News & Publications

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 Heat Transfer, Vol. 27: Cryobiology.… 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… 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… 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… Read more

On May 19, Regents Professor Susan M. Wolf delivered the keynote address at the 51st convocation of Stony Brook University’s Renaissance School of Medicine in New York. Addressing the graduating medical school class, she cautioned that they were entering the profession of medicine at a challenging… Read more

Consortium Co-Chair Francis Shen, JD, PhD, co-organized a panel on Deploying Portable & Accessible MRI in New Communities: Strategies for Anticipating & Addressing Ethical & Legal Challenges at the 2025 annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (… Read more

At the 2025 annual meeting of the International Neuroethics Society (INS), Consortium Co-Chair Francis Shen, JD, PhD led a panel on The Dawn of Highly Portable AI-Enabled MRI Research in the Community: Proactively Addressing ELSI Challenges. Also participating in the session were neuroethics and… Read more

The Masonic Cancer Center (MCC), a Consortium Member Center, has announced a new partnership designed to improve the health outcomes of Black men. Together with Positive Image, a nonprofit providing education and expanded healthcare access to Black communities, MCC is delivering a… Read more

Researchers with the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB), a Consortium Member Center, are offering new insight into a relatively common brain malformation in children. A new study in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics, “Adaptive Functioning Development in Infants with… Read more

The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), a Consortium Member Center, has launched the Vaccine Integrity Project, an effort to safeguard vaccine use throughout the nation. Eight leading public health and public policy experts, including CIDRAP Director … Read more