At Brown’s Center on the Biology of Aging, researchers are driving a broader effort to understand how people can live longer, healthier lives by focusing on extending the human healthspan—the years generally free from serious chronic disease—as they develop therapeutics, launch industry ventures, and advance early-phase clinical trials for age-related diseases.

With support from the National Institutes of Health, the COBRE Center for RNA Biology in Health and Disease will create a critical mass of trained RNA researchers and fund cutting-edge RNA technology for scientific use.

Brown University will name its emerging research center focused on RNA science breakthroughs the Giuliani RNA Center, in recognition of a generous gift from health care investor and Brown trustee Giammaria Giuliani and his wife, Sabrina.