Start Date
4-1969 8:00 AM
Description
The ideas which I should like to present were stimulated by the tasks posed to us as members of a Biomedical Application Team sponsored through NASA's Technology Utilization Program. It therefore is appropriate to set the stage by a brief description of the Biomedical Application Program's goals and methodology. These NASA programs were established at three institutions, Midwest Research Institute, Research Triangle Institute, and Southwest Research Institute, to help bring about a highly desirable but difficult to accomplish aim, namely, to transfer applicable aerospace generated research products to the field of biomedicine. Suitable ideas, concepts, techniques and designs were to be sought in all varieties of aerospace research programs. It was an important premise of the project that the quest for biomedically useful technology not be restricted within biologically oriented research programs. That is, our special challenge was to locate biomedically applicable technology among the products of research carried on in areas which might at first glance seem to be totally unrelated to biology. Indeed, relevant research was on occassion discovered in remote technological areas. For example, one of the research hospitals associated with our project is currently engaged in an extensive program to evaluate clinical applications of a device originally developed at Langley Research Center as a reduced (lunar) gravity simulator.
Interdisciplinary Dissemination of Aerospace Technology -A holistic Approach
The ideas which I should like to present were stimulated by the tasks posed to us as members of a Biomedical Application Team sponsored through NASA's Technology Utilization Program. It therefore is appropriate to set the stage by a brief description of the Biomedical Application Program's goals and methodology. These NASA programs were established at three institutions, Midwest Research Institute, Research Triangle Institute, and Southwest Research Institute, to help bring about a highly desirable but difficult to accomplish aim, namely, to transfer applicable aerospace generated research products to the field of biomedicine. Suitable ideas, concepts, techniques and designs were to be sought in all varieties of aerospace research programs. It was an important premise of the project that the quest for biomedically useful technology not be restricted within biologically oriented research programs. That is, our special challenge was to locate biomedically applicable technology among the products of research carried on in areas which might at first glance seem to be totally unrelated to biology. Indeed, relevant research was on occassion discovered in remote technological areas. For example, one of the research hospitals associated with our project is currently engaged in an extensive program to evaluate clinical applications of a device originally developed at Langley Research Center as a reduced (lunar) gravity simulator.
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