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Institutional culture is the key to team science

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Institutional leadership in creating a culture of cooperation and pathways for multidisciplinary collaboration is critical to achieving the goals of academic translation and innovation.

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  2. Anna Jabloner is at the Center for Research on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic and Behavioral Genetics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.,

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