Friends Research Institute

Friends Research Institute "promotes health and well-being through research, grants administration, education and treatment."

Directors
Accessed March 2008:


 * Sheldon Glass - Chairman - President, Glass Health Systems
 * Faith S. Feingold - Vice Chairman - Consultant
 * Judith S. Blackburn - Second Vice Chairman - Assistant Vice President for External Affairs, University of Maryland Baltimore
 * Steven King - Executive Treasurer - Director, Ellin & Tucker, Chartered
 * Thomas C. Whedbee - Secretary - Director of Guidance, Towson Catholic High School
 * Janet Klein Brown - Assistant Attorney General, Attorney General’s Office, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
 * Curtis L. Decker - Executive Director, National Disability Rights Network
 * Keith E. Haynes - Attorney, Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos
 * Wallace B. Pickworth - Research Leader/Substance Abuse Pharmacologist, Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation
 * Robert G. Rassp - Attorney, Law Offices of Robert G. Rassp, California Representative
 * Beverly Rosen - California Representative
 * Ross Seligson - International Forensic Psychology Institute, LLC, Florida Representative

Advisory Board
 * Joseph V. Brady - The Institutes for Behavior Resources, Inc. (IBR)
 * Jerome H. Jaffe - Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine
 * Jay Katz - Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor Emeritus of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry, Yale Law School

Funding Sources
Accessed March 2008:

"Funding sources of FRI’s past and current work include federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as public and private companies and foundations.

Federal Agencies
 * Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program
 * National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
 * National Institute of Nursing Research
 * National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
 * National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
 * Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

State & Local Government Agencies
 * Baltimore County Bureau of Substance Abuse
 * Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems, Inc. (BSAS)
 * Board of Education, Baltimore County
 * California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP)
 * Los Angeles County, Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP)
 * Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD)
 * State of California, Department of Housing and Community Development, Emergency Housing and Assistance Program (EHAP)
 * Sate of Florida – Department of Financial Services
 * The City of Los Angeles, Housing Opportunities for People With AIDS (HOPWA)
 * The County of Los Angeles, Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS Programs and Policy

Pharmaceutical Companies
 * Abbott Laboratories
 * Amgen, Inc.
 * AstraZeneca International
 * Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
 * Eli Lilly & Company
 * GlaxoSmithKline
 * Guilford Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 * Merck & Company, Inc.
 * Novo Nordisk, Inc.
 * Pfizer, Inc.
 * Purdue Pharma, L.P.
 * Quintiles Pacific, Inc.
 * Roche Pharmaceuticals
 * Schering-Plough Corporation
 * Schwarz-BioSciences, Inc.
 * UCB Pharma, Inc.

Institutes
 * Biomedical Research Institute
 * Current Science, Inc.
 * Human Interaction Research Institute
 * Northern California Institute for Research & Education
 * Rhode Island Hospital
 * Stanley Medical Research Institute

Foundations
 * Aaroe Associates Charitable Foundation
 * DANA Foundation – University of Pennsylvania
 * Macy’s West Passport Fund
 * Open Society Institute
 * Robert Wood Johnson
 * Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation
 * Morrison Foerster Foundation
 * United Way
 * Union Bank of California

Contact

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