BASIC OPERATIONAL MEDICAL SCIENCE
Abstract
The Basic Operational Medical Science Program Element will explore and develop basic research in medical-related information and technology leading to fundamental discoveries, tools, and applications critical to solving DoD challenges. Programs in this project address the Department's identified medical gaps in warfighter care related to health monitoring and preventing the spread of infectious disease. Efforts will draw upon the information, computational modeling, and physical sciences to discover properties of biological systems that cross multiple scales of biological architecture and function, from the molecular and genetic level through cellular, tissue, organ, and whole organism levels. To enable in-theater, continuous analysis and treatment of warfighters, this project will explore multiple diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, including the use of bacterial predators as therapeutics against infections caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogens; developing techniques to enable rapid transient immunity for emerging pathogens; exploring methods to slow damage from pathological infection or traumatic injury; and leveraging fundamental biological mechanisms that enable certain species to be tolerant to various environmental insults. Advances in this area may be used as a preventative measure to mitigate widespread disease.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- MED-01_0601117E_1_0400_PB_2020
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