FAMRI, or the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute is a non-profit research funding body. It was created as part of the settlement of a class action lawsuit brought against the tobacco industry on behalf of non-smoking flight attendants.[1][2]
FAMRI funds research into smoking-related and secondhand smoke related cancers. This is primarily through grants to principal investigators and American universities[3][4] but also through the Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence at the American Academy of Pediatrics and the FAMRI Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins.[5]
Norma Broin was the lead Plaintiff in the class action case, Broin v. Philip Morris.[6]
References
edit- ^ Kress, E (2004). "Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI)". Tobacco Control. 13 (Suppl 1): i67–i69. PMC 1766152. PMID 14985620.
- ^ "SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT; BROIN VS. PHILLIP MORRIS INC., ET AL." Council for Tobacco Research. Bates no. 70063347/3379. October 9, 1997. http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/mje07c00 Archived 2011-04-29 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "FAMRI Grantees 2012" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016.
- ^ "Medical research institute". milliondollarlist.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ "Famri". hopkins-famri.org. Archived from the original on 5 June 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ "Broin". archive.tobacco.org. 23 December 2016. Archived from the original on 24 December 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
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