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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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Research was supported by NIH grant 5UL1TR001085-03. Views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of NIH or the US government.

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  1. Sandra Soo-Jin Lee is at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA,

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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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Lee, SJ., Jabloner, A. Institutional culture is the key to team science. Nat Biotechnol 35, 1212–1214 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4026

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