MSI News

The Earl E Bakken Medical Devices Center (MDC) has announced that their next Director will be MSI PI Hubert Lim (professor, Otolaryngology and Biomedical Engineering).

Several MSI PIs have been named McKnight Land-Grant Professors for 2024-26.

After nearly a decade of service to researchers at the University of Minnesota, the Mesabi computing cluster will be retired on June 5, 2024 and MSI’s clusters will be reconfigured during Summer 2024.

Two MSI PIs from the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, Professor Laura Niedernhofer and Professor Paul Robbins, are featured in an article in the Winter 2024 issue of Minnesota Alumni magazine.

On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems.

MSI PI Jian-Ping Wang (professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering) has received the 2024 IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award.

Four MSI PIs are among the recipients of the 2023 research grants from the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics.

An article in the Winter 2024 Minnesota Alumni magazine features MSI PI Tetyana Shippee (professor, Health Policy and Management).

Four MSI PIs have been named to the 2023 class of inductees to the U of M’s Academies for Excellence.

A research team including MSI PI Christophe Lenglet (associate professor, Radiology; Center for Magnetic Resonance Research) has received grants from the Food and Drug Administration and the State of Minnesota Office of Higher Education to continue research into developing a reliable method of assessing changes in patients with amyotophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in order to evaluate different treatments.

MSI tutorials for Spring 2024 are now available for registration.

MSI PI Zhi-Li Zhang (professor, Computer Science and Engineering; Center for Transportation Studies (CTS)) has received a $4.25 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation for a project that aims to advance autonomous-vehicle technology.