PI: Peter Belenky, Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Co-PI: Eunyoung Cho, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Dermatology
Project Title: Strain-Resolved Skin Microbiome Metabolism as a Therapeutic Target in Acne Vulgaris
 

PI: Carlos Aizenman, Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Brain Science
Project Title: Neuroimmune Interactions in Neurodevelopmental Disorders 
 

PI: Apoorva Bhandari, Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences (Research)
Project Title: A whole-brain investigation of representational drift and a link to abstraction 
 

PI: Daphna Buchsbaum, Associate Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences
Co-PI: Stefanie Tellex, Professor, Department of Computer Sciences
Project Title: Human–Animal Collaboration as a Model for Human–Robot Collaboration
 

PI: Elizabeth Chen, Associate Professor of Medical Science
Co-PI: Kathleen Donise, Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Project Title: Leveraging Electronic Health Records and Artificial Intelligence for Pediatric Psychiatry Emergency Services
 

PI: Christopher de Graffenried, Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Co-PI: Sanghyun Lee, Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Project Title: Determining host factors required for Trypanosoma cruzi cellular invasion 
 

PI: Alethea Desrosiers, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Project Title: Closing the mental health treatment gap for youth with tuberculosis: A participatory approach 
 

PI: Nicolas Fawzi, Professor of Medical Science
Co-PI: Erica Larschan, Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Project Title: Visualizing how dynamic molecular interactions control transcription in flies 
 

PI: Alexander Fleischmann, Provost’s Professor of Brain Science
Co-PI: Matt Nassar, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Associate Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences
Project Title: Neural Circuit and Computational Mechanisms of Learning in Dynamic Sensory Environments
 

PI: Yu-Wen Alvin Huang, James and Dorothy Goodman Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Co-PI: Mukesh Jain, Senior Vice President for Health Affairs, Senior Associate Provost for Life Sciences, Dean Of Medicine and Biological Sciences
Project Title: Microglial KLF2 deficiency and its pharmacologic restoration in Alzheimer’s disease 
 

PI: Erica Larschan, Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Project Title: Mechanistic basis of sex differences in Alzheimer’s Disease
 

PI: Anne ‘CC’ Lee, Levinger Family Professor of Pediatrics
Co-PI: Methodius Tuuli, Chace-Joukowsky Professorship in Obstetrics and Gynecology; Jennifer Unger, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Ying Ma, Edens Family Assistant Professor of Healthcare Communications and Technology, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Project Title: Artificial Intelligence Enabled Clinical Decision Support for Maternal and Newborn Health
 

PI: John Marshall, Professor of Medical Science
Co-PI: Xiaodi Chen, Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Research)
Co-I: Lanlan Zhou, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Research)
Project Title: Targeting TrkB Signaling for Neuroprotection in a Preterm-Equivalent Rat Model of Severe Hypoxic–Ischemic Brain Injury 
 

PI: Kate O’Connor-Giles, Provost's Professor of Brain Science
Project Title: Role of ER membrane contact sites in synapse formation and plasticity 
 

PI: Neil Sarkar, Associate Professor of Medical Science, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Co-Is: Elizabeth Chen, Associate Professor of Medical Science, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice; Bryce Perler, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator; Mariah Stump, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator
Project Title: Food as Medicine Ontology (FAMO): A Computable Knowledge Infrastructure to Integrate Traditional Dietary Therapies into Modern Clinical Care
 

PI: Robert Sobol, Dean’s Professor of Cancer Research
Co-PI: Dragan Golijanin, Director, Minimally Invasive Urology Institute Director of Genitourinary Oncology, The Miriam Hospital
Project Title: Investigation of environmental exposures and APOBEC-mediated mutations for a Rhode Island high-risk bladder cancer cohort: translational, behavioral, and mechanistic analysis
 

PI: Marc Tatar, Professor of Biology
Co-PI: Juan Alfonzo, Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Project Title: Impact of normal and slow aging on transfer RNA modifications 
 

