September 4, 2020 orientation
Welcome to our 5 Fifth year Master's, 21 Master's, and12 PhD students!
September 4, 2020 Stat News
Patients who took the medication — initially dreamed up over beers and obsessive internet searching in a Brown University dormitory — retained a higher level of certain motor functions than those given a placebo, according to the researchers’ study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
August 31, 2020
Two PhD students defended their theses this summer. Their degrees will be conferred in October. Congratulations Dr. Lauren Hazlett and Dr. Stefan Sigurdsson!
August 28, 2020 New York Times
Every year, Dr. Nurmikko poses a hypothetical to his students: 1,000 neurograin implants that would allow students to learn and communicate faster; any volunteers?
July 31, 2020 School of Engineering
Professor Kimani Toussaint has been named Senior Associate Dean in the Brown University School of Engineering. The appointment begins August 1, and is for a three-year term. In Toussaint’s role as the Senior Associate Dean, he will work closely with the dean on all matters related to promoting the School of Engineering and its academic mission.
July 22, 2020 News from Brown Technology Innovations
Two Brown researchers, Dr. Kareen Coulombe and Dr. Diane Hoffman-Kim have been part of the Bioengineering Research Partnerships project, funded in 2016 by the NHLBI (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute). In its final stages of the 5 year award, the Advisory Board selected 2 of the 5 teams to be the focal point of the remaining funds; Dr. Coulombe and Dr. Hoffman-Kim were selected.
July 20, 2020 News from Brown
Three projects led by Brown University biomedical engineering led teams have each been awarded $100,000 to help translate their scientific discoveries into commercial products that benefit patients.
July 1, 2020 MBF Mindest
A new therapy, developed by researchers at the Coulombe Lab at Brown University may be able to provide the heart with the support it needs to recover after a heart attack, according to a study published in the journal Biomaterials.
June 24, 2020 School of Engineering
Assistant Professor Anita Shukla has been chosen as one of 85 of the nation’s brightest early-career engineers and will take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 26th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium. Engineers who are performing exceptional research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together for the two-and-a-half day event next February.
June 10, 2020 Brown Daily Herald
Professor Anubhav Tripathi and graduate students Lindsay Schneider, Kiara Lee, and Dulguunnaran Naranbat are working with collaborators from the Division of Infectious Disease to assess the SARS-Cov-2 virus on a molecular level through its genome and ultimately help address the pandemic on personal and public health levels. Professor Gregory Jay is involved in a project to build a blood biorepository housed at the Lifespan Clinical Research Center.