Welcome to the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC) at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).
Learn MoreThe IDDRC at CHOP/Penn has been a leader in advancing IDD research for over 30 years. Novel concepts and technologies, many of them barely imaginable 30 years ago, today are a “routine” component in the vocabulary of medical research. Our Center wholeheartedly embraced these innovations, which we considered a boon toward realization of our mission: to discover the causes of IDD and use this knowledge to improve the outcome of affected people.
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