Institute for Engineering in Medicine - University of Minnesota

Explore the latest in bioelectronic medicine research, vagus nerve stimulation, and other technologies reshaping the way we treat diseases at the 6th BEM Summit: Neurotechnologies for Individuals and Communities!

📆 March 4-5, 2025

📍The Garden City Hotel 45 7th Street Garden City, NY 11530

🎫 Get EARLY BIRD TICKETS NOW - Discount ends Sept. 13
Register here: https://bit.ly/3WOVk2m

🎤 Co-hosted by Feinstein Institutes’ Stavros Zanos and UMN Bakken MDC's Hubert Lim

We're getting every kid excited about STEM 🧪🔬

A team with Jalonda Combs, OIC of America, Inc., and the University of Minnesota are bringing STEM to Twin Cities kids, one Saturday at a time. The idea all started when a Minneapolis Public Schools Educator wanted inspire kids beyond the classroom. What's the story?

✨ What's the story? Read more: https://bit.ly/3M2dvN5

We're from Minnesota, of course we love summer camping trips 🏕️ 🎣

IEM's John Bischof and Mike Lotti spent some time at Mack Lake in Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario and the water did not disappoint! What a great way to start the end of summer ✨

The best summer with the best summer interns at Bakken MDC 🤩 Congrats to all our MDIEU students on your brilliant research over the summer and final presentations 🥳

During these last 8 weeks, our students explored innovative medtech in different health areas, from women’s preventative health to chronic liver disease, alongside clinician and industry mentors! We are so proud of you and excited for your futures!

Graduate student to PWHL rookie
🫀🔬 ➡️ 🏒🇨🇦

Visible Heart Laboratories Master's student, Madeline Wethington, was recently drafted by the PWHL Ottawa 🥳 She's conquering the ice while conducting innovative cardiac medtech research! How does she do it all??

Find out in our article: https://bit.ly/3WrMUOl

Where were you during the "2024 IT Outage"?? We managed to make it to DC for Cryo2024✨✨

IEM attended the Society for Cryobiology last week with ATP-Bio! We are beyond proud to sponsor such an incredible conference 🥳 Congrats to all ATP-Bio trainees who presented their research! And thank you Andrew Monk, John Bischof, and Teresa Walbon for accepting the "Gold Level" Sponsor Award on behalf of IEM 🤩🤩

🥼🥳 Congrats to our outstanding IEM members featured in the prestigious Mpls.St.Paul Magazine 2024 Top Doctors List. You are all pillars of exceptional dedication, expertise, and compassionate care! We are extremely proud to have you a part of IEM ✨








University of Minnesota Medical School

UMN Clinical and Translational Science Institute is always a driving force to achieve their mission in creating a more diverse science workforce 🔬!! Congrats to the CTSI T32 Program and IEM member Peter Crawford on receiving 2 major NIH grants for postdoctoral and predoctoral training 🎉

😊 Don't be shy, read more here: https://bit.ly/3YcPPNh

🎉 🎉 Congrats to our fearless IEM Director John Bischof on being honored the Heat Transfer Memorial Award in Science from ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) at the Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting 2024 today for his outstanding contributions to the field of heat transfer with cryopreservation and ATP-Bio

Join the Technological Leadership Institute - University of Minnesota team in CSE ✨ They are looking for an Administrative Manager!!

The Administrative Manager will work closely with their Director on strategic planning, hiring, cost negotiations and long-range fiscal planning, and also has responsibility over general administrative tasks and facilities management.

TLI is a unique entity, managing three graduate programs and a number of certificate programs. They're a small department with an ambitious agenda, and you’ll love working with their team ✨

✏️ Apply today: https://lnkd.in/gvmA6a7i

Take the time to show the people you appreciate some love ❤️ This month, we're highlighting IEM office manager, Teresa Walbon (+ her dogs, Rowlf and Gonzo ofc)✨

Teresa has worked at the U for almost 6 years! "My favorite thing about IEM is my co-workers. They care about the work we do together and each other."

Recently, Teresa completed the Comms Certificate through University of Minnesota College of Continuing & Professional Studies!!

An up close look at IEM member David Odde's lab in UMN Department of Biomedical Engineering!!
Watch here:

Inside the UMN Odde Lab studying cancer Get an insider's view of the research that happens in the lab of University of Minnesota Biomedical Engineering Professor David Odde. The research team is us...

Congratulations to all the award winners of the 2024 MN Neuromod Symposium Day 2 poster session during IEM Innovation Week 🎉🎉 Special thanks to our award sponsors! Winners are listed below in the same order as the pictures:

⭐ Carolyn Atkinson (Washington University St. Louis) - Medtronic
⭐ *Rodolfo Keesey (Washington University St. Louis) - Abbott
⭐ *Vishweshwar Tyagi (Columbia University) - Inspire Sleep Apnea Innovation

*Not pictured

Happy 4th of July 🎆!! The University is closed today but the Twin Cities is busy and full of events. Still need plans? Check out what's happening near you: https://bit.ly/3RSyyF3

from Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota

Join us for the upcoming Unpacking Bedside Bioethics webinar, "A Patient's Last Chapter: Ethical Considerations for VSED, Euthanasia, and MAID," with Joel Wu

🗓️ Tuesday, Aug. 27

Register now: https://z.umn.edu/9lx3

Shape-shifting in science?? IEM member Dr. David Odde and a team from Cornell and Tuskegee Universities are connecting architecture to brain cancer, plants, and heart development to understand how shapes emerge from the rules of life!

