Center for Translational Neuroscience
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The latest news and information about the Center for Translational Neuroscience.
News and Events
The latest news and information about the Center for Translational Neuroscience.
Upcoming Events
Bench-to-Bedside Seminar Series
Bench-to-Bedside seminars are designed to bring distinguished leaders in fields of nervous system disease to campus. These seminars are often led by clinician-researchers and introduce brain scientists to diseases of the nervous system, as well as highlight exciting areas of research. Many seminars featuring patient interviews are included, which are particularly illuminating. The seminars are open to the entire brain science community at Brown, including basic laboratories with PhD, MD/PhD and postdoctoral trainees, faculty, as well as clinical research colleagues from the hospitals.
Bench-to-Bedside speakers hosted by the CTN in the past few years include:
- Walter J Atwood, PhD and Syed H Rizvi, MD: Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy: Endemic Viruses and Lethal Brain Disease; April 17, 2025
- Rachel Bailey, PhD (UT Southwestern): Gene Therapy for Giant Axonal Neuropathy: From Bench to Bedside and Back Again; February 20, 2025
- Petra Klinge, MD PhD; Alexander Fleischmann, PhD; Maria A Guglielmo, MD; Konstantina A Svokos DO, MS: Towards better diagnostics for Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus – a treatable form of dementia; November 21, 2024
- Allyson Berent, DVM; John Marshall, PhD: The parents’ journey through drug development: Making the impossible possible for Angelman Syndrome and BDNF signaling in Angelman Syndrome: Impact and next steps; September 26, 2024
- Bess Frost, PhD: Targeting retrotransposon activation in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related tauopathies: From Discovery to Clinical Trials; September 5, 2024
- Robert H Brown Jr, DPhil, MD (UMass Chan Med Sch): Towards Gene Modulation Therapy in Neurodegeneration: Lessons from ALS; May 3, 2024
- Omar J Ahmed, PhD (Univ Michigan): Neural circuits for finding your way home in health and Alzheimer’s disease; February 29, 2024
- Craig Blackstone, MD PhD (Mass Gen, Harvard): Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias: Cellular Themes Informing New Therapies; January 25, 2024
- Edward D Huey, MD (Brown, Butler Hospital): Clinical Presentation of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia; November 30, 2023
- John Gaitanis, MD (Hasbro Children’s Hospital); Wendy Wen, MS (Neuropace, Inc): EEG: Past, Present and Future; October 12, 2023
- Noah Philip, MD (Brown, Prov VA Med): Neuromodulation for PTSD and Depression; May 4, 2023
- David J Lin, MD (Harvard MassGen; Prov VA Med); David Borton, PhD (Brown, Prov VA Med); Jared S Fridley, MD (Brown): Spinal Cord Injury: Circuits to Clinical Translation through neurotechnology; March 2, 2023
- Edward Neilan, MD PhD (National Organization for Rare Disorders): Rare Diseases: Challenges and Opportunities; January 26, 2023
- Brian Kavanaugh, PsyD (Brown); Carin Papendorp (Brown): ASH1L-related Disorders: Neuropsychological Phenotyping of ASH1L and other rare genetic mutations; October 13, 2022
- Jennifer Ahjin Kim, MD PhD (Yale); Omar J Ahmed, PhD (Univ Michigan): Epilepsy through the Lifespan | In honor of the Career and Science of Barry Connors; May 12, 2022
- Carolina Haass-Koffler, PharmD (Brown); Carline Fleig, MSN, ANP-C and Zoe Brown, BA (Ctr for Alcohol and Addiction Studies): Stress and drug recurrence in patients with Opioid Use Disorder; December 2, 2021
- Sonia Mayoral, PhD (Brown); Syed A. Rizvi, MD (Brown): Multiple Sclerosis; October 14, 2021
- Ivana Delalle, MD PhD (Brown , Lifespan); Jonathan Cahill, MD (Warren Alpert, Brown): Primary CNS Diffuse large B-cell Lymphoma Associated with a Demyelinating Lesion: A Case Study; January 7, 2021
- Alison Singer, MBA (Autism Science Foundation): Autism from Generation to Generation; November 12, 2020
- Hooman Kamel, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine); Josef Anrather, VMD (Weill Cornell Medicine): Effects of COVID-19 on the Nervous; September 24, 2020
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