WIDE REACH, BIG PAYOFF


LEADING THE PACK


Soldiers assigned to the Womack Army Medical Center warehouse at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, prepare crates of supplies to support the COVID-19 testing site on the installation. USAMRDC and ARCH are teaming up to identify new and potentially game- changing medical devices and treatments for U.S. warfighters. (Photo by Twana Atkinson, Womack Army Medical Center)


of millions of dollars to, currently, just $1,000 per human genome.


In specific terms, the technology scout- ing process as it pertains to USAMRDC is relatively simple. First, ARCH provides a series of monthly updates—or, to continue the previous sports analogy, “scouting reports”—to the MTEC team. “Tey have multiple sets of eyes and ears,” Sorensen said of ARCH’s value in this first step alone. Tose monthly reports notably


stretch across a number of key interest areas, covering topics pertinent to each individual USAMRDC Joint Program Committee—topics like trauma care and infectious disease, among others.


Te reports are shared with USAMRDC leadership, who pick the specific technol- ogies or concepts they’d like to pursue. ARCH then stands ready to provide deeper, more in-depth looks at those chosen technologies before leaders make


their final decisions. In fact, they’ve recently provided USAMRDC leaders with in-depth reports on new technologies designed to combat COVID-19. Finally, once a choice has been made, the MTEC team, led by Research Program Director Dr. Lauren Palestrini, begins the process of pairing the creators of the chosen technol- ogy with one (or two or three, if needed) of MTEC’s many partner organizations to help guide that fledgling technological


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