Design of Medical Devices Conference, UMN

08/19/2025

🫀The 2025 Tuesday Lunch Keynote Presentation was all about the Past, Present and Future of the Total Artificial Heart by none other than Dr. William "Billy" Cohn.

If you missed the live talk or just have to watch it again, your wait in over. Visit the DMD YouTube Channel to watch today: https://youtu.be/hs5gTgR3YJk?si=OxVMiUXU97H4zNzq

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"The Past, Present and Future of the Total Artificial Heart: A very Houston-centric story"William "Billy" Cohn, MDCMO, BiVACORDirector, Center for Device Inn...

08/04/2025

Dr. Korkut Uygun kicked off the 2025 DMD Conference. Let us know what you thought of his talk in the comments.

If you missed the live presentation, watch the video on our YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/xC70gffoc1Y

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"Embracing the Extremes in Organ Preservation"Korkut Uygun, PhD, Professor, Surgery, Harvard Medical SchoolAbstract: Organ transplantation is undergoing simu...

05/30/2025

Congratulations to our Student Showcase Competition winners!

🏆Grand Prize: "IntimaSeal by IntimaVision", Abby Chae, Aiman Rahman, Korie Rudin, and Sradha Ravishankar- Rice University Department of Bioengineering
2nd: "Perfusion Refill Indicator for Monitoring Efficiency", Majd Ayyad, Shriya Boyapati, McKenzie Davis, Sophie Gu, and Sophie Klessel- University of Pennsylvania
3rd: "RenoAlert: A Rapid Acute Kidney Injury Diagnostic Device", Chris Le, Pratyusha Manda, Abinand Parthasarathy, and Mahima Vaidya- Georgia Tech

View the full list of all other competition winners: https://bit.ly/4iN4o0F

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Institute for Engineering in Medicine - University of Minnesota

05/23/2025

Congratulations to our Emerging Medical Innovation Valuation Competition winners!

🏆Grand Prize: "Twistomy", Steven Moulton, University of Colorado Boulder and Ezalife
2nd: "Bimpo Chair", Dane Rustad, Bimpo Chairs LLC
3rd: "UltraTracTM", Dori Jones, AcQumen Medical

View the full list of all other competition winners: https://bit.ly/4iN4o0F

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Institute for Engineering in Medicine - University of Minnesota

05/16/2025

Congrats to 5-Minute Pitch Competition!

🏆Grand Prize: "Development of an Endoscopic Brain Tumour Resection Device Capable of Concurrent Tissue Cauterization", Matteo Bomben, University of Toronto

2nd: "Development of a Novel Intraosseous Needle using a Large Scale 3D Imaging Study", Anuk Dias, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

3rd: "Human Centered Design: Veteran testing of a mobile app with augmented reality for phantom limb pain", Tonya Rich, Minneapolis VA Health Care System

View the full list of all other competition winners: https://bit.ly/4iN4o0F

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Institute for Engineering in Medicine - University of Minnesota

05/09/2025

DMD connects everyone together, from long time academic leaders to first time trainees!! Thank you everyone who joined us last week ✨

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05/08/2025

We love it when you grab a picture with Goldy the Gopher at DMD!! Thank you to the Minneapolis VA Health Care System RECOVER crew for joining us this year at and sharing their expertise at the"Orthopedics and Rehabilitation" session!

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05/01/2025

And that's a close on 🎉 Thank you everyone for an amazing last day, can't wait for already!!

See you tomorrow for 👋

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04/30/2025

Last day of ! Jim Southwick from GREATER MSP Partnership opened up the morning with an exciting plenary keynote on "The Minnesota MedTech 3.0 Strategy", followed by a fireside chat with Joni Ekstrum from South Dakota Biotech Association, Mudit Jain from Treo Ventures, Eddie Pauline from Ohio Life Sciences, Mickayla Rosard from Groove Capital, Chris Schad from Mayo Clinic, Frank Jaskulke from Avio Medtech Consulting, and Hubert Lim, BMDC Director!

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04/30/2025

Day 2 of ✅ Full day filled with lectures, lab tours, the Student Showcase, sponsor exhibits, poster session, PDIC conference, and of course, a visit from Goldy the Gopher! Can't wait to see you tomorrow 👋

Special thanks to our Plenary Keynote Dr. Korkut Uygun from Harvard Medical School and Keynote Speaker Dr. Billy Cohn from BiVACOR!

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04/29/2025

🏃Thank you everyone who joined us for 5k Fun Run & Road Race! Congrats to first place winner Evan Dieterle 🏆
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03/26/2025

Join us on Tuesday, April 29 as we kick off with a special plenary keynote on "Embracing the Extremes in Organ Preservation" from Dr. Korkut Uygun from Harvard Medical School, with welcome remarks from Dr. Hubert Lim (Director of the Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center, UMN) and medtech highlights from Drs. Shashank Priya (Vice President for Research and Innovation, University of Minnesota) and Ken Washington (SVP, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Medtronic )!

Learn more here: https://dmd.umn.edu/agenda

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Institute for Engineering in Medicine - University of Minnesota