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NMRC and WRAIR Team Up to Launch Joint West Africa Research Group in Nigeria

Posted on October 18, 2016 by challer

The JWARG’s mission is to support the Department of Defense’s force health protection requirements for emerging infectious disease while building partnerships in West Africa to address lessons observed in the 2014-2015 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD).
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SILVER SPRING, Md. (Aug. 9, 2016) Cmdr. Michael Stockelman, deputy director of the Infectious Diseases Directorate at the Naval Medical Research Center, shows petri dishes containing pathogens used in phage research. The Naval Medical Research Center, in collaboration with the Walter Reed Army
Institute of Research, successfully combated an antibiotic-resistant infection in a laboratory model through bacteriophage therapy, which uses viruses found in the environment that are known for their activity against bacteria. (Photo by NMRC Public Affairs)

Navy Medicine Researchers Develop Therapeutic Cocktail of Environmental Phages to Overcome Antibiotic-Resistant Infection

Posted on August 18, 2016 by challer

NMRC worked in collaboration with Navy Medicine’s overseas laboratories to collect phages from environmental sources around the world and personalized them so they could be made by selecting multiple individual phages to create phage mixes customized to the needs of each patient.
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On DoD Radar: First Clinical Trial of MERS Vaccine Candidate

Posted on February 22, 2016 by glenn.selby

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have started vaccinations in the first clinical trial to test the safety and immune response of a vaccine candidate to prevent MERS.
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Army Researchers Leading Fight Against Malaria

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Armed with Science

By Christen N. McCluney Defense Media Activity Researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are discovering new ways to combat and prevent the spread of malaria. “Every conflict the U.S. has been in we’ve been faced with malaria,” …
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Wednesday Webcast: Research Advances to Fight Malaria

Posted on April 14, 2010 by John Ohab

Listen live Wed, April 14, at 2pm eastern, when we are joined by US Army Col. Christian Ockenhouse, director of the US Military Malaria Vaccine Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR). Col. Ockehnouse will discuss WRAIR’s …
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