We have developed a reasonably sophisticated OS bioreactor as part of government funding from the military. It has some pretty clear humanitarian uses - e.g. medicine and food manufacturing. We have also won a grant that will fund further development of the bioreactor for these applications. It pays for a UWO graduate student to do the work, but we are looking for someone in an under-resourced part of the world that would be willing to collaborate and act as a host for the student for a few months over the next two years. The goal would be to collaborate to refine the design and make sure it can be fabricated locally. This might (probably) mean substantial redisign.
The host collaborator has to pay nothing - the student travel/hotel etc is covered by the grant. The host would get to keep the bioreactor at end of trip to keep collaborating and ideally have a good knowledge of open hardware. Everything, of course, would be open source. Interested? please email me.
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Hi, i’m from argentina at the academia with bakground in OSH in embeded, robótics a ciberphisics systems , it’s possible to produce insulina with this OS reactor?
Cheees Juan Carrique jecarrique@sinc.unl.edu.ar
Hi Juan - That is actually are first medical target - it should be - and we are trying the yeast route first to avoid patent nonsense.
Dear Joshua,
My makerspace (Bongo Tech & Research Labs) is interested in becoming the host collaborator.
Karibu Tanzania.
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Hi Joshua,
We have been collaborating for a while with BioRTC, a Biomedical Research Training Centre in Northeast Nigeria, in Yobe State.
The centre is located inside Yobe State University in Damaturu (the state capital), we have been training people in Open Hardware, and there is a computer science department that has been collaborating with setting up things and deploying new tools.
There is also contacts with the local hospital, where we are running two projects, one to deploy OpenFlexure for Malaria detection and one to 3D print umbilical cord clamps for local use.
Happy to have a chat if interesting, also to make direct connections with the centre director.