cu anschutz center for combat research

What cu anschutz center for combat research does

The CU Anschutz Center for Combat Research (Center for Combat Medicine and Battlefield Research, DBA "Center for COMBAT Research") is a multidisciplinary academic research center within the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus's Department of Emergency Medicine, founded in 2019 by Vik Bebarta, MD and Kathleen Flarity, DNP, PhD. It conducts military medical research in traumatic brain injury, suicide prevention, blood transfusion, burns, combat casualty care, prehospital trauma systems, and aerospace/operational human performance, translating findings between battlefield medicine and civilian healthcare.

The center's deliverables are research programs and educational pipelines rather than commercial products. It runs the COMBAT Scholar Program (medical students), the COMBAT Fellow Program (residents and fellows), and the broader EM-STIM research career-development track, alongside named initiatives such as the Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative and Medicine and Aerospace Engineering program. Research output is disseminated through peer-reviewed journals, the Military Health Sciences Research Symposium (MHSRS), and Defense Health Agency channels.

Its revenue model is grant-funded rather than commercial: primary funding comes from U.S. Department of Defense research grants, with secondary support from the CU School of Medicine and the adjacent Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center. The center accepts donations through the CU Foundation. Clinical partners — UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, Denver Health, UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital, and Memorial Hospital (Colorado Springs) — function primarily as training sites and research collaborators rather than revenue-generating customers. The organization is a non-commercial unit of a public state university system with no equity, VC, or PE ownership.

Name

cu anschutz center for combat research

Legal name

The Regents of the University of Colorado

Website

https://combatresearch.org

Company type

Public

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Short description

The CU Anschutz Center for Combat Research is an academic research center within the CU Anschutz Department of Emergency Medicine that conducts military medical research — including traumatic brain injury, combat casualty care, and blood transfusion — and runs the COMBAT Scholar and COMBAT Fellow education programs for the U.S. military and civilian healthcare communities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Military Medical Research

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Military Graduate & Postgraduate Institutions (STEM/Defense Research) (EDAHAOAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Biomedical Sciences & Medical Research Institutes (University-Based) (EDAHAGAI)

Keywords

• Military medical research
• Combat casualty care
• Emergency medicine research
• Traumatic brain injury research
• Military health education

Headquarters

HQ city

Aurora

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government Research Grants: Primary funding through Department of Defense (DoD) research grants and CU School of Medicine support. The center facilitates execution of combat and deployment-related medical research through successful relationships with military scientists, clinical investigators, and military leaders.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The CU Anschutz Center for COMBAT Research is a multidisciplinary research center within the CU Department of Emergency Medicine that applies scientific capabilities to solving the toughest medical challenges facing U.S. combat forces, including point of injury and prolonged casualty care, critical injury and illness, and brain health. The center also delivers structured education and mentorship programs — the COMBAT Scholar Program for medical students and the COMBAT Fellow Program for residents and fellows — and translates military medical advances to civilian healthcare.

Product overview

The CU Anschutz Center for COMBAT Research is a collaborative research center within the CU Department of Emergency Medicine that focuses on military medical research and education. Rather than a traditional product company, it offers research programs including the COMBAT Scholar Program (for medical students) and COMBAT Fellow Program (for residents and fellows), along with various research initiatives in combat medicine, brain health, and casualty care. The center facilitates execution of combat and deployment-related medical research by navigating relationships with military scientists, clinical investigators, military leaders, and industry partners to produce innovations, material solutions, and high-impact knowledge products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• COMBAT Scholar Program: Longitudinal mentorship program guiding student investigators through military-relevant research questions, designing studies, and presenting/publishing findings
• COMBAT Fellow Program

Products and services

• COMBAT Research Center A multidisciplinary research center that applies scientific capabilities to solving the toughest medical challenges facing U.S. combat forces and translates research to improve health care at home, focusing on point of injury and prolonged casualty care, critical injury and illness, and brain health. It is offered to government, military, academic, and industry partners.
• COMBAT Scholar Program A longitudinal mentorship program guiding student investigators through the process of asking military-relevant research questions, designing studies, and presenting and publishing their findings. It is offered to medical students interested in military-relevant research.
• COMBAT Fellow Program A program that advances the professional development of young investigators with an interest in U.S. military-relevant research through mentorship and guidance in a collegial, collaborative environment, for trainees in ACGME-accredited residency or fellowship programs.

