Research Centers & Interdisciplinary Programs

The department has 18 Centers in total, five of which are NIH-funded. The function of Centers in the Department of Psychiatry is to foster research on a given disorder or population, utilizing any and all relevant expertise from the 12 Research Areas, and drawing on resources from any of the Clinical Divisions and Research Cores.

Columbia University-Funded Programs

Center for OCD & Related Disorders

The Center for OCD and Related Disorders is dedicated to improving the lives of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders.

A patient with OCD arranging office supplies to be aligned perfectly.

Center for Healing Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorders (CHOSEN)

CHOSEN aims to reduce the negative health consequence caused by opioid and other substance use disorders.

Institute for Developmental Sciences

The Institute for Developmental Sciences supports research on the developmental origins of vulnerability to psychiatric illness.

Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center

The Lyme and Tick-borne Diseases Research Center was established as the first academic research center in the country to focus multidisciplinary research on chronic Lyme disease.

Reiner Center for Behavioral and Psychosomatic Medicine

The center has aimed to understand the contribution of psychological, psychosocial, and behavioral factors to the onset, progression, and management of physical and mental disease.

Stroud Center for Study of Quality of Life in Health and Aging

Our mission is to foster scholarly activities contributing to the prevention or delaying of losses in quality of life that may accompany chronic diseases and aging.

NIH-Funded Centers

Center for Research on Ethical, Legal & Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic & Behavioral Genetics

We are one of 6 Centers of Excellence in Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research.

Conte Center for Suicide Prevention

Neuroscience Of Mental Disorders: The Neurobiology Of Suicidal Behavior

Conte Center for Suicide Prevention is dedicated to the investigation of clinical and neurobiological correlates of suicidal behavior across the life cycle.

HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies

The HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies has conducted research on HIV prevention, treatment, and care.

Northeast / Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center

Previously focused solely on New York and New Jersey, the AETC expanded both in scope and territory in the fall of 2015 to include Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

OPAL Center

Optimizing and Personalizing interventions for people with schizophrenia Across the Lifespan ― an NIMH Center

The OPAL Center is named after its goal of Optimizing and Personalizing interventions for people with schizophrenia Across the Lifespan.

PROGRESS Center

An Autism Center of Excellence Funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

The Prospective Genetic Risk Evaluation and Assessment in Autism Center will follow the development of newborns with identified genetic risk factors for developmental differences.

OMH-Funded Centers

New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence

The Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence conducts research that improves the quality and cultural competence of mental health services and helps reduce health and health care disparities.