Institutes and Centers
True innovation often happens when individual investigators come together to solve big questions. From single disciplinary efforts to multi-institutional undertakings, faculty and researchers bring enormous intellectual capital to bear in seeking answers through UChicago’s more than 140 institutes and centers.
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- Accounting Research Center
- Adoption Center
- Advanced Photon Source
- Asthma Center
- Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics
- Bioengineering Institute for Advanced Surgery and Endoscopy
- Biostatistics Laboratory
- Brain Research Imaging Center
- Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence
- Cardiac Center
- Center for Adaptive Optics
- Center for Advanced Radiation Sources
- Center for Advancing Research and Communications in STEM
- Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience
- Center for Comparative Constitutionalism
- Center for Comprehensive Care and Research on Memory Disorders
- Center for Cultural Policy
- Center for Data Science and Public Policy
- Center for Decision Research
- Center for Disciplinary Innovation
- Center for Early Childhood Research
- Center for East Asian Studies
- Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies
- Center for Economic Policy
- Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education
- Center for Emergency Resuscitation Research
- Center for EPR Imaging in Vivo Physiology
- Center for Global Health
- Center for Health Administration Studies
- Center for Health and the Social Sciences
- Center For Health Policy
- Center for Health Statistics
- Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
- Center for Human Rights
- Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Center for International Studies
- Center for Italian Opera Studies
- Center for Jewish Studies
- Center for Latin American Studies
- Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values
- Center for Middle Eastern Studies
- Center for Multiscale Theory and Simulation
- Center for Municipal Finance
- Center for Nanoscale Materials
- Center for Peripheral Neuropathy
- Center for Personalized Therapeutics
- Center for Policy Practice
- Center for Population Economics
- Center for Practical Wisdom
- Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
- Center for Research in Security Prices
- Center for Research Informatics
- Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy
- Center for Spatial Data Science
- Center for Studies in Criminal Justice
- Center for Systems Biology of Oxygen Sensing
- Center for Teaching and Learning
- Center for Technology Development & Ventures
- Center for the Art of East Asia
- Center for the Economics of Human Development
- Center for the Study of Ancient Religions
- Center for the Study of Communication and Society
- Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
- Center for the Study of Politics and Society
- Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
- Center in Beijing
- Center in Delhi
- Center in Paris
- Center on Demography and Economics of Aging
- CERES Center
- Chapin Hall
- Chicago Biomedical Consortium
- Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory
- Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry
- Chicago Center for Teaching
- Chicago Center for the Theory of Computing and Allied Areas
- Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention
- Chicago Tri-Institutional Center for Chemical Methods and Library Development
- Civic Knowledge Project
- Climate Systems Center
- Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Computation Institute
- Conte Center
- Cosmic Background Radiation: PLANCK
- Creel Center for Chinese Paleography
- Crime Lab
- Cultural Policy Center
- Dark Energy Survey
- Digestive Diseases Research Core Center
- Distributed Systems Laboratory
- Economic Research Center
- Energy Policy Institute at Chicago
- Enrico Fermi Institute
- Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance
- FLASH Center for Computational Science
- France-Chicago Center
- Franke Institute for the Humanities
- General Clinical Research Center
- Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior
- Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus & Immunology Research
- Harry L. Davis Center for Leadership
- High Energy Physics Project: Kaon Physics
- High Energy Physics Projects: Atlas Detector
- High Energy Physics Projects: CDF Detector
- High Energy Physics Projects: Pierre Auger Observatory
- Howard T. Ricketts Regional Biocontainment Laboratory
- Initiative on Global Markets
- Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
- Institute for Cardiovascular Research
- Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology
- Institute for Integrative Physiology
- Institute for Law and Economics
- Institute for Mind and Biology
- Institute for Molecular Engineering
- Institute for Molecular Pediatric Sciences
- Institute for Translational Medicine
- Institute of Politics
- Interdisciplinary Programs
- James Franck Institute
- Joint Center for Education Research
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA)
- Joint Theory Institute
- Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
- Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture
- Katz Center for Mexican Studies
- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
- Kilts Center for Marketing
- Knowledge Lab
- Kovler Diabetes Center
- MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
- Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion
- Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
- Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine
- MURI Center for Materials Chemistry In the Space Environment
- National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource Center
- Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
- Nicholson Center for British Studies
- Ogburn-Stouffer Center for the Study of Social Organization
- Oriental Institute
- Paleogeographic Atlas Project
- Paulson Institute
- Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
- Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Population Research Center
- Pritzker Consortium on Early Childhood Development
- Program on Political Institutions
- Program on the Global Environment
- Religion, Culture, and Family Project
- Research Computing Center
- Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation
- South Asia Language Resource Center
- Southern Asia at Chicago
- Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center
- Stevanovich Center
- Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
- Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
- Survey Lab
- Tang Center for Herbal Medicine Research
- The Center for Policy Entrepreneurship
- The Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism
- The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts
- The UChicago Science of Learning Center
- UChicago Urban
- University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center
- University of Chicago Language Center
- Urban Center for Computation and Data
- Urban Education Institute
- Urban Health Initiative
- Urban Policy Initiatives
- VERITAS Gamma Ray Observatory
Urban Health Initiative
Improving the long-term health outcomes for patients on the South Side of Chicago.
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