Dr. Keidar PI on three-year NSF grant

Dr. Michael Keidar is the PI on a three-year NSF grant titled “Collaborative Research: Exploring Cold Atmospheric Plasma Physics.” Cold atmospheric microplasma is a new and fascinating type of plasma that has tremendous potential in medicine and nanotechnology, but the science community’s understanding of the atmospheric microplasmas and the nature of the plasma interaction with biological matter is currently very limited. In this project, Prof. Keidar’s team will advance knowledge of atmospheric plasmas relevant for medical applications by developing and implementing of a wide range of new diagnostic methodologies and tools. Prof. Keidar is working in collaboration with researchers from Princeton University on this grant. GW’s portion of the grant is $220,000, and Princeton’s is $75,000.