Research Centers
Addiction Medicine
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Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and Research
We are a multidisciplinary center designed to integrate and coordinate Johns Hopkins’ substance abuse treatment services, improve patients’ experience, track patient outcomes, and strengthen teaching and research in addictions.
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Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit
We are a broad-based substance abuse clinical research program encompassing both human laboratory research and outpatient treatment research.
Cardiology
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Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease
We aim to better prevent heart disease through rigorous research, educating physicians and patients, and developing the highest level of clinical care for people at risk for developing coronary disease.
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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Johns Hopkins Center for Epithelial Disorders
We perform research on the physiology and pathophysiology of epithelial cells of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas and kidney.
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Conte Digestive Diseases Basic and Translational Research Core Center
We focus on regulation of epithelial function, especially via changes in signal transduction, trafficking and development.
General Internal Medicine
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GeneSTAR Research Program
Our team studies risk factors, genomics, biological models and cellular science to better understand the causes of heart disease and stroke.
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Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Center
We produce comprehensive, systematic reviews of important medical topics using interdisciplinary teams that integrate clinical expertise with expertise in evidence-based methods, including meta-analysis, decision analysis, benefit-harms analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis.
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Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Our center serves as an academic bridge between the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health to conduct clinical, epidemiologic and translational research of the highest quality.
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Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
Our center studies diseases of the heart and blood vessels, such as high blood pressure, coronary artery disease and diabetes.
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Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research
Our team conducts multidisciplinary research on policies and practices, with a special focus on their impact on quality of care and patient-centered outcomes.
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Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness
We seek to improve the safe and effective use of medications by bringing together researchers at Johns Hopkins to accomplish a fourfold mission — training, research, patient care and public service — toward best medication practices.
Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology
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Beacham Center for Geriatric Medicine
We offer a full range of primary care for seniors, including post-hospitalization referrals, treating fractures and falls, frailty, confusion and memory problems.
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Biology of Healthy Aging Program
Our team studies range from molecular and cellular to genetic and laboratory animal-based approaches that help researchers understand the mechanisms, risk factors and pathophysiology of aging-related changes in health, function and quality of life.
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Center on Aging and Health
We aim to promote the intellectual interactions that are essential to developing creative approaches to solve the important health and health care problems for an aging population.
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Center for Transformative Geriatric Research
We aim to perform and advance research that transforms health care and the lives of older adults.
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Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center
Our center was created to support the next generation of researchers to determine causes and treatments for frailty in older adults.
Infectious Diseases
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Center for AIDS Research
We aim to address a Baltimore epidemic by recruiting and developing a new generation of HIV/AIDS researchers.
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Center for Clinical Global Health Education
Our center aims to empower health care providers and health researchers in resource-limited communities. The center’s partnerships currently span 20 countries.
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Center for Tuberculosis Research
We aim to apply medical technology to basic advances in understanding of the pathogenesis of TB, host immunity to TB, mechanisms of spread and animal models that better emulate the pathology of human disease.
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Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases
We are dedicated to the clinical research of diseases that may be classified as environmental infectious diseases, includes disease-causing agents found in traditional ecological environments, such as air, soil and water, and those acquired from built environments.
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Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases Research
Our program aims to expand institutional expertise in clinical and academic activities focused on infectious complications in transplant (solid organ and stem cell) and oncology patients at Johns Hopkins.
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Viral Hepatitis Center
Our center has several extensive programs in basic research related to hepatitis B and hepatitis C infections.
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Center for Point-of-Care Technologies Research for Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Our mission is to develop and test the accuracy, acceptability, and optimal implementation of point-of-care tests for sexually transmitted diseases in diverse care delivery contexts both in the United States and in resource-limited settings.
Molecular Medicine
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Center for Epigenetics
We have brought together investigators in genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, biostatistics, epidemiology and clinical medicine to develop new technologies to apply to basic science and population-based epigenetic studies.
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
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Johns Hopkins Adherence Research Center
We are leaders in the design of innovative interventions to promote adherence and the measurement and evaluation of adherence within clinical trials.
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Outcomes After Critical Illness and Surgery
We are a multidisciplinary clinical and research group focused on understanding and improving patient outcomes after critical illness and surgery.
Rheumatology
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Rheumatic Diseases Research Core Center
Our team maximizes scholarship for the causes, mechanisms, treatment and prevention of autoimmune rheumatic diseases.