The Florida Center for Universal Research to Eradicate Disease (FLCURED) was created by the 2004 Legislature. The legislation followed a Senate Interim Report commissioned by Senate President Jim King that concluded there was a need for improved coordination, information sharing and reduced duplicaiton within Florida's medical research enterprise. To accomplish these goals, FLCURED holds an annual biomedical research summit, hosts this website and produces an annual report. FLCURED is operated by the Florida Department of Health and has a 16 member advisory council that functions in part as a "think tank" for recommending policies on biomedical research to the legislature.