Innovation Valley Plasma Company Achieves Medical Breakthrough

Wednesday September 26, 2007
Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley-based Atmospheric Glow Technologies, Inc. announced a breakthrough today in the use of its proprietary atmospheric plasma technology...

Knoxville, Tenn. - Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley-based Atmospheric Glow Technologies, Inc. announced a breakthrough today in the use of its proprietary atmospheric plasma technology to sterilize medical instruments and devices.

To meet the needs of far-forward field medics, AGT has developed a lightweight, durable, and lower power apparatus that can sterilize surgical instruments and devices in less than one hour.

"When fully developed and commercially available, this product could assist with humanitarian efforts during natural disasters, aid in homeland security responses and address medical needs in remote regions of the world," anticipates Scott McDonald, AGT CEO.

AGT equipment can sterilize contaminated medical instruments in the presence of simulated tissue debris.

AGT's near-term goal is to deliver to the military a portable medical sterilizer demonstration unit for testing next August. This effort is funded through a Department of Defense U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) grant to AGT through a Congressional appropriation of $1.65M, which is payable to AGT over an eighteen-month period that began in March 2007. For more information about AGT, visit: http://www.atmosphericglow.com/.

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