing...
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Training and education, the foundation of a rich medtech community
Minnesota is a global leader in medtech development and innovation, from medical devices to insurance to delivery systems. One anchor of this success is the University’s Technological Leadership...
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The Future of Stem Cell Research and Cartilage Damage
Congratulations to this year’s IEM Engineering in Medicine Doctoral Fellowship recipient Huzefa Husain. Husain is a fifth year Biomedical Engineering PhD student in IEM Member Dr. Brenda Ogle’s lab,...
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The Power of Regenerative Medicine
This year, IEM had the distinguished honor of having Dr. Anthony Atala from Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and ATP-Bio’s Scientific Board to speak on "Regenerative Medicine: Current...
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The Heart of Minnesota Med Tech Innovation
Earlier this month, IEM attended Advanced Manufacturing Minneapolis 2024 (MD&M), the largest annual end-to-end design and manufacturing event in the Midwest.
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Former Gopher, NFL Super Bowl Champion Teams up with Bakken Medical Device Center to Protect Foot Health
Many know Ben Utecht as a Gopher and Super Bowl Champion. Recently, Utecht has added entrepreneur to his list.
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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
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Optimistic Optimization
Neuromodulation is increasingly used to treat neurological diseases like depression, epilepsy, and Parkinson’s disease. “The most common treatments for these ailments are drugs, but many of them are...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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