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Ray Schwarz is an award winning biomedical engineer. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University, he was a Product Engineer for Becton, Dickinson, designing instrumentation; a Project Engineer for GE where he designed Life Sciences Laboratory equipment for Spacelab; and a Laboratory Supervisor for Medical Sciences at the Johnson Space Center where he designed bioreactors. For a time he owned his own precision machine shop in Dayton, Ohio.
His design for the first successful bioreactor at NASA was named the STLV (Schwarz-Trinh Lateral Vessel) by Dr. Marion Lewis, the first biologist to use it.
He collaborated with Astronaut Dr. David Wolf on improvements and refinements to the inventions. When it became apparent that more oxygenation was needed for certain experiments the HARV (High Aspect Rotating Vessel was designed.
In an effort to make a bioreactor system for spaceflight, Schwarz and his lab designed and built a prototype computer controlled perfusion bio reactor and demonstrated it at JSC. This machine grew BHK cells to the unheard of density of 20 million cells per ml. without operator intervention.
These original designs were patented by NASA and the named inventors were Schwarz, his technician Tinh Trinh, and Dr. David Wolf.
In 1988 he was awarded the Melbourn W. Boynton Award from the American Astronautical Society, an award normally given to a physician, for "Significant Contributions to the Biomedical Aspects of Spaceflight".
In 1991 the inventor team of Schwarz, Trinh, and Wolf were named NASA Inventors of the Year and were pictured on the cover of NASA Tech Briefs.
After it became apparent that NASA was reluctant to commercialize the technology, Schwarz founded Synthecon, Inc. in 1991 to produce commercial versions of his bio reactors. More than 5000 copies have been produced. These low shear devices are now in use worldwide for medical research.
Bioreactors designed by Schwarz, have been operated in space by Astronaut/Inventor Dr. David Wolf. In 2011 the inventor team of Ray Schwarz, Tinh Trinh, and Dr. David Wolf was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame.
Schwarz was the lead author for the first publication disclosing the NASA bioreactor and its method of use. It is estimated that there are now more than 2500 research papers which directly or indirectly reference the original publication in the Journal of Tissue Culture Methods.
Schwarz founded RPS Research to further development of rotating bioreactors and to manufacture other products for scientific research.
Ray Schwarz and his wife of 24 years reside in Rosharon, Texas.
You may contact Mr. Schwarz by Email: ray@rpsresearch.com
His design for the first successful bioreactor at NASA was named the STLV (Schwarz-Trinh Lateral Vessel) by Dr. Marion Lewis, the first biologist to use it.
He collaborated with Astronaut Dr. David Wolf on improvements and refinements to the inventions. When it became apparent that more oxygenation was needed for certain experiments the HARV (High Aspect Rotating Vessel was designed.
In an effort to make a bioreactor system for spaceflight, Schwarz and his lab designed and built a prototype computer controlled perfusion bio reactor and demonstrated it at JSC. This machine grew BHK cells to the unheard of density of 20 million cells per ml. without operator intervention.
These original designs were patented by NASA and the named inventors were Schwarz, his technician Tinh Trinh, and Dr. David Wolf.
In 1988 he was awarded the Melbourn W. Boynton Award from the American Astronautical Society, an award normally given to a physician, for "Significant Contributions to the Biomedical Aspects of Spaceflight".
In 1991 the inventor team of Schwarz, Trinh, and Wolf were named NASA Inventors of the Year and were pictured on the cover of NASA Tech Briefs.
After it became apparent that NASA was reluctant to commercialize the technology, Schwarz founded Synthecon, Inc. in 1991 to produce commercial versions of his bio reactors. More than 5000 copies have been produced. These low shear devices are now in use worldwide for medical research.
Bioreactors designed by Schwarz, have been operated in space by Astronaut/Inventor Dr. David Wolf. In 2011 the inventor team of Ray Schwarz, Tinh Trinh, and Dr. David Wolf was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame.
Schwarz was the lead author for the first publication disclosing the NASA bioreactor and its method of use. It is estimated that there are now more than 2500 research papers which directly or indirectly reference the original publication in the Journal of Tissue Culture Methods.
Schwarz founded RPS Research to further development of rotating bioreactors and to manufacture other products for scientific research.
Ray Schwarz and his wife of 24 years reside in Rosharon, Texas.
You may contact Mr. Schwarz by Email: ray@rpsresearch.com
