Biomedical Informatics Research Network

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

The Biomedical informatics Research Network or BIRN is a National Institutes of Health initiative providing a framework of people and information technology infrastructure &mdash; notably a grid of supercomputers &mdash; 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
 * 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