PI: Elizabeth Thompson, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Cognitive and Psychological Sciences, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Co-I: Jared Saletin, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Project Title: A pilot study of sleep behavior and neurophysiology in adolescents with psychosis-spectrum conditions 

PI: Apoorva Bhandari, Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences (Research)
Project Title: The role of neural replay in building cognitive maps for social navigation
 

PI: Uriel Cohen Priva, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Project Title: Validating an Iterative Annotation Pipeline for Segment-Level Spoken Corpora 
 

PI: Matthew Kraft, Professor of Education
Project Title: Tech Boom or Bust? The Impact of Data Center Expansion on Air Quality and Student Outcomes
 

PI: Laura Lopez-Sanders, Associate Professor of Sociology
Project Title: Temporal Governance under Algorithmic Control: Time Use, Caregiving, and Asset Formation in Immigrant Gig Households 
 

PI: Dietrich Neumann, Christopher Chan and Michelle Ma Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Professor of Italian Studies, Professor of Urban Studies
Project Title: Edward Mitchell Bannister: A Black Artist in 19th Century New England
 

PI: Susan Short, Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies
Project Title: Social Contexts, Weathering, and Life Course Health
 

PI: Poulami Roychowdhury, Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Co-PIs: Yamini Aiyar, Visiting Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs;  Bhanu Joshi, Research Affiliate, Saxena Center, Brown University.
Project Title: WELFARE, SECURITY, REPRESENTATION: What drives women’s political preferences? 

PI: Kenny Breuer, Professor of Engineering
Co-PI: Baylor Fox-Kemper, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science; Brad Marston, Professor of Physics
Project Title: Dynamics of Offshore Wind Turbines
 

PI: Mara Freilich, Thomas J. and Alice M. Tisch Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Project Title: Phytoplankton responses to environmental gradients: modeling and observations
 

PI: Loukas Gouskos, Associate Professor of Physics
Co-PIs: Stephon Alexander, Professor of Physics; Savvas Koushiappas, Professor of Physics
Project Title: Towards a Foundational Model for Theoretical Physics: Exploring Beyond-the-Standard-Model Theory Space with Reinforcement Learning and Transformers 
 

PI: Daniel Harris, Associate Professor of Engineering
Co-PI: Chase Gabbard, Hope Street Postdoctoral Fellow
Project Title: Impact of Non-Newtonian Droplets: Spreading and Rebound 
 

PI: Meredith Hastings, George Ide Chase Professor of Physical Sciences
Co-PI: Manu DiLorenzo, Albert Davis Mead Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences; Stephen Bach, Associate Professor of Computer Science; Katelyn Moretti, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Project Title: NEST-AI: Integrating Environmental Sensing and AI for Urban Heat Decision Support
 

PI: Daniel Ibarra, Manning Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and Environment and Society, Assistant Professor of Engineering
Project Title: Disentangling mechanisms for a warm-wet Pliocene climate in western North America
 

PI: Matthias Kuehne, Assistant Professor of Physics
Project Title: Monochromated STEM EELS of in situ intercalated 2D materials bilayers 
 

PI: Feng Lin, Brown Professor of Engineering
Co-PIs: Yue Qi, Joan Wernig Sorensen Professor of Engineering; Xiaowen Xhan, Senior Research Associate in Engineering
Project Title: ExoTherm-X: Clean Heat Chemistry for a Circular Metal Economy and Sustainable Energy 
 

PI: Jonathan Pober, Associate Professor of Physics
Co-PI: Stephen Bach, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Project Title: Protecting Radio Astronomy from Satellite Constellations: A Data-Driven Approach for Removing Contaminating Signals 
 

PI: Brian Sheldon, Professor of Engineering
Project Title: Advancing EV-grade Si Anodes: New Electrolyte Chemistries to Enable Mechanically Robust Interphases
 

