Brown’s big weekend offered graduation ceremonies, alumni reunions and a multitude of other opportunities for graduates, alumni, family and friends to honor accomplishments and reunite.
At the Commencement ceremony for the Warren Alpert Medical School’s Class of 2025, Alisa Pugacheva will reflect on the importance of appreciating patients, colleagues and the practice of medicine.
I-BEAM kicks off the Collaboratives Program supporting multidisciplinary teams across engineering, biomedical, and clinical sciences to solve major challenges in human health.
The Division of Biology and Medicine experienced a remarkable 2024, marked by the launch of the trailblazing RNA Center and the unveiling of the William A. and Ami Kuan Danoff Life Sciences Laboratories. As the year comes to a close, we invite you to reflect with us on the extraordinary progress Brown has made this year in advancing the frontiers of health and science.
Peter Kilmarx MD’90, deputy director of the Fogarty International Center, shares opportunities, insights, and encouragement on pursuing careers in global health.
On September 23, Edward “Ted” Huey, M.D., joined some of the nation’s leading experts on Alzheimer’s disease at the National Institute on Aging to help set research priorities and to present his work. Huey’s main message: Memory loss is not the only sign of this common and devastating disease.
Rosenny Taveras and Dioscaris Garcia, Ph.D. ’12 are devoted to one another, and to the programs they oversee supporting underrepresented students at Brown. This DEI power couple is enriching the Brown campus community and diversifying our health care workforce, one student at a time.
Maribel Veiga’s passion for medicine is a deeply personal one: her late father’s battle with cancer motivated her to become a physician, she says. That loss strengthened her resolve to pursue a career in medicine, and that dream has been bolstered with help from the Rhode to Medicine pathway program at Brown.
For students who want to study the brain and nervous system, researchers like Christian Godinez know that real-world experience is crucial to success. It’s why his participation in the Research and Clinical Exposure to Neurology and Neurosurgery summer pathway program last year continues to pay dividends beyond his classroom experiences.
At the Carney Institute for Brain Science, researchers are working to identify biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease that could open a new frontier of understanding and testing.