About IIB

The International Institute for Biosensing (IIB)is a globally engaged institute at the University of Minnesota, building a coordinated and collaborative national and international initiative to create a collective global effort to identify barriers to advancing biosensing research and generate more innovative solutions that will lead to better products and policies, while securing the future of our children and citizens. 

IIB brings together experts from academia, nonprofits, industry, and government to advance biosensing technologies that address pressing challenges in human health, animal health, agriculture, and the environment. By fostering global collaboration, IIB works to break down research barriers, inspire innovative solutions, and translate discoveries into real-world impact. From developing AI-enabled multimodal tools and data models to collect and interpret the results for early disease detection and monitoring ecosystem health and resilience, to improving food safety and agricultural productivity, IIB is committed to building solutions that shape better products, smarter policies, and a healthier, more sustainable future for people, animals, and the planet.

Bridging the gaps in BioSensing Research is IIB’s Raison d'etre

In the last decades (bio)sensors have revolutionized the way we measure complex phenomena in our bodies and in the world that surrounds us. They create unique opportunities to study ecosystems from different perspectives as they can continuously sense information at the micron scale. These increasingly sophisticated sensors are rapidly replacing complex, tedious, and expensive traditional methods of analysis with fast, selective, accurate, and cost effective measurements. The possibilities and potential for these new biosensors abound, promising to catalyze new research and development geared toward addressing pressing issues related to human health and the environment.