Faculty spotlight: Associate Professor Hubert Lim
Posted September 22, 2020
Associate Professor Hubert Lim’s lab develops better devices to treat health disorders ranging from deafness to arthritis. For example, a recent clinical trial is using noninvasive ultrasound stimulation to treat rheumatoid arthritis and, more recently, severe symptoms of COVID-19 associated with the “cytokine storm.”
Student spotlight: Dominic Marticorena
Posted September 22, 2020
Senior Dominic Marticorena shares his experiences creating a student group that gives undergrads the opportunity to pursue projects they’re passionate about.
PhD student Tong Wu successfully defends dissertation
Posted September 7, 2020
Tong successfully defended his dissertation, "Representation Learning on Large-Scale Neural and Healthcare Data: A Practitioner's Perspective" on August 27.
BME connects with alums across the globe at lunch and learn
Posted August 24, 2020
At a virtual event for alumni earlier this week, Profs. Matt Johnson and Hubert Lim shared work from pioneering new clinical trials that could help people with diseases of the nervous system, such as Parkinson’s, arthritis, and COVID-19.
U of M and collaborators receive $26M for new NSF engineering research center
Posted August 5, 2020
The new center aims to develop and deploy breakthrough bioengineering technology.
Laura Essig joins BME as Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Posted August 3, 2020
Laura has 6.5 years' experience advising students in higher education, and is excited for the opportunity to partner with Prof. Wang to help BME students reach their academic, professional, and personal goals.
BME faculty and students 3D print a working heart pump with real human cells
Posted July 15, 2020
In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota have 3D printed a functioning centimeter-scale human heart pump in the lab. This will allow researchers to introduce disease and damage into the model and then study the effects of medicines and other therapeutics.
Recent BME alum recognized for dissertation
Posted June 14, 2020
Chih Hung Lo, a 2019 graduate of the biomedical engineering PhD program recently received an honorable mention for the Best Dissertation Award.
Ultrasound may prove to be effective, noninvasive treatment for COVID-19
Posted May 29, 2020
Professor Hubert Lim and team are conducting pilot studies to determine if a low-cost, wearable ultrasound device could be beneficial for the hyperinflammation in the lungs experienced by some COVID-19 patients.
Fighting SARS CoV-2 at the molecular level
Posted May 29, 2020
Professor Jonathan Sachs and team aim to develop and manipulate molecules that can prevent the novel coronavirus from attaching to human cells.