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11th Annual Minnesota Neuromodulation Symposium held
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Professor Tay Netoff played a key role in organizing and hosting the 11th Annual Minnesota Neuromodulation Symposium on April 10-12, bringing together approximately 430 basic scientists, engineers, clinicians, industrial practitioners, and entrepreneurs.
UMN hosts “Toward a Minnesota Organoid Center” Symposium and Workshop
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Professor and Head Brenda Ogle co-chaired an organoid symposium and workshop that attracted more than 200 researchers and clinicians from the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic.
BME students receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
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Congratulations to fellowship recipients Bri Brennecke and Hannah Szafraniec, and honorable mentions Kira Lynch and Paige Nielsen.
Undergraduate student project explores potential light-based therapy for Raynaud’s phenomenon
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The device shows so much promise for treating the condition that findings were recently published in Annals of Biomedical Engineering and clinical studies are planned to test the therapy’s efficacy.
Matthew Johnson Receives Distinguished Teaching Award
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The College of Science and Engineering Honors and Awards Committee recommended Johnson for the award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to undergraduate and/or graduate teaching.
BME PhD students’ start-up attracts $1.3 million from investors
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Efraín Torres, Parker Jenkins, and the team at Adialante have developed a new kind of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that has the potential to change medical care for millions. Now, they are working to quickly move the portable, low-cost MRI scanner to market.
BME start-up receives $3 million to develop ultrasound-based anti-inflammatory therapy
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This new funding to SecondWave Systems, a company co-founded by Prof. Hubert Lim, will further advance the technology for implementation in a pivotal clinical trial for at-home treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
Jonathan Sachs inducted into the 2024 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows
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The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Professor Jonathan N. Sachs.
New study reveals breakthrough in understanding brain stimulation therapies
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For the first time, Prof. Alexander Opitz and team showed that non-invasive brain stimulation can change a specific brain mechanism that is directly related to human behavior.
Uncovering the next big challenges facing biomedical engineering
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A team of biomedical engineering leaders, including Professor Brenda Ogle, published a summary of some of the greatest hurdles facing the field in IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology.