Research
The Academic & Resaerch Center (ARC) will enhance OHIO’s multidisciplinary research efforts. Engineers, technologists, scientists, and clinicians will collaborate with researchers, clinical affiliates, and industry partners to engage in research to improve osteopathic healthcare, community health, and quality of life through the development of new diagnostics, therapeutics, and treatments.
The ARC will eliminate traditional academic silos by co-locating multidisciplinary teams of engineers, clinicians, and scientists to enhance and accelerate collaborative research efforts. Teams will be large enough to represent a broad range of expertise, and flexible enough to handle newly emergent challenges, providing rapid solutions to complex problems.
Working with these teams, students will gain unique insights into the research experience, from the preliminary thesis, through discovery and development, to production and implementation.
This interaction – among students, faculty, scientists, technologists, and researchers – will make the facility a truly unique, and ultimately exciting, space at OHIO.
Research opportunities that will be enhanced by the facility:
- Diabetes
- Molecular biologist John Kopchick is creating new therapies and diagnostics
- Chemist Tad Malinski is developing therapies to accelerate wound healing
- Scientist Leonard Kohn and engineer Doug Goetz are developing new compounds to selectively target disease sites
- Kohn is studying how to detect early-stage diabetes
- Heart Disease
- Goetz is combining engineering and biology to develop novel ways to treat heart disease
- Technology
- The Center for Intelligent, Distributed and Dependable Systems is helping doctors diagnose patients, treat illnesses, and plan for surgery
- Engineer Bob Williams is developing The Virtual Haptic Back to teach palpatory diagnosis – medical diagnosis through touch – to osteopathic medical students and other healthcare professionals
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