The National Trauma Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to funding and developing research that addresses trauma injury in the United States.
Trauma – sustained via car crashes, domestic violence, accidents, assaults and natural disasters – is at epidemic levels in the United States. Each year, more than 170,000 trauma victims die, making it the leading cause of death for Americans under age 44. This figure doesn’t include American soldiers killed overseas.
Our focus is on assembling a critical mass of funds from a variety of public and private sources in order to award large-scale research grants to translational projects that have promise to advance clinical practice, save lives and reduce disability. And we foster the cross-pollination of medical knowledge between civilian and military trauma experts. Our priorities span the continuum of care from pre-hospital (first responders) to recovery and rehabilitation.
We set a research agenda each year to address the areas of most pressing need; our current research priority areas are:
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