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Fact
Sheet
Background
- The Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation (MMRF) oversees the medical
research that is conducted at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC),
an acute care research and teaching hospital.
- MMRF is
a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization and is the third largest nonprofit
medical research foundation in Minnesota.
- Founded
in 1952 at Minneapolis General Hospital (now HCMC), the MMR's mission
is to improve patient care and the health of our community through research
and education
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- Throughout
its history, the MMRF has been closely linked with strong patient care
programs and the training and continuing education of physicians and
scientists.
- MMRF supports
the work more than 200 investigators, including MDs, MD/PhDs, and PhDs,
and administers approximately $15 million in research funds annually.
- MMRF ranks
in the top 11% nationally of all institutions receiving research funds
from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- MMRF has
active research programs in trauma, alternative medicine, cancer, clinical
outcomes, chronic fatigue syndrome, children's
issues, diabetes and metabolism, foods for well-being, heart disease,
HIV/AIDS, kidney disease, liver and gastrointestinal disease, organ
transplantation, sleep disorders, smoking cessation, and women's health.
Research
Highlights
- Information gathered by MMRF researchers on the diet drugs fen-phen
and Redux was instrumental in the Food and Drug Administration pulling
the drugs from the market.
- MMRF researchers
are currently working on a vaccine for nicotine addiction.
- MMRF serves
as the Coordinating Center for the United States Renal Data System (USRDS),
the most comprehensive database in the world for End Stage Renal Disease
(ESRD).
- MMRF investigators
are internationally recognized for their research in sleep disorders.
- MMRF investigators
are at the forefront of angiogenesis research. Angiogenesis is a procedure
that attempts to enhance the body's natural process of growing tiny
arteries, called collaterals, where blood flow is limited.
- “East
meets west" at the MMRF in a current study that is testing the
effectiveness of
an herbal compound for treating symptoms of Hepatitis C.
- MMRF researchers
are part of the world's first full-scale test of a vaccine to prevent
infection with the AIDS virus.
- MMRF researchers
are involved in studying an experimental trauma drug that may reduce
the number of deaths from multiple organ failure.
- MMRF has
been awarded $12.6 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help design
and perform a historic study that will attempt to determine the best
treatment for prevention of heart disease in persons with Type 2 diabetes.
- The first
kidney dialysis program in Minnesota began here.
- The first
kidney transplant in the Midwest was performed here.
- MMRF researchers
performed the first bilateral lung transplant in the world.
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