BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
Abstract
This Biomedical Technology Program Element focuses on applied research for medical related technology, information, processes, materials, systems, and devices. Successful battlefield medical and neural interface technologies developed within this Program Element address a broad range of DoD challenges to ensure warfighter readiness, including resilience to infectious disease, evidence-based techniques for readiness assessment, and neurotechnology for improved warfighter performance. To maintain warfighter health, battlefield medical technologies research in this project will investigate novel biothreat detection, injury, and therapeutic response. Example programs include the development of a platform for the identification of early infection biomarkers to diagnose and prevent widespread infection in-theater, new methods to rapidly develop medical countermeasures in response to an emerging biothreat, and in-theater manufacturing capabilities for field-relevant pharmaceuticals to reduce the logistical burden and infrastructure requirements. To improve warfighter performance, this project will characterize and assay biological traits driving performance and readiness as well as develop new neural architectures and data processing algorithms to interface the nervous system with multiple devices, facilitating human machine interaction. Additionally, advanced evidence-based techniques will be developed to supplement warfighter healthcare, including rapid battlefield triage of injury, development of shelf stable blood products, protection from traumatic brain injury (TBI), and treatment of spinal cord injury. This Program Element also supports innovation and robust transition planning in the technology cycle by working with entrepreneurs to increase the likelihood that DARPA-funded technologies take root in the U.S. and provide new capabilities for national defense.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- BT-01_0602115E_2_0400_PB_2023
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