The Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC) at Children’s National Medical Center conducts multidisciplinary, translational, clinical and community research in intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Our goals are to develop a better understanding of the causes underlying these conditions, develop innovative therapies, and prevent or ameliorate them, thereby permitting each child to achieve his full physical and intellectual potential.

Funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and directed by principal investigator Vittorio Gallo, PhD, the IDDRC at Children’s National focuses on the genetic, cellular, developmental and psychological causes of intellectual and other developmental disabilities.