Advanced Platform Technology Center
About the Advanced Platform Technology Center
The Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center is a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Center addressing the pressing and ever-changing clinical needs of Veterans. Since 2005, we have been harnessing the latest developments in untapped engineering and basic science disciplines to facilitate the creation and translation of novel, cross cutting devices and methodologies within a framework that promotes regulatory compliance, outsourcing by contract manufacturers, clinical testing, and dissemination throughout the rehabilitation community. This unique environment allows for the development of advanced assistive and restorative technologies that serve Veterans with sensory, motor, or cognitive deficits, as well as limb loss.
Our multidisciplined Investigators lead cutting-edge research and development projects expanding across our four main application areas:
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These projects involve a wide range of focuses such as new materials and microsystems for communicating with the nervous system for novel neurotherapeutic or neuroprosthetic interventions, mechanisms and optimal delivery of electrotherapy to accelerate wound healing or modulate chronic pain, innovative sensing systems for point-of-care blood analysis and personalized health, replacing or restoring limb and pulmonary function, long-term monitoring of bladder status through wireless sensors, novel active exoskeletons and articulated support structures that enable locomotion and stair climbing, and advanced neurally-integrated prostheses to restore sensation to upper or lower limb amputees.
The success of the APT Center would not be possible without the support of our diverse group of individuals supporting us. We are a proud team exhibiting various skill sets and expertise comprised of engineers, clinical staff, trainees, and support specialists in regulatory affairs, quality systems, communications, tech transfer, and research administration. The Center facilitates collaborations between over 50 Investigators of which include multiple recipients of prestigious Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and the NIH Director’s Innovation Award, inductees of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and VA Career or Senior Career Research Scientist awardees. These individuals have successfully secured external scientific, developmental, and translational research funding from private and public sources, including local and federal granting agencies and industrial partners.
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