News & Publications
Posted: Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Experts from the legal field, academia, and industry assembled Dec. 2 for “LawSeq: Facing the Legal Barriers to Genomic Research & Precision Medicine,” a webinar presented by the Consortium in collaboration with with Ropes & Gray, LLP, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, PC, and … Read more
Posted: Thursday, November 19, 2020
The Center for Animal Health and Food Safety (CAHFS) is implementing a new program focused on containing outbreaks of African Swine Flu in Vietnam. ProgRESSVet-Vietnam will provide online educational opportunities that will increase veterinary service capacity for those fighting African… Read more
Posted: Monday, November 16, 2020
The US Department of Defense has announced an $87.5 million award to create the Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem (BioMADE). BioMADE, a Department of Defense Manufacturing Innovation Institute, will increase nonmedical bioindustrial manufacturing capacity using microorganisms like… Read more
Posted: Monday, November 9, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden has named a thirteen-member advisory board to confront the COVID-19 pandemic. The Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board will include Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota. Dr.… Read more
Posted: Tuesday, November 3, 2020
The Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Planning Grant Program helps support the creation of interdisciplinary faculty research teams or research partnerships between the community and the University. Funding is meant to support the preparation and submission of grant proposals for the 2021 HFHL… Read more
Posted: Tuesday, October 27, 2020
A new study finds that the US public is ready to accept human-animal chimera research. Although the National Institutes of Health placed a moratorium on funding this research in 2015, Japan lifted its ban last year. This new article reports on a… Read more
Posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2020
The University of Minnesota is conducting clinical trials for an innovative treatment that utilizes CRISPR technology to combat metastatic gastrointestinal epithelial cancer. The treatment is based on research conducted by Branden Moriarity, PhD, Beau Webber, PhD, and R. Scott McIvor, PhD, of the… Read more
Posted: Monday, October 12, 2020
Professor Damien Fair, Redleaf Endowed Director at the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain, has been selected for a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. Prof. Fair also has faculty appointments with the Institute of Child Development and Department of Pediatrics at the University of… Read more
Posted: September 30, 2020
The Center for Bioethics will host “The Ethics of Underfunding: Changing the Narrative about Native American Health Care,” a webinar featuring Dr. Mary Owen, Director of the Center of American Indian & Minority Health; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine & Behavioral… Read more
Posted: September 25, 2020
Professor Arturo Casadevall, chair of molecular microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, authored a recent opinion article for the Wall Street Journal on issues surrounding convalescent plasma as a treatment for COVID-19. Prof. Casavedall will be a… Read more