1500
High school students attended Inspire events
532
Industry Professionals have participated
7
Funded Centers advancing healthcare
75+
Projects that have been started
$115M
SRI Grants awarded

IEM MISSION

The Institute for Engineering in Medicine's (IEM) mission is to advance healthcare through research partnerships between faculty in the health sciences, faculty in the College of Science and Engineering, and the biomedical industry.

IEM RESEARCH

The Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM) research collaborations aim at the development of innovative engineering solutions for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. We are always looking to add new research themes as we add new members and research partners to IEM.

John Bischof - IEM Director's Quote

John Bischof - IEM Director

"Engineers, scientists, and clinicians have made amazing advances in medicine by working together over the past 75 years. IEM exists to make the next 75 years even more amazing."

IEM appoints Hubert Lim Director of the Bakken Medical Devices Center

NEW DIRECTOR OF BMDC ANNOUNCED

We are very excited to welcome Dr. Lim as the new Director of the Bakken Medical Devices Center. We look forward to seeing how he’ll apply his rich expertise in research, innovation, and entrepreneurship to continue improving technology and clinical care for societal benefit by catalyzing engineering and medical science partnerships; integrating cell, molecular and genome science with medical technologies; and building a diverse and equitable culture that connects biomedical engineering ecosystems across communities and society.

Imagine looking at a map with mediocre resolution. The further you zoom in, the less clear everything becomes. This is a problem neuroscience researchers face when trying to understand the wiring schemes of the brain.

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Over the last two years, the Cancer Bioengineering Initiative (CBI) has become a three-grant center dedicated to integrating engineering into cancer therapies – but its roots didn’t actually stem from cancer research.

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The Inspire program provides eye-opening opportunities to help high schoolers see what they are capable of accomplishing in medicine and engineering.

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