Research Categories

Brown's basic science and clinical departments offer opportunities for laboratory research at the cutting edge of their fields, from cell biology to biophysics, environmental toxicology to neurobiology.

> Public health
Brown’s public health research centers are influential voices in the national dialogue on public health issues such as obesity and addiction, and help shape public policy and practice.

> International
Brown has a long history of established research collaborations with a host of institutions abroad. Each year undergraduate, medical, and graduate students complete research projects under the close mentorship of faculty sponsors.

> Clinical
Many of Brown's hospital-based faculty are involved in clinical research, the category of research that involves human subjects.

> Translational
Translational research, the junction between basic and clinical research, allows discoveries generated in the laboratory to become innovations in health care. Brown and its teaching hospitals are incubators for this kind of research.