News & Events
May 2026
Pulsing Heart of Medtronic’s Relationship with the UMN
Medtronic supports the U of M’s Visible Heart Lab in exchange for the chance to test devices on donated human hearts.
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.
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.
A lab with a lot of (literal and figurative) heart
May 2026
The Visible Heart® Laboratories is at the forefront of using AI to solve problems in the medical devices industry.