Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
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Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) is a biomedical research institute affiliated with California’s pediatric medical center, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.[1]
Established | 1959 (1959) |
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Faculty | 55 |
Staff | 280 |
Formerly called | Bruce Lyon Memorial Research Laboratory (BLMRL) |
Address | 5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way |
Location | , , United States |
Coordinates | 37°50′33″N 122°16′10″W |
Website | www |
CHORI is based in Oakland, California, and operates a 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m2) biomedical research facility[2] that houses 300 staff members.[citation needed] It includes eight research centers that conduct focused research on cancer, critical care medicine, genetics, immunobiology and vaccine development,[3] blood and marrow transplantation and cellular therapies, nutrition and metabolism, prevention of obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, sickle cell disease and thalassemia.[4][2]
The National Institutes of Health is CHORI's primary funding source.[2][5]