News & Events

Professor David Masopust received the 2026 American Association of Immunology (AAI) Meritorious Career Award! This award recognizes a mid-career scientist for outstanding research contributions to...

A new Phase I clinical trial (NCT05338658; clinicaltrials.gov) at the University of Minnesota

Since the spring of 2022, postdoctoral researchers Drs. Frances Shepherd and Pètra Vande Zande have worked together to offer hands-on bioinformatics workshops for members of the Department of...

Department Head, Michael Gale, PhD, was one of the Medical School’s 2025 Dean’s Distinguished Research Lecture (DDRL) honorees. This is the sixth time in twelve years that DMI faculty have had this...

Congratulations to the MICaB Spring Travel Grant recipients! These students will receive $1,000 in travel funds: Grant Hickock (Stromnes lab), Tristan Neal (Langlois lab), Sookyong Joo (Farrar lab),...

Zoe Schmiechen a MICaB graduate student in the Stromnes lab, has been chosen as a recipient of the 2025 Bacaner Research Award. The Dr. Marvin and Hadassah Bacaner Research Awards program encourages...

Each year, Clarivate™ identifies the small fraction of the global research scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field(s) of research. This...

Dr. Ruth Isenberg, postdoctoral researcher in DMI, received the prestigious Nat Sternberg Award from the annual Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phage Meeting “for outstanding PhD work in the field...

The University of Minnesota is pleased to announce that Michael Gale Jr., PhD, will become director of the University of Minnesota Institute on Infectious Diseases (UMIID) head of the Medical School'...

We are delighted to share that Department of Microbiology and Immunology faculty member Dr. Leslie Schiff has been awarded the annual Award for Faculty Contribution to Honors Education. The UHP is...