UMN BME-Industry Grand Rounds

Clinical applications of neurostimulation

October 11, 2021
3:35 - 4:30pm CT

Speakers

• Kent Lee, Research Fellow, Inspire Medical Systems—How a new neurostimulation therapy for treating obstructive sleep apnea was developed
• Jennifer Hsia, Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology—Physician and patient’s perspective on Inspire therapy experience and programming
• Tay Netoff, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Enhancing Human Senses

September 13
3:35 - 4:30pm CT

The human sensory perception system is remarkable, allowing us to sense and understand the world around us almost effortlessly. However, as we age, our sensation, perception, and cognition systems generally degrade. Traumatic injuries from accidents or overexposure to harmful stimulus levels can also result in catastrophic impact to human perceptual processes. Sustained sensory deprivations have been associated with cognitive declines and other comorbidities.

Recent technological advances in sensors and computation, especially breakthroughs in miniaturized hardware components and artificial intelligence algorithms based on modern machine learning techniques, are increasingly enabling the development of various types of assistive devices that can help enhance and augment the human senses. In this lecture, we will review:

• The neuroscience of sensory perception system
• Mechanisms and impacts of common sensory deficiencies
• Recent advances and future trends in perceptual assistive technologies

Speakers

• Achin Bhowmik, PhD, Chief Technology Officer at Starkey and Adjunct Professor at Stanford
• Zhi Yang, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota and Fasikl Inc.

Computational models to provide physiologic insights and aid in clinical study design

April 19, 2021
3:35 - 4:30pm CT

Speakers

• Computational modeling in cardiac implantables at Medtronic—Ruth Nicholson Klepfer, Innovation Director, Cardiac Implantables, Medtronic
• Research examples of the value of computational modeling in medical devices—Troy Jackson, Distinguished Scientist, Cardiac Implantables, Medtronic
• Biophysical modeling for COVID-19 antiviral development—David Odde, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Biophysical modeling for cancer cell migration—Sarah Anderson, BME PhD candidate

Developing an AI-based system for improved hemorrhagic stroke treatment: A case study in collaboration

March 8, 2021
3:35 - 4:30pm CT

• Pursuing Better Patient Outcomes by Linking Interventions with Decision Support — Aaron McCabe, PhD, Minnetronix Medical
• Interventional Needs enabled by Decision Support in the ICH Population – Andrew Grande, MD, Department of Neurosurgery
• A Collaborative Approach to AI Development – Laura Zitella Verbick, PhD, Minnetronix Medical
• Reflections and Learnings from Collaboration – Kaitlin Kramer, Minnetronix Medical
• BME Curriculum and Student Research Experiences working with Medical Image Processing and AI – Matthew Johnson, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Microfluidics in bioengineering: Small tools with big impacts

February 8, 2021
3:35 - 4:30pm CT

• Intro — Dave Wood, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• A microfluidics-based, automated ELISA platform: Next generation immunoassays for better precision and reproducibility — Yoav Noam, Scientist and Supervisor, Bio-Techne
• Tissue engineering on a chip — Lizzy Crist, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• Microfluidics for synthesis and manufacturing — Ali Crampton, Researcher, Department of Biomedical Engineering