Laboratory Information:
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
1425 Porter Street
Ft. Detrick, MD 21702-5011
Website: http://www.usamriid.army.mil/
Technology Transfer Website: http://www.usamriid.army.mil/businessopspage.cfm
Agency/Department: Dept. of Defense - Army
Region: Mid-Atlantic
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Mr. Dan Coffman
Phone: (301) 619-6886
Fax: (301) 619-4625
Email: james.coffman@amedd.army.mil
Background/History of the Laboratory:
USAMRIID, (Fort
Detrick, Md.) conducts basic and applied research on
biological threats resulting in medical solutions to protect
military service members. USAMRIID, an organization of the
U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, is the lead
medical research Laboratory for the U.S. Biological Defense
Research Program. The Institute plays a key role as the only
Laboratory in the Department of Defense (DoD) equipped to
safely study highly hazardous infectious agents requiring
maximum containment at biosafety level (BSL)-4. As the center
of excellence for DoD medical biological defense research,
USAMRIID's challenge is to maintain its world-class
scientific and technology base while being responsive to its
primary customer the warfighter.
Mission of the Laboratory:
To conduct basic and applied research on biological threats
resulting in medical solutions to protect the warfighter.
Facilities:
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Cooperative Agreements
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Material Transfer Agreements
- Patent Licensing
- Technical Meetings
- Information Dissemination/Collegial Interchange
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Antiviral drug protocols
- Applied medical research
- Biodefense
- Biological threat research
- Biosafety
- Containment
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Disease identification
- Hazardous infectious agents
- Management of biological casualties
- Outbreak assessment and control
- Vaccines
- Virus analysis
