Hackensack University Medical Center The company consolidates all basic and clinical research that is under way at the medical center. The department centralizes the administrative aspects of research, including financial, legal, and professional oversight, and guides the investigator through the maze of internal and external regulation. Research at the medical center is conducted in nearly every field, with an emphasis on pediatric and adult cancers, childhood diseases, cardiology, allergy and immunology, orthopedics, urology, pulmonary medicine, neurology, and infectious diseases.