Centers & Institutes

Minnesota's faculty have leveraged their combined knowledge and research to create specialized research centers and institutes. These act as focal points for collaboration, scholarship and technical advancement. Graduate students are active members of these programs and benefit from participation in seminars, conferences, equipment and much more.

• Biomedical Genomics Center
• Biotechnology Institute
• Brain Barriers Research Center
• Brain Sciences Center
• Caenorhabditis Genetics Center
• Masonic Cancer Center
• Developmental Biology Center
• Center for Diabetes Research and the Schulze Diabetes Institute
• Center for Drug Design
• Center for Genome Engineering
• Lillehei Heart Institute
• Institute of Human Genetics
• Center for Immunology
• Center for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology Translational Research
• Center for Lung Science and Health
• Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
• Center for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics
• Institute for Math and Its Applications
• Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care
• Center for Metals in Biocatalysis
• Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute
• Basic Research Center on Molecular and Cell Biology of Drug Addiction
• Institute for Molecular Virology
• Paul and Sheila Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Center
• Center for NeuroBehavioral Development
• Center for Neuroengineering
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Core Facility
• Stem Cell Institute
• Center for Translational Medicine
• Institute for Translational Neuroscience