"accelerate our understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it in the context of a research paper, to emphasize the need to build a greater understanding of a particular topic, for example, "Further research is needed to accelerate our understanding of the impact of climate change."
Such integrated high-dimensional information may accelerate our understanding of biological systems at multiple levels.
Certainly, this new information will accelerate our understanding of P2X receptor function and pharmacology at the atomic level.
Finally, we describe new experimental and computational tools that promise to accelerate our understanding of RNA folding, function and design.
These resources should accelerate our understanding of the mechanisms involved in adaptation of rice to excess water stress and should lead to their introduction into dryland crops.
"This in turn could lead to a transformative set of developments that could accelerate our understanding of the brain," Prof Van Essen told BBC News.
The level of control offered by these computer-controlled technologies to design and fabricate tissues will accelerate our understanding of the governing factors of tissue formation and function.
In particular, our efficient approaches for finding new AMPs in a genomic scale can easily be applied to other model organisms including humans, which will accelerate our understandings on AMP-mediated innate immunity at a defense network level.
Yet, because they went ahead and took the risks, you could say that they accelerated our understanding of both the techniques and problems concerning rejection, and that thousands of lives have been saved as a result".
The past decade, basic research has decoded numerous unknown entities relevant to biology and accelerated our understanding of physiology and pathology.
The recent accelerated search for mutations in cancers, facilitated through next generation sequencing technologies, has greatly accelerated our understanding of the mechanisms underlying epigenetic dysfunction in cancers.
A myriad of recent technological advances have accelerated our understanding of kinome function, its relationship to tumorigenic development, and have contributed to the progression of small molecule kinase inhibitors into the clinic.