PI: Anita Shukla, Elaine I. Savage Professor of Engineering
Co-PI: Richard Bennett, Charles A. and Helen B. Stuart Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Chair of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Project Title: Nanoengineered Platforms for Next-Generation Antifungal Therapeutics
 

PI: Emily Sprague-Klein, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Co-PI: Sharon Rounds, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Professor of Medicine
Project Title: Visualization of Microplastics and Lung Cell Function in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Using Advanced Optical Vibrational Imaging
 

PI: Chen Sun, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Project Title: Multimodal Learning to Harness InSAR Time Series for Studying Coastal Subsidence 
 

PI: Kimani Toussaint, Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Science, School of Engineering
Co-PI: Rebecca Hubbard, Professor of Public Health; Haneesh Kesari, Associate Professor of Engineering; Peipei Zhou, Assistant Professor of Engineering; Diana Freed, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science
Project Title: AI-Assisted Aging-in-Place Sensor Testbed
 

PI: Axel van de Walle, Professor of Engineering
Project Title: Enhancing NASA’s refractory alloy design capabilities through high-dimensional phase diagrams calculations
 

PI: Axel van de Walle, Professor of Engineering
Project Title: Exothermic carbon capture thermodynamics 
 

PI: Joy Zeng, Assistant Professor of Engineering
Co-PI: Kurt Pennell, 250th Anniversary Professor of Engineering
Project Title: Electrochemical destruction of sorbent-captured PFAS 

PI: Sarah Ackley, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Key Personnel:  Michael Flanders, Senior Data Analyst, Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research 
Project Title: Evaluating Research Credibility in Alzheimer’s Disease to Strengthen Evidence-Based Decision Making 
 

PI: Michael Barnett, Sorensen Family Provost's Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice
Key Personnel: Tamara Beetham, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Health Services, Policy and Practice 
Project Title: Why Aren’t PCPs Taking New Patients? Leveraging AI to Address the Primary Care Crisis 
 

PI: Jason Buxbaum, Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Project Title: Improving Affordability and Generosity in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
 

PI: Christopher Kahler, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Director - Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Project Title: Reducing Alcohol Consumption for Health Together: Pilot testing a brief couples alcohol counseling program via telehealth
 

PI: Aditya Khanna, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Co-PI: Lauren Micalizzi, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences; Christopher Kahler, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences; Stephanie Graff, Associate Professor of Medicine; Thomas Trikalinos, Director of the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice; Margot Jackson; Professor of Sociology, Director of Population Studies
Project Title: Building a Cross-Campus Systems Science Platform for Alcohol-Attributable Cancer Prevention
 

PI: Youjin Lee, Manning Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Co-I: Rebecca Hubbard, Carl Kawaja and Wendy Holcombe Professor of Public Health, Professor of Biostatistics and Data Science
Project Title: AI/ML-Enhanced Causal Inference for EHR 
 

PI: Robert Rosales, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Project Title: Real-time Exposure to Anti-Immigrant Stressors and its Effects on Behavioral Health among Hispanic Youth in the Northeast
 

PI: Shufang Sun, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Project Title: Engaging Youth, Caregivers, and Teachers for Suicide Prevention: Developing and Implementing a Multi-Level Intervention in Rural China
 

PI: Jennifer Tidey, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Project Title: Assessing the Abuse Liability of a Hyper-Palatable Ultraprocessed Food in People With vs. Without Affective Disorders
 

PI: Alison Tovar, Director of the Center for Health Promotion and Health Equity, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Co-PI: Joseph Braun, Professor of Epidemiology, Director of the Center for Climate, Environment & Health
Project Title: Climate‑Friendly, Healthy School Food Systems: Building an Integrated Measurement & Intervention Platform with Rhode Island Districts
 

MPI: Tayla von Ash, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences; Ruben Martinez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Key Personnel: Bess Marcus, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences; Shira Dunsiger, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Project Title: Preparing for implementation of the Moms on the Move intervention across youth sports organizations