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

  1. ↑ Kress, E (2004). "Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI)". Tobacco Control. 13 (Suppl 1): i67–i69. PMC 1766152. PMID 14985620.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ http://www.famri.org/Documents/FAMRI_GRANTEES_2002-2012.pdf
  4. ↑ "Medical research institute". milliondollarlist.org. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Famri". hopkins-famri.org. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "Broin". archive.tobacco.org. 23 December 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
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