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University highlights medical discovery teams, rural and Native American dementia research and residency programs
Summary
University witnesses described four medical discovery teams funded by a prior state investment, cited NIH grant successes, and detailed statewide clinical training programs including RPAP and a mobile dental clinic supported by health-focused state specials.
Christine Kiel, interim director for government and community relations, and Beth Nunley, the university’s academic clinical affairs CFO, presented state funding tied to health sciences and medical discovery teams and explained how the funds were used to rebuild faculty capacity and statewide clinical training.
Kiel told the committee that the University of Minnesota Medical School — the state’s only public medical school — trains roughly 70 percent of Minnesota’s physicians and that a 2015 Blue Ribbon Commission recommendation led to targeted state investments to rebuild faculty and research capacity. The state investment (described by presenters as $30 million, delivered as $15 million per year in that biennium) supported creation of four Medical Discovery Teams (MDTs): Addiction; Biology of Aging; Optical Imaging and Brain Science;…
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