Cooperative agreement will lead to customer specific combinations of special plasma sources with life science automation development
Innovation often arises from the clever combination of established processes, says Celisca.
This awareness brought together the experts of plasma technologies and specialists for life science automation - the INP Greifswald (Institute for Low Temperature Plasma Physics) and Celisca (Centre for Life Science Automation).
About one month after signing a cooperation agreement the partners are now starting with their first projects.
"The need for automation and the search for interdisciplinary application fields are crucial issues.
"We expect broad synergies for the development of technological innovations by the combination of the know how of Celisca and INP", comments Klaus-Dieter Weltmann, who has led INP Greifswald since 2003.
Promising topics include customer specific combinations of special plasma sources with automation development.
As an international center of competence, Celisca says it offers the ideal forum for effective interdisciplinary research and development.
Kerstin Thurow, president of Celisca, explains: "In INP we have found another strategically important partner.
"The planned cooperation gives us the possibility to include, beside chemical and biological processes, also physical processes in our research.
"This opens up new fields of application and technology".
INP Greifswald has established itself as a highly interesting partner for the combination of plasma technology and forward looking technologies such as biomedical or environmental technology or the investigation of new materials, says Celisca.
The cooperation with Celisca will benefit from this fact.
For a first period of five years the cooperation will be focused on research and development of plasma technologies and their automation for life science processes.
As an international centre of competence, Celisca believes it offers the ideal forum for effective interdisciplinary research and development in the area of life science automation.
Celisca is one of six centres for innovation competence funded by the BMBF, the German federal ministry for education and research.
This funding promotes the development of internationally competitive high level research in eastern Germany.
The core competences of Celisca include automation and engineering, chemistry and biotechnology, screening and analysis, information processing technologies and Lims as well as automation assessment.
INP Greifswald is doing research in the field of low temperature plasmas for technical applications.
Goals are the optimisation of established plasma processes and products as well as the development of new plasma applications.
This includes the adaptation of plasmas to customer specific application conditions, feasibility studies, services and consulting.
INP Greifswald is doing research and development from the idea to the prototype.
Oriented on the market requirements currently topics such as biomedical technology, micro- and nanotechnology or environmental technologies are in the center of the research activities.
The INP currently employs 110 people.
