JUN.-PROF. DR.-Ing. KATHARINA STAPELMANN: "PLASMA - THE NEW ALL-PURPOSE WAFFER IN MEDICINE".
As part of the lecture series "Everything Plasma!", Jun.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Stapelmann will give a lecture on "Plasma - the new all-purpose weapon in medicine?" on December 1, 2016. The lecture will take place on floor 1 in BlueSquare starting at 6:00 pm.
Plasma medicine is a comparably young field of research. One method, cold atmospheric pressure plasma, has proven particularly effective in healing chronic wounds. Plasma has many different mechanisms of action. For example, it not only helps to reduce the bacterial load in the wound, but also stimulates the body's own immune system, promotes blood circulation and thus supports wound healing on many levels. However, plasma medicine is being researched worldwide for a wide variety of applications, for example as a new cancer therapy or as a painless alternative to root canal treatment in dentistry. Plasma can also be used to sterilize medical instruments or surfaces in hospitals and is also reliably effective against so-called "hospital germs".
The lecture will give an overview of current research topics in plasma medicine with a focus on wound healing. We will trace the mechanisms of action and find out why plasma is so effective and can be used in so many different ways. At the end there will be an opportunity to look at a plasma for wound healing - touching allowed!
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Prof. Dr. Hiroki Kondo
Prof. Dr. Hiroki Kondo of the Plasma Nanotechnology Research Center (PLANT) / Hori-Sekine Lab, Dept. of Elect. Eng. & Comp. Sci. of the Graduate School of Engineering at Nagoya University in Japan will visit Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki at the Chair of Plasma and Atomic Physics from February 25-27, 2016.
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Prof. Dr. Khristo Tarnev
Prof. Dr. Khristo Tarnev, Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Physics of the Technical University Sofia, Bulgaria, will visit Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki at the Chair of Plasma and Atomic Physics in the time from 24.01.-30.01.2016.
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Marc van der Schans
Marc van der Schans from the Department of Applied Physics, Elementary Processes in Gas discharges (EPG) at the TU Eindhoven (Netherlands) is visiting PhD student Patrick Böhm (Experimental Physics V) during the week of January 25-29, 2016. This week marks the end of a collaboration already started in 2015. The goal is to apply the electric field measurement technique, which is being further developed by Patrick Böhm as part of his dissertation at Ruhr-Universität, to a plasma bullet discharge, which is also being further developed and extensively analyzed by Marc van der Schans as part of his dissertation. Due to the positive outcome of the previous cooperation weeks, a corresponding setup will now also be set up at the TU Eindhoven.
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