NIA/Brown University Research Training Program in Dementia

Paul Malloy, PhD, Director
Stephen Salloway, MD, and Richard Besdine, MD
Co-Directors

The Brown Dementia Research Fellowship (Brown DRF) is designed to develop independent investigators in clinical dementia research. It builds on previous accomplishments of the Brown Brain Sciences Program to integrate basic and clinical researchers in dementia from multiple departments and research centers at Brown. Participating faculty represent the key disciplines involved in basic and clinical neuroscience research related to dementia. Brown’s four dementia clinics at affiliated hospitals evaluate over 1000 new patients per year. Faculty collaborate on numerous studies, clinical trials and grants. These dementia clinicsserve as sites for research training and as sources of participants for research grant proposals.

The program provides MD and PhD fellows with background knowledge in the basic and applied aspect of dementia research; expertise in research methodology and ethical conduct of research; and research experience through participation in ongoing grant-funded research and their own independent studies. Fellows are mentored in the production of their own grant proposals via close collaboration with both clinical and basic science mentors. Their proposals are reviewed in a grant writing seminar and intramural review process. On completion of the fellowship, trainees will be fully prepared to advance to a faculty position at a university or medical school. They will have acquired the skills necessary to compete for external funding and begin an independently-funded research career in dementia and related disorders.

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