News & Events
November 2025
Meet Javier Navarro Rueda
In April this year, Dr. Javier Navarro Rueda joined the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor for the VHL.
Sept. 2025
Go inside the one-of-a-kind Visible Heart® Lab
At the University of Minnesota’s Visible Heart® Laboratories, Medtronic scientists and engineers are partnering with researchers to test heart devices and prototypes inside beating human hearts.
Sept. 2025
Congratulations to James Villar-Mead on passing his BME PhD oral prelims! His research focuses on "Targeted Pulsed Field Ablation of Typical Atrial Flutter and Ventricular Tachyarrhythmais: Anatomical Insights, Hemolytic Evalutation, and Reversible/Irreversible Waveform Optimization."
February 1, 2025
"Inside the lab that’s the beating heart of Medtronic’s product pipeline" At the UMN, researchers keep hearts alive outside the body for hours. Medtronic uses them to develop blockbuster devices.
Featured Event:
Bakken Symposium Lecture Series
Next Course Offering
Friday, November 14, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Great Hall, Coffman Memorial Union
18th Annual Earl E. Bakken Symposium: Thoracic Organ Transplantation and Preservation Technologies
June 2022
Did you know that Medtronic's longest standing academic collaboration is with VHL? It was great to celebrate 25 years of innovation stemming from this collaboration!