Natalie Shainsky receives 1st Place award in Drexel’s IEEE Graduate Forum’s Firth Annual Research Symposium for her presentation titled Enhancing limb growth by non-thermal plasma generated reactive species.

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Ph.D. Research Proposal for Utku Kursat Ercan 2/7/2013

BIOMED Ph.D. Research Proposal School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems Mechanisms Underlying Antimicrobial Efficacies of Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) Plasma Treated N-Acetyl Cysteine Solution   Date: February 7, 2013 at 10:30 AM Location: New College Building, Room: 7-401 SPEAKER(s): Utku Kursat Ercan Advisors: Suresh G. Joshi, M.D., Ph.D., and Gregory Fridman, Ph.D. DETAILS: Hospital-acquired infection is a [...]

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Plasma seen as an anti-infective

Published in: Ophthamology Management, Volume: 16 , Issue: August 2012, page(s): 10 – 18 Online: http://www.ophthalmologymanagement.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleID=107300 Quote: Plasma seen as an anti-infective. With concerns growing about increasing microbial resistance to ophthalmic antibiotics, Pennsylvania ophthalmologist David S. C. Pao, MD, believes he may have found a safe and effective alternative to antibiotics in a nonthermal plasma formulation that could [...]

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[Article] “Life Sciences Setting New Pulses in Camden”

“I’ve given up talking about what I do at cocktail parties,” jokes Greg Fridman, the co-director of Drexel University’s Plasma Medicine Lab of the A.J. Drexel Plasma Institute, by way of acknowledging that the scientific process his research group invented eight years ago is staggeringly difficult to explain to lay listeners. Put as simply as possible, Fridman and [...]

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Congressman LoBiondo visit to the Plasma Institute

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Conference : ISPC 21 in Australia – August 4-9, 2013

Save the Date: ISPC 21 in Australia We are more than delighted to announce that the 21st International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC 21) will be held at the Cairns Convention Centre, adjacent to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, from 4 – 9 August 2013. As you are no doubt aware, ISPC is a major bi-annual [...]

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[New Book] Plasma Medicine: Applications of Low-Temperature Gas Plasmas in Medicine and Biology

Dear Colleagues, It is our pleasure to share with you the publication of a new book on Plasma Medicine. The book is available from the publisher here: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6641387/?site_locale=en_GB and on Amazon [slightly cheaper] here: http://www.amazon.com/Plasma-Medicine-Applications-Low-Temperature-Plasmas/dp/1107006430/ Respectfully and with kind regards from Drexel Plasma Institute team, -G. Fridman Plasma Medicine Applications of Low-Temperature Gas Plasmas in Medicine [...]

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TA Award Recipient : Natalie Shainsky

  Congratulations to our graduate student, Natalie Shainsky, for winning the Teaching Assistance Excellence Award! The 2012 Graduate Student Teaching Award is presented by the Office of Graduate Studies. The Graduate Student Excellence Committee selects graduate students (full-time master’s and doctoral), who have been recommended by their students and Teaching advisor in the past year, for certificates of recognition and [...]

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Photos from ICPM-4

Photos from the 4th International Conference on Plasma Medicine.

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Spotlight : PhD graduate Fela Odeyemi

Drexel Plasma Instutute’s newest alumnus, Fela Odeyemi, will be graduating on June 15, 2012. Fela will be graduating with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University. He has been a research student at DPI’s Fuel conversion and hydrogen production Lab in the last 3.5 years. Fela will be moving on to work full time as a [...]

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Waterfront Tech Center Blood Drive – June 21

Waterfront Technology Center & A.J. Drexel Plasma Institute  Blood Drive! Thursday, June 21st 9:00 am – 3:00 pm MAKE YOUR APPOINTMENT TODAY! Click Here to schedule an appointment. Note this is a new system!! You will have to create a user name and password.     Recipient Stories/Why We’re Donors:  Click Here Donor Eligibility Guidelines: Click Here or call 1 [...]

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New facebook link

AJ DPI now has a new facebook “name”: drexelplasma You can reach us at the new link: http://www.facebook.com/drexelplasma

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Defense Announcement : Fela Odeyemi – 5/29/2012

Announcing the Ph.D. Dissertation Defense of: Fela Odeyemi  Date : May 29, 2012  Time: 12:30 PM  Place :  MEM Seminar room (Curtis 162)   Generation of Hydrogen-Rich Gas Using Non Equilibrium Plasma Discharges Abstract This dissertation investigates Non equilibrium plasma discharges, particularly gliding arc plasma discharge and dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) as alternative techniques to thermal or catalytic conversion [...]

