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The University of Minnesota Board of Regents has named Michael T. Osterholm a Regents Professor, the highest recognition given to faculty by the University. Osterholm is director of Consortium member Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), and is… Read more

Bees have been in the news lately, between President Obama's announcement of a National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators and ongoing news coverage on the effects of -- and possible solutions for -- the decline of bee colonies. The… Read more

Could nanoengineering save the lives of the thousands of people die each year while waiting for organ transplants? That's the hope of John Bischof, a professor of mechnical engineering at the University of Minnesota. Prof. Bischof is among the research scientists profiled in a Wired… Read more

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus causes severe respiratory illness and has been linked to more than 400 deaths since the illness was identified in Jordan in April, 2012. The first case outside of the Arabian Peninsula was reported in South Korea in late May; since then, 41… Read more

Dr Constantin Aliferis, MD, MS, PhD, FACMI, will provide leadership for CTSI's Biomedical Informatics core and the Institute for Health Informatics, assuming responsibilities from School of Nursing Dean Connie Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, who served in these roles on an… Read more

An article in USA Today quotes Michael T. Osterholm of Consortium member Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) about the biosecurity weaknesses expose by the most recent avian flu outbreaks in Iowa and Minnesota. More than 45 million chickens, turkeys… Read more

A study led by James D. Neaton of Consortium member center the Clinical and Translational Science Institute has definitively demonstrated the benefit of immediate treatment with antiretrovirals upon diagnosis with HIV. The National Institutes of Health-funded study,… Read more

A wide range of health professionals gathered in Reykjavik, Iceland, last week for the inaugural International Integrative Nursing Symposium. The three-day event was attended by about 250 people and centered around improving health care by focusing on wellbeing rather than… Read more

The laboratory of a University of Minnesota researcher has been selected as one of 20 worldwide to receive one of the first bioprinters. In today's Star Tribune, Prof. Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari is interviewed about the machine, which researchers hope will solve a major problem… Read more

An article in the New York Times describes a worrying trend: for-profit stem cell clinics that harvest bone marrow and fat, then inject or infuse them back into patients to treat conditions as various as asthma, Parkinson's disease and aging. While stem cells are known for their powerful… Read more