Office of Research & Development |
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Office of Research Protections, Policy, and Education (ORPP&E) |
The mission of the Office of Research Protections, Policy, and Education (ORPP&E) is to protect participants in VA human research. ORPP&E is responsible for all policy development and guidance, and all training and education in human research protection throughout the VA. |
Technology Transfer Program (TTP) |
The Technology Transfer Program serves the American public by translating the results of worthy discoveries made by VA employees into practice. The program educates inventors concerning their rights and obligations, rigorously evaluates all inventions, obtains patents, and assists in the commercialization of new products. |
Cooperative Studies Program (CSP) |
The VA Cooperative Studies Program is the Division of VA Research and Development that is responsible for the planning and conduct of large multicenter clinical trials in the Department of Veterans Affairs. |
Million Veteran Program (MVP) |
The VA Million Veteran Program (MVP) is a national, voluntary research program conducted by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research & Development. |
QUERI |
VA/HSR&D's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) works to improve the quality of healthcare for veterans by implementing research findings into routine clinical practice. |
Biosafety & Biosecurity |
The VA Office of Research and Development (ORD) has developed its Biosafety & Biosecurity Program to ensure the safety of individuals involved with research at Veterans Health Administration research laboratories and to protect the environment. The program strives to ensure the security and safety of all individuals, resources, information, biological agents, chemical agents and radiation materials/sources found within research laboratories. |
VA Biorepository Brain Bank Program |
The VA Biorepository Brain Bank Program makes tissue samples available for research on illnesses in Veterans. |
Animal Research |
Animal Research: The primary mission of the CVMO's office is to provide professional and administrative guidance and support to VA field animal care and use programs. This is accomplished by phone and email consultations, periodic training sessions, and development of web-based support systems. |
REQUIP |
The VA Research Equipment Quick Use Initiative Program (REQUIP) is responsible for the redistribution of nonexpendable research equipment including equipment for the care and use of animals. |
VA SHIELD |
VA Science and Health Initiative to Combat Infectious and Emerging Life-Threatening Diseases (VA SHIELD) is a comprehensive, secure biorepository of specimens and associated data. These specimens and data are available to authorized VA investigators—and, under certain circumstances, to their external collaborators—to advance scientific understanding in support of developing diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventative strategies for use in clinical care. |
Women's Health |
VA R&D Women's Health was established as a research priority to develop new knowledge about how to best provide for the health and care of women veterans. VA has built an increasingly productive portfolio of biomedical, clinical, rehabilitation and health services research since the early 1990's. |
Funded Field Centers |
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HSR&D Centers of Innovation (COINs) and Resource Centers |
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Center for Clinical Management Research |
Ann Arbor, MI |
Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research |
Bedford, MA and Boston, MA |
Charleston Health Equity and Rural Outreach Innovation Center |
Charleston, SC |
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care |
Durham, NC |
Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare |
Hines, IL |
Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety |
Houston, TX |
Center for Health Information and Communication |
Indianapolis, IN |
Center for Comprehensive Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation |
Iowa City, IA |
Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy |
Los Angeles, CA |
Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research |
Minneapolis, MN |
Center of Innovation on Disability and Rehabilitation Research |
North Florida/South Georgia and Tampa |
Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research |
North Little Rock, AR |
Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i): Fostering High Value Care |
Palo Alto, CA |
Center for Health Equity Research & Promotion |
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, PA |
Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care |
Portland, OR |
Center of Innovation in Long-Term Services and Supports for Vulnerable Veterans |
Providence, RI |
Informatics, Decision-Enhancement and Analytic Sciences Center |
Salt Lake City, UT |
Center for Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care |
Seattle, WA and Denver, CO |
Pain Research, Informatics, Multi-morbidities, and Education |
West Haven, CT |
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Boston, MA |
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Hines, IL |
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Menlo Park, CA |
RR&D Centers and REAPs |
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Rehabilitation R&D Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation |
Atlanta, GA |
Translational Research Center for TBI and Stress Disorders |
Boston, MA |
Rehabilitation Promoting Prevention and Improved Resilience |
Boston, MA |
Center for Advanced Platform Technology |
Cleveland, OH |
Center for Functional Electrical Stimulation |
