U.S. Air Force Col. William Kilgore, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, receives a first-place award for his poster, “The Battle for the Brain: How Sleep Loss and Circadian Rhythms Shape Neurocognitive Readiness,” at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, on Aug. 7. Dr. Terry Rauch presented the poster awards.

Kyle Meetze, Safi Biotherapeutics, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Loughborough, United Kingdom, receives a second-place award for his poster, “Potential Benefits of Long-Term Storage Capability of Manufactured Human Red Blood Cells on Military and Civilian Blood Supply,” at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, ...

Dr. Kayla Septer, Navy Medicine Research and Development, Bethesda, Maryland, receives a second-place award for her poster, “Antigenic Characterization of Currently Circulating Seasonal Influenza Strains Using Antigenic Cartography,” at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, on Aug. 7. Dr. Terry Rauch presented the ...

Dr. Ava Puccio, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, receives a third-place award for her poster for “Mulit-Omnics Analysis of Plasma and CSF Distinguishes TBI Across the Spectrum of Severity and Time,” at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, on Aug. 7. Dr. Terry Rauch presented ...

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Crouch, Navy Medicine Research and Development, San Diego, California, receives an honorable mention award for his poster, “Anomaly Seasonality Decomposition and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Modeling Predict Pre- and Post-Pandemic Febrile Respiratory Illness Rates among U.S. Military Recruit Populations,” at the 2025 ...

U.S. Army Maj. Thomas Musich, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, receives an honorable mention for his poster, “Antimicrobial Resistance in Ukraine Combat Wound Infections Originating Near Zaporizhahia,” at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, on Aug. 7. Dr. Terry Rauch presented the poster awards.

The “Best in Show” winner is given to Capt. Ziv Talmi Yaakov of the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Tel Hashomer, and Ramat Gan for their poster, “Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia in Military Training During a Heat Wave,” at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, on Aug. 7. Dr. Terry Rauch presented the poster ...

Dr. Cory Smith, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, receives an honorable mention award for his poster, “Impact of Cold Air and Cold-Water Immersion on Neural Activation Over the Prefrontal Cortex During Marksmanship Assessments,” at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, Aug. 7. Dr. Terry Rauch presented the poster awards.

Maj. David Zeidler, German Federal Armed Forces Central Hospital, Koblenz, Germany, receives an honorable mention for his poster, “Treat as You Fight Effects of an Interdisciplinary Antibiotic Stewardship Team in a Tertiary Military Hospital,” at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, on Aug. 7. Dr. Terry Rauch ...

Maj. Johan Schmitt, Toulon, France, receives an honorable mention award for his poster, “Injury Survivability and Death Preventability during Recent Conflicts in French Combat Fatalities: a Retrospective Study,” at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, Aug. 7. Dr. Terry Rauch presented the poster awards.

The best military research teams and future leaders of military health were honored during the 2025 MHSRS Awards, which included the Young Investigator Award and the best poster presentations, on the closing day of the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, on August 7. The annual weeklong symposium was attended by ...

Dr. Elliot Dirr, Naval Medical Research Unit, Dayton, Ohio, wins third place for his work, “Partial Pressure of Oxygen and Nitrogen Impacts the Development of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss,” in the Young Investigators oral presentation competition at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, on Aug. 7. Dr. Michael Morris ...

Dr. Diane Bolton, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, receives a third-place award for her poster, ”Defining the Window of Opportunity for HIV Peri-exposure Immunoprophylaxis with Biospecific Monoclonal Antibody 10E8.4/iMAB against High-dose Intravenous SHIV Challenge in Rhesus Macaques,” at the ...

Charles Elder, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, wins first place for his work, “Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Mitigate Membrane Damage in Freeze-Dried Red Blood Cells,” in the Young Investigators oral presentation competition at the 2025 Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, on Aug. 7. Dr. Michael ...

Dr. Julian Dilley, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, receives second place for his presentation, “Inhibition of Ca2+/Calmoduilin-Dependent Protein Kinase Kinase2(CAMKK2) with STO-609 Reduces Osteoarthritis in a Rabbit Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Model,” in the Young Investigators oral presentation competition at the ...