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Minnesotan Patty Dickmann loves the University of Minnesota Medical School, and for good reason. She interviewed at other schools, but none offered what she found here.
Read Full StoryWith a fresh influx of funding, the University of Minnesota is working full steam on major discoveries. Academic Health Center scientists, physicians, and research centers have attracted $46 million in stimulus grants since the U.S. Recovery Act was approved in February 2009.
In addition to fueling research into some of health care’s most complex conditions and diseases, the funding has also created jobs across the University of Minnesota and beyond.
Visit the University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center website for a complete list of research projects funded by stimulus grants, click here.
How does biomedical research move from concept to cure? At the University of Minnesota, it travels a Corridor of Discovery.
Researchers in the Biomedical Discovery District will cure disease, improve health, and grow the state’s biomedical science industry.