NMDP Radiation Injury Treatment Network
The Radiation Injury Treatment Network® (RITN) provides comprehensive evaluation and treatment for victims of radiation exposure or other marrow toxic injuries.
Many of the casualties with radiation injury will be salvageable but require outpatient and/or inpatient care. Recognizing this, the US National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), US Navy (Office of Naval Research) and American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (ASBMT) collaboratively developed RITN, which comprises of medical centers with expertise in the management of bone marrow failure, stem cell donor centers and umbilical cord blood banks across the US.
The goals of RITN are:
- to develop treatment guidelines for managing hematologic toxicity among victims of radiation exposure,
- to educate health care professionals about pertinent aspects of radiation exposure management,
- to help coordinate the medical response to radiation events, and
- to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment for victims at participating centers.
News & Events
2018 Events
- Growth Factors and Other Cytokines for Treatment of Injuries During a Radiation Public Health Emergency Workshop
- When: Thursday, August 30, 2018; 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
- Where: NIAID Conference Center, Room 1D13, 5601 Fishers Lane, Rockville MD, 20852
- Topic Areas:
- Government Overview: What federal partners are working on and strategic approaches to medical
countermeasures (MCM) deployment and use - Research & Practice: The latest on clinical use and pre-clinical development of growth factors and other cytokines
- Breakout session: Discussion of prioritization of efforts and consensus recommendations
- Government Overview: What federal partners are working on and strategic approaches to medical
- Target Audience:
- Government planning and funding agencies
- Healthcare providers, hospital-based emergency management, and pharmDs interested in disaster planning
- Industry and academic researchers engaged in pre-clinical development of candidate growth factors
- Attendance: capped at 100 for in-person as well as a Go-To-Webinar option
- Networking function to follow the meeting: Miller’s Ale House, 1471 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
- Register HERE
- RITN Annual Tabletop Exercise Dates: June 12, June 21, July 12, July 19, July 25, August 9
- RITN Exercise Grant Awardees
- Full-Scale Exercise
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
- Functional Exercise
- Children's Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, MO)
- Texas Children's Hospital (Houston, TX)
- University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
- Regional Tabletop
- Allegheny Health at West Penn (Pittsburgh, PA)
- University Hospital Seidman Cancer Center (Cleveland, OH)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL)
- Full-Scale Exercise
*NOTE: All details to be sent to RITN as applicable and as they become available