Facilities
The Medical School's basic science departments and its Department of Community Health currently occupy more than 475,000 gross square feet of research, teaching, and administrative space both on College Hill and in downtown Providence.
On campus, the 168,800-square-foot Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences opened in October 2006. The facility houses more than sixty new laboratories, a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging facility, and an electron microscopy suite and supports research in the Departments of Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry.
At the foot of College Hill is the eleven-story office building at 121 South Main, purchased in 2005 as the new home for the ever-growing Public Health Program.
Providence's Jewelry District, a triangle-shaped area of converted industrial space located between campus and many of Brown's affiliated hospitals, is a locus of biomedical research. The research and clinical facilities there include the new 150,000-square-foot Laboratories for Molecular Medicine (home to Brown's Center for Genomics and Proteomics), the Hallett Diabetes Center, and the Liver Research Center.
In addition to facilities on campus and in the Jewelry District, faculty and students have access to those of the seven affiliated hospitals, including:
- the only gamma knife in the region
- a tissue engineering research laboratory
- a high-fidelity medical simulation center
- the nation's only Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center
- one of thirty-four immunology centers worldwide testing for an HIV vaccine, with over $17 million of the world's HIV/AIDS research dollars.