The Academic Health Center is focused on interdisciplinary research. With that in mind, physicians and basic-science researchers from a range of colleges, departments and affiliates have joined together to form research centers and institutes to look at health related problems in new ways. These include:

• Obesity Research Center
  
• The Neurosciences Institute
  
• UC Barrett Cancer Center at University Hospital
  
• Center for Surgical Innovation
  
• Computational Medicine Center
  
• Genome Research Institute
  
• Institute for the Study of Health
  
• Center for Imaging Research