From some of the researchers who brought you studies of booster seats in the International Journal of Crashworthiness, and some of the collaborators involved in the Network for Cardiothoracic Surgical Investigations in Cardiovascular Medicine…
UVA and INOVA Fairfax Hospital—the collaborators mentioned above—received a $2.5 million grant from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, to be put towards a Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) center. The CIREN center will study injuries among elderly drivers and passengers involved in automobile accidents.
"The center will provide engineering and medical expertise in test subject enrollment, crash investigation, analysis of automobile crash data, impact biomechanics and research and community outreach," according to a press release from UVA.
The institute will report to Thomas Skalak, Vice President for Research at UVA. Principal investigators for the center’s studies are UVA’s Jeff Crandall, a professor of mechanical engineering, and Dr. Mark Sochor, an associate professor of emergency medicine.
