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Kerstin Lynam, CEO of Veterans Medical Research Foundation
ORGANIZATION
Description: Veterans Medical Research Foundation, a private, not-for-profit research foundation that provides administrative and fundraising support for veterans' medical research. It is the only research entity in the region dedicated to veterans, and is the second largest of all medical research foundations associated with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Mission of organization: The Veterans Medical Research Foundation's mission is to enhance the health of veterans of all generations through research and education, and to honor veterans' service with science. We do that by supporting the groundbreaking research being conducted by the leading physicians and scientists at the VA San Diego Healthcare System, or VASDHS, who also hold faculty positions at UC San Diego.
Telephone: 858-552-8585, ext. 7606.
Web site: vmrf.org.
Founded: 1989.
Milestone: Being designated by the National Institutes of Health as a qualified recipient to administer federal grants in support of veterans' health. This enabled Veterans Medical Research Foundation researchers to compete for NIH funding and opened a major source of additional revenue for the work being conducted here. After reaching this milestone, our budget multiplied tenfold in just a few years.
Annual revenue: $27 million.
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