"Brown researchers are creating lab-grown microtissues as an alternative to animal testing."

International Conference on Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy (ISPD), Booth #15, Antwerp, Belgium – July 10, 2018

The VALUE (VAlidation of a Lower cost aneUploidy screen) study is a three year project to provide an external evaluation of a reliable, yet low cost and easy to use cell free (cf)DNA prenatal screening test for Down syndrome in the late first and early second trimester.

Professor Lundy Braun was a recipient of the 2018 Society for the Social Studies of Science Ludwig Fleck book award for her book Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2014.

Kimberle C. Chapin, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, RIH, has been selected for the 2018 Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology by the American Society for Microbiology.

The March 2018 issue of Kudos, the newsletter for the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown, recognized Department faculty who received research awards.

Professor James Sung has been named the College of American Pathologists’ (CAP) Commission on Laboratory Accreditation Division Commissioner for Rhode Island and Connecticut.