Laboratory Information:
U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research
MCMR-SRR-P
3400 Rawley E. Chambers Ave.
Building 3611
Ft. Sam Houston, TX 78234-6315
Website: http://www.usaisr.amedd.army.mil/
Agency/Department: Dept. of Defense - Army
Region: Mid-Continent
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Mr. Richard Jocz
Phone: 210-916-2448
Fax: (210) 916-2297
Email: rick.jocz@amedd.army.mil
Background/History of the Laboratory:
The U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research
(USAISR) is part of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel
Command and is collocated with and under operational control of Brooke Army Medical Center. The
USAISR is
dedicated to both laboratory and clinical trauma research.
Mission of the Laboratory:
USAISR's mission is to provide requirements-driven
combat casualty care medical solutions and products for
injured soldiers from self-aid through definitive care across the full spectrum of military operations;
provide state-
of-the-art trauma, burn, and critical care to Department of Defense beneficiaries around the world and
civilians in
our trauma region; and provide Burn Special Medical Augmentation Response Teams.
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Facility Sharing
- Other
- Patents and Licensing
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
- Technical Assistance
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Hemodynamics
- Hemostasis
- Infection
- Bone tissue injury
- Burn prevention
- Burn rehabilitation
- Clinical trauma
- Coagulation function and immunoassay
- Disturbances of host resistance
- Flow cytometry and microscopy
- Fluid resuscitation
- Microbiology
- Neurohormonal response to injury
- Orthopaedic trauma
- Post-injury alteration of gastrointestinal function
- Post-injury nutrition
- Pulmonary effects of injury
- Research biochemistry
- Research pathology
- Resuscitation
- Soft tissue injury
- Surgical metabolism
- Trauma and critical care
- Trauma informatics
- Wound care
