page_title: Naval Medical Research Center
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: Naval Medical Research Center / Organization
caption_attribution_description: English: Tri-Service Research Laboratory at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas
context_page_description: The Naval Medical Research Center is an agency that performs basic and applied biomedical research to meet the needs of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. Its areas of focus include study of infectious diseases, biodefense, military medicine, battlefield medicine, and bone marrow research. NMRC is under the United States Department of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
context_section_description: NMRC has 1600 employees.  Its main campus in Silver Spring is divided into seven directorates:
  The Administration Directorate provides direction and support to the other directorates and sets the policy required to ensure a coordinated effort in support of command requirements.
  The Biological Defense Research Directorate researches ways to protect military personnel in the event of a biological attack.
  The Bone Marrow Research Directorate provides military contingency support for casualties with marrow toxic injury due to radiation or chemical warfare agents.
  The Infectious Diseases Directorate conducts research on infectious diseases that are considered to be significant threats to our deployed sailors, marines, soldiers, and airmen.
  The Operational and Undersea Medicine Directorate conducts medical research, development, testing, and evaluation to develop new information and technologies to enhance the health, safety, performance, and deployment readiness of Navy and Marine Corps personnel.
  The Research Services Directorate acts as a bridge for the community's scientific investigators, and opens NMRC scientific endeavors to research applications and developments.
  The Resource Management Directorate advises the Commanding Officer on financial functions within the command.
  The Naval Infectious Diseases Diagnostic Laboratory (NIDDL) is also located in the Silver Spring facility.  NIDDL provides clinical diagnostic laboratory services for active military and their families worldwide, specializing in less-common diseases not covered by the standard military treatment facilities of the Military Health System.
  NMRC also has seven subordinate commands:
  Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) at Naval Base Point Loma, San Diego, California
  Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory (NSMRL) at Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut
  Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton (NAMRU-D) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
  Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio (NAMRU-SA) at Joint Base San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
  Naval Medical Research Unit Three (NAMRU-3) at Sigonella Naval Air Station, Sicily, Italy
  Naval Medical Research Unit Six (NAMRU-6) at Centro Medico Naval, Lima, Peru
  Naval Medical Research Center Asia (NMRC-A) at Singapore Naval Base, Singapore
  Naval Medical Research Unit Two in Phnom Penh, Cambodia is currently a detachment of NMRC-A
  Naval Medical Research Units One, Four, and Five were disestablished in the 1970s, prior to the other units' incorporation into NMRC in 1998.
caption: Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio at Brooke Army Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas