Organization | Interests |
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Army Research Office | Funding fundamental research toward understanding inherent interactions and downstream effects of various microbial communities including the gut microbiome |
Army Research Laboratory | Understanding how gut microbiome influences human behavior, capability enhancement and human-system interaction, waste-to-energy conversion through metabolic pathway engineering of gut-derived microbiota |
US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine | Conducts research providing a biomedical science basis for developing new rations, menus, policies and programs that enable Warfighter health-readiness and optimal performance; microbiome interests include interactions between military-relevant stressors, diet, and the gut microbiome, particularly within austere environments |
US Army Center for Environmental Health Research | Molecular events associated with disease progression; microbiome as a tool for monitoring Warfighter exposure to environmental toxicants |
Naval Medical Research Center | Deployment health implications of gastrointestinal infection, the microbiome and both acute and chronic disease |
Office of Naval Research | Funding programs to understand the effects of certain behavioral and environmental stressors on a host and its gut microbiota, with an emphasis on deducing the role the gut microbiota may play in mediating psychological, cognitive and physiological effects of such exposures |
US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center | In vitro studies to determine military-relevant stressor effects on the microbiome and host to inform clinical trial design; elucidation of mechanistic knowledge of dietary input biotransformation by gut bacteria; optimizing combat feeding rations; performance nutrition |
US Air Force Research Laboratory | Influence human performance in a non-invasive manner (cognition, anxiety, stress) |
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research | Biomedical research that delivers lifesaving products including knowledge, technology and medical material that sustain the combat effectiveness of the Warfighter |
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences | Nutrition, gastroenterology; Consortium for Health and Military Performance: research to improve service member performance in the field and returning to duty; animal studies |
Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division | Understanding influence of native and engineered biological threats on human health |