Frank Reidy Center for 生物:About
About the Frank Reidy RESEARCH Center for 生物
When the Frank Reidy RESEARCH Center for 生物 opened its doors at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, 2002年在弗吉尼亚, it was the world's first dedicated bioelectrics research facility. The founders of the Center chose the term bioelectrics to define this new field, in which pulsed power engineers work with life scientists and clinicians to understand and then to harness the effects of very strong but very short bursts of electrical energy on cells, 组织, and whole organisms [1].
从那时起, as the field has expanded in numbers and in geographic reach, the Center has served as an international point of reference and a gathering place for fundamental and applied bioelectrics research.
Center laboratories today maintain active concentrations in cancer cell biology and immunology, cancer therapeutics, neurostimulation and electrophysiology, integrative pulmonary biology, cold atmospheric plasma biomedicine, 可再生能源, and environmental remediation, nanosecond and picosecond pulse generators and delivery systems, including high-power antenna systems for noninvasive electrostimulation, and molecular simulations of cellular constituents under electrical stress.
任务
The mission of the Frank Reidy RESEARCH Center for 生物 (FRRCBE) is to generate scientific knowledge and increased understanding of the interaction of electromagnetic fields and ionized gases with biological systems, and to use this knowledge to optimize and develop applications in biotechnology, medical diagnostics and therapeutics, food and other industrial processing and sterilization, and environmental remediation. Within this framework the Center conducts leading-edge interdisciplinary and multi-institutional research, recruits world-class faculty, early-career scientists and exceptional graduate students, 支持本地, 区域, 国家和, international research and development and educational programs, and seeks to share these opportunities with Old Dominion University students and faculty. The FRRCBE engages with entrepreneurial individuals, 组织, and companies to promote commercialization of 生物-based technologies, and seeks to increase external funding and institutional visibility.
