{"id":96699,"date":"2020-10-13T09:41:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=96699"},"modified":"2024-01-04T14:47:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T19:47:01","slug":"ddn-pact-sets-stage-for-new-wright-state-wpafb-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/10\/13\/ddn-pact-sets-stage-for-new-wright-state-wpafb-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Daily News: Pact sets stage for new Wright State-WPAFB research"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A recent agreement between Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Wright State University is setting the stage for what participants hope will be fruitful joint research work.<\/p>\n

One project made possible by the agreement: The Air Force Research Laboratory, based at Wright-Patterson, is partnering with Wright State to better understand the stresses that pilots and airmen endure as they perform their missions.<\/p>\n

The base and the university recently signed a \u201ccooperative research and development agreement\u201d to advance a \u201cmulti-organ system model\u201d that will accurately identify the impact those stressors have on human beings.<\/p>\n

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The duration of the agreement, also called a \u201cCRADA,\u201d is 24 months.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a big deal,\u201d said Dr. Darrin Ott, lead for the Aerospace and Operational Medicine Core Technical Competency at the 711th Human Performance Wing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThis will allow for far greater collaborations,\u201d said Dr. Jeffrey Travers, professor and chair of Wright State\u2019s Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and professor of dermatology.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The research into stresses will take place at the \u201cbasic science level,\u201d looking at what airmen endure and how they can be supported, Ott said.<\/p>\n

Research on human subjects isn\u2019t planned just yet, he said. But the hope is they are the ones who will ultimately benefit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink about it as early science, right?\u201d Ott said. \u201cWe\u2019re really trying to build representative models of organ systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Military environments quite often are anything but pristine, he said. Members of the Air Force can be exposed to jet fuel, for example. Sometimes military installations burn their own trash. Service members can undergo extremes of heat and cold. They may be exposed to air particulate pollution from jet engines and to UV radiation.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right \u2014 even sunburn is a concern, Ott said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat may be a generic thing that people lose sight of, but (the university) has some good models for burns that maybe we can introduce a (new) sunscreen or something hangs around a little bit more permanently than sunscreen,” he said.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that researchers from Wright State and the base will be working together, exchanging ideas and information. Base personnel could be involved with the training and mentoring graduate students, Travers said.<\/p>\n

The CRADA is a cooperative agreement, not an exchange of money, Ott said. Wright State will provide work space. The base will bring in equipment to be used in the projects.<\/p>\n

The work will start small, with perhaps three to five base personnel on hand at the university. COVID-19 continues to be a concern, Ott said.<\/p>\n

Cooperation between Wright State and Wright-Patterson is nothing new. But as Travers as sees it: What\u2019s special about the CRADA grant is putting base personnel physically on the Wright State campus, in university research buildings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a small group who is going to be there, but the significance of this is that there\u2019s nothing better than having people seeing each other, working together, instead of having this wall between the base and Wright State,\u201d Travers said.<\/p>\n

This agreement puts that long-standing relationship on a \u201cnew level,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you think about it, science is the ultimate team sport,\u201d he said. \u201cThe days of the single scientist working by themselves in a lab \u2014 those days are long past.\u201d<\/p>\n

View the original story at daytondailynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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