AFIRM Consortium
The AFIRM II is a consortia led by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center beginning in September 2013.
The AFIRM II is the follow-on to the successful first 5-years of AFIRM I.
The AFIRM I (2008-2014) is made up of two civilian research consortia working with the US Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR)
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One consortium is led by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Pittsburgh and one is led by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and the Cleveland Clinic.
Each of these civilian consortia is itself a multi-institutional network.
Participating AFIRM II Institutions
- US Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR)
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC)
- Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC)
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)
- Wake Forest Consortium and Collaborators
- Arteriocyte Medical Systems
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Carnegie Mellon
- Case Western Reserve
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Humacyte, Inc.
- Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Healthcare
- Johns Hopkins University
- Livionex, Inc.
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Mayo Clinic and Foundation
- MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Medtronic, Inc.
- New York University School of Medicine
- Northwestern University
- Ohio State University
- Oregon Health & Science University
- Rice University
- Rutgers University
- Southwest Research Institute
- Stanford University
- Stratatech Corporation
- Synthasome, Inc.
- Tufts University
- University of Calgary
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of Cincinnati
- University of Colorado, Denver
- University of Connecticut Health Center
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois, Chicago
- University of Louisville
- University of Maryland School of Medicine
- University of Maryland, College Park
- University of Miami
- University of Michigan
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
- University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- Vanderbilt University
- Wake Forest University
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
- Yale University
Participating AFIRM I Institutions
Additional Collaborators to the AFIRM
AFIRM researchers have established a wide variety of both national and international partnerships with academia and industry, which has contributed to the success of the program to date.