Read more about the research: https://bit.ly/4cFFehV

New ways to help the immune system make more effective therapies for cancer with IEM member Branden Moriarity and IEM faculty advisor David Largaespada!!

🔬 Read more about their team's special $1.5 million grant from the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics: https://lnkd.in/g_qJ3kVv

Northwell Health

Mark your calendars for the 6th BEM Summit on March 4-5, 2025 📆

The Feinstein Institutes invites you to explore the latest in bioelectronic medicine research, vagus nerve stimulation, and other technologies reshaping the way we treat disease during this special event.

You'll have a chance to connect with the experts leading the research, share research during poster sessions and get inspired during insightful scientific sessions.

Feinstein Institutes’ Stavros Zanos, Associate Professor of Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine will co-chair the event with Hubert Lim, a University of Minnesota Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Otolaryngology.

Get your ticket and learn more here: https://bit.ly/4evIMF9


Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center, UMN

Just a team that runs together ❤️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ IEM staff Ken Rosen, Andrew Monk, and Neuromod Co-Event Manager Taylor Lopez (and her husband) ran Grandma's Marathon while Katherine Lindsay cheered from the sideline in Duluth this past Friday!! Help us in congratulating our runners 🥳


Grandma's Marathon - Duluth, Inc.

Congratulations to all the award winners of the 2024 MN Neuromod Symposium Day 1 poster session during IEM Innovation Week 🎉🎉 Special thanks to our award sponsors! Winners are listed below in the same order as the pictures:

⭐ Non-Invasive (Institute for Translational Neuroscience): Dilshan Rajan & Kaden Li (University of Minnesota)
⭐ Anatomy & Physiology (Abbott): Christina Li (University of Minnesota)
⭐ Algorithms & Device Development (Inspire Sleep Apnea Innovation): Celia Brillet Fernandez (Johns Hopkins University)
⭐ Invasive (Medtronic): Spencer Eiting (University of Minnesota)
⭐ Invasive (Medtronic): Jacob Weiner (University of Minnesota)

Happy Juneteenth!! The University is closed today but events are happening all around Minneapolis in honor of Juneteenth.

Check out all the events on the Minnesota Daily: https://mndaily.com/284428/news/juneteenth-events-to-celebrate-across-minneapolis/

Want to explore community-based healthcare and the practice and possibilities of global health in local settings 🏘️ ? Take GHSR 6713 this coming fall semester!

The course is "classroom-less", held entirely in community settings, like Frogtown Farm, the UMN Community-University Health Care Clinic, and Bdote/Fort Snelling State Park. Registration is now open!!

🔗 Link for more course and registration info: https://bit.ly/3RspI0L


University of Minnesota Office of Academic Clinical Affairs

The University of Minnesota's first ever Chief Semiconductor Officer!! Earlier this month, the University of Minnesota named IEM Member Dr. Steven Koester as their first Chief Semiconductor Officer and launched the CHIPS website devoted to semiconductor & microelectronics research and education!

🌐 Check out the hot new website, featuring many other IEM members from the Minnesota Nano Center: https://bit.ly/3XyIRSi

📰 Read more about Dr. Koester and his new role: https://bit.ly/3XmQ9bW

# UMNDriven

“Highly portable MRI can transform neuroscience research, ... but this promise will not be realized if needed ethical and legal guardrails are missing.”

Alongside a national working group of scientists, IEM Faculty Board Advisor, Dr. Michael Garwood recently published a new report in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences on urgently needed guidance on ethical, legal, and policy concerns raised by the rapidly emerging use of pMRI for brain research 🧠 🔬

Check out the full story: https://bit.ly/4cleUJG


University of Minnesota Medical School

Congratulations to the top 3 winners of the Five-Minute Pitch Competition at the 2024 Design of Medical Devices Conference, UMN back in April 🎉🔬 ⚙️

⭐ Grand Prize Winner: Design of a New Pleural Biopsy Device for Improved Procedural Efficacy- Catherine Bradshaw (Biomedical Engineering PhD Candidate, University of Cape Town)

⭐ 2nd Place Winner: A Flexible Patella Fracture Device for Increased Anterior Cortical Compression- Connor Huxman (Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate, Penn State University)

⭐ 3rd Place Winner: Scan, Aim, Go: Compact Brain Drill Guide for Accelerating Minimally-Invasive Neurosurgeries- Thomas Lilieholm (Medical Physics PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin at Madison)

"This technology will save labs time and money while enabling large-scale experiments!" Check out IEM Member Dr. Suhasa Kondandaramaiah's latest work on automated machine learning robots and its new potential for genetics research 🧬 🔬

Read full article here: https://bit.ly/3z4nzBP


College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Join us for the University of Minnesota Medical School Dean's Lecture Series on June 12th to hear Dr. Nadia A. Sam-Agunda discuss the relevance of cultural humility in global health, as she seeks to open a window of understanding into why we should do better 🌎 🩺

Check link for more event info: https://bit.ly/4eapuFg

IEM member Joseph Zasadzinski talks about "why people develop acute respiratory distress syndrome" 🫁 🔬

Check out the full Q&A article: https://www.healio.com/news/pulmonology/20240416/qa-uncovering-why-people-develop-acute-respiratory-distress-syndrome



University of Minnesota Twin Cities
College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

For this month's featured news article, we got to talk to Dr. Hubert Lim about his journey to neuroengineering and new leadership role at Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center, UMN ⚙️🔬

Check out the full article: https://med.umn.edu/iem/news/meet-hubert-lim-new-bmdc-director



University of Minnesota Twin Cities
University of Minnesota Medical School