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Our Mission: Advancing Veterans Health Through Research

NCIRE – The Veterans Health Research Institute is the leading nonprofit research institute in the United States devoted to advancing Veterans health research.
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	Dec 17, 2014 Featured Story - Testing Immune Cells in Microgravity and Bringing Results Down to Earth Millie Hughes-Fulford, PhD An experiment from Millie Hughes-Fulford's San Francisco VA Medical Center's laboratory launched successfully on January 10 to the International Space Station.

	Nov 28, 2014 A Lot of Heart Raising Awareness and Research Funds to Fight Heart Failure Robin Boriack, a grandmother of four, lives in the central California city of Lodi. John Teerlink is an internationally-recognized clinical scientist, a physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

	Nov 25, 2014 Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress at Risk for Autoimmune Disorder, Study Finds Aoife O'Donovan, PhD Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars suffer alarmingly high rates of post-traumatic stress and other psychiatric disorders, and those afflicted with these conditions also are at increased risk for serious autoimmune illnesses, according to an extensive study by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC).

	Aug 21, 2014 SFVAMC Researcher Honored as Among 'World's Most Influential Scientific Minds' Kristine Yaffe, MD Alzheimer's disease expert Kristine Yaffe, MD, who has published several studies linking post traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury to dementia in old age, was named recently on Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers 2014 list.

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Feb 8, 2015
Pioneering AIDS Researcher Paul Volberding Reflects on First Cases in S.F. as City Strives to Eradicate Virus

Dec 29, 2014
Studies by Michael Shlipak, Chief of General Internal Medicine at the SFVAMC, Explain the Science Behind a Bad Hangover

Dec 1, 2014
Tom Neylan, MD, Director of SFVAMC’s PTSD Program, was interviewed for the documentary, “Sleepless in America,

Events

The Brain at War

October 16, 2014

The seventh annual meeting of the leading national conference on the neurological and psychological wounds of war.

Featured Supporters

Thank You to Barry Zito

Since 2005, San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito has been a relentless supporter of Veteran's causes through his charity Strikeouts for Troops. Through charitable donations, partnerships and community events, NCIRE has been privileged to partner with Barry and the SF Giants. For more information about Strikeouts for Troops, please visit their website here.