Brown Professor Leads $6-Million NIH Grant to Study Rare Brain Disease
Walter Atwood, professor of medical science, will lead research efforts to determine how the JC virus, which can cause a rare brain disease, attaches to host cells. The National Institutes of Health awarded this project five-year, $6-million grant.
Brown's Technology Transfer Office Gets New Director, Broader Mission Brown University taps Katherine Gordon, former director of business development at Harvard University's Office of Technology Development, to lead and broaden the University's role in developing, transferring and commercializing technologies.
The Quest for Universal Health Insurance An examination of the new book, "THE HEART OF POWER: Health and Politics in the Oval Office," co-written by Jim Morone, appeared on the cover of the Sept. 6 New York Times Book Review
