The Brown Respiratory Research Training Program (BRRTP) is a T32 grant with Elizabeth Harrington, PhD (contact), Mitchell Levy, MD, Sharon Rounds, MD, and Yang Zhou, PhD as multi-Principal Investigators. The BRRTP has as its overall objective the training of physicians and scientists who will become independent investigators in the pathobiology of respiratory diseases and in the health services, outcomes, and epidemiology of these diseases. This will be accomplished by a rigorous program of didactic and career development training and mentored research experience in a collaborative, multidisciplinary setting. The BRRTP aims to bridge gaps between biomedical, behavioral and public health disciplines to advance knowledge regarding how best to reduce disease burden among patients with diseases that affect the respiratory system.

Learn more on the BRRTP website

Funds from the Training Program in Computational Psychiatry (TPCP) will support the training of recent postdoctoral scientists with strong backgrounds in fields such as brain science, engineering, applied math and computer science, and provide them with the tools to make important contributions to the nascent field of computational psychiatry. The program embraces an apprenticeship model in which fellows work with a primary research trainer in a computational field and a secondary research mentor in clinical psychiatry. The primary trainer works closely with the fellow and a secondary clinical psychiatry mentor, who is conducting research in areas such as depression and suicide, anxiety disorders, neurodegenerative disorders and stress and trauma. The long-term goal of this program is to produce a new cohort of academics who can conduct research in computational psychiatry and train the next generation of graduate students in this emerging field of inquiry. 

Learn more on the TPCP website

Based out of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, the T32 in Suicide Research is an intensive training program designed to prepare the next generation of PhD and MD researchers to conduct cutting-edge translational and prevention research on suicidal ideation and behaviors. Postdocs will receive rigorous foundational training in research design and statistics, responsible conduct of research, scientific rigor and reproducibility, and grant writing, alongside focused training in suicide research organized by the four key questions: 1) Why do people become suicidal? (Basic Research); 2) How can we better or optimally detect/predict risk? (Prediction Research), 3) What interventions are effective? (Interventions Research), and 4) What services are most effective for treating the suicidal person and preventing suicidal behavior? (Implementation Research).

Program Directors

Ivan Miller, PhD | E-mail: ivan_miller_iii@brown.edu
Lauren Weinstock, PhD | E-mail: lauren_weinstock@brown.edu

People have never lived so long. In the 20th century, life expectancy in some developed countries rose by more than 35 years. At the same time, age-related disorders have become the leading causes of death. But how well do we understand aging, and what this means for our society.

Even more important than life span, however, is the concept of health span—survival into old age in the absence of major disabilities. It is well known that the incidence and morbidity of most diseases increase with age. However, as our life expectancy rises, can we discover ways to live our lives free of frailty and debilitating chronic conditions?

A group of researchers at Brown came together to launch the Center on the Biology of Aging, whose goal is to study human health span. These efforts, representing an emerging academic discipline, have the potential to transform human health and life.

Learn more on the Biology of Aging website