Lipscombe appointed director of Brown Institute for Brain Science

DR. DIANE LIPSCOMBE has been named director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science. She has been acting as the  interim director since January 2015. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY
DR. DIANE LIPSCOMBE has been named director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science. She has been acting as the interim director since January 2015. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

(Updated 9:39 a.m.)
PROVIDENCE – Brown University Provost Richard M. Locke said Tuesday that Dr. Diane Lipscombe has been appointed the director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science.

“I’m honored to have been asked to lead the institute; there is no better place to be a brain scientist than right here at Brown … I’m thrilled to be part of the next exciting decade of brain science,” Lipscombe said in a statement.

Lipscombe, who began working at Brown as an assistant professor in physiology in 1990, has been acting as the BIBS interim director since January 2015. In her new position Lipscombe will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, leadership of the BIBS intellectual community, and representing the institute.

“Dr. Lipscombe is an exceptional scientist, committed educator and proven effective, collaborative leader,” said Locke.

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Locke said Lipscombe has advanced the institute’s strategic plan and helped raise $6 million in philanthropic giving.

More than 100 psychiatrists, neuroscientists, neurologists and psychologists, as well as Brown faculty members from the engineering, biology, mathematics and the humanities departments, make up the multidisciplinary research center that is BIBS.

Lipscombe’s main area of interest is the expression, regulation and function of voltage-gated calcium ion channels in different regions of the nervous system and their role in chronic pain and psychiatric disorders.
When she began her tenure as the interim director Lipscombe stepped in for John P. Donoghue, the Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of Neuroscience, who left for a year-long sabbatical in Switzerland.

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