A New DOMANE for the Pandemic Era

FORT. BELVOIR, VA, UNITED STATES

03.02.2021

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Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department

Machine learning expedites the process of discovering medical countermeasures for emerging biological threats like COVID-19. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Chemical and Biological Technologies Department, in its role as the Joint Science and Technology Office (JSTO), is developing a system-of-systems called DOMANE — Discovery of MCMs (medical countermeasures) Against Novel Entities — an interdisciplinary effort with team members whose expertise include computer science, physics, and medicine. DTRA CB posits that one drug may be insufficient towards countering a threat, so it is developing DOMANE to rapidly identify a combination of drugs to impact the novel biological threat from multiple targets, which may prove effective in promoting a disease-modifying effect to counter the biological threat. Machine learning expedites the process of discovering medical countermeasures for emerging biological threats like COVID-19.

• Date Taken: 03.02.2021
• Date Posted: 03.02.2021 11:51
• Category: Video Productions
• Video ID: 785534
• VIRIN: 210302-D-D0490-0001
• Filename: DOD_108209812
• Length: 00:01:16
• Location: FORT. BELVOIR, VA, US