Diane Lipscombe was appointed director of the Carney Institute for Brain Science in May 2016, after serving as interim director since January 2015. She has been on the Brown faculty since 1990, and formerly served as the co-director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program. Her laboratory, the Lipscombe Lab, studies the expression, regulation, and function of voltage-gated calcium ion channels in different regions of the nervous system. She is also interested in their role in chronic pain and psychiatric disorders. As director of the Carney Institute, she guides the scientific vision of the Institute and advocates for the Institute and its researchers. Diane works with members of the Brown senior administration as well as leaders of other initiatives on campus. She also represents the Carney Institute nationally and internationally and raises private philanthropy to support Carney Institute activities.