JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (March 7, 2023) – Commanding Officer Capt. Gerald DeLong and staff of Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio hosted a visit from Commanding Officer Capt. Paul Allen and staff of Navy Medicine Training Support Center (NMTSC) at the Battlefield Health...

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) research scientists visited Sargent Shriver Elementary School on Feb. 23 to speak and interact with students during the school’s annual Career Day event.Lt. Yuliya Johnson, an active-duty researcher and Jennetta Green, a Navy civilian...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Feb. 9, 2023) – Military and support personnel assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio attended the fourth edition of “Mission Possible,” an information-sharing event held at the Tri-Service Research Laboratory.The purpose of “Mission...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Jan. 26, 2023) – Department of Defense (DoD)-related research typically requires additional compliance activities, documentation, and subject protections.To provide additional oversight of human-based research, members of the Department of the Navy (DON)...

LIMA, Peru – Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU)-6 hosted a 40th birthday celebration at the U.S. Embassy campus to recognize the accomplishments and mission of the command on Jan. 19.NAMRU-6 hosted several visitors and guests from the U.S. and Peru at the event, to include U.S Ambassador to Peru...

ARLINGTON, Va. – Lt. Cmdr. Robert Hontz, a microbiologist with Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU)-2, participated in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Service Chiefs’ Fellowship Program (SCFP) from Sept. 20 – Dec. 16, 2022.Fellowship participants shadowed program managers,...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Dec. 29, 2022) – Dr. Yoon Hwang, of Seoul, South Korea, a research microbiologist, assigned to the Craniofacial Health and Restorative Medicine Directorate, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, was recognized by Commanding Officer Capt. Gerald...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Dec. 29, 2022) – Alfredo Gonzalez, of El Paso, Texas, a financial management analyst assigned to the Resource Management and Acquisitions Directorate, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, was recognized by Commanding Officer Capt. Gerald DeLong...

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Researchers with Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC)’s Enteric Diseases Department have partnered with the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to begin phase 1 testing of a new Campylobacter jejuni vaccine.Campylobacter jejuni, a...

SILVER SPRING, Md. – A collaborative study between researchers at Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Princeton University has highlighted immune response differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection responses between male and female patients.Data...