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JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Jan. 13, 2026) – Dr. Nobuaki Kiriu, an associate professor with Japan’s National Defense Medical College’s (NDMC) Center for Trauma, Burn and Tactical Medicine, briefs leadership and research scientists assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio of research on blast injury utilizing an air-driven shockwave generator at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute. A series of briefings, led by Dr. Manabu Kinoshita, NDMC’s chairman professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, continues a sustained partnership between NAMRU San Antonio and NDMC to enhance each other’s capabilities to counteract emerging threats, benefiting military health as well as global health security. Navy Medicine Research & Development (NMR&D) contributes directly to positive working relationships with partner nation militaries, keeping the scope of Department of War capabilities wide, and at the ready, to address emerging threats aboard. NAMRU San Antonio, part of NMR&D, conducts gap-driven combat casualty care, craniofacial, and directed energy research in support of Navy, Marine Corps and joint U.S. warfighter health readiness and lethality while engaged in routine and expeditionary operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released)