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The Director and Deputy Director of the NSF-Funded Engineering Research Center for Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-Bio), John Bischof, PhD, and Mehmet Toner, PhD, co-edited the newly released Annual Review of… Read More

Ben Ingman, PhD, has joined the Institute on Environment (IonE) as its new Director of Learning & Development (L&D). Featured in an IonE website story, Ingman will lead the Institute’s efforts in sustainability education, experiential learning, and professional development. Prior to joining IonE, Ingman was Associate Director… Read More

The University of Minnesota’s BioTechnology Institute (BTI) and the Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation Center (BBIC) partnered on the first BioTech Day symposium May 1. The event marks BTI’s 40th anniversary. This collaborative event convened researchers and trainees from the University and industry, offering an opportunity to share new research, discuss challenges in the field, and network. According to Distinguished McKnight Professor Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, PhD, who directs BTI and BBIC, the day illuminated BTI’s crucial role in facilitating collaborative biotechnology… Read More

In a new publication in PLOS Digital Health, experts in bioethics and law call for immediate standardization of methods for collection of race and ethnicity data, and for developers to warranty race and ethnicity data quality in medical AI systems. The research synthesizes concerns about why patient race data in electronic health records… Read More