Activities
Programing, Media Art, Bio, Product Design, Fine Art, Research, Others
Awards
Biography
Aisen Caro Chacin, Ph.D., artist + scientist + engineer, and Christopher Zahner, MD, Pathology Professor + post-NASA engineer co-founded ACZ Labs in 2018. Their collaboration started as co-inventors at the University of Texas Medical Branch. They participated at the NSF’s South West I-Corps for medical innovation. Their work has received national and international attention via NYTimes, ABC13, Univision, CBS, Telemundo, and Galveston Daily News. Their inventions touch all aspects of the hospital environment such as sample tracking data networks, blood mixing devices for NICU patients, nociception-repressant vibration devices, transfusion tracking systems, and lately, the pressure cuff emergency ventilator. Their enthusiasm to solve problems in complex systems such as healthcare brings them together to simplify and rethink how to better care.
Dr. Aisen Caro Chacin, PhD (US/ES/VE)
Aisen Caro Chacin is an [art|sci|tech]•ist, leads the Medical Prototyping Lab at UTMB, is an advisory board member at UCLA’s Medicine + Media Arts, chairs Houston’s LASER/ Leonardo IAST, and is Affiliate Faculty of New Media Arts at the University of Houston. She studied sculpture at the University of Houston, holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons, NYC, and a Doctorate of Human Informatics from the University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Dr. Christopher Zahner, MD (US)
is Director of Clinical Pathology at UTMB and Exploration Medical Capability Physician at NASA where he was an International Space Station engineer and Mission Evaluation Room Life Support and Integration (MERLIN) officer. He holds a BS in Engineering from the University of Florida, and a Medical Doctorate from Texas State University Health Science Center.
Language
English
Place
Houston / Texas
