Team Science

Imagine accelerating research by decades.

The possibilities. The opportunities. The lives we could save.

UI CDR is making this happen. We reorganized departments, research centers, and clinical groups across campus to make this a reality. We are networked with likeminded centers throughout the country who share this same vision to realize tomorrow’s medicine today.

A multidisciplinary collaborative approach modeled after the National Cancer Institute, which achieved remarkable advances in identifying and treating the cancer by placing focus on the disease, rather than the method of treatment or study. UI CDR is predicated on a multifaceted approach that considers epigenetics, neuroscience, blood biomarkers, systemic issues, and other methods together—a team science approach—as the only way of understanding, treating, and beating depression.

From smartphone applications that can reveal as much information on neurocognitive functioning as days of neuropsychological testing to a multidisciplinary initiative to screening and treatment for pregnant and postpartum women we are realizing these possibilities every day.