Our cardiovascular engineering program educates and trains University of Minnesota biomedical engineering PhD students to meet the increasing demand for cardiovascular disease solutions.
About the program
The doctoral training program positions trainees to drive future technological advancements for diagnosing, preventing, and treating cardiovascular diseases.
To do this, the program takes a multidisciplinary approach, exposing students to:
Unique courses
Clinical experiences
Innovation methodologies
Local cardiovascular device company experts
Selected trainees participate in this program during their first two years in our PhD program.
The training program was created in 2019, upon receiving a highly competitive T32 training grant from the National Institutes of Health (grant T32-HL139341).
The University of Minnesota is strategically located in the heart of the world's most concentrated cluster of cardiovascular device companies.
Activities
The training program combines coursework with other activities to maximize trainees’ subsequent doctoral research and professional development.
Distinctive activities include:
Advanced Cardiac Physiology and Anatomy course organized by the leader of the University of Minnesota-Medtronic Visible Heart Laboratories collaboration.*
Cardiovascular Devices course taught by local cardiovascular device company experts.*
Clinical immersion in one of the University's cardiovascular clinics.
Monthly clinical focus lunches with clinicians presenting on specific cardiovascular diseases and associated medical device limitations.*
Monthly professional development lunches with invited speakers addressing broad career opportunities including medtech R&D, the FDA, and patent law.*
*open to all BME graduate students with cardiovascular engineering interests
Faculty trainers nominate potential trainees during the PhD application process.
Traineeships are offered to PhD applicants before they decide on their graduate school.
A second round of nominations and selections occurs early in the fall semester. This creates an opportunity for interested, qualified matriculating graduate students who were not offered the traineeship during the first round.
A total of three new trainees are added each year for the two-year program, for a total of six trainees each year.
Contact
Biomedical Engineering graduate program coordinator bmengp@umn.edu
This program is supported by the National Institutes of Health through the Cardiovascular Engineering Training Program at the University of Minnesota (T32-HL139431).