Cleveland, OH The National Center for Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES Center) is a global leader in neurostimulation and neuromodulation research addressing unmet rehabilitation needs of Veterans and civilians with spinal cord injury (SCI) and neural illnesses. FES Center research thrusts include: movement restoration, autonomic system, brain health, pain, and tools & technology. Engineer, Scientist and Clinician Investigators from Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals Cleveland are consortium members within the FES Center. Participation of greater than 150 members with clinical, technical, and academic backgrounds; the FES Center performs cutting-edge research focused on development and clinical translation of a spectrum of rehabilitation interventions based in functional electrical stimulation. The Cleveland FES Center is located in the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. The medical center provides state-of-the-art research facilities and ongoing support for the FES Center program. The FES Center provides resources including (1) physical infrastructure (e.g., implanted medical device fabrication facilities, implant-ready devices, motion studies laboratory, specialized experimental equipment) and (2) specialized technical expertise (e.g., highly experienced implant device engineers, occupational and physical therapists, IRB and FDA regulatory experts, statistical support, medical illustration support). Additionally, the FES Center facilitates within consortium partners, providing grants administration, fiscal & purchasing support, dedicated communications & media management, and has significant experience with developing scientific conferences and live webinar series. |
Brain Rehabilitation Research Center |
Gainesville, Florida The Brain Rehabilitation Research Center (BRRC) is a Center in Gainesville, Florida, funded since 1999 by the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service. The mission of the BRRC is to develop and test treatments that harness neuroplasticity to substantially improve or restore motor, cognitive, and emotional functions impaired by neurologic disease or injury. |
Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Visual Loss |
Iowa City, IA |
Center on Enhancing Community Integration for Homeless Veterans |
Los Angeles, CA Homelessness in Veterans is a widespread, vexing problem, and an urgent priority at the national level. The VA has made substantial progress in housing Veterans. Despite impressive progress in providing housing for Veterans, a fundamental problem remains. Permanent housing is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for successful community integration. Providing housing is only the first step in facilitating recovery among many homeless Veterans; once housed, they will need different types of assistance to integrate into communities. Community integration does not arise automatically once housing is provided. Our Center on Enhancing Community Integration for Homeless Veterans is linked to the homeless programs at VA Greater Los Angeles to serve as an interdisciplinary center for intervention and translational research. This Center fills a critical gap: the problem of community integration for Veterans once housing has been provided. The mission of this Center on Enhancing Community Integration for Homeless Veterans is to understand and to improve community integration in homeless Veterans after they receive housing. For more information please go to https://www.vathrive.org/. Contact: Michael F. Green, PhD: Michael.Green6@va.gov |
Center for Wheelchairs and Associated Rehabilitation Engineering |
Pittsburgh, PA |
National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research |
Portland, OR The National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR) is the only VA National Center dedicated to addressing the needs of Veterans with hearing and auditory system disorders. The NCRAR's cross-disciplinary program encompasses diagnosis and assessment, rehabilitation, and prevention. Specific research areas include aging and the auditory system, auditory rehabilitation, ear-brain system, hearing aids, hearing conservation, ototoxicity, tinnitus, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and vestibular evaluation and rehabilitation. The Center also trains and mentors new scientists, disseminates information to clinicians who assess and treat Veterans with hearing disabilities, and serves as an educational and scientific resource for Veterans and the community. |
The VA Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology (CfNN) | Providence, RI |
Center for Limb Loss and Mobility |
Seattle, WA For more information please go to http://www.amputation.research.va.gov/ |
West Haven Center for Restoration of Nervous System Function | West Haven, CT Our Center brings together multiple research teams in a focused, multidisciplinary effort to capitalize on the "molecular revolution". We are a world-wide bub for studies on pain genetics and pain pharmacogenomics, and are investigating, for example, why some Veterans experience intractable neuropathic pain after nerve injury, while others with similar injuries do not; and why some Veterans with neuropathic pain respond to pain pharmacotherapy while others do not. We want to harness this molecular knowledge to develop new and more effective approaches to therapy. While it is not yet here, we are moving as rapidly as we can toward the development of new, more effective and non-addictive pain medications, and believe that "personalized', genomically-guided pain treatment is an achievable objective. For more information, please visit http://medicine.yale.edu/cnrr/about/index.aspx |