Heart of Discovery: Taylor, Bakken to Headline 2008 Annual Celebration
2/14/2008 | | Doris Taylor in the lab. Photograph by Patrick O'Leary. |
Pioneering cardiac researchers Doris Taylor, Ph.D., and Earl Bakken (B.E.E. '48) will headline the University of Minnesota Alumni Association 2008 Annual Celebration, set for May 29, 2008.
Taylor, who directs the University’s Center for Cardiovascular Repair, is a world-renowned heart researcher who recently led a team that created beating heart muscle on an empty scaffolding, a breakthrough that could lead to growing new hearts for cardiac patients. Taylor will be the keynote speaker.
Bakken will introduce Taylor, who holds the Medtronic Bakken professorship in the Medical School. Bakken became famous for creating the world’s first transtorized cardiac pacemaker, a device which revolutionized heart care and led to his founding Medtronic.
“We have opened the door to the notion that any organ can be made," Taylor said of her lab's recent breakthrough. "Until now, it’s really been just science fiction.”
The 2008 Annual Celebration will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a reception and dinner on Northrop Mall. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. in Northrop Auditorium. The 2008 Annual Celebration is sponsored by Mortenson Construction and the Medtronic Foundation.
 | | | |  | | Ticket Information | | Tickets for the 2008 Annual Celebration are now on slae by mail only.
Click here to download a PDF form.
Prices are:
Tables of 10 (Dinner and Program)
$600 for Alumni Association members;
$750 for nonmembers
Individual (Dinner and Program)
$70 for Alumni Association members;
$85 for nonmembers
Program Only
$30 members;
$40 nonmembers;
$10 students |
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