New faculty member Anda Chirila is no stranger to Brown. In the lab of former Carney affiliate Julie Kauer, Chirila earned a PhD studying synaptic signaling and how it contributes to pain. Now, Chirila is advancing work she began as a postdoc at Harvard: integrating molecular-genetic tools and electrophysiology with computational, anatomical and behavioral approaches to study neuronal circuits involved in pain processing.

Bess Frost, the Salame-Feraud Director of the Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, wins the 2025 Rainwater Prize for Innovative Early-Career Scientist.

The lab of Michael Frank has reconciled theories of how humans store and retrieve information in the short-term, a process called working memory, in a new biologically-inspired computational model. The findings have implications for dopamine-related disorders like Parkinson’s disease, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and schizophrenia.