Dr. Owen Mitch Griffith

Design carbon fiber swinging bucket rotors for 96 well micro plates for PCR studies to clean-up automated DNA sequencing studies using 96 well format plates for cell culture studies.

Designed Centrifuge methods for Carbon Fiber Rotors to enable researchers to prepare and purify large and small volumes of proteins, antibodies, subcellular organelles, nucleic acids (DNA & RNA), viruses, mammalian cells and bacteria from culture for vaccine preparation.

Assist Scientists in choosing the best centrifuges and accessories including rotors, for run time reduction and throughput for their centrifugal separations. Presented Seminars worldwide at Universities and institutions on topics involving preparation and purification of nucleic Acids, viruses and subcellular organelles by High Speed and Ultra speed centrifugation methods.

During the Period from 1962 to 1986 was employed by Beckman Instruments, Spinco Division as the Principal Applications Scientist. In addition to doing research in new methods for their existing centrifuges, assisted Scientists in choosing the best centrifuges and accessories including rotors for run time reduction and methods for their centrifugal separations. Developed methods for using Light weight Carbon Fiber rotors instead of metallic Rotors for all existing centrifuges.

Develop new methods for using lightweight, non corroding and high energy Carbon Fiber Rotors for high/super speed, ultra speed and table top centrifuges to obtain better separations and purifucation of samples collected by centrifugation.

Metallic Rotors are manufactured from titanium and aluminum alloys. The weight of these rotors often cause injury to some male and female technicians who must load and unload these rotors into the centrifuge during their research practices.

Light weight of Carbon Fiber Centrifuge Rotors permit rapid acceleration and deceleration so that research times are reduced thus giving greater throughput and energy savings for sample preparation and particle separation.