MEDICAL BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE (BASIC RESEARCH)
Abstract
This project (TB1) funds basic research of vaccines, diagnostic tools, and therapeutic drugs to provide effective medical defense against validated biological threat agents including bacteria, toxins, and viruses. Advance innovative biotechnology approaches with the potential to rapidly identify, diagnose, prevent, and treat disease due to exposure to biological threat agents. This project supports core science efforts that may be applied to biological defense capability areas, such as Pretreatments, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics. Starting in FY10, all efforts were combined into a single capability area called Biological Based Basic Research. This project also includes efforts such as the Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative (TMTI). Effective FY12 this effort is funded as the Transformational Medical Technologies (TMT) Program. The program was launched to respond to the threat of emerging or intentionally bioengineered biological threats. TMT's mission is to protect the Warfighter from genetically engineered biological threats by providing a rapid response capability from identification of pathogens to the delivery of medical countermeasures. This mission is accomplished through two main efforts: 1) developing broad spectrum (multi-agent) therapeutics against biological warfare (BW) agents (e.g. one drug that treats multiple agents); and 2) developing platform technologies to assist in the rapid development of medical countermeasures (MCMs) in response to BW agents (e.g. developing new and innovative ways to mass produce drugs in the event of a biological incident). Through FY11 TB1 funded all ChemBio Medical Biological Basic Research efforts. Beginning in FY12, this project focuses solely on basic research in support of TMT.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- TB1_0601384BP_1_0400_PB_2012
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