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Faculty, students, and staff at The Warren Alpert Medical School are bound by a shared mission to improve the health and well-being of the communities that they serve.
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Our Impact
Faculty, students, and staff at The Warren Alpert Medical School are bound by a shared mission to improve the health and well-being of the communities that they serve.
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December 17, 2024
News from Brown
How a shared super-resolution microscope propels breakthrough brain research at Brown
Researchers at the Carney Institute for Brain Science are taking creative approaches with a super-resolution microscope to advance their neuroscience investigations in different directions.
November 26, 2024
News from Brown
Dominique Pablito: Advancing science while inspiring fellow Indigenous students in STEM
As she investigates cancer treatments and pursues her own path toward becoming a physician-scientist, the Brown University doctoral student is supporting fellow Indigenous students interested in science and medicine.
November 8, 2024
News from Brown
Heartier Heinz? How scientists are learning to help tomatoes beat the heat
Biologists at Brown University found what makes some types of tomatoes more heat tolerant, yielding insights that could help crops adapt to climate change.
October 16, 2024
News from Brown
Brown researchers show how gut hormones control aging in flies and how it relates to human biology
The discovery of a gut-to-brain regulation pathway in flies calls for additional consideration on how certain medications can be used to treat obesity and diabetes in humans.
October 16, 2024
News from Brown
Putting pressure on mini-brains helps to model compression injuries
A research team led by Diane Hoffman-Kim, an associate professor of neuroscience and engineering at Brown, found a way to use cortical spheroids to study a type of brain injury that develops over time.
Medicine@Brown
Get Out the (Emergency) Vote
Even from a hospital bed, Americans can still exercise their civic duty on Nov. 5.
News from BioMed
HHMI Honors Pathobiology Graduate Student
Janet Joseph PhD’28 is one of the four Gilliam Fellows now studying at Brown.
September 24, 2024
News from Brown
People navigate social networks same way they navigate transportation networks: by studying maps
A study by cognitive scientists at Brown University’s Carney Institute for Brain Science deciphered how the human brain represents the complex social connections among acquaintances, friends, and friends of friends.
September 23, 2024
News from SPH
Mentorship and Inclusion, Together
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.
August 20, 2024
News from Brown
Cutting-edge technology at Brown to support new discoveries on diseases by Rhode Island scientists
A $1.2 million National Institutes of Health grant will bring a state-of-the-art mass spectrometer to Brown to advance the work of researchers studying the biology of disease and exploring potential treatments.
Stay connected with all of the events, achievements, and breakthroughs happening every day at The Warren Alpert Medical School.