U.S. ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH & MATERIEL COMMAND MG George Weightman - Commanding

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U.S. ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH MATERIEL
COMMAND MG George Weightman - Commanding
Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research
Center Fulfilling The Vision Thru RD
USAMRMC TATRC Overview
Colonel Karl Friedl, Director, Telemedicine
Advanced Technology Research Center
(TATRC) Heather White, DoD Research Specialist,
Office of Sponsored Programs
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Agenda

• Command Structure/Organization
• TATRC Background and Mission
• Funding Mechanisms
• Research Areas of Interest
• Other Collaborative Opportunities
• Closing

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Medical Research and Materiel Command
OverviewMission and Vision
MISSION
VISION
Provide medical knowledge and materiel lifecycle
management to protect, treat and optimize
warfighter health and performance across the full
spectrum of operations.
We are the worlds experts and leaders in the
military relevant biomedical research and medical
materiel communities, delivering the best medical
solutions to enhance, protect, treat, and heal
our warfighters.
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U.S. ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT ORGANIZATION CHART
MEDICAL COMMAND (MEDCOM)
OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL
MEDICAL RESEARCH MATERIEL COMMAND (USAMRMC)
AMEDD CENTER SCHOOL
REGIONAL MEDICAL COMMANDS
DENTAL COMMAND (DENCOM)
VETERINARY COMMAND (VETCOM)
CHPPM
MG Weightman CG, USAMRMC
Center for Health Promotion and Preventive
Medicine
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Command Relationships Personnel
USAMRMC
TATRC
USAMRMC Actual Personnel Sep 2008
HEADQUARTERS
CDMRP
WRAIR
USAMMDA
USAMRAA
USAMMA
USAMITC
USAHFPA
USAMMCE
USAARL
USAISR
USAMRICD
USAMRIID
USARIEM
Medical IM/IT
Health Facilities
Procure-ment Support
Medical Advanced Development
Medical Logistics
Medical Research Technology
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Core Medical ST Program Areas

• Intramurally funded
• Management costs from Presidents Budget
• 88 of ST budget goes to in-house DOD labs The
  ST objectives are placed into the POM cycle
  budget request (5-7 years out)

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Telemedicine and Advance Technology Research
Center
Mission
Explore science and engineering technologies
ahead of programmed research, leveraging other
programs to maximize benefits to military medicine
Vision
Be the government model of opportunity-driven
research agility
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Evolution of TATRC
DIN/PACS and Teleradiology Filmless Hospital
First Decade

Telemedicine and e-health Establishment of Gap
Funding
Second Decade
Present

• Innovation in Managing Technology
• Ability to Harness
• Academic innovation
• Congressional interests
• Industrial investment
• Aligning CSIs to the Larger Army Medical
  Research Objectives
• Facilitate Innovations for the Command
• Spearhead Collaboration Across Agencies

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• TATRC..
• Element of HQ, USAMRMC
• Shapes Congressional Special Interest projects to
  DoD relevance
• Leads DoD research in e-Health (computational
  biology clinical informatics)
• Bridges military medical research gaps promotes
  innovative pilot research
• Manages large cutting edge RD programs
• 15 Core Research Portfolios
• gt 800 active projects
• SBIR/Gap funds management
• 16-20 - Withhold
• DHP, Economic improvement, SBIR/STTR, MRMC, TATRC

TATRC FUNDING HISTORY - Since FY98, 2.10B
managed RD projects
Congressional Special Appropriations RDTE
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Research Portfolios
Current Staff 6 Military Officers 8 Civilians
54 IPAs (includes 10 part time) 88 Contractors
5 Consultants
Coordinating Partnerships RAD I Infectious
Disease RAD II Combat Casualty Care RAD III
Operational Medicine RAD IV Clinical Rehab
Medicine
Key Product Lines
Medical Robotics Dr. Gary Gilbert
Health Information Technologies CDR
Stephen Steffenson
Medical Imaging Technologies Dr. Anthony Pacifico
Advanced Prosthetics and Human Performance Mr.
Troy Turner
Computational Biology Dr. Jacques Reifman
Biomonitoring Technologies Dr. Eva Lai
Simulation and Training Technology Mr.
Gene Wiehagen
BHSAI BIC
New Initiatives Basic Science
Acoustic Trauma Dr. Michael Holtel
Trauma Dr. Tim Broderick
Human Performance Optimization Dr. Sylvain
Cardin
Infectious Disease Ms. Amber Stanley
Neuro- Rehabilitation MAJ Teresa Brininger
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Research Development Strategies
High Risk, High Payoff
New Ideas, Knowledge
Link to the Warfighter
DARPA
Stryker Brigade Deployed Forces
Academia
Academia Government Industry (Maximum Bang
for Buck)
Innovation, Transition
Expanded Resource Base
International Coalitions
Industry
Service Labs
Interagency Partners
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www.tatrc.org
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Funding Opportunities
USAMRMC BAA 08-1The USAMRMC Broad Agency
Announcement (BAA) 08-1 is intended to solicit
research ideas that work towards providing
solutions to medical problems of importance to
the American warfighter at home and
abroad. SBIR/STTRSmall Business Innovative
Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology
Transfer (STTR) are highly competitive programs
designed to allow small businesses to harness
their innovative talents, with the incentive to
profit from commercialization. AMEDD Advanced
Medical Technology Initiative (AAMTI)The U.S.
Army Medical Research and Materiel Command's
(USAMRMC) mission is to provide solutions to
medical problems of importance to the American
war fighter at home and abroad. The AMEDD
Advanced Medical Technology Initiative (AAMTI)
plays a vital role in the fulfillment of these
objectives.
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USAMRMC Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) 08-1

• Provides a general description of USAMRMCs
  research programs
• Specific areas of interest
• General information
• Evaluation and selection criteria
• Proposal preparation instructions
• BAA is continuously open, 24/7
• Accepts proposals on a rolling basis.
• Pre-proposals may be submitted and will be
  evaluated at any time
• throughout the year.

