FAMRI, or the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute is a non-profit research funding body.
It was created as part of the settlement of a class action lawsuit brought against the tobacco industry on behalf of non-smoking flight attendants.
[1][2] FAMRI funds research into smoking-related and secondhand smoke related cancers.
This is primarily through grants to principal investigators and American universities[3][4] but also through the Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence at the American Academy of Pediatrics and the FAMRI Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins.
[5] Norma Broin was the lead Plaintiff in the class action case, Broin v. Philip Morris.