FRANKFURT, Germany – Lt. Cmdr. Robert Hontz, a microbiologist and health research scientist with Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) EURAFCENT’s Ghana detachment, participated as a judge at the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Europe Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS)...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (March 6, 2024) –The Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) Medical Inspector General (MEDIG) evaluated the performance, efficiency, and mission readiness at Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio during a scheduled command inspection at the...

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Sailors and staff from Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC) visited Sargent Shriver Elementary School on Feb. 23 to speak with students during the school’s annual Career Day event.Lt. Rafae Khan, a physician, and Jennetta Green, a Navy civilian researcher, spent the day...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Feb. 8, 2024) – Capt. Franca Jones, commander, Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), held a NMRC Enterprise All Hands at the Military and Family Readiness Center during her visit to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio.Jones spoke on numerous...

SAN DIEGO – Personnel with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC) provided training on biological attack response and mitigation to Sailors aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) from January 24-25.The training provides shipboard medical laboratory technicians with biological warfare...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Jan. 24, 2024) – Force Master Chief PatrickPaul Mangaran, director, Hospital Corps, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), joined by Master Chiefs Hospital Corpsman Hansen LaFoucade, deputy director, Hospital Corps and Leslie Giuy, lead hospital...

SINGAPORE - Scientists from U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) INDO PACIFIC, in partnership with Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC) and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, published findings this month from a September 2023 COVID-19 study of active-duty U.S. sailors in Japan.The goal of...

SAN DIEGO – Research scientists from Naval Health Research Center’s (NHRC) Operational Readiness directorate joined forces with San Diego Unified School District’s Health Career and College Symposium on Thursday Dec 7th.More than 300 students selected from the school district’s Pathways Program,...

GROTON, Conn. – Years of work by the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory's (NSMRL) Regional Hearing Conservation Program (RHCP) culminated in the publication of Change 1 to the Department of Defense (DoD) Instruction 6055.12, “Hearing Conservation Program,” on November 28, 2023.This policy...

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Navy physicians from the Naval Medical Research & Development (NMR&D) enterprise, alongside colleagues in the Army and Air Force, highlighted the crucial role of overseas medical research laboratories at a presentation during the American College of Physicians (ACP) Tri-Service...