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SOLVING PROBLEMS: Theresa Raimondo, an assistant professor of engineering at Brown University, will be one of the faculty members taking advantage of an $11.1 million National Institutes of Health grant to research RNA for health care. 
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Brown aims to become epicenter for RNA research

Ribonucleic acid, or RNA, has emerged as one of the more puzzling mysteries of modern medicine and one that Brown University researchers are untangling. RNA...
EASY TO UNDERSTAND: Amy Qu, a recent Rhode Island School of Design graduate, presents her redesign of the fentanyl test strips as part of the Design Beyond Crisis studio course in May. The redesign is intended to make the strips easier to use for people without training. 
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Designers try to devise better safe-injection sites

In Providence and Pawtucket, harm-reduction organization Project Weber/RENEW regularly hands out test strips that can detect whether a drug sample contains fentanyl, a highly...
JENNIFER TIDEY, left, and Peter Monti, both professors at Brown University's School of Public Health, will lead a newly funded Center of Biomedical Research Excellence focused on substance misuse and chronic disease. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY/NICK DENTAMARO

Brown using $12.5M NIH grant to fund research on substance misuse,...

PROVIDENCE — Brown University has been awarded a $12.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to launch a new Center of Biomedical...
BUTLER HOSPITAL was awarded a five-year, $12 million COBRE grant to build a self-sustaining center of excellence in clinical-translational brain research focused on enhancing research on and improving treatments for neuropsychiatric illnesses. / COURTESY BUTLER HOSPITAL

Butler Hospital receives 5-year $12M COBRE grant for neuropsychiatric brain research

PROVIDENCE – Butler Hospital has been granted a five-year, $12 million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant from the National Institutes of Health to...
DR. JOSIAH RICH will be the pricipal investigator at the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence on Opioids and Overdose at Rhode Island Hospital. The COBRE project has been granted $11.8 million in a phase I grant from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences. / COURTESY LIFESPAN

R.I. Hospital receives $11.8M federal grant to establish opioid research center

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hospital has received an $11.8 million federal grant to address the opioid epidemic by establishing the Center of Biomedical Research...
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