A couple of doctoral doctors built wound healing machines without antibiotics

Opposing personalities are sometimes a perfect complement to each other and produce results that go far beyond imagination.

We met TS. Do Hoang Tung and TS. Nguyen The Anh in the room on the 6th floor of the Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology – address of Plasma Technology Laboratory.

The room is only about 20 square meters with all kinds of equipment and experimental bottles that the feeling of the person entering is just a little careless, which can break everything.

But this is the workplace of 8 people on the staff of this lab, also where Tung and The Anh have been investigating from the first days to build a cold plasma ray generator to help kill bacteria including micro antibiotic resistant bacteria, healing wounds without using antibiotics.

Starting in 2011 with "capital" is just two office desks and a research topic at the cost of VND 15 million, four years later, two new doctors who have passed the age of 35 have created the cold plasma ray generator application of sliding arc technology (Gliding arc plasma – GAP) – one of the first plasma generator in the world based on this principle.

So far, after being tested and tested clinically in many major hospitals, PlasmaMed's Tung and The Anh machines have been granted certificates of circulation registration of medical equipment products by the Ministry of Health. Vietnam became one of the first countries in the world to successfully apply plasma technology for cold treatment in health and aesthetics.

Especially, the plasma generator made by Tung and The Anh is not only "made in Vietnam" but world-class in technology but also in place, the application of plasma technology in medical treatment Especially, killing bacteria and healing wounds without antibiotics is an important way in the context of antibiotic-resistant "flood".

In addition, the treatment by using plasma technology will help the patients' costs 8-10 times lower than traditional antibiotic treatments.

The success of Tung and The Anh's cold plasma ray generator has been recognized by many experts as well as by medical units when bringing clear effects in practice. However, little is known that, behind the PlasmaMed machine is not only the result of 4 years of hard work but the result of a beautiful friendship in science.

Many people mentioned the "plasma couple" of Viet Physics, although one may not think that they can work together. Tung is dusty, The Anh is quite chubby. Tung is lively, enthusiastic and dreamy, The Anh is calm, sharp and full of reality. However, it seems that this "seal" helps 2 people to cooperate more easily.

Tung said that, in fact, the two knew each other since the 5th grade when both were in the national Math team of Thanh Hoa province. In high school, Tung and The Anh were classmates of the specialization class of Lam Son High School for the 94-97 class, then joined the national exam team for Chemistry of the school.

In the university examination year, Tung chose the Department of Physics, University of Natural Sciences and The Anh chose the Department of Chemistry, Hanoi University of Education. After graduation, Tung worked at the Institute of Physics and The Anh also signed a contract to work at the Institute of Chemistry under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.

Later, while The Anh completed his doctoral thesis at Institute of Chemistry, Tung was more fortunate to have a chance to do his doctorate abroad.

Tung said that at that time, his instructor, Professor Nguyễn Ái Việt, former Director of the Institute of Physics, gave him 2 choices: Continue to go into theoretical physics or follow the direction of plasma research. to become the first person to build the bricks to build this specialty in Vietnam.

Tung chose the second direction even though he knew it was more challenging and difficult.

" At that time plasma was still a very new concept in Vietnam, no one had studied it, so this would be a very difficult choice. However, I also feel that my capacity is limited so I don't want to go towards theoretical Physics anymore ” – Tung shared.

During Tung's doctoral studies, and after his doctorate in Germany, the two people often kept in touch and exchanged jobs. The Anh said that at that time, in Vietnam, the access to scientific documents and articles for the job was quite difficult, so I often had to ask Tung to take the documents to read.

Dr. The Anh gave up his research on theoretical chemistry, accepted to stand behind to support his friends. (Photo: Le Van)

The two met again in 2011 when Tung rejected many invitations to stay in Germany and decided to leave for Vietnam with the goal of bringing the knowledge of plasma he learned to apply in life and building specialized plasma research. in Viet Nam. At that time, The Anh was still working on his doctoral thesis in Chemistry and theoretical chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry.

Then, after hearing Tung present the idea of ​​a plasma ray generator used in medical treatment, The Anh was persuaded and decided to leave the Institute of Chemistry to switch to Plasma Technology Lab to work with Tung. The knowledge of The Anh's chemistry and materials has played an important part in realizing Tung's ideas in making a cold plasma ray generator by sliding arc technology.

I asked The Anh, why did he abandon the research direction, accept "behind" the friend from his childhood? The Anh smiled and told me that, in the field of plasma, Tung was a leader and he could not be equal to his friend, but he still developed his own research direction.

Perhaps because of being accepted as "behind", during the conversation between us, The Anh was the least talker. He sat back a little, listened and only added to his friend when it was really necessary.

However, with Tung, The Anh is a very important person at work. Talking about his "tasting honey" with his friend over the years, Tung likened to his ideas like a kite going on the wind to fly, while The Anh was the kite string that kept his ideas. he is closer to reality.

"Every time I come up with an idea, The Anh is always an analyst to see if that idea can and should be applied to reality. That ability, I can't be compared to The Anh, ”Tung smiled and shared.

Coming here, after "transferring" the PlasmaMed machine to put it into use in life, Tung will return to his research work. He said that his next research direction is to apply plasma technology to biomedical, agricultural, material science and environment.

Meanwhile, The Anh said that, in addition to the general research directions, he himself orientated himself to research and apply plasma applications in chemistry and majors that he had accumulated for a long time.

"The cold plasma ray generator that uses sliding arc technology is just the beginning of plasma applications in life. There will be many more applications of plasma in the future, ”Tung said.

Until the conversation ended, when my colleague asked for the phone numbers of two young doctors, I discovered that he used two identical phones. Explaining to my surprise, Tung said that his phones and computers bought at the same time and bought the same so that the person who forgot to charge could still use the other's.

Opposing personalities are sometimes a perfect complement to each other and produce results that go far beyond imagination.

ITZone via Vietnamnet

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