The MIT Faculty Founder Initiative has announced twelve finalists for the 2023-2024 MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition, a program created to support female faculty entrepreneurs in biotechnology and provide them with resources to help take their ideas to commercialization. For the first time, the prize competition selected finalists from both MIT and Brown. Brown engineering professors Kareen Coulombe and Theresa Raimondo were among those finalists.
Carolina is a Ph.D. student in Brown’s Biomedical Engineering Program and a member of Dr. Anita Shukla’s Lab.
Josephine Kalshoven is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Brown’s Biomedical Engineering program and a member of Dr. Joseph Crisco’s Lab.
I-BEAM proudly welcomes four outstanding individuals to its distinguished body of Ph.D. Trainers.
Dr. Jillian Beveridge is an accomplished Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics. Her expertise promises to elevate our understanding of biomechanics and orthopedic advancements.
Mitchell Harling is a Ph.D. student in Brown’s Biomedical Engineering program and a member of Dr. Kimani Toussaint’s PROBE Lab.
Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering Tejal A. Desai has received a three-year, $1,200,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop encapsulated cell factories for sustained delivery of antibody therapeutics.
Engineering Associate Professor Kareen Coulombe’s Engineered Cardiac Tissues for Regeneration received the most votes and was crowned Innovation of the Year at the first Innovation@Brown Showcase, an opportunity for Rhode Island’s entrepreneurs, startup founders, venture capitalists, and industry leaders to preview cutting-edge technologies, startups and innovative ideas emerging out of Brown University.
Brown’s Elaine I. Savage Associate Professor of Engineering Anita Shukla has been named one of 10 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). This group of early- and mid-career professionals comes from a wide-range of health-related fields, including internal medicine, psychiatry, radiology, biomedical engineering, and public health.
Diane Hoffman-Kim’s lab publishes on stroke therapy screening, showing that their “mini-brains” can serve important purposes in disease research.
Sophie Brown, “Deciphering the roles of microglia in Alzheimer’s disease,” supported by the Dr. Achilles Frangistas Fund For Neurodegeneration Research, the Gordon S. Macklin '50 Endowed Fellowship and the Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research Fund