About Us

The products, processes, and therapies of the future will be designed by systematic manipulation of matter at the molecular and nanoscales. The discovery, development and safe commercialization of these products is beyond the reach of any one traditional discipline or profession.

IMNI promotes and coordinate multidisciplinary research and education in the molecular and nanosciences at Brown.  Our Institute is unique in its breadth and holistic approach; our faculty span nine departments in the physical, life, and social sciences and their interests span fundamental phenomena, technologies, and the environmental health and societal impacts of nanotechnology. We are committed to team science and new modes of interdisciplinary education and training. 

Brown’s intimate campus setting, flexible curriculum, soft disciplinary boundaries, strong programs in the physical sciences, and its unique unified program in biology and medical practice, is an ideal place for this collaborative venture.

Professor Robert Hurt, IMNI Director	Professor Shouheng Sun, IMNI Associate Director	Sue Prendergast, IMNI Manager