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| Walter Reed Army Institute of Research | |
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 Emblem of WRAIR | |
| Active | 1953–present |
| Country |  United States |
| Branch |  United States Army |
| Role | Military medical research and development |
| Part of |  U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command |
| Garrison/HQ | Forest Glen Annex,Maryland |
| Website | wrair.health.mil |
| Commanders | |
| Commander | COL Brianna Perata |
| Command Sergeant Major | CSM Monnet R. Bushner |
TheWalter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is the largest biomedical research facility administered by theU.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The institute is centered at theForest Glen Annex, in theForest Glen Park part of the unincorporatedSilver Spring urban area inMaryland just north ofWashington, DC, but it is a subordinate unit of theU.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC), headquartered at nearbyFort Detrick, Maryland. At Forest Glen, the WRAIR has shared a laboratory and administrative facility — the SenDaniel K. Inouye Building, also known as Building 503 — with theNaval Medical Research Center since 1999.
The Institute takes its name fromMajorWalter Reed, MD (1851–1902), the Army physician who, in 1901, led the team that confirmed the theory thatyellow fever is transmitted by a particularmosquito species, rather than by direct contact. Today, the WRAIR fosters and performs biomedical research for the DoD and the US Army. It has recently developed two modern "Centers of Excellence" in the fields of military psychiatry/neuroscience and infectious disease research. The Centers focus, respectively, on soldier fitness, brain injury, and sleep management and in the development of vaccines and drugs for prevention and treatment of such diseases as malaria, HIV/AIDS, dengue fever, wound infections, leishmaniasis, enteric diseases.
Basic and applied medical research supporting U.S. military operations is the focus of WRAIR leaders and scientists. Despite the focus on the military, however, the institute has historically also addressed and solved a variety of non-military medical problems prevalent in the United States and the wider world.[citation needed]
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The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research hosts two Centers of Excellence for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience and for Infectious Disease Research which are headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Center for Infectious Disease Research
Office of Science Education and Strategic Communications:
The WRAIR supports and collaborates on all other Army Educational Research Programs including the Mobile Discovery Center, the Junior Solar Spring,eCybermission, Uninitiates Introduction to Engineering (UNITE), Research & Engineering Apprentice Program (REAP), International Science & Engineering Fair (INTEL-ISEF), Internships Science & Engineering Program (ISEP), Junior Science & Humanities Symposium (JSHS), Women in Science Project (WISP), Career Related Experience in Science & Technology (CREST), Consortium Research Fellows Program (CRFP), and Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation Defense Scholarshop for Service Program (SMART).
Research Support:
ThePilot Bioproduction Facility (PBF) was established in 1958 as the Department of Biologics Research and is now located at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. The PBF mission is research, development, production, and testing of vaccines for human use.[2] The PBF at theForest Glen Annex is a multi-use facility designed and operated for production of vaccines in compliance with the current Good Manufacturing (cGMP) regulations. Compliance with cGMP ensures that products prepared in the facility will be safe, potent, and reproducible.
Since inception, the PBF has specialized in developing vaccines for Department of Defense mission-related disease threats. The PBF follows all federal regulations that apply to biological products and has expertise in the development and production of vaccines for the prevention of a variety of infectious diseases. Projects for public and private partners are accomplished through inter-agency and cooperative agreements.
Vaccines are produced that will protect Soldiers against diseases that they might encounter in areas of deployment. These include vaccines to prevent dengue fever, malaria, meningitis, cholera, shigellosis, hepatitis A, and HIV. The PBF places compliance, cleanliness, and safety as top priorities in the production process of a vaccine. Once the vaccine is tested for safety, potency, and identity, the vaccine is released for use in approved human clinical studies. Several of the PBF's experimental vaccines have progressed on to advanced clinical testing.[citation needed]
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The WRAIR traces its institutional heritage back to theArmy Medical School, founded byU.S. Army Surgeon GeneralGeorge Sternberg in 1893, by some reckonings the first school ofpublic health andpreventive medicine in the world. (The other institution vying for this distinction is theJohns Hopkins School of Public Health, founded in 1916.) The organization name was officially changed to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in 1953.
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