Since 1992, Brown Medical School’s National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Short Term Training Program has given students access to outstanding researchers in heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders research. Research experiences have primarily been based in the departments listed above, as well as in the clinical departments of medicine, neurosurgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, and surgery.
Students are most frequently offered an opportunity for research with one of the following departments:
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry (MCB)
Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology & Biotechnology (MPPB)
SR-EIP students are often placed in the Pathobiology Program, an interdisciplinary field devoted to basic research into the mechanisms of disease. There are four major research and concentration themes within the Pathobiology Program: 1) toxicology and environmental pathology, 2) infection and immunity, 3) cancer biology, and 4) aging.
The School of Public Health takes a “lifelong health” approach to improve people’s lives. It begins before conception, through research on environmental exposures that affect fertility and cause birth defects. It continues through the prime of life: public health at Brown focuses on prevention and treatment using a population perspective to promote the health of all individuals so that they can live longer and more fulfilling lives. The School of Public Health’s 12 nationally renowned research centers and institutes focus training and research on key areas including evidence-based medicine, preventive medicine, community health, HIV/AIDS, statistical sciences, global health, and primary care.