July 1, 2021 Starting July 1, 2021, Mechanical Engineering Professor Art Erdman, the founding director of the Bakken Medical Devices Center, and Carla Pavone, the Associate Director of the University’s Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship in the Carlson School of Management and the Program Director of Minnesota Innovation Corps, will become co-directors of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine Innovation Pillar.
The University of Minnesota announced that its Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center (BMDC), an internationally renowned center of excellence in the training and practice of medical technology innovation, is being incorporated within the University’s Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM).
IEM, which is uniquely situated under both the Medical School and the College of Science and Engineering, has a mission to advance healthcare by strengthening research collaborations between engineering and medicine in both academia and industry.