The Institute for Biology, Engineering, and Medicine (I-BEAM), a joint institute between the School of Engineering and the Division of Biology and Medicine, is excited to announce our first teams selected for the Collaboratives Program.
These multidisciplinary teams aim to improve human health by, for example, reprogramming immune cells to treat cancer, replacing damaged heart cells and restoring vascular health, engineering bacterial resistance through advanced biomaterials and predictive biophysical models, and optimizing the fluid dynamics of breastfeeding. Through interdisciplinary research and clinical translation, the Collaboratives will make transformative changes in our understanding of human physiology and our ability to treat illness and injury.
David Borton, Interim Director of I-BEAM who kick-started this initiative, is eager to support these teams focusing on some of the “most pressing biomedical challenges facing human health,” Borton said. “The strengthened partnership between Brown and its health system partners position our community to lead medical innovation and translational research – I-BEAM is here to accelerate it.”
Please join us in congratulating our I-BEAM Collaboratives.