SPECIAL SESSION ON PLASMA MEDICINE

Research on the biomedical applications of low temperature plasmas gained great momentum in the last decade. This is because of promising possibilities to use plasma in medical practice such as in electrosurgery, wound healing, dentistry, sterilization/ decontamination, etc… Today the term "Plasma Medicine" is used to describe this new emerging field that cuts across several disciplines, from Physics and engineering to microbiology and medicine. ICOPS was the first international conference that started dedicating sessions to the biological and medical applications of plasmas, with the first such session offered at ICOPS 1998. Since then numerous conferences have included such sessions and the field experienced extraordinary growth that led to the establishment of a conference totally dedicated to plasma medicine: The International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM). The third ICPM is planned to take place in Greifswald, Germany, in September 2010. It is the pleasure of the organizing committee of ICOPS 2010 to announce that we are organizing Special Sessions on Plasma Medicine. These sessions are scheduled to take place on Monday June 21 and Tuesday June 22, 2010. Leading scientists in the field will be invited to present their latest research. Attendence of these sessions is open to all ICOPS registrants.

                                                                                                                                     M. Laroussi
                                                                                                                                         General Chair

                                                                                                                                      C. Coverdale
                                                                                                                                                            Technical Program Chair

                                                                                                                             M. Kong
                                                                                                                                                                Technical Area Coordinator