The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) seeks unclassified proposals for research and development aimed at using lasers and other light source technology to develop applications in medicine, photobiology, surgery, and closely related materials sciences, with applications to combat casualty
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care and other military medical problems.
This announcement is for a small number of individual awards.
It is complementary to ongoing and future planed broad based awards, primarily directed toward university-based medical institutions, conducted by teams of physicians, biomedical scientists, physical scientists, and engineers.
The efforts proposed may be basic or applied research, and must have direct relevance to combat casualty care or other military medical priorities.
They must offer unique capabilities, not substantially funded by other DOD or other agency programs.
Applicants must demonstrate substantial experience working to further military medical priorities, including transitioning research into clinical practice and working products.
Substantial experience collaborating with military medical centers is also a requirement to establish relevance to combat casualty care or other military medical priorities, and facilitate the transition of research results to meet military needs.