Abstract:

During my presentations & discussions, I will touch on several of my R&D endeavors. 

I will encourage questions from students and faculty as discourse is so valuable in the exchange of ideas and insight.

Additionally, I will discuss my forecasts for the future of Engineering in Biology and Medicine.

• R&D Experience:
• Automatic Feedback Controlled Anesthesia Utilizing an Optimal Adaptive Control Algorithm
• Long-term injectable controlled release
• Fertility control in humans
• Fertility Control for 5 years in Wild Stallions Dart-Helicopter Delivery
• Computer modeling of absorption air conditioning
• Testing of controlled-release products in animal models prior to human introduction,
• Activated carbon fiber dialysis for liver failure
• New materials for the prevention of bedsores in paralyzed patients
• Implantable glucose monitors
• Oral and injectable liposomes as drug carriers
• Improvement of transdermal drug delivery systems
• Physical, electrolytic and chemical formulations to increase absorption of drugs through intact skin and intact GI
• Liposomes for augmentation of oral and skin absorption
• Instrumentation and electromechanical chemical systems to enhance the efficiency of the development of pharmaceutical products
• Automatic feedback control of antihypertensives in ICU
• Artificial skin
• Electro Anesthesia as General Anesthesia for Space Flight & Mars Mission

Biography

Dr. Cosgrove received his BS in Chemical Engineering and PhD in Biomedical Engineering and Biopharmaceutics from Purdue.  As a Senior Engineer in the Biomedical Engineering Group at Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, he was responsible for a variety of animal studies and engineering projects.  Following that he was Director, Exploratory Product Design, involving a wide variety of Novel Drug Delivery Systems, for Ayerst Labs, now part of Pfizer.  Then, he was VP of Pharmacontrol Corporation, which became a public company on NASDAQ, developing automatic devices for ICU administration of critical drugs, laboratory testing equipment for the pharmaceutical R&D and transdermal drug delivery systems.  After Medical School at the University of Miami and Anesthesiology Residency at Stanford, he co-founded Pharmasystems Corp, which involved the same development goals as Pharmacontrol.  Cosgrove then founded Piedmont Surgical Center an ambulatory surgical center in Greensboro, NC, where he served as Medical Director and Chief of Anesthesiology.  Among his hobbies are Astronomy and Cosmology.  He resides near Myrtle Beach, SC and travels extensively.