Midwest Veterans' Biomedical Research Foundation jobs and careers

About Midwest Veterans' Biomedical Research Foundation

Midwest Veterans' Biomedical Research Foundation, (MVBRF) is a non-profit corporation associated with the Kansas City VA Healthcare System, Wichita VA Healthcare System, and VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System. In 1988 Congress authorized the department of Veterans Affairs medical centers to establish nonprofit foundations. The purpose of these foundations is to facilitate the receipt and administration of private sector funds for the support of VA research and education. Since November 1988, our purpose has been to facilitate research and educational programming by connecting governmental entities, industry, and foundations to the VA medical centers in Kansas City, Leavenworth, Topeka and Wichita connections support basic, clinical and outcomes research that directly benefits Veterans clay and in the future. Our research is conducted through grants issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Defense (DoD), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Foundational Partners like the Alzheimer's Association and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), and through pharmaceutical industry studies and philanthropic. MVBRF serves the needs of our participants, researchers, and the medical community at large. We provide an array of services including grant and business management, human resources and clinical research support. Our employees provide the needed expertise for basic and patient centered research. They are the research technologists, scientists, nurses and clinical study coordinators supporting the VA doctors and other staff in their search for innovative diagnostic and therapeutic cures for many diseases and illness - especially those that affect our Veterans.