Brown’s medical school has built a 50-year track record of making a positive impact. Brown researchers, physician-scientists and medical trainees are making discoveries that transform care for patients and families in real ways, with new basic science and clinical research centers formed in recent years to form the Brown Institute for Translational Science (BITS). The research centers within BITS focus on Alzheimer’s disease, digital medicine, vaccine biology, and most recently, cancer. The Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown, for example, brings together researchers, clinicians and public health scientists to develop treatments and improve understanding of a host of different cancers. This Warren Alpert Medical School will continue this focus on translational research – moving discoveries from the lab bench to the bedside of patients who need treatments and cures – through the recruitment and support of physician-scientists and providing commercial development resources through Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact. 

The Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, a collaboration of the medical school and Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science, is leading research from the molecular level through the development of drugs to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s. And research collaborations between the medical school and the Brown University School of Public Health like the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute conduct research that benefits Rhode Island families.

The school has remained true to its mission to educate compassionate, humanistic physicians, and today, its graduates care for communities all over the world. The pursuit of discoveries to help treat or cure these and other diseases that affect human health will shape the next 50 years of medicine at Brown.