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    University of Minnesota's Medical Devices Center:

    A part of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine

MDC in the News

The Medical Devices Center Innovation Fellows Program (youtube video) was selected as one of the most novel/innovative programs in graduate level, experiential learning courses in medical device innovation 2009. Marie Johnson will present the program before 95 Biomedical Engineering Department Chairs at the October 7, 2009 Biomedical Engineering IDEA Conference in Pittsburgh. Its program will be used to “motivate design/innovation entrepreneurship education initiatives in BME programs worldwide.”

See pictures of the MDC at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair

MDC Innovation Fellows Director and Joseph Hale, 2008-2009 Innovation Fellow Alum, highlighted in the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal: From Practice to the Lab--Scholars in U program study ‘real world’ road blocks in medical community to create patentable solutions

MDC ON Legacy Web Extras: "Left to their own devices"

MDC Highlighted in the U of MN-Medical Bulletin Winter 2009 Issue: Body Mechanics

MDC Innovation Fellows Director in the Spring/Summer 2009 Issue of the Institute of Technology award winning magazine: Innovative Partnership

MDC Innovation Fellows Director in UMNews:
Their Own Devices: Innovators Take Wing with Help from Marie Johnson and the Medical Devices Center Fellows Program

"Medical Devices Center opens New Research Facility"

MDC Highlighted in the U of MN-Medical Bulletin Fall 2008 Issue: New Medical Devices Center Opens

MedTech News

FIRST® LEGO® League Announces Biomedical Engineering Theme for 2010 Robotics Season

3M Releases First Automated Rapid Flu Detection Assay

MDC Presents:  
Design of Medical Devices Conference
April 13-15, 2010
www.dmd.umn.edu

   

   MDC Meeting room Schedules:
   Click HERE to view the schedule for the Brainstorming Room
   Click HERE to view the Schedule for the Collaboration Room

MISSION

The Medical Devices Center combines basic research, applied translational research, education and training, and outreach/public engagement to accelerate interdisciplinary medical device research and development.

VIDEO ABOUT MDC