News & events
BME PhD students awarded NSF commercialization grant
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The NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program has awarded $50,000 to two Biomedical Engineering PhD students and collaborators so they can commercialize an MRI innovation.
Feature tracking microfluidic analysis reveals differential roles of viscosity and friction in sickle cell blood
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Associate Professor Dave Wood and team developed a new method for analyzing patient-specific blood properties that can be applied to a wide range of hematological and vascular disorders.
New method of pancreatic islet cryopreservation is major breakthrough for diabetes cure
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BME Prof. John Bischof and team have developed a new method of islet cryopreservation that solves current storage challenges by enabling quality-controlled, long-term preservation of the islet cells that can be pooled and used for transplant.
Undergrad student Anna Karos receives President’s Student Leadership and Service Award
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The award recognizes student leaders at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities who exhibit exceptional leadership and service to the University of Minnesota and the surrounding community.
Four PhD students win Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
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The award gives the University's most accomplished PhD candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write a dissertation.
BME releases strategic plan for diversity, equity, and inclusion
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The plan features five main pillars: Recruitment, retention, advancement, health equity, and community engagement.
BME senior takes on climate change and, eventually, bioproducts in space
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Benjamin Alva started a student group — and, later, a start-up — to develop a bioreactor that could help save coral reefs. After getting a PhD in chemical and biological engineering, he plans to engineer bioproducts that will help humans further explore space.
BME students receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
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Congratulations to our 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship recipients: Benjamin Alva, Taylor Berger, and Carly Donahue.
PhD student Lizzy Crist receives President’s Student Leadership and Service Award
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BME PhD student Lizzy Crist is among the 2022 recipients of the President’s Student Leadership and Service Award announced by President Joan T.A. Gabel last week.
Stromal architecture directs early dissemination in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
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A new study led by Professor Paolo Provenano demonstrates that patterns surrounding cancerous cells, known as extracellular matrix architectures, regulate early invasions that can seed metastases.