Joining Forces to Cure Brain Diseases
In 2015, Rhode Island’s leading research institutions signed a formal,
first-of-its-kind agreement to work together to advance research into brain science.
The agreement, informally known as the State of Rhode Island.” The original concept for
Rhode Island Neuroscience Collaboration, the initiative grew from conversations between
unites Lifespan, Brown University, University Lifespan CEO Timothy Babineau and University
of Rhode Island (URI), Care New England, of Rhode Island President David Dooley
and Providence VA Medical Center, in an about how to leverage the synergies in the
effort to identify the causes and treatments neurosciences between Lifespan and URI
for brain diseases and disorders such as so that they might be able to find new
epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic opportunities to grow expertise and economic
brain injury, stroke, and autism. development in the state. Those conversations
The Neuroscience Collaboration’s official
mission is to “identify and promote novel
opportunities for sharing resources,
developing special training and educational
programs, recruiting outstanding researchers and
scholars, and supporting special program projects
and centers that the participating institutions
agree would be most successfully accomplished
through the collective involvement of the larger
neurosciences research community within the
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led to the realization that such a partnership
wouldn’t reach its full potential unless it was
a real statewide effort that engaged the other
hospital systems and academic institutions
that are also invested in the neurosciences.
The Neuroscience Collaboration represents
an unprecedented opportunity to pool together
some of the leading researchers in the
neuroscience to share their expertise and
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