Medical Research and Development
The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel 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 command is also the research manager for the DoD Blast Injury Research Program Coordinating Office and the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine.
Military Infectious Diseases Research Program
- Medical readiness
- Vaccines
- Biotechnology
- Prophylaxis/treatment drugs
- Diagnostics/prognostics
- Vector control
- Medical C4ISR
- HIV countermeasures
Combat Casualty Care Research Program
- Damage control resuscitation
- Traumatic brain injury
- Combat trauma therapies
- Health monitoring & diagnostic technology
- Combat dentistry
Military Operational Medicine Research Program
- Injury prevention and reduction
- Psychological health and resilience
- Physiological health
- Environmental health and protection
Clinical & Rehabilitative Medicine Research Program
- Neuromusculoskeletal rehabilitation
- Regenerative medicine and transplants
- Vision restoration
- Pain management
Medical Chemical Biological Defense Research
- Medical Biological Defense
- Vaccines
- Therapeutics
- Diagnostics
- Basic research
- Medical Chemical Defense
- Pretreatments
- Therapeutics
- Diagnostics
- Basic research
- Laboratory Infrastructure
Medical Training and Health Information Sciences Research
- Force Health Protection & Readiness
- Medical Resourcing
- Health Services
- Enterprise Information Management
- Combat Casualty Training
- Medical Practice Initiative
- Patient Focused Initiative
- Developer Tools for Medical Education
DoD Blast Injury Research Program Coordinating Office
- Injury prevention
- Acute treatment
- Reset
Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine
- Cranio-facial reconstruction
- Healing without scarring
- Limb and digit salvage and reconstruction
- Compartment syndrome
- Burn repair
The command is the executive or lead agency responsible for:
- Military Human Immunodeficiency Virus R&D Program (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
- Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System
- Use of Investigational New Drugs for Force Health Protection
- DoD Food and Nutrition Research, Development, Test, Evaluation, and Engineering Program
- Combat Dentistry Research Program
- Gulf War Illnesses/Force Health Protection Research Program
- Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program
The command ensures all research strictly conforms to all regulatory guidance.