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April 2021 0

Brown Launches Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research

With $30 million in support, the center aims to accelerate the pace of development for novel treatments and cures.

Alumni

January 2020 0

Memory Protection

A researcher wants to make surgery safer for aging patients’ brains.

Faculty

The hnRNPA2 protein forms liquid droplets in a test tube as seen by light microscopy. Image courtesy Veronica Ryan

January 2018 0

Studying ALS, Atom by Atom

Research reveals atomic-level changes in a protein associated with brain disorders.

News

Tight clumps of green fluorescing FUS form in the untreated yeast cell on the left, but the protein remains diffuse and unclumped in the phosphorylated cell on the right. Courtesy Monahan et al.

August 2017 0

Could Electric Charges Stop ALS Protein Clumping?

Lab findings may point to potential therapies for Lou Gehrig’s disease, dementia.

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  Calling all alumni and students: What are your favorite memories of medical school at Brown? Lectures in the Purple Palace? Anatomy with the inimitable Dale Ritter? Or some inside joke known only to you and your study partners? Share them by replying to this post or sending an email to med@brown.edu. We may use them in an upcoming article in Medicine@Brown. ... See MoreSee Less
  
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  Brown researchers are partnering with faith-based leaders in Providence to increase participation of Black community members in Alzheimer’s prevention studies. “People of color have a higher rate of dementia, so these communities need approaches to lower the chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease,” said study co-leader Dr. Stephen Salloway, associate director of the Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research at Brown University and director the Memory and Aging Program at Butler Hospital. “That’s why we need people from all backgrounds to participate in important prevention studies like U.S. POINTER.” ... See MoreSee Less
  
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