NAMRU San Antonio Researchers present Research at 2023 MHSRS

Photo By Burrell Parmer | KISSIMMEE, Fla. – (Aug. 15, 2023) – Dr. Heuy-Ching Hetty Wang, of San Antonio, director of Combat Casualty Care and Operational Medicine, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio and Shoulei Jiang of The METIS Foundation (co-author) presented research titled “Pirfenidone Loaded Polyurethane Nanocapsules to Reduce Fibrosis and Scarring” to NAMRU San Antonio leadership during a poster session held on day two of the 2023 Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) held at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center. The MHSRS brings together military, government, academia, and industry experts for four days of critical conversations and intensive idea sharing. Presenters will share their latest research findings and challenges on topics including combat casualty care, military operational medicine, clinical and rehabilitative medicine, medical simulation and information sciences, military infectious diseases, and the radiation health effects. NAMRU San Antonio is one of the leading research and development laboratories for the U.S. Navy under the Department of Defense (DoD) and is one of eight subordinate research commands in the global network of laboratories operating under the Naval Medical Research Command in Silver Spring, Md. Its mission is to conduct gap driven combat casualty care, craniofacial, and directed energy research to improve survival, operational readiness, and safety of DoD personnel engaged in routine and expeditionary operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released)  

KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES

08.15.2023

Story by Burrell Parmer 

Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – (Aug. 15, 2023) – Research scientists assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio presented their scientific posters during two poster sessions on day two of the 2023 Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) held at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center.

The MHSRS brings together military, government, academia, and industry experts for four days of critical conversations and intensive idea sharing. Presenters will share their latest research findings and challenges on topics including combat casualty care, military operational medicine, clinical and rehabilitative medicine, medical simulation and information sciences, military infectious diseases, and the radiation health effects.

Under the leadership of Commanding Officer Capt. Jennifer Buechel, NAMRU San Antonio is one of the leading research and development laboratories for the U.S. Navy under the Department of Defense (DoD) and Naval Medical Research & Development (NMR&D) enterprise.

Its mission is to conduct gap driven combat casualty care, craniofacial, and directed energy research to improve survival, operational readiness, and safety of DoD personnel engaged in routine and expeditionary operations.

The NMR&D enterprise is composed of eight commands that support the Navy, Marine Corps, and joint U.S. warfighters through the study of health concerns that affect the readiness of these forces and the development of methods to treat those concerns.

Enterprise areas of research include infectious diseases, biological health concerns, aerospace and undersea medicine, medical modeling, simulation, operational mission support, epidemiology, and behavioral sciences.

• Date Taken: 08.15.2023
• Date Posted: 08.15.2023 17:21
• Story ID: 451433
• Location: KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA, US
• Hometown: SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, US
• Hometown: WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, US