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Publication: Low-Temperature Plasma Reforming of Hydrocarbon Fuels Into Hydrogen and Carbon Suboxide for Energy Generation Without CO2 Emission

 Low-Temperature Plasma Reforming of Hydrocarbon Fuels Into Hydrogen and Carbon Suboxide for Energy Generation Without CO2 Emission By Odeyemi, F.; Pekker, M.; Rabinovich, A.; Fridman, A.; Heon, M.; Mochalin, V. N.; Gogotsi, Y. Abstract An alternative process of extracting energy from fossil fuels (coal, biomass, hydrocarbons etc) without the emission of CO2 is possible with [...]

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Publication : Gliding Arc Plasma-Stimulated Conversion of Pyrogas into Synthesis Gas

Gliding Arc Plasma-Stimulated Conversion of Pyrogas into Synthesis Gas by Fela Odeyemi, Alexander Rabinovich, and Alexander Fridman Abstract  This paper discusses plasma-assisted conversion of pyrolysis gas (pyrogas) fuel to synthesis gas (syngas, combination of hydrogen and carbon monoxide). Pyrogas is a product of biomass, municipal wastes, or coal-gasification process that usually contains hydrogen, carbon monoxide, [...]

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Plasma Physics Division Annual Report

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Plasma Physics Division Annual Report, which has been created to highlight significant scientific and technical accomplishments; awards and recognitions; nominees for the Alan Berman Publication Award; “hellos and goodbyes” to Division personnel; and recognize those who are society fellows or professional engineers. In this edition we also remember [...]

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Porcine intact and wounded skin responses to atmospheric nonthermal plasma

Porcine intact and wounded skin responses to atmospheric nonthermal plasma By A S Wu, S Kalghatgi,, D Dobrynin, R Sensenig, E Cerchar,, E Podolsky, E Dulaimi, M Paff, K Wasko,K P Arjunan, K Garcia, G Fridman, M Balasubramanian, R Ownbey, K A. Barbee, A Fridman, G Friedman,S G. Joshi, A D. Brooks Abstract Thermal plasma [...]

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Handheld plasma flashlight rids skin of pathogens

Imagine a handheld, battery-powered plasma-producing device that can rid skin of bacteria in an instant — no soap and water required. It could be used in ambulance emergency calls, natural disaster sites, military combat operations, and wherever treatment is required in remote locations. It’s called a “plasma flashlight.” In an experiment, the plasma flashlight effectively [...]

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Electrical pulse treatment gives pancreatic cancer patients new hope

Innovative interventional radiology procedure zaps around complicated pancreatic tumors, improving prognosis and pancreatic cancer treatment paradigm Results of a study presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco, Calif., signal a light at the end of the tunnel for individuals with inoperable locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC). A new [...]

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Conference – HTTP12 : Bologna, Italy Announcement

Dear Colleagues, we are glad to remind you that The 12th High-Tech Plasma Processes conference (HTPP-12) will be held in Bologna-Italy from June 24 to June 29 2012 . The deadline for submitting your abstracts is approaching. Please follow the instructions given on the conference website http://www.htpp12.com/source/abstract_submission.html and submit your contribution before March 15. For [...]

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Drexel Research Day 2012 – Call for abstracts

Research Day 2012 – Abstract Submissions Open from March 1 to April 19 All members of the Drexel University community are invited to a celebration of Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Creativity with a day of posters and presentations at the Daskalakis Athletic Center on Thursday, April 19, 2012. The website will open for abstract submissions and [...]

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2012 Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Plasma Processing Science

Dear graduate student, post-doc, junior faculty or an early stage scientist, We are pleased to announce the second Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) in conjunction with the Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science.  The GRS is a special session organized around the research of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and other scientists with similar levels of experience to present research in a collegial environment. Held [...]

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Plasma Medicine at FutureMed

Dr. Satava noted that one of the fundamental changes about the information age is it represents a move away from physical objects to information and energy. “Energy is going to be a very important part of the future of medicine,” he reasoned. This form of medicine will be able to harness the power of plasma [...]

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Bovie J-Plasma Handpiece Greenlighted in U.S.

by GENE OSTROVSKY on Feb 7, 2012 • 3:33 pm Bovie Medical received FDA clearance for its J-Plasma handpiece with retractable cutting feature for coagulating soft tissue during surgeries. It is available for both open and laparoscopic procedures. The device is powered by a previously approved Bovie GS electrosurgical generator. J-Plasma™ is formed by passing an inert gas, such as helium, [...]

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“Treatment of Raw Poultry with Nonthermal Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma To Reduce Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella enterica” published in Journal of Food Protection

Treatment of Raw Poultry with Nonthermal Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma To Reduce Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella enterica by  B P Dirks, D Dobrynin, G Fridman, Y Mukhin, A Fridman, J J Quinlan Abstract Nonthermal plasma has been shown to be effective in reducing pathogens on the surface of a range of fresh produce products. The research [...]

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