The 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS), the Department of Defense’s (DOD) premier medical research meeting, recently released a call for abstracts to present at its annual symposium. The joint symposium offers a unique opportunity for interested researchers to engage with program managers and DOD officials, who are often hard to reach virtually without a prior connection, on military biomedical and health-related research topics. Thematic tracks and discussion topics range broadly. This year, focus areas include combat casualty care, traumatic brain injury (TBI), infectious disease, psychological health, environmental exposures, and injury prevention, among others.
Two types of abstracts will be accepted:
- Research Abstracts: “Include data and conclusions formatted as: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Conclusions.”
- Advanced Product Development: “Focus on mature efforts/technologies supporting the filling of an existing DoD capability gap and should be formatted as: Introduction, Capability Description, Methods/Technical Approach, Results, Applicability to Medical Roles of Care, Impact to the Warfighter/Significance, Developmental Status of the Technology.”
The call for abstracts is open until February 16, 2025. The MHSRS will not accept late abstracts. Accepted proposers will be notified in the May-June timeframe. More information on abstract guidelines can be found here, and additional information on the MHSRS, including titles and descriptions of the 2025 scientific breakout sessions, can be found here.