Recent results in biomaterials R&D suggest that there are exceptional opportunities for these emerging materials in military medicine. To facilitate this possibility, the National Research Council convened a workshop at the request of the Department of Defense to help create a technology development roadmap to enhance military R&D into biomaterials technology. The workshop focused primarily on identifying useful near- and mid-term applications of biomaterials including wound care, tissue engineering, drug delivery, and physiological sensors and diagnostics. This report presents a summary of the workshop. It provides a review of biomaterials and their importance to military medicine, the roadmap, and a discussion of ways to enable biomaterials development. Several important outcomes of successful capture of potential benefits of these materials are also discussed.
- FRONT MATTER
- SUMMARY
- 1 BIOMATERIALS AND THEIR IMPORTANCE TO MILITARY MEDICINE
- 2 BIOMATERIALS TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT AND ROADMAPPING
- 3 ENABLING BIOMATERIALS DEVELOPMENT
- APPENDIXES
- Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
- Appendix B Workshop Agenda and Attendees
- Appendix C Roadmapping Process
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