A shared resource designed for collective impact
MN-BRIDGE is a collaborative platform, intentionally designed to serve academic investigators, startups, and established industry partners alike. By centralizing specialized expertise, infrastructure, and biological resources, we enable partnerships that no single lab or organization could support independently.
We actively engage with the RM community to identify unmet needs, reduce barriers to access, and ensure that MN-BRIDGE resources are responsive, inclusive, and widely utilized. This collaborative model accelerates discovery, avoids unnecessary duplication, and maximizes the impact of shared investments.

How we engage:

• Streamlined access to shared NHP resources paired with foundational model-characterization datasets required for experimental planning
• Support for exploratory and pilot studies
• Partnerships across academia, industry, and clinical research
• Engagement with RM investigators and teams lacking access to specialized preclinical infrastructure
• MN-BRIDGE partners with the University of Minnesota’s Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) to leverage existing agreement templates and partnership frameworks, helping collaborators move quickly from interest to execution.

To learn more about other Regenerative Medicine Minnesota recently funded efforts, please visit the Office of Academic Clinical Affairs website.

Translation happens faster—and more sustainably—when expertise and resources are shared.