Medical Technology Priority Areas for the Dept of Defense

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Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium MTEC, DOD Army Medical Research and Materiel Command USAMRMC

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Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium  MTEC is a biomedical technology consortium that collaborates under an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC). The University of Iowa is a member of MTEC. 

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Upcoming MTEC solicitations:  https://mtec-sc.org/upcoming-solicitations/

MTEC Technology Focus Areas in 2018 and 2019 (The following list of potential topics is not exhaustive and is subject to change.)

  1. Infectious Disease
    • Systems biology approaches to combat antimicrobial resistance
  2. Clinical and Rehabilitative Medline
    • Prevention and treatment of volumetric muscle loss
    • Therapies to maximize rehabilitation after service-related neuromusculoskeletal injuries
    • Pain management
  3. Medical Simulation
    • Augmented reality
    • IT infrastructure to support joint evacuation efforts
  4. Military Operational Medicine
    • Telehealth approaches to behavioral sleep intervention
    • Physiological wearable sensors
    • Telemedicine
  5. Combat Casualty Care
    • Drug treatment for traumatic brain injury
    • Medical autonomous and unmanned capabilities
    • Medical and surgical robotics
    • Virtual health
    • Prolonged field care/en route care
    • Hemorrhage and resuscitation therapies
    • Artificial intelligence

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