Building a Roadmap for the Biomaterials Science and Technology to Serve Military Needs

摘要

In order to develop a requirements document detailing the medical product needs of the military that could be enabled by biomaterials technologies, we conducted a planning conference on February 2-4, 2004 in Iselin, New Jersey. About 80 people representing the military medical enterprise, biomedical companies and academic researchers engaged in a workshop structured around the key topics of wound care, drug delivery, tissue engineering/restoration and sensors and diagnostics. The National Research Council's National Materials Advisory Board facilitated the process, and subsequently applied the highest level of scholarly and technological expertise to producing the 'roadmap report' that appears in the appendix of this document. This report will provide the guidance necessary for the programs of the new Center for Military Biomaterials Research, a program of the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials.