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!