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U.S. ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH & MATERIEL COMMANDU.S. ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH & MATERIEL COMMAND
MG George Weightman - CommandingMG George Weightman - Commanding
Colonel Karl Friedl,Director, Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)
Heather White,DoD Research Specialist, Office of Sponsored Programs
Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research
Center… Fulfilling The Vision Thru R&D USAMRMC & TATRC Overview
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Agenda
1. Command Structure/Organization
2. TATRC Background and Mission
3. Funding Mechanisms
4. Research Areas of Interest
5. Other Collaborative Opportunities
6. Closing
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Medical Research and Materiel Command Overview
Mission and Vision
We are the world’s experts and leaders in the military relevant biomedical research and medical materiel
communities, delivering the best medical solutions to enhance, protect, treat, and heal our warfighters.
Provide medical knowledge and materiel lifecycle management to protect, treat and optimize warfighter health and performance across the full spectrum of operations.
MISSIONMISSION
VISIONVISION
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U.S. ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT ORGANIZATION CHART
MEDICAL COMMAND (MEDCOM)
OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL
MEDICAL RESEARCH
& MATERIEL COMMAND(USAMRMC)
AMEDD CENTER
& SCHOOL
REGIONALMEDICAL
COMMANDS
DENTALCOMMAND(DENCOM)
VETERINARYCOMMAND(VETCOM)
CHPPM*
*Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
MG WeightmanCG, USAMRMC
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Command Relationships & Personnel
USAMRMC
HEADQUARTERS
Medical Research & Technology Medical Advanced Development
Medical Logistics
Medical IM/IT
Health Facilities
Procure-ment Support
WRAIR USAMMDA USAMRAAUSAMMA USAMITC USAHFPAUSAMMCEUSAARL USAISR USAMRICD USAMRIID USARIEM
MILITARY CIVILIAN CONTRACTOR TOTAL
1,004 2,384 2,929 6,317
15.89% 37.74% 46.37% 100.00%
USAMRMC Actual Personnel – Sep 2008TATRC
CDMRP
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Core Medical S&T Program Areas
Military Infectious Diseases• Medical readiness• Vaccines• Biotechnology• Prophylaxis/treatment
drugs• Diagnostics/prognostics• Vector control
Military Operational Medicine• Soldier selection
and sustainment • Soldier performance• Warrior system modeling• Health hazards protection• Diagnostics/prognostics• Health monitoring
Clinical Rehabilitative Medicine• Prosthetics• Regenerative Medicine• Clinical Studies• Ocular and Auditory
Rehabilitation & Repair
• Intramurally funded • Management costs from President’s Budget • 88% of S&T budget goes to in-house DOD labs ; The S&T objectives are placed into the POM cycle budget request (5-7 years out)
Combat Casualty Care• Lightweight medical
equipment• Medical C4ISR• Trauma care• Health monitoring and
diagnostic technology
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Explore science and engineering technologies ahead of programmed research, leveraging other programs to maximize benefits to military medicine
Be the government model of opportunity-driven research agility
Mission
Vision
Telemedicine and Advance Technology Research Center
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Evolution of TATRC
DIN/PACS and TeleradiologyFilmless Hospital
Telemedicine and e-healthEstablishment of Gap Funding
Innovation in Managing Technology Ability to Harness
- Academic innovation- Congressional interests- Industrial investment
Aligning CSIs to the Larger Army Medical Research Objectives Facilitate Innovations for the CommandSpearhead Collaboration Across Agencies
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Congressional Special Appropriations – RDT&E
TATRC……..
