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Vonderheide, MD, DPhil</span> </span> </div> </a> </li> <li class="centers_institutes-button"> <a href="http://www.afcri.upenn.edu/"> <div class="center-institute-background-image"> <picture> <img src="/psom/assets/image-cache/user-content/images/afcri.ff5f3ff7.png" alt=""> </picture> </div> <div class="centers_institutes-button--overlay"> <span class="centers_institutes-button--overlay-text"> <span class="main">Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute</span> <span class="description">Founded: 1997<br /> Directors: Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil & M. Celeste Simon, PhD (Scientific Director)</span> </span> </div> </a> </li> <li class="centers_institutes-button"> <a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/cbir/"> <div class="center-institute-background-image"> <picture> <img src="/psom/assets/image-cache/user-content/images/p-100444-master-v1-0008a_0.525c4be4.jpg" alt=""> </picture> </div> <div class="centers_institutes-button--overlay"> <span class="centers_institutes-button--overlay-text"> <span class="main">Center for Brain Injury and Repair</span> <span class="description">Director: Douglas Smith, MD</span> </span> </div> </a> </li> <li class="centers_institutes-button"> <a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/cci/"> <div class="center-institute-background-image"> <picture> <img src="/psom/assets/image-cache/user-content/images/cover-center-for-cellular-immunotherapies.54599e80.jpg" alt=""> </picture> </div> <div class="centers_institutes-button--overlay"> <span class="centers_institutes-button--overlay-text"> <span class="main">Center for Cellular Immunotherapies (CCI)</span> <span class="description">Director: Carl June, MD</span> </span> </div> </a> </li> <li class="centers_institutes-button"> <a href="http://www.cceb.med.upenn.edu"> <div class="center-institute-background-image"> <picture> <img src="/psom/assets/image-cache/user-content/images/cover-center-for-clinical-epidemiology-and-biostatistics.54599e80.jpg" alt=""> </picture> </div> <div class="centers_institutes-button--overlay"> <span class="centers_institutes-button--overlay-text"> <span class="main">Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics</span> <span class="description">Founded: 1993<br /> Director: Alexis R. Ogdie-Beatty, MD, MSCE</span> </span> </div> </a> </li> <li class="centers_institutes-button"> <a href="https://endd.med.upenn.edu/"> <div class="center-institute-background-image"> <picture> <img src="/psom/assets/image-cache/user-content/images/endd-logo-2.f336b2d7.png" alt=""> </picture> </div> <div class="centers_institutes-button--overlay"> <span class="centers_institutes-button--overlay-text"> <span class="main">Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ENDD)</span> <span class="description">Founded: 2023<br /> Director: Benjamin Prosser, PhD</span> </span> </div> </a> </li> <li class="centers_institutes-button"> <a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/geneticscomplexdisease/"> <div class="center-institute-background-image"> <picture> <img src="/psom/assets/image-cache/user-content/images/center-for-genetics-of-complex-diseases.feffa5a3.png" alt=""> </picture> </div> <div class="centers_institutes-button--overlay"> <span class="centers_institutes-button--overlay-text"> <span class="main">Center for Genetics of Complex Diseases</span> <span class="description">Founded: 2022<br /> Director: Joan O'Brien, MD</span> </span> </div> </a> </li> <li class="centers_institutes-button"> <a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/globalhealth"> <div class="center-institute-background-image"> <picture> <img src="/psom/assets/image-cache/user-content/images/cover-center-for-global-health.54599e80.jpg" alt=""> </picture> </div> <div class="centers_institutes-button--overlay"> <span class="centers_institutes-button--overlay-text"> <span class="main">Center for Global Health</span> <span class="description">Director: Glen Gaulton, PhD (Vice Dean & Faculty Director)</span> </span> </div> </a> </li> <li class="centers_institutes-button"> <a href="https://cph.upenn.edu/"> <div class="center-institute-background-image"> <picture> <img src="/psom/assets/image-cache/user-content/images/cover-center-for-public-health.54599e80.jpg" alt=""> </picture> </div> <div class="centers_institutes-button--overlay"> <span class="centers_institutes-button--overlay-text"> <span class="main">Center for Public Health</span> <span class="description">Founded: 2007<br /> Director: Richard Wender, MD (Executive Director)</span> </span> </div> </a> </li> <li class="centers_institutes-button"> <a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/crrwh"> <div class="center-institute-background-image"> <picture> <img src="/psom/assets/image-cache/user-content/images/cover-center-for-research-on-reproduction-womens-health.54599e80.jpg" alt=""> </picture> </div> <div class="centers_institutes-button--overlay"> <span class="centers_institutes-button--overlay-text"> <span class="main">Center for Women鈥檚 Health and Reproductive Medicine</span> <span class="description">Founded: 2007<br /> Director: Marisa S. 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