Hubert Lim, PhD, has been at the University of Minnesota for 14 years. He’s presently a professor in the Biomedical Engineering and Otolaryngology Departments at the university’s College of Science and Engineering.
In addition, Lim is active in the medtech startup community. He’s the chief scientific officer of Neuromod Devices (Dublin and Lisle, Illinois), which is developing a tinnitus treatment device) and chief scientific officer of SecondWave Systems (Minneapolis), which is developing a wearable ultrasound device for treating immune disorders.
Initially established in 2007 and located in the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus since 2013, the Bakken Medical Devices Center is named after the late Medtronic founder Earl Bakken. A resource for medical device development expertise, a makerspace, an interdisciplinary engineering and health sciences program, the site of the BMDC Innovation Fellows Program, and so much more — it plays an important innovation role in the medical device industry hub in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
The BMDC became part of the university’s Institute for Engineering in Medicine in 2021.
John C. Bischof, PhD, the director of the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Engineering in Medicine, welcomed Lim to the institute’s leadership team.
“We look forward to seeing how he’ll apply his rich expertise in research, innovation, and entrepreneurship to Bakken MDC so that it can continue to improve 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,” Bischof said in an announcement.
