The Biomedical Research Alliance of New York (BRANY) is a national organization providing support services to sponsors, CRO's and investigators involved in research in a wide variety of therapeutic areas, medical devices, biologic and diagnostic trials. Staffed by multi-disciplinary experts, BRANY is an expedited "end-to-end solution" for clinical trials. BRANY is able to offer its partners a turnkey solution for expedited site identification and study start-up (SMART-Start-60), Central IRB Services, IBC services, Medicare Coverage Analysis Services, Research Education, and Quality Assurance auditing and consulting services. BRANY was founded in 1998 by nationally-ranked academic medical centers, which today includes: NYU School of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.