Brown has the culture and talent that drives fast progress toward cures for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Our community is creative, curious and collegial – and that results in powerful science partnerships. We draw from a deep and broad pool of experts at Brown, including an excellent biology of aging program and a community of more than 200 internationally recognized brain scientists and clinicians specializing in genetics, cells and circuits, computation, psychiatry, and population health.

Brown runs on a spirit of collaboration and invention, with scientists and physicians open to trying new things and seeing old problems in new ways. This spirit will deliver cures.

Bess Frost, PhD
Salame-Feraud Director of the Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research 
Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

Edward “Ted” Huey, MD
Associate Director of the Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research 
Director of the Memory and Aging Program at Butler Hospital 
Martin M. Zucker Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior