UDN

Solving Medical Mysteries
Through Team Science

About Us

Description

The Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) is a research study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Its purpose is to bring together clinical and research experts from across the United States to solve the most challenging medical mysteries using advanced technologies.

Through this study, we hope to both help individual patients and families living with the burden of undiagnosed diseases, and contribute to the understanding of how the human body works.

Sites

The UDN is made up of a Data Management Coordinating Center, Clinical Sites, and Core Facilities.

The Data Management Coordinating Center, which coordinates the work of the UDN, is based at Harvard Medical School, Morehouse School of Medicine, Stanford University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Utah, and Washington University in St. Louis.

The Clinical Sites, where UDN participants are evaluated, are located across the United States:

Site
Location
Current Status
Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX
Open to new case submissions
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PAClosed to new case submissions
Cincinnati Children’s HospitalCincinnati, OHOpening to internal referrals soon
Duke University
Durham, NCOpen to new case submissions
Harvard affiliated hospitals (Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital)Boston, MAClosed to new case submissions
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NYOpen to new case submissions
Indiana UniversityIndianapolis, INOpen to new case submissions
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MDOpening to internal referrals soon
Lurie Children’s HospitalChicago, ILOpening to internal referrals soon
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MNOpen to internal referrals only
Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s WisconsinMilwaukee, WIOpen to internal referrals only
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP)Bethesda, MDOpen to new case submissions
Sanford HealthSioux Falls, SDOpen to internal referrals only
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CAOpen to new case submissions
University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, ALOpen to new case submissions
University of California, Irvine and Children’s Hospital of Orange CountyOrange County, CAOpen to new case submissions
University of California, Los AngelesLos Angeles, CAClosed to new case submissions
University of Miami
Miami, FLOpen to new case submissions
University of UtahSalt Lake City, UTClosed to new case submissions
University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle, WAOpen to new case submissions
University of Wisconsin–MadisonMadison, WIOpening to internal referrals soon
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, TNOpen to new case submissions
Washington UniversitySt. Louis, MOOpen to new case submissions
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CTOpen to new case submissions

At the Clinical Sites, doctors and healthcare providers, like neurologists, immunologists, nephrologists, endocrinologists, and geneticists, work together to help find the cause of participant symptoms.

The Sequencing Core, which provides sequencing services for the UDN, is at Baylor College of Medicine.

The Model Organisms Screening Center, located at Baylor College of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, and University of Oregon, helps the network understand how specific genetic changes contribute to disease by studying these changes in other organisms. The Metabolomics Core, located at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, provides metabolomics and experimental design consultation, laboratory analysis, and computational expertise to the UDN.

Reports

UDN Quarterly Report – Winter 2025
UDN Quarterly Report – Fall 2024
UDN Quarterly Report – Summer 2024
UDN Quarterly Report – Spring 2024
UDN Quarterly Report – Winter 2024
UDN Quarterly Report – Fall 2023
UDN Quarterly Report – Summer 2023
UDN Quarterly Report – Spring 2023
UDN Quarterly Report – Winter 2023
UDN Quarterly Report – Fall 2022
UDN Quarterly Report – Summer 2022
UDN Quarterly Report – Spring 2022
UDN Quarterly Report – Winter 2022
UDN Quarterly Report – Fall 2021
UDN Quarterly Report – Summer 2021
UDN Quarterly Report – Spring 2021
UDN Quarterly Report – Winter 2021
UDN Quarterly Report – Fall 2020

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