Carney Institute by The Numbers

Major accomplishments of 2018

Fueling Discovery


  • Among recent gifts, we received $100M to drive our research agenda and $25M to create a center of excellence
  • Carney faculty were awarded more than $25M in external grant funding in FY18
  • We started FY19 with a $12M grant from NIH to our COBRE Center to explore the fundamentals of brain function

Investing in Innovation


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We awarded more than $1M in internal grants, funding 6 innovation awards; 6 RI Neuroscience Consortium New Frontiers Awards; 2 postdoctoral fellows; 5 graduate awards; and 6 summer UTRA awards

Building Community


  • We organized 4 Carney Lunch Talks to spotlight our researchers and to foster trans-disciplinary conversations
  • We welcomed 2 associate professors to the Center for the Neurobiology of Cells and Circuits, and 2 Carney staff members
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Leading in Innovation


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Carney-affiliated faculty published more than 200 articles in journals including: Journal of Neuroscience; Cell; Neuron; Nature Communications; American Journal of Psychiatry; Nature Neuroscience; PNAS; Lancet Neurology; and Molecular Cell

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