Emerging Healthcare
The Los Alamos National Laboratory Institute for Advanced Studies promotes new technology developments in health care that will achieve an improved standard of care, while simultaneously achieving a reduction in the cost of the associated medical procedures.
New medical and pharmaceutical technologies, including the use of novel isotopes for medical imaging, nanotechnology for more direct and efficient drug delivery, and new methods in microsurgery that use advances in medical imaging, promise to improve the standard of care as well as to decrease the long term healthcare costs of chronic diseases. This, along with rapid advancements in our understanding of quantitative techniques in systems biology, and in computational techniques for the discovery of drugs that interrupt disease progression, may soon achieve less-expensive, scalable health care on a global scale throughout the world. New developments in superconducting sensor and imaging technologies are being applied to functional brain imaging, making it possible to diagnose major mental disorders, and to objectively and rapidly evaluate the efficiency of psycho-active pharmaceuticals. Furthermore, advancements in our understanding of ecological biology and complexity are helping to predict, detect, and prevent the onset of new disease pandemics, greatly improving preparation for and mitigation of biological threats and advancing public health preparedness for future occurrences.
Contact:
Scott Burchiel, University of New Mexico
Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences
SBurchiel@salud.unm.edu
505-272-0920
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