• Element of HQ, USAMRMC
• Shapes Congressional Special Interest projects to DoD relevance
• Leads DoD research in e-Health (computational biology & clinical informatics)
• Bridges military medical research gaps & promotes innovative pilot research
• Manages large cutting edge R&D programs
• 15 Core Research Portfolios
• > 800 active projects
• SBIR/Gap funds management
• 16-20% - Withhold
• DHP, Economic improvement, SBIR/STTR, MRMC, TATRC
TATRC FUNDING HISTORY- Since FY98, $2.10B managed R&D projects
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NeuroscienceDr. Ken Curley
RegenerativeMedicineDr. Eva Lai
Nano-Medicine
and Biomaterials
Dr. Warren Grundfest
Medical
Logistics
Mr. John
DePasquale
Integrative MedicineDr. Jean LouisBelard
Genomics/ProteomicsDr. AnneWestbrook
Research PortfoliosResearch PortfoliosResearch PortfoliosResearch Portfolios
Key Product Lines
Medical
Robotics
Dr. Gary
Gilbert
Health
Information
Technologies
CDR Stephen
Steffenson
MedicalImagingTechnologiesDr. Anthony Pacifico
Advanced
Prosthetics
and Human
Performance
Mr. Troy Turner
ComputationalBiologyDr. JacquesReifman
BiomonitoringTechnologiesDr. Eva Lai
Simulation
and Training
Technology
Mr. Gene
Wiehagen
New Initiatives & Basic Science
BHSAIBIC
Current Staff 6 Military Officers 8 Civilians 54 IPAs (includes 10 part time)88 Contractors 5 Consultants
Coordinating PartnershipsRAD I: Infectious Disease
RAD II: Combat Casualty Care
RAD III: Operational Medicine
RAD IV: Clinical Rehab Medicine
Infectious DiseaseMs. Amber Stanley
TraumaDr. Tim Broderick
Human Performance Optimization Dr. Sylvain Cardin
Neuro-RehabilitationMAJ Teresa Brininger
AcousticTraumaDr. Michael Holtel
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Research & Development StrategiesLink to the WarfighterNew Ideas, Knowledge
High Risk, High Payoff
Innovation, Transition
Academia + Government + Industry(Maximum Bang for Buck)
Service Labs
Academia
DARPA
Industry
Expanded Resource Base
International Coalitions
Stryker Brigade – Deployed Forces
Interagency Partners
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www.tatrc.org
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USAMRMC BAA 08-1The USAMRMC Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) 08-1 is intended to solicit research ideas that work towards providing solutions to medical problems of importance to the American warfighter at home and abroad.SBIR/STTRSmall Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) are highly competitive programs designed to allow small businesses to harness their innovative talents, with the incentive to profit from commercialization.AMEDD Advanced Medical Technology Initiative (AAMTI)The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command's (USAMRMC) mission is to provide solutions to medical problems of importance to the American war fighter at home and abroad. The AMEDD Advanced Medical Technology Initiative (AAMTI) plays a vital role in the fulfillment of these objectives.
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USAMRMC Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) 08-1
*Provides a general description of USAMRMC’s research programs•Specific areas of interest•General information•Evaluation and selection criteria•Proposal preparation instructions
*BAA is continuously open, 24/7*Accepts proposals on a rolling basis. *Pre-proposals may be submitted and will be evaluated at any time throughout the year.
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Research Areas of Interest
• Military Infectious Diseases Research Program
• Combat Casualty Care Research Program
• Military Operational Medicine Research Program
• Medical Biological Defense Research Program
• Medical Chemical Defense Research Program
• Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Program
• Special Programs
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• Military Infectious Diseases Research Program– Vaccines (characterization, development, pathology)– Antiparasitic Drugs (discovery, design, &
development)– Vector Development (arthropod vectors & vector-
borne diseases)– Therapeutic drug development (screen, synthesize,
and develop)
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• Combat Casualty Care Research Program– Stop blood loss
• Limit the immediate, short- and long-term deleterious consequences of severe hemorrhage
• Non/Minimally invasive sensors to detect and warn of impending vascular collapse
• Improved preservation, storage, transportability, and processing of red blood cells, platelets, and plasma
– Traumatic Brain Injury• Non/Minimally invasive sensors or assays to rapidly diagnose
the severity of brain injury
• Drugs, biologics, or other agents to mitigate post-injury affects
– Secondary Damage to Organs– Additional Aspects of Casualty Care
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• Military Operational Medicine Research Program– Injury Prevention and Reduction– Psychological Health and Resilience– Environmental Health and Protection– Physiological Health
• Medical Biological Defense Research Program– Viral, Toxin and Bacterial Studies– Drug Development
• Development, synthesis and testing of compounds that possess antiviral, antibacterial, immunomodulatory or antitoxin activities
– Identification and Diagnosis of antigens and antibodies
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• Medical Chemical Defense Research Program– Maintain the Technologic Capability to meet present
requirements and counter future chemical warfare agent threats.
