All medical treatments come from clinical trials, and all treatments start with discoveries made in a science lab. 

This cycle of biomedical innovation, from bench to bedside and back, is what the Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research is designed, staffed and funded to support. Center scientists accelerate progress toward cures for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias by quickly bringing discoveries from the lab to the clinic. At the same time, scientists are learning from what’s happening in the clinic, and can use that information to pursue new questions. Medicine inspires science, and science improves medicine.

The Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research is led by Bess Frost, a scientist who also conducts clinical trials, and Edward “Ted” Huey, MD, a physician who also conducts research -- a rare combination. The center is rich in resources, integrating the expertise of the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science and the Division of Biology and Medicine, and access to 1.5 million patients through Rhode Island’s supportive, closely connected healthcare system that includes seven hospitals affiliated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Brown established the center in April 2021 with two generous gifts totaling $30 million. The single aim: find cures.