Military Medicine

CoBi tools have been used to simulate ballistic penetration injury, musculoskeletal injury to the neck, shoulder, lower extremity and spine, biodynamics of aircraft pilot-ejection seat, human body exposure to RF waves and associated bioeffects, cardiovascular response to trauma and hemorrhage, mechanobiology of neuro axonal structures in vitro and in vivo, pulmonary toxicology in response to inhaled nanoparticles and chem/bio agents, and others.

Recently there is growing interest in military personalized medicine and warfighter protection. Working with the USAMRDC and USARIEM we are adapting CoBi tools as a framework for a Warrior Health Avatar – a virtual personalized warfighter body interacting with the armor, weapons and equipment and exposed to various stressors such a blast wave, blunt impact, ballistic penetrating injury, heart stress or directed energy weapons. In response to US Congressional mandate we are adapting CoBi fast running tools for monitoring serviceman repeated exposure to blast waves during military heavy weapons training.