Quantifiable outcome

• Met three-year goals in three months during center's initial launch phase

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and secondary.

• U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Primary research partner providing funding and research requirements. The center facilitates execution of combat and deployment-related medical research by navigating relationships with DoD researchers and military scientists to produce successful innovations and high-impact knowledge products.
• CU Department of Emergency MedicinecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHome department providing foundational support, faculty, and infrastructure for the center's operations and research activities.
• CU Department of AnesthesiologycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInterdisciplinary collaboration between Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology supporting combat medicine research and training.
• CU Department of SurgerycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInterdisciplinary collaboration supporting surgical combat casualty care research and training programs.
• Denver Health Residency in Emergency MedicineflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerPremier, flagship residency program sharing resources including facilities, conferences, lectures, and faculty for military fellowship training.
• UCHealth University of Colorado HospitalflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerClinical partner providing training sites and collaborative research opportunities for the center.
• UCHealth Highlands Ranch HospitalsecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerClinical partner providing additional training facilities for residents and fellows.
• Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical CenterflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerAdjacent VA medical center supporting military-related research and training, part of three-hospital partnership on campus.
• Memorial Hospital (Colorado Springs)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerUCHealth sustainment and training platform supporting active-duty Army and Air Force emergency physicians and surgeons.
• Industry PartnerssecondaryTechnology or IntegrationCollaborations with industry partners to produce material solutions and innovations for military medical challenges.
• CU BouldersecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration leveraging capabilities from CU Boulder campus including bioengineers and other researchers.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences: USU is the nation's federal military medical school, conducting military-relevant biomedical research and training physicians for the armed services. It is the closest direct peer to CU COMBAT in mission, scope of military medical research (TBI, casualty care, combat medicine), and pipeline training model for active-duty physicians.
• Geneva Foundation: The Geneva Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that advances military medicine by managing and staffing intramural research programs across DoD facilities. It is directly comparable as a non-academic, non-profit organization supporting military medical research execution with DoD funding.
• Walter Reed Army Institute of Research: WRAIR is the DoD's largest biomedical research laboratory, conducting research on combat-relevant threats including TBI, infectious disease, and psychological health. It is directly comparable in mission focus on soldier health and combat medicine, though it operates at a larger scale as a federal installation.
• U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine: USAFSAM conducts aerospace medicine and operational human performance research for the Air Force, with active collaboration with Vik Bebarta on aerospace medical research. It is directly comparable in optimizing human performance in operational and aerospace environments.
• Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine: CNRM is a joint NIH-USU research center focused on traumatic brain injury diagnosis and treatment for military and veteran populations. It directly overlaps the COMBAT Center's TBI research priority and shares the public-academic-military research collaboration model.
• Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine: HJF is a nonprofit that partners with WRAIR and other DoD medical research facilities to advance military medicine. It directly parallels the COMBAT Center's nonprofit, DoD-funded model and translational research mission for combat casualty care.
• U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research: USAISR, located at Brooke Army Medical Center, is the military's premier combat casualty care research organization with deep expertise in burns, hemorrhage control, and prolonged field care. It directly overlaps the COMBAT Center's research portfolio on combat casualty care and trauma resuscitation.
• Naval Medical Research Center: NMRC conducts biomedical research to support Navy and Marine Corps operational forces, including combat casualty care, diving medicine, and infectious disease research. It is a direct peer to CU COMBAT in military medical research scope and DoD-sponsored mission focus.

Emerging players

• Lovelace Biomedical & Environmental Research Institute: Lovelace is a nonprofit biomedical and environmental research institute that conducts contract and translational research with federal clients. It is comparable as a translational research-focused organization with federal funding, though it is more applied and contract-oriented than the COMBAT Center's academic research model.

Broad incumbents

• University of Pittsburgh Department of Emergency Medicine: Pittsburgh EM is a top-tier academic emergency medicine research enterprise with substantial NIH and DoD funding and large investigator base. It is comparable to CU COMBAT as a broader incumbent in academic emergency medicine research, though less specialized in combat medicine specifically.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles5 records

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