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Research Areas of Interest

• Military Infectious Diseases Research Program
• Combat Casualty Care Research Program
• Military Operational Medicine Research Program
• Medical Biological Defense Research Program
• Medical Chemical Defense Research Program
• Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Program
• Special Programs

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• Military Infectious Diseases Research Program
• Vaccines (characterization, development,
  pathology)
• Antiparasitic Drugs (discovery, design,
  development)
• Vector Development (arthropod vectors
  vector-borne diseases)
• Therapeutic drug development (screen, synthesize,
  and develop)

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• Combat Casualty Care Research Program
• Stop blood loss
• Limit the immediate, short- and long-term
  deleterious consequences of severe hemorrhage
• Non/Minimally invasive sensors to detect and warn
  of impending vascular collapse
• Improved preservation, storage, transportability,
  and processing of red blood cells, platelets, and
  plasma
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Non/Minimally invasive sensors or assays to
  rapidly diagnose the severity of brain injury
• Drugs, biologics, or other agents to mitigate
  post-injury affects
• Secondary Damage to Organs
• Additional Aspects of Casualty Care

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• Military Operational Medicine Research Program
• Injury Prevention and Reduction
• Psychological Health and Resilience
• Environmental Health and Protection
• Physiological Health
• Medical Biological Defense Research Program
• Viral, Toxin and Bacterial Studies
• Drug Development
• Development, synthesis and testing of compounds
  that possess antiviral, antibacterial,
  immunomodulatory or antitoxin activities
• Identification and Diagnosis of antigens and
  antibodies

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• Medical Chemical Defense Research Program
• Maintain the Technologic Capability to meet
  present requirements and counter future chemical
  warfare agent threats.
• Provide Medical Countermeasures for the
  individual soldier to maintain combat
  effectiveness and prevent or reduce injury from
  chemical warfare agents.
• Provide Medical Management of Chemical Casualties
  to enhance survival and expedite the
  return-to-duty of chemical warfare agent
  casualties through definitive therapies and life
  support technologies.

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• Telemedicine Advanced Technology Program
• Medical Robotics to treat patients in fixed and
  mobile medical facilities
• Health Information Technologies
• Medical Imaging Technologies portable, high
  performance, decision support, advanced surgical
  cameras
• Advanced Prosthetics Human Performance
• Computational Biology - analysis, interpretation,
  prediction, and modeling of biological data
• Biomonitoring Technologies - remote and wireless
• Simulation and Training Technology
• Genomics and Proteomics - signatures and markers
• Chronic Disease Management

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• Telemedicine Cont.
• Infectious Disease - vaccines, therapeutic
  agents, diagnosis, vector control, wound
  infections, and sepsis
• Neuroscience - training, treatment, prevention,
  protection, assessment, and diagnosis.
• Regenerative Medicine development of treatments
  for damaged/non-functional tissues and organs
• Nanomedicine and Biomaterials identify novel
  developments in materials science and
  biomaterials leading to new drug s and improved
  devices
• Trauma - develop materials, therapies,
  treatments, and diagnostics that will improve
  trauma treatment
• Medical Logistics transformational technologies
  applied to core logistics systems, focusing on
  devices, practices, and business processes to
  improve military medical logistics.

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Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
Eligible companies submit proposals against a
specific topic, which is prepared by a DoD
subject-matter expert Three Phase Process Phase
I -startup phase, with awards up to
100,000 Phase II - up to 750,000,expand on
Phase I results and explore commercialization
potential Phase III - laboratory to the
marketplace, no funds available for
support Solicitations are released only at
specific times during the year. For more
information Small Business Administrations
(SBA) http//www.sbaonline.sba.gov/SBIR/indexsbir-
sttr.htmlsttr DoD SBIR/STTR program http//www.a
cq.osd.mil/osbp/sbir/overview/index.htm

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AMEDD Advanced Medical Technology Initiative
(AAMTI)

• AAMTI is an OTSG-funded program initiated in
  1999. Each FY 5,000,000 in P8 funds are
  MIPRed/FADed to AMEDD facilities to enable
  technology demonstrations.
• The key objectives of the AAMTI are to
• Demonstrate Advanced Medical Technologies and
  their Impact on Cost, Access and Quality of Care
• Provide Senior AMEDD Leadership with Medical
  Tech-Watch Capability
• Encourage Medical Technology Entrepreneurship by
  Funding AMEDD Technology Innovators

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Other Collaborative Opportunities

• Subject Matter Experts for proposal review and
  panel review boards.
• Job opportunities for graduates or PhDs looking
  to work in the medical research arena.
• Partnering with existing projects as a
  subcontractor.

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Useful Websites

• TATRC - www.tatrc.org
• USAMRMC BAA 08-1 -www.usamraa.army.mil/pages/Baa-
  Paa/mrmcbaalist.cfm
• USAMRMC Homepage https//mrmc.detrick.army.mil
  
• AMEDD AAMTI Announcement - http//grants.tatrc.or
  g/proposals
• Grants.gov http//www.grants.gov/
• CDMRP - http//cdmrp.army.mil

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Contact Information
Heather White DoD Research Specialist Office of
Sponsored Programs ENG 329 Email
hwhite1_at_umbc.edu Phone [phone]