CARLOW Center for Medical Innovation

Acadicus is an exciting virtual reality healthcare platform where students can experience clinical environments relevant to their future and receive extensive medical terminology, communication, and teamwork training across various healthcare environments. By bringing participants together, students will interact with patients and peers inside the VR scenario without the restraints of physical location. The Acadicus curriculum provides realistic trauma simulations to teach students to rely on their training, regulate their emotions, thoughts, and actions, triage patients, and practice complex skills to resolve traumatic medical situations. In addition to an expansive VR library of medical scenarios, this platform allows an instructor to quickly create additional healthcare scenarios most relevant to our students.

Few things in life are harder than being born without a limb or losing a limb later in life. We have invested in high-end scanners and 3D printers to engineer and produce prosthetic arms, legs, hands, and feet to serve all those less fortunate who live life daily without. Young aspiring medical practitioners will become highly trained in the technical skills of the creation of artificial prostheses and consult with experts in the field to hone their skills in the design and application of each prosthetic. With great appreciation for those who served our country, our center will provide engineered prosthetics to help transform the lives of pediatric patients and honor the sacrifice of veterans.

Our State of Art 3D Anatomage table provides opportunities for our students to visualize human anatomy with the highest level of accuracy. This technology will transform the way kinesiology is taught and how students learn anatomy and physiology. Anatomage bodies provide active physiological responses inside a living human body, simulating and projecting the same responses one would experience in a research laboratory or clinical setting.

An instrument that precisely regulates and maintains preprogrammed temperature settings to facilitate temperature-sensitive reactions such as PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction- amplifies (copies) specific segments of DNA)

The instrument is used to quantify levels of gene expression in real time. It is essentially a thermal cycler with the ability to quantify DNA or RNA after each cycle of PCR. Fluorophores are added to the reaction, allowing fluorescent sensors to detect fluorescence that corresponds to the generation rate of the PCR product. This data is then analyzed through software to determine relative gene expression.

A device is used to separate DNA based on charge and size (bottom piece with orange tray). The top portion allows the user to visualize the separated DNA and capture an image.

Fluorescent microscope that allows detection of fluorescently labeled antibodies that correspond to specific proteins.

Sterile environment for tissue culture work. Prevents outside contamination of cells.

Counts mammalian cells automatically and excludes dead cells.

Desktop Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine that can produce custom 2D and 3D parts for our robotics and prosthetics projects.

Materials: Wood, plastic, aluminum, brass