Kennedy Krieger Institute

Kennedy Krieger Institute is a nonprofit clinical, research, education, and community-services organization serving nearly 30,000 people annually across 13 Baltimore-Washington-area locations. Affiliation with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and adjacency to the Johns Hopkins medical campus connect care, investigators, trainees, and specialized research infrastructure. Clinical research services support protocol design, feasibility, regulatory guidance, and industry-sponsored trials; shared cores provide neuroimaging, behavioral, genetics, biostatistics, and human-cell resources. Research is funded primarily by NIH, including NICHD, with additional foundation and private support, while research administration manages sponsored agreements and compliance.