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]
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]