Capturing the Full Power of Biomaterials for Military Medicine: Report of a Workshop

By National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Materials Advisory Board

Recent results in biomaterials R&D suggest that there are exceptional opportunities for these emerging materials in military medicine. To facilitate this possibility, the National Research Council convened a workshop at the request of the Department of Defense to help create a technology development roadmap to enhance military R&D into biomaterials technology. The workshop focused primarily on identifying useful near- and mid-term applications of biomaterials including wound care, tissue engineering, drug delivery, and physiological sensors and diagnostics. This report presents a summary of the workshop. It provides a review of biomaterials and their importance to military medicine, the roadmap, and a discussion of ways to enable biomaterials development. Several important outcomes of successful capture of potential benefits of these materials are also discussed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309092833
• ISBN13: 9780309092838
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 54 Pages