Working together to bring new treatments to patients worldwide.

Medical School Campaign Impact

Summer 2017

Brown Alpert Medical School / Together

Research to Improve Lives

Brown researchers are working together to decipher some of the most challenging and widespread diseases on the planet like malaria, ALS, and cancer. The BrownTogether Campaign will invest $300 million in integrated teams of basic scientists, master clinicians, policy researchers, entrepreneurs and students to bring new treatments to patients worldwide. I hope you will read on to see our progress toward this effort.

Best wishes,

Dean Jack Elias
Dean Jack Elias

Senior Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences

In this issue:

Fighting malaria / Integrating research and care / Accelerating medical technologies / Physician-scientist in the making / Life-saving education

Raised to date:

Fundraising Progress
Investing in Research

New hope in the fight against malaria

Video of the fight against malaria

A child dies from malaria every 60 seconds. Professor Jonathan Kurtis is going straight to the source to find a vaccine that will save countless lives.

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Investing in Faculty

Integrating research and patient care

Brown Physicians, Inc

Brown has joined with six of its faculty foundations to form Brown Physicians, Inc. (BPI), a new physician-led multi-specialty practice group. BPI will better integrate clinical care, research, and medical education in Rhode Island.

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Investing in Innovation

Promising tech to analyze fruit flies and baby cries

Fruit fly studies

Is it possible to develop an app that analyzes a newborn’s cry and diagnoses drug dependence? Can a fruit fly help identify a gene that lessens the effects of ALS? Thanks to Brown Biomedical Innovations, Inc., we are going to find out.

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Investing in Students

Physician-scientist in the making

Emily MacDuffie M'19

Emily MacDuffie MD’19 is using her love of research to pursue better outcomes for her future cancer patients.

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Medical Annual Fund

Life-saving education

U.S. opioid addiction crisis

As part of Brown’s innovative approach to medical education, students will receive new, first-of-its-kind training to combat the U.S. opioid addiction crisis.

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Get involved

To learn how your philanthropy can impact the work of the Warren Alpert Medical School, please contact Bethany Solomon, Associate Dean of BioMedical Advancement, at Bethany_Solomon@brown.edu

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