JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Sept. 9, 2025) – Chief Science Director Dr. Darrin Frye, of Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, briefed command mission and research capabilities to representatives of DesiCorp, Inc., who met with leadership and research scientists at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute. The representatives traveled from Louisville, Ky., for discussions on blood products, protocols, and an alpha prototype in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Red Blood Cell (RBC) Factory. DARPA's RBC Factory program aims to create a medical device-based platform to determine if it is possible to insert additional biologically active components (e.g., cargoes) into human RBCs. NAMRU San Antonio, part of Navy Medicine Research & Development, works alongside research partners in the civilian sphere, academia, industry, and other government agencies to drive support of the Department of Defense’s objectives for a lethal fighting force and ensures U.S. service members have access to the latest scientific advances. NAMRU San Antonio 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)
| Date Taken: | 09.09.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 09.15.2025 10:21 |
| Photo ID: | 9314897 |
| VIRIN: | 250909-N-ND850-1001 |
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| Location: | SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, US |
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