– Provide Medical Countermeasures for the individual soldier to maintain combat effectiveness and prevent or reduce injury from chemical warfare agents.
– Provide Medical Management of Chemical Casualties to enhance survival and expedite the return-to-duty of chemical warfare agent casualties through definitive therapies and life support technologies.
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• Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Program– Medical Robotics – to treat patients in fixed and mobile medical
facilities
– Health Information Technologies– Medical Imaging Technologies – portable, high performance,
decision support, advanced surgical cameras
– Advanced Prosthetics & Human Performance– Computational Biology - analysis, interpretation, prediction, and
modeling of biological data
– Biomonitoring Technologies - remote and wireless
– Simulation and Training Technology– Genomics and Proteomics - signatures and markers
– Chronic Disease Management
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• Telemedicine Cont.– Infectious Disease - vaccines, therapeutic agents, diagnosis, vector
control, wound infections, and sepsis
– Neuroscience - training, treatment, prevention, protection, assessment, and diagnosis.
– Regenerative Medicine – development of treatments for damaged/non-functional tissues and organs
– Nanomedicine and Biomaterials – identify novel developments in materials science and biomaterials leading to new drug s and improved devices
– Trauma - develop materials, therapies, treatments, and diagnostics that will improve trauma treatment
– Medical Logistics – transformational technologies applied to core logistics systems, focusing on devices, practices, and business processes to improve military medical logistics.
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Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) & Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
*Eligible companies submit proposals against a specific topic, which is prepared by a DoD subject-matter expert*Three Phase Process
Phase I -startup phase, with awards up to $100,000Phase II - up to $750,000,expand on Phase I results and explore
commercialization potentialPhase III - laboratory to the marketplace, no funds available for
support*Solicitations are released only at specific times during the year.
For more information: Small Business Administration’s (SBA) http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/SBIR/indexsbir-sttr.html#sttr DoD SBIR/STTR programhttp://www.acq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/overview/index.htm
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AMEDD Advanced Medical Technology Initiative (AAMTI)
AAMTI is an OTSG-funded program initiated in 1999. Each FY $5,000,000 in P8 funds are MIPRed/FADed to AMEDD facilities to enable technology demonstrations.
The key objectives of the AAMTI are to:
•Demonstrate Advanced Medical Technologies and their Impact on Cost, Access and Quality of Care
• Provide Senior AMEDD Leadership with Medical Tech-Watch Capability
• Encourage Medical Technology Entrepreneurship by Funding AMEDD
Technology Innovators
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Other Collaborative Opportunities
• Subject Matter Experts for proposal review and panel review boards.
• Job opportunities for graduates or PhD’s looking to work in the medical research arena.
• Partnering with existing projects as a subcontractor.
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Useful Websites• TATRC - www.tatrc.org
• USAMRMC BAA 08-1 -www.usamraa.army.mil/pages/Baa-Paa/mrmcbaalist.cfm
• USAMRMC Homepage https://mrmc.detrick.army.mil
• AMEDD AAMTI Announcement - http://grants.tatrc.org/proposals
• Grants.gov – http://www.grants.gov/
• CDMRP - http://cdmrp.army.mil
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Heather WhiteDoD Research SpecialistOffice of Sponsored ProgramsENG 329Email: [email protected]: 410-455-3140