About CRI
Children’s Research Institute (CRI) is the academic arm of Children’s National Medical Center. It encompasses the translational, clinical, and community research efforts of the institution. It also includes the educational activities and academic affairs of Children's and the Department of Pediatrics at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Other academic affiliations include Georgetown University, Howard University, and the University of Maryland, College Park.
CRI’s mission is to conduct and promote medical research and education programs within Children’s, leading to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of childhood diseases through basic and clinical research and education. The institute is divided into four specialty research centers:
Perhaps one of the most innovative and forward-thinking aspects of the research programs at Children's is cross-disciplinary integration. There are extensive interactions between nearly all laboratories and clinical areas, facilitated by the high concentration of physician/scientists, and the physical proximity of research space and patient care units. This has led to substantial strength in translational medicine, such as the application of the most modern microarray approaches to patient diagnosis and monitoring.
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