Improving Care for the Elderly

Three MSI PIs have been named to the Academy for Excellence in Team Science, one of the Academies for Excellence at the University of Minnesota.The three faculty members are:Assistant Professor Peter Larsen (Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences)Professor Larsen uses MSI resources to perform multi-omic analyses that investigate epigenomic vulnerabilities contributing to the origin of sporadic disease and emerging zoonoses at the wildlife-livestock interface.Professor Sang-Hyun Oh (Electrical and Computer Engineering)Professor Oh uses MSI for research into the interaction of light with metallic nanostructures for the use of biosensing, metamaterials, and spectroscopy.Assistant Professor Tiffany Wolf (Veterinary Population Medicine)Professor Wolf uses MSI resources for metagenomic studies that are part of research into brainworm infection in the Minnesota moose population..

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.

After almost 10 years of service, the Mesabi HPC system will be retired on June 5th, 2024, to make room for the expansion of the Agate cluster.