Medical Research & Development

The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command manages and executes research in five basic areas: military infectious diseases, combat casualty care, military operational medicine, chemical biological defense, and clinical and rehabilitative medicine. The USAMRDC is program coordinator for DoD medical research programs focused on the prevention, mitigation and treatment of blast injuries as well as the manager for the JTAPIC program which informs solutions that prevent or mitigate injury during the full range of military operations, by collaborative collection, integration, analysis and storage of data from operations, intelligence, materiel and medical sources.

Principal Assistant for
Research and Technology

The Principal Assistant for Research and Technology (PART) serves as the Technical Director and Chief Scientist for all of the Command's assigned S&T Programs and as senior executive-level representative at meetings and other decision-making forums including all government agencies, congressional offices, academia, and private industry.

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Military Infectious Diseases
Research Program

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• Medical readiness
• Vaccines
• Biotechnology
• Prophylaxis/treatment drugs
• Diagnostics/prognostics
• Vector control
• Medical C4ISR
• HIV countermeasures

Combat Casualty Care
Research Program

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• Damage control resuscitation
• Traumatic brain injury
• Combat trauma therapies
• Health monitoring & diagnostic technology
• Combat dentistry

DoD Blast Injury Research
Program Coordinating Office

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• Injury prevention
• Acute treatment
• Reset

Military Operational Medicine
Research Program

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• Injury prevention and reduction
• Psychological health and resilience
• Physiological health
• Environmental health and protection

Medical Chemical Biological
Defense Research

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• Medical Biological Defense
  • Vaccines
  • Therapeutics
  • Diagnostics
  • Basic research
• Medical Chemical Defense
  • Pretreatments
  • Therapeutics
  • Diagnostics
  • Basic research
• Laboratory Infrastructure