Inova Health System partners with George Mason University - Washington Business Journal:

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The Northern Virginia hospital system said its newly createxd Inova Life Sciences Research Collaboration Fund at George Masojn University can underwrite researchers at either organization on collaborativdresearch projects. Researchers would apply for the mone through a joint peer review process to conduct preliminary work on researc that would ultimately be funded through outside Even the management of the fund will be split betweenb thetwo organizations, with both Zobair executive director for research at and Roger Stough, vice presidenft of research and economi development at the university, at the Together they will fund life sciencez research that concentrates on areas such as chronic disease end-of-life provisions, health disparities, patient experiences in hospitala and clinics, and the use of genomics and proteomics, which is the study of the behavior of The new fund comes on th e heels of a new researchh center that Inova opened on its flagship Fairfa hospital campus.
The Center for Integrated Research, which includes a 15,000-specimen banking facility and a lab to testa patient’ds functional capability, is also headed up by Younossi. Since 2005, the two entitiesx have created research centers together wher GMU scientists and Inova clinicians partner on incorporatingthe former’s research work into the latter’s patient