Biomedical Informatics Research Network

BIRN also stands for Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. BIRN also refers to the Berklee College of Music Internet Radio Network

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The Biomedical informatics Research Network or BIRN , started in 2000, is a National Institutes of Health initiative providing a framework of people and information technology infrastructure — notably a grid of supercomputers — for distributed collaborations in biomedical science.

As of 2005, the BIRN involves a consortium of 19 universities and 26 research groups across the United States. BIRN has three test-bed projects on neuroimaging of human neurological disorders and associated animal models.

BIRN Coordinating Center
BIRN Network Operations Center
Brain Imaging and Analysis Center
Brigham & Women's Hospital Surgical Planning Laboratory
California Institute of Technology Brain Imaging Center
Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
Duke University Center for In Vivo Microscopy
Johns Hopkins University Center for Imaging Science
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Mallinkrodt Institute of Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging [1]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research
Neuropsychiatric Imaging Research Laboratory
Ohio State University Biomedical Informatics
Stanford University Lucas Center
University of California, Irvine Brain Imaging Center
University of California, Los Angeles Laboratory of Neuro Imaging
University of California, San Diego fMRI Research Center
University of California, San Francisco Institute of Neurodegenerative Disease
University of Iowa Mental Health Clinical Research Center
University of Minnesota Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
University of New Mexico MIND Imaging Center
University of North Carolina Brain Imaging and Analysis Center
University of Tennessee, Memphis Health Sciences Center
Van Essen Lab
Washington University, St. Louis Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
Yale University Center for Medical Informatics