2006 The Center for Genomics and Proteomics is launched, with Professor John Sedivy, PhD, as founding director. The center serves as a hub for Brown’s efforts in the burgeoning discipline of systems biology, applying high-throughput data analysis, bioinformatics, and modeling to problems
in genomics, epigenomics, proteomics, molecular and cell biology, and translational biomedical investigations.
in genomics, epigenomics, proteomics, molecular and cell biology, and translational biomedical investigations.
2007 The NIH awards $11.12 million to Rhode Island Hospital to establish the COBRE for Skeletal Health and Repair to investigate prevention and treatment of diseases such as osteoarthritis. Also this year, researchers in Brown’s Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research receive $10 million to generate the first-ever database of nursing homes in all 50 states to track the relationship between state policies and market forces and the quality of care.
2007 The Center for Vision Research is created to advance multidisciplinary and translational research on vision. Research spans the gap between basic science and clinical applications, including such projects as theoretical studies of vision and visual plasticity in concert with experimental tests, and biologically inspired vision models implemented in artificial systems.
2009 Professor Walter Atwood, PhD, leads an international research project supported by $6 million from the NIH to determine how the JC virus attaches to host cells to cause progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. Though rare, the deadly brain disease is occurring more frequently in patients whose immune systems are compromised.
