NIH

Behavioral scientist Rena Wing: Obesity remains “the number one health risk facing Americans.”
Stimulus funding

More than $12 million from NIH – including $2 million in stimulus funding – for obesity research

Rena Wing, director of the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at the Miriam Hospital and a professor in Brown’s Alpert Medical School, will expand her team’s focus on the prevention of obesity – one of the nation’s most critical health challenges.
READ MORE October 15, 2009
Professor Michael Tarr
Five questions for ...

Michael Tarr, cognitive scientist

With an NIH EUREKA Grant for “risky” research in hand, Professor Michael Tarr aims to find out how our brains recognize what we see.
READ MORE September 23, 2008
Global health is a fast-growing part of the medical curriculum, said Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences Edward Wing, left, at a press conference attended by Fogarty Center director Roger Glass (at right). Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and University relations, is at center.
On campus

NIH’s Fogarty Center celebrates a birthday with a global-health grant to Brown

On September 2, Sen. Jack Reed, Mayor David Cicilline, and other luminaries joined the director of a major federal medical-research funding agency to announce a three-year grant that will increase the University’s ability to prepare students for health care work in lesser-developed areas of the world.
READ MORE September 2, 2008
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