NCIRE - the Veterans Health Research Institute Celebrity Supporters & Events

NCIRE – the Veterans Health Research Institute – is a self-funded private nonprofit research institute, established in 1988 to administer health research at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. We are the largest of the 85 nonprofit research institutes associated with the Department of Veterans Affairs nationwide.

NCIRE supports the research of over 200 MD and PhD principal investigators who work to improve health and health care for our veterans and active military personnel on the frontiers of many fields, including brain imaging, neurodegenerative disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, cardiovascular disease, cancer, hepatitis, and HIV. Our investigators include biologists, biochemists, cardiologists, epidemiologists, geriatric researchers, immunologists, molecular biologists, and neuroscientists. Most are directly involved in patient care.