Dear Mr. Callard:

In response to your message 2 from vol 1 #87, I would like to offer the
following
information for your consideration.

Here at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), we have an Advanced
Robotics Research Institute (ARRI) that is engaged in first class work on
the design and manufacturing of MEMS-based sensors and actuators. This work
is done in collaboration with Dr. Ed. Kolesar a renowned researcher in this
area from the Texas Christian University, located in Fort Worth Texas (less
than 15 miles west of UTA). In addition to the facilities at ARRI, we have
animal facilities for the testing and characterization of bio-MEMS at UTA
and we also have access to animal facilities at the University of Texas
Southwestern  Medical Center in Dallas (15 miles east of UTA). Our
Biomedical Engineering Program (BME) maintains a high level of
collaboration with a large number of renowned life scientist in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area. Hence, devices can be evaluated at all levels from
bench models to animal tests, to clinical evaluation. BME and AARI
collaborate closely at UTA.

We are prepared to discuss possible collaboration.

Regards,

Khosrow Behbehani
Professor and Interim Director of Biomedical Engineering

Jose Mireles Jr.
Automation & Robotics Research Institute
of the University of Texas at Arlington
7300 Jack Newell Blvd. S.
Fort Worth, Texas 76118
Phone:   (817) 272-5955
Fax:       (817) 272-5989

WEB page: http://arri.uta.edu/acs/jmireles/index.html
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