International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM-3)
The 3rd International Conference for Plasma Medicine has been held in Greifswald, Germany from 19th -24th September, 2010. Almost 200 plasma physics researchers, medical doctors, and people from industry have met there and discussed their work on five following topics: 1) plasma surface modification for biomedical application, 2) plasma sources for medicine, 3) medical aspects and results of plasma in use, 4) plasma cell and plasma tissue interaction, and 5) plasma based sterilization/decontamination. Plasma medicine is a new and rapidly growing research field with great potentials in the applications such as in-vivo treatment of wounds and infected tissues, plasma surgery, or plasma sterilization. The Research Department "Plasmas with Complax Interactions" enabled the visit of members from research teams of Prof. Peter Awakowicz (Fac. of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology), Prof. Achim von Keudell and Jun.-Prof. Jan Benedikt (Fac. of Physics and Astronomy) and Prof. Franz Narberhaus und Jun.-Prof. Julia Bandow (Fac. of Biology and Biotechnology), which are active in this field already for several years. The visitors from RUB have presented with four talks and two posters their results of plasma sterilization with low pressure and atmospheric pressure plasmas.