Walter Atwood, professor of medical science, will lead research efforts to determine how the JC virus, which can cause a rare brain disease known as PML, attaches to host cells. He will collaborate with research teams at...

Rhode Island Hospital has received an $11 million grant that will fund research that will lead to a general understanding of stem cell biology and identify unique approaches to tissue regeneration in lung and marrow diseases. Read...

Assistant Professor Mark Lurie, who primarily studies the HIV virus, found himself at the center of the swine flu whirlwind this fall when he and his family became infected. Read more...

In fewer than two years, Brown's new Medical Education Building will welcome its first class of students. But looking at the building now, it is hard to tell. Read more...

Brown University's Terri Fox Wetle, PhD, has been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Aging for NIH. Her appointment begins January 1, 2010. The BioMed Division is exceedingly proud of Dr. Wetle's achievements...

Dr. Michael Lysaght died Saturday at his home in E Greenwich with his wife Carmen and other family members in attendance. His loss will be felt deeply by the entire Brown University Community. Calling Hours will be on Tuesday,...

PROVIDENCE -- Edward J. Wing, Brown University's dean of medicine and biological sciences, sees the university's planned new medical school in the grandest of terms. Read more...

Take a closer look with Dean Wing and Frank Coletta on the new Alpert Medical Education Building. Click on the Special Assignment October 24, 2009 to see the show. View the show

Who knew? Join us in the celebration. Brown Medicine is now availble on the web. Read more...

Epidemiologist Mark Lurie, assistant professor of Community Health and Medicine and Samantha Rosenthal, a graduate student in Public Health, have published new research challenging conventional wisdom that concurrent, or...

The National Insitutes of Health will fund a new five-year project headed by Stephen McGarvey, professor of community health and anthropology. McGarvey will lead efforts to conduct detailed genotyping of Samoan adults in...

Christine Biron, professor of medical science at Brown University and Seung-Hwan Lee, a postdoctoral associate in Biron's lab, are part of a team of researchers who have discovered that the natural killer, or NK cells, help...

Brown University's leaders on Saturday signed off on detailed plans for the new Warren Alpert Medical School building the school plans to build next year in the Jewelry District. Read more...

During its fall meeting Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009, the Corporation of Brown University approved design schematics for the school's new medical education building on Richmond Street in the city's Jewelry District. Read more...

A faculty committee composed of representatives from all Graduate Programs of the Division of Biology and Medicine recently met to select first year PhD students for prestigious designation as either Frank or Levy Fellows....