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🚀 Accelerating regenerative therapies: Four faculty projects have received funding to develop breakthrough therapies that restore, replace, or regenerate damaged cells, tissues, and organs. @UMNCSE
Read about the projects: cse.umn.edu/bme/news/acceler…
ALT Brenda Ogle in her lab
Exciting recognition for a pioneer of AI in healthcare! 🎉
Faculty member Zhi Yang received the Wallace H. Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation at the 2026 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, where he delivered a plenary lecture. Congrats!
cse.umn.edu/bme/news/zhi-yan…
Big congrats to BME student Shaliny Jadhav & team!
They're finalists in the 2026 Collegiate Inventors Competition® with their innovative medical device, Flow IO. 🏆
Let’s support them by voting for them in the Audience Choice Award!
👉 Vote: invent.org/blog/emerging-inn…
@UMNMDC
There’s still time! Reserve your spot today for our upcoming alumni reception and Gopher Women's Hockey game on Friday, Oct. 16.
🎟️Free ticket deadline: RSVP by September 27.
👉 Details & RSVP: cse.umn.edu/bme/bme-alumni-r…
ALT BME Alumni Reception & Gopher Women's Hockey - Friday, Oct. 16, 2026
Interested in expanding what’s possible for human health? Join our PhD and MS programs in Biomedical Engineering!
Attend an info session to learn more:
PhD:
🗓️ Sept. 23: 6–7pm CT
🗓️ Nov. 11: 8–9am CT
MS:
🗓️ Nov. 10: 8–9am CT
Register here: cse.umn.edu/bme/how-apply
ALT Attend info session Biomedical Engineering PhD and MS programs University of Minnesota
Alumni: Join us Friday, October 16 for an evening of networking, celebration, and Golden Gopher pride!
Whether you're stopping by just for a drink and a bite at the reception or staying for the full game, we’d love to see you there!
👉 Details & RSVP: cse.umn.edu/bme/bme-alumni-r…
ALT BME Alumni Reception & Gopher Women's Hockey - Friday, Oct. 16, 2026
Today's inspiration: Seeing our alumni apply their engineering skills to tackle major healthcare challenges and push the boundaries of medical technology. Congrats to Efraín and Parker on all you've achieved. We look forward to watching you continue to make an impact! @UMNCSE
Cancer kills because it's caught late. Adialante is changing that by making mobile MRI accessible — dropping its costs to hundreds per scan and wait times to hours. Annual cancer screening will be the norm.
Congrats on the launch, @ET_adialante &
@ManW_dePlan!
ycombinator.com/launches/QLh…
Exciting developments for the future of epilepsy treatment!🧠💡
PhD candidate Xinbing (Jack) Zhang & team identified a neural biomarker in patients with epilepsy treated w/ deep brain stimulation that correlates with successful treatment outcomes.
More: cse.umn.edu/bme/news/phd-can…
Congrats to Asst. Prof. Brittany Hartwell on receiving a Grant-in-Aid Award from @UMNresearch!
The award will support her project, “From Albumin-hitchhiking to Cell Painting: Engineering Vaccines with Enhanced Efficacy Against Infectious Disease”.
More: research.umn.edu/funding-awa…
ALT Brittany Hartwell
Congrats to Prof. Andrew Khalil, who’s been awarded a prestigious NIH R35 grant!
Funds from the 5-year award will support efforts to better understand how immune cells regulate inflammation, tissue repair, metabolism, & disease progression.
More: cse.umn.edu/bme/news/andrew-…
ALT stem cells
A research team has shed new light on the metrics scientists use to map the human brain, which could change the way we understand and treat neurological and psychiatric disorders. Congrats to @KDembny @TNetoff @daviddarrow & team! @UMNCSE
More: cse.umn.edu/bme/news/metrics…
ALT Brain networks
🎉 An NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for Kyle Kunisaki!
Kyle, a graduate of our undergraduate program, has received a 2026 fellowship through the program, which recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students.
Read more about Kyle: cse.umn.edu/bme/news/bme-stu…
ALT Kyle Kunisaki
What a cool experience for undergraduate student Adam Maray!
Earlier this month, he traveled to the American Academy of Orofacial Pain Conference, where he was invited to present a retrospective clinical study review at a research panel.
ALT Adam Maray with his research poster
🚀A new grant aims to pave the way for better therapeutics.
Prof. @casarkar has been awarded a prestigious NIH award that'll support efforts to better understand clinically vital proteins and produce new drug candidates against them.
Read more: cse.umn.edu/bme/news/casim-s…
ALT Proteins interacting
The @Opitz_Lab has developed a way to control how electrical activity travels across the brain.
It's a big step toward targeted therapies for cognitive impairment, including conditions associated w/ memory, attention & executive function deficits.
More: cse.umn.edu/bme/news/control…
ALT A method for controlling how neural activity travels across the brain
Huge congrats to Ahmed Sharara on receiving the nationally competitive Goldwater Scholarship!
It’s awarded to outstanding students who intend to pursue research-oriented careers.
Read more about Ahmed: cse.umn.edu/bme/news/biomedi…
ALT Ahmed Sharara
Excited to share that @davidodde has been named to the AIMBE board of directors!
He’ll serve the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) board as director at-large.
Read more: cse.umn.edu/bme/news/david-o…
ALT David Odde named to AIMBE board
#UMNproud to share that Matthew Johnson, David Wood, and Achin Bhowmik have been inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows!
It's one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers.
Read more: cse.umn.edu/bme/news/bme-com…
@UMNCSE
ALT Matthew D. Johnson, David K. Wood, and Achin Bhowmik inducted into the 2026 class of the AIMBE College of Fellows
🏆 Go Gophers! Biomedical engineering student Leah Gonsiorowski turned her dreams into reality this past weekend after competing in the Final Four with the women's gymnastics team.
Read about the experience & how gymnastics fueled her choice of major: cse.umn.edu/college/news/bio…
ALT Leah Gonsiorowski proudly holds an NCAA trophy
"We want to double success rates of clinical trials from five to 10 percent, and in so doing cure more patients."
- Prof. @davidodde on the “no-holds-barred approach to cancer” he’s taking with Prof. @ppproven & team.
➡️Read more: cse.umn.edu/bme/news/no-hold…
@UMNCSE @UMNresearch
ALT Dave Odde and Paolo Provenzano