Founder & Executive Director
Leads strategic direction, scientific agenda, research oversight, and institutional positioning so the Institute’s work remains selective, coherent, and scientifically responsible.
What We Do
An institute built for behavioural, clinical, and applied intelligence.
ABCI Institute exists to understand how people make decisions, interpret evidence, trust expertise, adopt treatments, and behave within clinical, consumer, organisational, and high-standard environments. The Institute’s initial focus is on Longevity, Healthspan & Human Performance, with broader research developing across its core themes.
Institutional position
A selective structure for serious questions.
The Institute is not designed as a conventional advisory consultancy or academic department. It operates between research, clinical relevance, strategic intelligence, and applied innovation.
The first phase concentrates on Longevity, Healthspan & Human Performance, while the Institute’s wider research develops across behavioural intelligence, clinical intelligence, commercial research, future capability, and translational innovation.
Its purpose is to create disciplined insight that can be used responsibly by clinicians, researchers, founders, innovation teams, educators, and high-standard environments that require evidence-aware thinking.
Founder & Direction
Disciplined enquiry, deliberately built.
The ABCI Institute for Applied Behavioural & Clinical Intelligence is founded and directed by Dr Athena Baghdasaryan.
Her work sits at the intersection of behavioural research, clinical environments, and applied strategic thinking, with a focus on how evidence, perception, and decision-making interact in real-world contexts.
The Institute has been developed as a structured environment for disciplined enquiry, where research is not only developed, but carefully examined, tested, and translated into forms that can inform practice, systems, and long-term understanding.
Leadership & Structure
Clear responsibility, understated hierarchy.
Scientific Leadership
Guides clinical research direction, methodological standards, ethical review, and responsible interpretation across applied research activity.
Innovation Leadership
Directs Translational Innovation Lab pathways, from evidence-aware concepts to applied validation, in-clinic testing, and usable systems.
How the Institute works
From question to responsible output.
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Identify a behavioural, clinical, consumer, or strategic question with long-term relevance.
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Frame the question with the appropriate evidence, ethical awareness, and methodological caution.
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Develop the work through a programme, study, briefing, framework, or translational pathway.
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Review outputs for clarity, integrity, and responsible interpretation before publication or use.
Core work
Focused areas, not endless categories.
Behavioural intelligence
Clinical and consumer insight
Applied commercial research
AI, skills, and future work
Translational innovation
Governance & Research Integrity
Structure before scale.
The Institute operates under a defined research governance framework. Research & Ethics Committee oversight supports ethical review, scientific integrity, data protection, and methodological rigour across relevant studies, programmes, and translational research activity.
Read the governance approachSelective enquiry
Work with the Institute on a defined question.
The most suitable enquiries are specific, serious, and aligned with the Institute’s research, programme, or innovation agenda.
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