Research
Total external funding for the Division of Biology and Medicine (which includes the Medical School) and its teaching hospital partners is $200 million annually. It has doubled in the past five years and more than tripled in the past decade.
The Division is home to centers of research excellence in aging, brain science, HIV/AIDS, cancer biology, women’s health, and public health issues such as alcohol and substance abuse, diabetes, weight loss, and tobacco use.
In addition, Division faculty have spearheaded the following:
- three NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grants, in genetics and genomics; heart and lung development in fetuses and babies; and cancer biology;
- a $7.2 million grant for limb-loss research to restore arm and leg function to amputees;
- an NIH-funded Center for AIDS Research, one of 21 such centers in the U.S.;
- a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-designated Center of Excellence in Women’s Health.
To keep pace with lightning-fast advances in technology and the life sciences, Brown University is making significant investments, totaling $475 million over 10 years, in its biomedical enterprise – especially in support of new research facilities.
The Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences, Brown’s largest-ever capital project, opened in October 2006. In August 2004 the building at 121 South Main Street becameb the new downtown home of the Program in Public Health. And the Laboratories for Molecular Medicine opened in Providence’s Jewelry District – now a hub of biomedical research laboratories.