How is Our Research Funded?
As a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, many of NFFRE's funds come from various industry and government sponsors. These industry sponsors and government agencies sponsor specific studies they want done or provide us with grants. Some of our most prominent sponsors are Sanofi, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Boston Scientific, Kowa Research Institute, Cirius Therapeutics, Phillips Respironics, The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), The Department of Defense, The Department of Veterans Affairs, The National Institute of Health (NIH), The Department of Aids, The Institutional Review Board (IRB), and The University of Florida.
Research at NFFRE
NFFRE has a full clinical research resource center that provides administrative and regulatory support, research coordination, study recruitment and more for Veterans and their families within the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System.
NFFRE supports clinical research in many ways:
1. Providing a private space where clinical research can be performed. It provides the researcher an area to perform interventions such as blood draws, medication administration and other procedures in such a way that subjects are comfortable and their information is kept confidential.
2. The NFFRE website provides a place to support researchers and educators as well as to pool our resources, this makes it easier for researchers to collaborate among themselves.
3. NFFRE provides a collaborative research community. We do this by encouraging and facilitating frequent meeting between researchers and their teams, which allow for a smoother transfer of information between colleagues.
Areas of Research
At NFFRE, we conduct research in variety of health related fields such as:
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Cardiology
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Hematology/Oncology
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Pulmonology
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Infectious Disease
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Endocrinology
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Geriatrics
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Traumatic Brain Injury