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New Medical Device Center Opens at the U
A new, state-of-the-art laboratory facility at the University of Minnesota opened its doors on June 24, offering the public a glimpse at the future of medical device innovation.
The Medical Devices Center, housed in Shepherd Labs on the East Bank of the Twin Cities campus in Minneapolis, was built specifically for designing, prototyping, and testing new medical devices. Read more...
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(Art Erdman (left), director of the Medical Devices Center, stands next to Ryan Buesseler, a Ph.D student in mechanical engineering who is holding a nasal stapler he created to meet a surgical need. Photo by Rick Moore )
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U of M Professor Joins
President's Economic Advisors
Jean Abraham, a University of Minnesota expert on health care finance, may get a chance to transform ideas into action in the year ahead.
He is heading to Washington to serve as a key advisor to the President's Council of Economic Advisors. Read more...
University Community Mourns the Passing of
Nobel Prize Winning Faculty Member Leonid Hurwicz
Leonid Hurwicz, University Regents Professor Emeritus of Economics,
who won the Nobel Prize in 2007, died June 24, 2008.
In 2007, he joined Eric Maskin of Princeton University and Roger Myerson of the University of Chicago, as winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Professor Hurwicz was honored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for laying the foundations of a theory that has led to "major breakthroughs in many areas of economics, including regulation theory, corporate finance, the theory of taxation and voting procedures." His theories revolutionized the way people think about how to bring about desired economic change, sweeping away old ways of thinking that relied on central planning without regard to incentives for individuals. According to University of Minnesota Professor V. V. Chari, "That was a fundamental breakthrough in thinking about economics policy and economic reform…." Read more...
UofM Researchers create a new heart in the laboratory
In a medical first, University researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory. If perfected, the technique may be used someday to generate new hearts for patients.
"The results were a home run," says Doris Taylor, director of the University's Center for Cardiovascular Repair and a principal investigator on the study.
"We knew that cell therapy--that is, transplanting cells into the heart--is not a panacea. So we started thinking, 'Is there a way to use cells to engineer heart tissue?'"
The process, called whole organ recellularization, can be done "with virtually any organ," Taylor says. |
The idea, she says, is to create whole new blood vessels or organs by implanting a patient's own cells into a matrix derived from a donor organ. This approach ought to bypass the problem of organ rejection because the matrix, being devoid of cells, shouldn't provoke an immune response. Even if it did, the new cells would lay down a fresh matrix of their own, which would turn off the immune response and free patients from the need to take immunosuppressive drugs.
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Top row: decellularization
Bottom row: recellularization |
"We just took nature's own building blocks to build a new organ," says Ott. Still, "When we saw the first contractions we were speechless."
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(Dr. Taylor photo - Patrick O'Leary
Heart photos - Thomas Matthiesen) |
The University's new $6 million Plant Pathology Containment Facility is the only public facility of its kind in the Midwest, and one of four in the United States. The facility, which opened in early November, 2007, will permit researchers to study crop-crippling pathogens and search for ways to manage the diseases they cause. The facility was built with funding from the State of Minnesota, the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, and the USDA Forest Service. more...
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