The APT Center is a catalyst for initiating and sustaining productive interactions between clinicians, consumers and engineers who had not previously applied their specialized knowledge and technical expertise to rehabilitation-related problems.  This infusion of new investigators in the areas of biomaterials and microsystem design, fabrication, packaging and communication represents a critical mass of over 19 investigators dedicated to developing technologies to serve disabled veterans that would not otherwise exist.  Our 'platform,' therefore, is as much an approach as a physical device.  It is a method for matching emerging technologies with high priority clinical needs, building transdisciplinary collaborative teams composed of investigators named here to successfully translate initial concept to a medical device ready for clinical application.

Jonathan Baskin, M.D.

Kath Bogie, D. Phil

Jeffrey R. Capadona, Ph.D.

Steven Eppell, Ph.D.

Steven Garverick, Ph.D.

Christopher J. Hernandez, Ph.D.

Robert Kirsch, Ph.D.

Wen H. Ko, Ph.D.

John J. Lewandowski, Ph.D.

Pedram Mohseni, Ph.D.

Paul D. Marasco, Ph.D.

Joseph A. Potkay, Ph.D.

Roger Quinn, Ph.D.

Stuart J. Rowan, Ph.D.

Horst von Recum, Ph.D.