The Children's Hospital Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (MRDDRC) has been in existence for more than 35 years. The Center is led by Dr. Michael Greenberg, Director of the Children's Hospital Neurobiology Program and Division of Neuroscience and is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Development. more than 60 Center investigators representing fifteen departments and divisions from four adjacent institutions (Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital, the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) carry out research that falls into two major areas: Genetics and Neuroscience. Within the area of neuroscience, Center research falls into two major programmatic categories: Basic Neuroscience, and Clinical/Translational Neuroscience.
Mission
The mission of the Children's Hospital MRRC is 1) to focus research on issues of relevance and importance to mental retardation and developmental disabilities, 2) to organize research around clearly defined themes, 3) to accomplish research of the highest scientific merit, 4) to stimulate and facilitate multidisciplinary research with a particular emphasis on combinations of basic and clinical science, and 5) to stimulate and facilitate training in disciplines relevant to mental retardation and particularly to the research themes of this MRRC.
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