AME Lab is dedicated to developing medical care technologies for the DoD to treat any patient with any injury in any location for any duration.

The University of Utah (UU) proposes to enhance medical care superiority for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) through advanced medical engineering research and the development of field-ready products through the Applied Medical Engineering Laboratory (AME Lab). As an R1 university, UU provides healthcare services to seven states in the Intermountain West, with the largest catchment of remote and austere frontier territory for any academic center. Leveraging its geographic advantage, technological and commercialization strengths, expertise in medical services, and leading-edge core competencies, UU is uniquely positioned to lead a University Affiliated Research Center.

 

Our Mission

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U.S. medical superiority advanced through interdisciplinary medical and engineering research and development supported by a robust innovation and translation ecosystem to provide mission-ready modernization for end-to-end Joint Force health care in the service of “mission first, people always”.