MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP


environment) and 7 (demonstrated in prototype in an oper- ational setting), said Eaton. Te group hopes to research immature technologies to see if these can be scaled up, or scaled out, to ensure a consistent quality of tissue manufacturing.


“We have more than 100 members within the various industries and academia and private partners that have joined the institute, and these will add over $200 million in private commitments,” she said. “BioFabUSA is currently working with these partners to set up a tissue foundry so they can create test facilities where the partners can come in and learn how to scale up some of their own products.


“Our goal,” Eaton explained, “is to ensure that these public- private partnerships are sustainable, so that after the government funding ends, the institute can continue on its own as a sustain- able entity. In the end, we want to make sure we have those manufacturing partnerships in place with these industry partners.”


Eaton values the open campus concept, as it allows USAMMDA to reach out to more partners than it could on its own. She believes it is helping the organization connect with researchers in academia as well as its usual partners in the commercial industry.


READY, FAST AND EASY


Andrew Atkinson, product manager for USAMMDA’s PSPMO, demonstrates the speed and ease of reconstituting freeze-dried human blood plasma during an Army senior leadership visit at Fort Detrick in March 2018. Produced through a successful effort between USAMMDA and its industry partners, the freeze-dried plasma product could be approved and readily available for use by 2020. (Photo by Ashley Force, USAMMDA Public Affairs)


“We have a lot of partners in industry and academia that want to support the DOD, but they just don’t know how—and we’re able to provide them with our unmet needs and capabilities so they can provide support to the DOD,” she said.


“At the same time, we’re providing them with our expertise, and they are able to work with our science and technology partners and tap into some of our military populations for clinical trials, if they would like to study the effects on our unique population,”


USAMMDA’s Combat Trauma and Acute Rehabilitation Proj- ect Management Office has overseen numerous research projects focused on developing novel solutions to address this need. Currently, the most successful projects in its portfolio are efforts in the field of vascularized composite allotransplantation, which involves hand and face transplants, and the ongoing development of a skin substitute to treat burn wounds.


BioFabUSA is focused on tissue engineering, at manufac- turing readiness levels between 4 (validated in a laboratory


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While USAMMDA does its part in the development of critical medical products moving through the acquisition pipeline, it relies heavily on commercial partners in industry to complete this important task.


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