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...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONO-FORT SAM HOUSTON - (Nov. 8, 2022) - Dr. Sean Biggerstaff, acting deputy assistant director, Research & Engineering, Defense Health Agency (DHA), and team visited with the leadership and staff of Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio to discussed medical research and...

BETHESDA, Md. – Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC)’s Clinical Trials Center is looking for 200 volunteer test subjects for a new clinical study that investigates the immune response to seasonal flu vaccination.Clinical staff will look at different aspects of participants’ immune systems before and...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Oct. 31, 2022) – Possessing an object that has been to space is no easy feat. For Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, that is now a reality.During a presentation held at the Brooke Army Medical Center’s Putnam Auditorium, NASA Astronaut, U.S...