An independent review has found the American Psychological Association (APA) collaborated in secret with the CIA to weaken guidelines for the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay during interrogation. Steven Miles, MD, of Consortium member the Center for Bioethics was widely quoted in the media discussing the report.
The University of Minnesota Genomics Center (UMGC), a Consortium member, has received matching funds from the Office for the Vice President for Research to acquire devices and provide pilot projects for investigators working in next-generation sequencing (NGS).
On June 24-25 2015, a conference on Precision Medicine was held in Boston to coincide with the launch of the new Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. The Precision Medicine Initiative, led by the National Institutes of Health, was announced by President Obama in late January.
An article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune profiles the work of Consortium member the National Center for Food Protection and Defense, led by Prof. Amy Kircher, DrPH.
Consortium member center the Institute on the Environment (IonE) has named renowned scholar Jessica Hellmann as its new director beginning August 31, 2015. Dr. Hellmann is currently on the faculty of Notre Dame, and is best known for her research on climate change.
The June 2015 issue of Minnesota Medicine, the official publication of the Minnesota Medical Association, features a piece on "The New World of Genetic Test, Families and Privacy" by Consortium founding chair Susan M. Wolf.
Despite its cultural, environmental and economic signficance to Minnesota, wild rice has been threatened by high levels of sulfate resulting from agricultural and industrial sources.
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 considered one of the leading public health experts in the country.
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
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 article about preservation methods that could enable organ banking.